Chapter 26 third quarter

In the spring of 1976, Tony Scarker was repeatedly absent from school, and he didn't even attend his mother's death anniversary in March, when rumors spread that he had the flu. In April, Tony went to the doctor with stomach bleeding, which was rumored to be the result of excessive drug or alcohol use.He then went to live with his aunt in Ireland for a few weeks, and although the Skakels say the trip had been arranged, it has sparked speculation amid the turmoil. To be fair, the Skackles, and Roston Skackle in particular, were quite cooperative with the police investigation at the outset of the case.He allowed police to search the family's home at any time without a warrant, and even handed investigators a set of keys to the Skakel family's cottage in Windham, New York.

Residents of Belhaven Island know that the Scarkel family has always maintained a very friendly relationship with the local police department.Ruston Scarkel has always been generous, especially after the death of his wife Anne. Although the family employs many servants, nannies and governesses, Mr. Scarkel, who often goes out, is still troubled by the lawlessness of his sons.Off-duty police officers are often seen busy at the Skakels' house, picking up and dropping off ladies and gentlemen to and from school, parking guests at parties, running errands, delivering letters, shopping, and more.These odd jobs are very important to the poorly paid police officers.In 1975, the annual salary of a Greenwich police detective was only $15,000.Belheven's private security unit was largely made up of off-duty police officers who would occasionally park in front of the Skakels' mansion while on patrol and go in for a cup of coffee or a slice of sandwich.The heads of the police station are even more frequent visitors to the Scarkers' house.It is said that because of this relationship, the local police will "properly solve" for them no matter what happens to the little Scarkers.One wonders if this sort of thing happened in the Martha Mockley homicide investigation as well?

Shortly after the police reviewed Tony's medical records, the Skackle family broke off their cooperation with the police and hired veteran criminal attorney Mooney Magley to represent all of the Skackle family members and police officers. staff member.Mooney Magley asked that no one in the Skakel family speak to investigators again, but he allowed police to ask staff about the situation. Among the many staff members of the Skackle family, there was one person who attracted special interest to the police. He was the governess Ken Littleton who had been appointed on the day of Martha Mockley's murder.

Ken Littleton graduated from Williams College, a prestigious school. During his time at school, he was a good student and a very good athlete.Before and after Martha's murder, Ken worked at Brownwick Private High School for Boys, where he was a science teacher and rugby coach.Ken Littleton was smart, strong, and well regarded among teachers and students.The Scarker family had three children who were his pupils, Tony, John and David.Prior to this, Ken had been entrusted by Roston Skackle to take care of the little Skackles temporarily.This time he just signed a long-term contract with the Scarkers.Rolston needed a governess who would not only help the children with their homework, but who would be strong enough to subdue the wild little yamen.

On October 30, 1975, the first day Ken moved into the Scarkel home, Mr. Scarkel let Ken temporarily live in the master bedroom where he lived .This bedroom was on the south-east corner of the second floor, with a large balcony facing Wales Street and the Mockleys. According to what Ken Littleton told the police after the incident, at 8:45 that night, he led the little Skakers back from dinner at the beach club, went to the bedroom on the second floor to unpack, and then watched TV.About a dozen boys and girls, including Miss Mockley, were at the Scarkel home during this time. At 9:30, the housekeeper, Nannie Sweeney, heard the dog barking and asked Ken Littleton to go out to have a look. He returned to the house a few minutes later. Around 10, Julie saw Ken Littleton in the kitchen. At 10:03, according to Ken, Tony came to the master bedroom on the second floor to watch the TV show "Live Chase" with him, and Tony left after the show ended at 10:32.Ken Littleton said he remained in the master bedroom until the next morning.

Ken Littleton was very cooperative with the police in the early stages of the Martha Mockley murder investigation, but he always refused to identify Tony Scarker as the perpetrator.Years later he told reporter Lin Levitt: "I have nothing to hide, I just don't think it can be Tony." Hired an attorney for himself, Jon Milbegin, and left the Skackles shortly thereafter. Since the beginning of the investigation, the Greenwich police have relied to a considerable extent on the voluntary cooperation of the Skakel family. Once this cooperation is interrupted, the investigators are somewhat helpless.In fact, people knew in their hearts that it was because the Skackles were a famous family.If the police are dealing with civilians, everything is not a problem.

In nearly half a year, no progress has been made in the detection work.By the fall of 1976, the police thought they had made a major breakthrough. On October 18, Ken Littleton failed a polygraph test, saying he was "disturbed by his recent crimes and arrest." At the end of 1975, the Greenwich Police Department went to Ken Littleton's hometown of Massachusetts to conduct a background check. At that time, Ken did not have any criminal records.Since the murder of Martha Mockley, the 28-year-old former Williams College top graduate and star teacher at the private high school in Bromwick has fallen by the day.

In the summer of 1976, he was arrested for robbery and theft of a total of $4,000 in items from three stores and a boat in Nanta Keys.Several witnesses in Nantucket told police that Ken was drinking heavily, depressed and self-destructive. Ken Littleton, who thus became a suspect, was arrested many times in the following years and was hospitalized for a long time due to alcoholism and insanity.On the other hand, no matter how in-depth and meticulous the work of the investigators who were watching Ken closely, they still couldn't find any evidence enough to accuse Ken Littleton of being the murderer.The detection work stalled again, this time, for more than 10 years.

Meanwhile, the industrial dynasty of the Skackles is in rapid decline due to the investigations, suspicions, gossips, and Ruston Skackles' incompetence caused by the murder of Martha Mockley. In 1983, the Great Lakes Mining Company was put up for sale.Two years later, it was bought out at a low price of 150 million US dollars by Hershey Hezhi Company.Great Lakes Mining, which was established through the efforts of one generation, was ruined by the second generation. In 1993, Ruston Scarker moved to Florida after selling his mansion in Belhaven for $3 million. Although the Martha Mockley murder case was officially suspended, Martha's family never gave up.Mr. David Mockley has been cooperating with the police outside of his busy schedule and has even provided assistance as his remit allows.After the Mockley family moved from Belhaven Island to New York, they remained in close contact with the Greenwich Police Department.

In 1988, David Mockley died of a heart attack, and his wife, Doris, moved to Annapolis, where David had bought a lakeside villa before his death.While her husband was alive, Doris never directly intervened in her daughter's case.Now that Mr. Mockley left with regrets, Du Lisi felt that she had to do something, whether it was for her daughter or her husband. But what can she do?David Mockley is a successful entrepreneur. He has many friends and colleagues and extensive connections in the business, political and judicial circles. As for Doris, she is just a good wife, mother and housewife.But there is one thing, like all mothers-in-law, she likes to nag.And so Mrs Mockley began to tell Martha's story to anyone who would listen, and she couldn't let the world forget her "nearest person in the world".

In terms of Martha's character, she doesn't seem like a victim.In most people's minds, victims are generally weak, but Martha is not.She is very popular, a natural leader, no matter where she goes, she can do as the Romans do, and no matter what she does, she is handy.Du Lisi said: "You don't need to tell her, she knows what she should do and how to do it." Martha is self-respecting and confident, never afraid of anything, and never worried about anything. "Martha is a wonderful girl," said Doris.Martha is very assertive, and it seems that nothing in this world can stump her, and no one can control her.Perhaps because of this, she was killed.If she had been weaker, more easy-going, and met the other party's requirements or desires to some extent, Martha would not have ended up in such a tragic end.However, that would not be Martha Mockley.Martha's self-esteem and stubbornness made it impossible for anyone to force her to do what she didn't want to do.Her youthful beauty, her enthusiasm and frivolity made Martha attract many boys, and she also liked boys to pursue her.But she knows how to keep a distance and know when enough is enough. No one can do whatever they want to her.But perhaps it was these forever-missed traits of Martha's character that ultimately forged her tragedy. Lin Levitt was the first reporter to hear Doris Mockley tell Martha's story.Previously, in the process of gathering material for his article, Lin found that there were almost no publicly available documents and archives about Martha's murder.Therefore, he and the "Greenwich Times" jointly sued the police, demanding that the original records of the investigation and detection of the case be released. In May 1983, the Greenwich Police Department was compelled to release certain material following a ruling by the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission.Although a lot of content has been deleted, it is still valuable first-hand information for reporters and those who later participated in the case.Unfortunately, Lin Levitt's 1983 article on the Martha Mockley murder was sidelined for eight years because no newspapers were willing to publish it. In the spring of 1991, William Kennedy Smith was indicted for rape in Palm Beach, Florida.William's mother, Jane Kennedy, was the sister of the late President Kennedy and the late former Senator Robert Kennedy.The case immediately became a media event, and journalists flocked to it for fear of being left behind.At the same time, journalists with unusual sense of smell are keenly aware that the 16-year-unsolved murder of Martha Mokley is another case of the Kennedy family using money and power to interfere with law enforcement?There were even rumors at the time that William Ken Smith was at the Scarkel home on October 30, 1975.Although this later proved to be pure speculation, it objectively prompted officials to consider re-investigating the Martha case.William Ken Smith was eventually acquitted. On June 21, 1991, Lin Levitt's article was finally published, entitled "Martha Murderer Still Free in Greenwich." On August 9, 1991, the two police departments in Connecticut and Greenwich City jointly held a press conference and announced that they would reopen the murder case of Martha Mockley.Greenwich Police Chief Detective Frank Gall and State Judicial Commissioner Jack Solomon, who went to the scene on the day of the incident, were appointed to preside over the work. The Connecticut State Police Criminal Laboratory was responsible for re-examining and examining all physical evidence and material.Mother and son Doris and Jon Mockley announced at the meeting that they had decided to fund the increase of the state police's $20,000 reward to $50,000 and to open a toll-free reporting hotline in the department's administrative office. Since then, Mrs. Mockley has accepted countless interviews, and her visitors include reporters from television, newspapers, magazines and some well-known authors.The most sensational of the relevant publications is the novel "Purgatory Season" and the TV series of the same name published in 1993 by the famous crime literature writer Dominic Dahn based on the case.Another author, Jerry Oppenhelmer, also devoted a chapter to the Martha Mockley murder in his book "The Other Mrs. Kennedy" about Isaac Skakel Kennedy . Compared with the hustle and bustle of the media, the work of the police is much inferior. In October 1993, after more than two years of researching all the material, including police transcripts, scene evidence and autopsy results, the State Police Criminal Laboratory submitted a six-inch-thick report to the Greenwich Police Department. On January 21, 1994, the head of the laboratory stated at a meeting that they had tried their best, but due to limited evidence, they could not provide any breakthrough findings on the case. Meanwhile, Tim Dumas, author of another book about the Martha Mockley murder, "The House of Evil," interviewed the Connecticut State Police Department's criminal laboratory.According to the book, there are only two things that the experts can make a positive judgment on this case: 1. Martha's body was finally moved under the big pine tree, which shows that the perpetrator is very familiar with the environment.2. There are three crime scenes in total, which means the perpetrator's hesitation and unpreparedness, and also shows that this is not a pre-planned murder case. various degrees of psychological and spiritual impairment.When Tim Dumas asked if the killer had been left-handed, like Tony Skakel, a prominent forensic scientist said noncommittally that a right-handed backhand would have the same effect. In October 1994, the Greenwich Police Department admitted that the case had once again stalled.In the words of Jack Solomon: "The only hope is that the criminal will surrender himself." So far, the detection and investigation of Martha Mockley's murder has been ups and downs.Authorities believe the biggest obstacle remains the Skakel family's non-cooperation.However, the media accused the police of being incompetent, causing the original investigation of the crime scene to be chaotic, so that many valuable evidences were seriously polluted and even destroyed. Although the Scarkers refused to cooperate with the police to solve the case, they were actually conducting their own investigations in private.In 1992, shortly after the reopening of the Martha Mockley murder case was officially announced, the Skakel family hired the New York-based Sutton Private Detective Agency.The firm is strong and experienced. The chief detective involved in Martha's murder case, Jim Maffey, has worked in the FBI for 15 years.Ruston Skakel asked the Sutton task force to start the investigation from the beginning to find evidence that someone other than the Skakel family committed the crime.If the perpetrator is indeed a member of the Skaker family, Roston hopes that the special case team will cooperate with the lawyers to provide the most powerful and reliable defense for this person. Compiled from the findings of the Sutton detectives, it became known as the Sutton Papers, also known as the Sutton Report, in the Martha Mockley murder case. The Sutton task force's investigation lasted several years and cost millions, but the result seems to be even more unfavorable for the Scarker family.The detectives found more and more clues pointing at the little Skakels, the most critical of which was that Tony and Mike Skackles changed their testimony successively and overturned their respective alibi evidence. Tony's original account to police was that he said goodbye to Martha Mockley by the back door at around 9.30pm on October 30, 1975, before going inside to do his homework.As we all know, Tony is not a hard-working student. He drank a lot that day and just flirted with a beautiful girl. Besides, it was late and there was no class the next day. Not so reasonable.After repeated questioning by the police, Tony said that the subject of the homework was the Puritans and Abraham Lincoln.But according to Ken Littleton, a classroom teacher at Brownwick Private High School for Boys, there is no such assignment at school. On October 7, 1994, the Sutton task force made an appointment to talk with Tony.At this time, Tony Scarker was 36 years old and lived in Massachusetts with his wife and two children after marriage.Tony couldn't hold back his tears during the conversation. He told the detectives of the task force that he did not leave Martha Mockley at 9:30 on the night of October 30, 1975, and they stayed together for another 20 minutes. minutes or so.The following is the original Sutton report: They begin a prolonged (approximately 20 minutes) session of kissing and fondling, including mutual fondling (breasts, vagina, and penis), until finally both masturbating partners achieve orgasm.At this point (about 9:50 p.m.) Martha and Tony have packed their clothes and Martha says goodbye to Tony.The last Tony saw Martha hurry across the Skackles' back lawn toward his own house.Tony said he didn't undo Martha's bra.He slipped his hand inside Martha's floral turtleneck and stroked her breasts.He also said that he unbuttoned Martha's pants, pulled them down a little, and reached in to fondle Martha's vagina.He said he soiled his underwear (underpants) when Martha kneaded his penis to make him orgasm.He said he returned to the house after leaving Martha, but did not change or shower. Tony also said that he and Martha had entered the house once before that, around 9:30.When Andy Sharkbill rang the doorbell, Tony told Martha to wait, and he took the key and gave it to Andy. It is true that this passage connected Tony and the victim during the time period determined by the police to commit the crime, overturning the evidence that he was not at the scene, but it also overturned the police's conclusion about the motive of the crime.In fact, Martha did not refuse Tony's sexual request. After the rich young master was satisfied, it seemed that there was no need to kill again. On February 6, 1995, Sutton investigators spoke to Tony Skakel again.Except for some details, the content is basically the same as the first time.During the two conversations, whenever specific questions about the facts of the case were raised, Tony either answered that he did not know, or simply did not speak.A similar situation also occurred in the conversation between the police investigators and Tony. Also included in the Sutton file is a document handed over to the task force by the Skakel family's lawyer, Tom Hiridan.This is a psychological examination record, and the patient's name is filled in as "Tommy Butler". In January 1976, after the Greenwich Police Department reviewed Tony Skakel's medical records, on March 15 of the same year, Skakel's doctor arranged for Tony to visit a mission hospital under the pseudonym Tommy Butler. Psychological consultation.In addition to reaching a conclusion basically similar to that of Dr. Hall of the Yale University School of Medicine during this consultation, Dr. Paddy Grammen, who presided over the examination, also asked Tony to complete a sentence test.The doctor gave the first half of the sentence, and Tony took the second half.The following are some of the sentences in the test, some of which are not very fluent: "He usually feels sexual - it makes him very uncomfortable." "After he made love to her - he got himself drunk." "My libido—very weak." "The thing I was most afraid of when I was a child was - my mother." "When she rejected him, he— slapped her in the face." "For a man to hit a woman - if she doesn't obey." According to Dr Gramen, Toni was "particularly sensitive and irritable in his dealings with women". The real big upset came on August 4, 1992, when the Sutton task force had a conversation with Mike Skakel.Mike told investigators that he also lied to police back then. At around 11:20 p.m. on October 30, 1975, when the brothers returned from the Tyrion home, he didn't go to bed.Between 11:40 and 12:30, he went out again and visited the crime scene or near the scene.The following is an excerpt from the Sutton report: After leaving the house, he ran toward Wales Street, past the Mockley house, and turned right into a driveway.Follow the driveway all the way to the end, to the first floor window of the house.Mike said he had been here several times before to peek at the woman (whose name was not mentioned) in the room.In most cases, the woman was unclothed.This time, the woman was lying on the sofa in what looked like a nightgown.Mike watched for a while, then came to the Mockley house again, climbed a tree, and looked into what he thought was Martha's room.He called several times to the window: "Martha, Martha." But no one answered.Mike said he later masturbated up the tree until he orgasmed.After descending from the tree, he walked to a street lamp in Welsh Street and stopped.Mike said he thought "there seemed to be someone" where Martha's body was later found.He yelled "to the darkness" a few times, picked up a few stones and threw them into the bushes, but still felt very scared, so he ran back home.He turned from the back of the house to the front and found all the doors locked, so he climbed over the wall and entered through the window of his bedroom on the second floor.He thinks he was out for 30 to 45 minutes and when he got home it was around 12.30pm and he went to sleep. According to the analysis of the detectives of the task force, there are several doubts in this passage.One is that Mike repeatedly stated that he was running, shouting, and throwing stones near the crime scene, and he also specifically mentioned the street lamp on Welsh Street, which does not seem to be accidental.It is likely that he knew that someone had seen him, heard him, or that he himself had left some clues at the scene.You know, DNA identification technology was only developed in the 1990s.Re-opening the case for identification of physical evidence is likely to involve him. The second is that Mike said that the tree he climbed happened to be the tree in front of the window of Martha's room.Martha's two pet cats often come and go from that tree. The Mockleys' house was a huge one, and if Mike wasn't sure if it was Martha's room at all, and it happened to be the right one, the coincidence seemed a bit outrageous. The third is that Mike climbed to Martha's window and called her name, as if to give people an impression on purpose: he didn't know that Martha was not at home, let alone that Martha had been killed. Most suspiciously, Mike said that when he got home, all the doors were locked and he had to climb over the walls and through the windows.According to what Sutton detectives learned from Skakel's family and staff, the Skakel home was never locked.Then why didn't Mike dare to go in through any door openly?Is he afraid that people will see something, such as blood splashed on his body? If it was Mike Skackle who killed Martha Mockley, what was his motive?Mike is the same age as Martha, and their relationship predates Tony's relationship with Martha.Martha wrote in her diary that both brothers were interested in her, but she was more attracted to Tony and "be more careful" with Mike.The Sutton detectives learned during the investigation that many people knew that the relationship between Mike and Martha was extraordinary, and some people even bluntly called Martha Mike's "girlfriend" or "ex-girlfriend".Mike's aunt, Sue Reynolds, told the task force: "Martha Mockley was Mike's girlfriend at one point." Here's what the Sutton task force concluded on this point: A large amount of evidence proves that Mike and Martha had a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship.It was also confirmed that Tony and Mike once fought for Martha's jealousy.From this we infer that, before Mike and his party left for Tyrion's house at 9:30, the teasing and flirting between Tony and Martha made Mike very unhappy, even very angry. Moreover, Mike drank a lot of alcohol that day, and later took drugs at Tyrion's house. When the Sutton Detective Agency first took over the case from Ruston Scarker, the first thing Jem Maffey did was ask his old colleagues from the FBI to help analyze it. The personality traits of the perpetrator.Jem Maffey hired a private company called "Academic Analysis Institute", most of the company's experts had worked for the FBI.The following are the analysis results of the experts: The offender was between 14 and 18 years old, and his home was not far from the victim, just within walking distance.His family was of the same social and economic level as the victim and had frequent contact with the victim.Behavioral, emotional, and psychological problems or disturbances at school and at home.Can't get along with siblings and often fights with them.Under the influence of alcohol or drugs while committing the crime.Immature in sexual relations. If all the above characteristics are applicable to Tony and Mike at the same time, then the last one is probably none other than Mike. In fact, the first perpetrator that the Sutton & Associates wanted to outline was Ken Littleton, because Mr. Skackle spent a lot of money to invite them to find a murderer other than the Skackle family.So when the Sutton detectives tackled the case, they named Ken Littleton as their number one suspect.But the experts' analysis of criminal characteristics is far from Ken Litton's, and it can be said that it has nothing to do with it. In 1975, Ken was 28 years old. He was born in a civilian family and never knew Martha Mockley.