By Timothy Dumas
Greenwich, Connecticut, sometimes called "Greentown," hasn't ever recovered from the savage homicide of fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley, whose battered physique used to be stumbled on at the grounds of her domestic within the privileged enclave of Belle Haven on Halloween evening in 1975. The speedy suspects have been Thomas and Michael Skakel, nephews of Ethel Kennedy, who lived around the road. until eventually lately, not anyone was once ever charged within the homicide, and it went down as one of many mythical unsolved crimes of contemporary historical past. Dominick Dunne, who used the homicide because the foundation for his bestselling novel A Season in Purgatory, inspired Tim to write down Greentown, which, like dead night within the backyard of excellent and Evil, makes use of a searing crime to probe the guts of a group trying to find its soul. In Greenwich, center and soul are corrupted via funds and what it could buy—not simply unbelievable fabric comforts, yet safety from the legislation. This booklet, and Tim Dumas's dogged research, have been instrumental in reviving...
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Consider tonight. Tonight is Mischief Night, the night before Halloween. Mischief Night is license to set free childish devils. Armed with toilet paper and shaving cream and eggs (M-80 firecrackers and baseball bats for real hellions), the youth of Greenwich scurry about in the dark, festooning the town with mischievous designs. Tonight Martha Moxley will be among them. Hey, Martha, look! When the leaves are down, the houses have faces. See? It looks like they’re staring out at you! People inside are looking out at us, crazy people with lots of booze and nothing to do.
And so her case wore on, telling more about the living than the dead. Chapter One Belle Haven THE TOWN of Greenwich sits near the crook of Long Island Sound. Upon its landscape of soft green hills live sixty thousand bodies (and considerably fewer souls, the devil whispers), proud people who have done well in life. On the Belle Haven peninsula they have done better than well. The peninsula juts a mile or so into the Sound, reaching out into the slate-gray water as if to detach itself from the rest of town.
But Tommy, the detested older brother, swoops in, cavorting amorously on the lawn with Martha as an enraged Michael watches from the shadows. On conviction day—June 7, 2002—I rejoiced for Dorthy Moxley and John Moxley, Martha’s mother and brother. I observed in their countenances an almost spiritual brightness as they waded among the news media behind the courthouse in Norwalk, Connecticut. It was beautiful to see. They had done for Martha the only official thing they could do: they had achieved justice.