HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – A new book from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is stoking the intrigue over the widely chronicled murder that his cousin, Michael Skakel, has been accused of carrying out with a golf club in 1975.
Kennedy argues Skakel is innocent, and his book points a finger at other people he says could have bludgeoned the girl to death.
“Almost nothing that the public knows about this case was true,” Kennedy said in an interview. “I think it would be impossible to read this book and still believe Michael is guilty.”
Prosecutors and the family of the victim, however, say the claims at the heart of Kennedy’s book already have been aired in court. In a statement, Connecticut’s Division of Criminal Justice said the book is “inflammatory and baseless.”
“Mr. Kennedy has no legitimate basis upon which to question the jury’s verdict,” the division said.