THE SUTTON REPORT
MICHAEL SKAKEL
A purposefully prejudicial analysis of Michael
Skakel and his
testimony.
Much like his brother, Tommy, Michael
Skakel has made some revelatory alterations and
amendments to our account of his activities and
whereabouts on the night of October 30, 1995.
[sic] The parallels neither begin
nor end there. As mentioned earlier in this report,
Tommy and Michael have both suffered from similar
mental and emotional disorders, and their early
relationship was distinguished by an intense,
exceptionally explosive rivalry. As Thomas Sheridan
has written, in a digest of Anna Goodman's Elan
report on Michael: both boys are impulsive
personalities. Both have very poor ego development
and a bad self image. Both are sexually immature and
blocked emotionally. Both have an alcohol and
possibly drug problems. Both are very likable and
outstanding athletes. Both are lost, personally
disorganized and have no life plan. Their only point
of departure is in the fact that Tommy feels loved by
his family and Michael does not. His father,
Mr. Skakel, reports that, "Julie is frightened to
death of Michael," that Michael suffers from enuresis
(bedwetting), and has engaged in some transsexual
behavior."
In more than one sense, these two brothers share a
unique category of suspicion in this case. Michael's
recent revelations, solicited first during interviews
with staff at the Elan school and then with Sutton
Associates investigators, also places him in a higher
category of suspicion without any overt implications
of wrongdoing. In this regard, it is not altogether
clear why this information was volunteered now, after
so long, and indeed, why it was then volunteered at
all. As with Tommy, however, the changes illustrate
that Michael was originally deceitful with the police
and other authorities.
In terms purely of motive, over the course of our
investigation, we have found considerable evidence to
show Michael had been involved in a relationship with
Martha Moxley. According to one source, Michael and
Tommy even fought over her. Along the blurry lines of
teenage romance, Michael was known to be Martha's
boyfriend for some time. Coupled with our extensive
knowledge of just how vehemently they fought with
each other, this information suggests Michael had
more than ample reason to me [WW] extremely upset when Tommy
was carrying on with Martha by the side of the house
just before 9:30 pm.
The magnitude of certain psychological and emotional
problems from which Michael has suffered is
considerable. Dr. Sue Wallington Quinlan, who
examined him on 3/3/77, has written:
Projective testing suggested a severe
agitated depression, a sense of being overwhelmed by
a sense of evil and the futility of life. The
depression is possibly of psychotic proportions but
the protocol was too guarded to be certain. Mental
functioning is clearly fragile. Extent of pathology
is evident in borderline features: 1) intrusions of
personal concerns into intellectual functioning, 2)
primitive fantasy content, e.g. mutilated bodies,
masked, distorted figures, concerns about bodily
integrity and deformity, 3) inadequate capacity for
attatchment [sp] to other people.
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