For nearly a quarter-century after 15-year-old Martha Moxley was beaten to death with a golf club in the exclusive Greenwich, Connecticut, enclave of Belle Haven, police were stymied. Finally, last winter, Michael Skakel, son of a wealthy neighbor and nephew of Ethel Kennedy, was indicted for murder. DOMINICK DUNNE, who based his best-selling A Season in Purgatory on the crime, charts his fateful involvement with the case: a rumor heard at the William Kennedy Smith trial, a growing friendship with Martha's mother, shocking revelations by two informants—and a town that still may hold secrets about a girl's violent death
With temperatures expected to soar into the 90s Sunday, animal rights activists are planning a protest at the Griffith Park Pony Rides & Petting Zoo, insisting that forcing horses to carry customers in such heat amounts to animal cruelty.