There are
a number of curious details in what Littleton is saying
here. He is self-consciously aware of the significance
of his recollections to the degree he believes Tommy is
being provided with an alibi. He also cites when Tommy
arrived in Mr. Skakel's room in terms of the Greenwich
Police Department's report, as opposed to his own
memory. He implies, as well, that he now knows Tommy's
report was a front. Evidently, Littleton is looking
back at the night of October 30, 1975 through a
filtered and guarded perspective. He is highly aware of
certain investigative details. Littleton has
occasionally left interviewers with the impression he
was trying to learn what was officially known about the
case. With the Sutton Associates investigator who
interviewed him in Boston, Littleton evinced this
tactic to a moderate degree.
On the night of October 30, 1975, Ken recalls going
outside because Nanny Sweeney asked him to check on
the barking dogs. His recollection is hesitant, but
he believes it was about 9:30 pm - soon after The
French Connection had started. Going out the
front door, he walked right along the circular
driveway and stood by the cypress trees. He claims to
have heard some "rustling." Interestingly, Littleton
told our investigators that the rustling was coming
from a spot in the darkness located about twenty-five
yards into the back lawn. This could, conceivably, be
where we now know, according to Tommy, that Tommy and
Martha were having their sexual encounter.
Other aspects of Littleton's testimony, however,
confound rather than support other accounts of the
night's events. It should be noted, in the following
excerpts from the time-line, that Littleton places
Tommy back in Mr. Skakel's bedroom, watching The
French Connection, before even Tommy says he is
there. Other important sections have also been
highlighted:
OCTOBER 30, 1975 The following segments
provide a general context for information regarding
Tommy's activities on the night of Martha Moxley's
murder.
9:25 pm to 9:30 pm--Julie, while
under hypnosis on 3/5/93, recounts seeing Martha and
Tommy together: "Andrea decided she needed to go
home, so half way through Ellery Queen, we got up,
went out to the car, got in, the car keys weren't in
the car so I asked Andrea to go back up to the house
and get them. At the same (sic), as my window was
down, I could hear Tommy and Martha talking at the
back door." (p. 8) "I couldn't hear absolutely
clearly, but it seemed like whatever the plans were
for that evening, Tommy wasn't interested and he was
just going to stay home. I could hear the back door
close after Tommy said goodnight to Martha. I could
see Martha walking around the back fence and, about
the same time that Tommy closed the door, Andrea
tried to get in the front door, but she couldn't, so
she rang the doorbell. I could see Tommy slowly
walking through the kitchen and ... I think looking
through the glass to see who it was." Julie
also recalls that Ken Littleton was there. (p.
8-9)
9:30 pm--According to Jim Terrien,
interviewed 9/23/93, this is approximately the time
he left the Skakel residence for his house with Rush,
John, and Michael. He recalls that Rush drove the
Skakel's Lincoln. Before leaving, he remembers seeing
Tommy at the front door.
--Under hypnosis, on either 1/6/93 or 3/15/93, John
Skakel recalls being in the car with Rush and
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