{"podcast":{"title":"Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder","slug":"dead-certain-the-martha-moxley-murder-7557703","podcast_index_feed_id":7557703,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/HC1RIAgS","website_url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/8ba89b80-a681-4cd2-87bd-79a6315b0474/b266aed0-d9e3-405b-a527-8f83b75e8aca/3000x3000/newsstudios-deadcertain-finalartwork-3000x3000.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"NBC News","episode_count":14,"summary":"The night before Halloween 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley was found bludgeoned to death outside her family’s home in the tony Greenwich, Connecticut, enclave of Belle Haven. The local police, used to dealing more with traffic stops than a high-profile murder, grappled with a lack of forensic evidence – or a motive. They had their suspects of course. The creepy neighbor. The eldest teenage son of the Skakel family next door. The Skakel children’s burly tutor. But without concrete evidence or a confession, the case stalled out. For decades, it remained unsolved and it seemed like no one would ever be charged with her killing. But then, a series of improbable events involving, among others, Dominick Dunne, William Kennedy Smith, and Mark Fuhrman, compounded to deliver the public a new suspect – 39-year-old Michael Skakel, who’d been 15, like Martha, at the time of the crime. The arrest made national headlines – and not just because Michael Skakel was an accused killer. He was also a cousin of the Kennedys. Skakel’s 2002 high-profile murder trial was a media feeding frenzy. Reporters wondered – would this rich, privileged son of a scion get away with it? Despite flimsy evidence and w…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T20:17:09.506696+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dead-certain-the-martha-moxley-murder-7557703"},"episode":{"title":"The Joker","slug":"the-joker","published_at":"2025-12-23T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dead-certain-the-martha-moxley-murder-7557703/the-joker","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dead-certain-the-martha-moxley-murder-7557703","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/tracking.swap.fm/track/WyZndMW35x3t79tHlknd/nbcnews.simplecastaudio.com/114550e2-916a-443e-8314-00dcdc5fe0a2/episodes/8f4ce683-30a0-4b6f-8807-1400721bcb09/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=114550e2-916a-443e-8314-00dcdc5fe0a2&awEpisodeId=8f4ce683-30a0-4b6f-8807-1400721bcb09&feed=HC1RIAgS","summary":"Michael Skakel’s defense attorney Mickey Sherman thought the case was a home run, but lost at trial. A hard look at his tactics and strategy raise red flags.","meta_description":"Michael Skakel’s defense attorney Mickey Sherman thought the case was a home run, but lost at trial. A hard look at his tactics and strategy raise red fla…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3874,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dead-certain-the-martha-moxley-murder-7557703/episodes/the-joker/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dead-certain-the-martha-moxley-murder-7557703/the-joker.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}