reaffirming his mindset of helpless
dependency. In any event, approximately a week
later. Michael was in effect taken into custody (after
a wild chase) by the staff from Elan and he is a
resident there to this day. Simply put, it
seems all the wild chases in the world will not pull
this young man away from his arrested state of
development.
Dr. Quinlan adds: Under conditions of
increasing depression or with an increase in overt
hostility or social withdrawal there would be a
possibility of self-destructive
behavior.
Michael has just seen his reviled brother, Tommy, and
his flirtatious ex-girlfriend Martha Moxley,
cavorting together at the side of his own home in the
presence of everyone. She turned down an offer to
hang out Michael that night, in order to be with his
older brother. It is hard to imagine how such a
spectacle would not have made him both increasingly
depressed and overtly hostile. From the time-line:
9:15 pm--According to Tommy Skakel, from his
interview on 10/7/93 [footnote 1] with Willis Krebs,
at approximately this time he left the sun porch area
and went outside to the side of the house to retrieve
a tape cassette from his parents car. Inside the car,
Tommy encountered Martha Moxley, his brother Michael,
Helen Ix, and Jeffrey Byrne, who were all listening
to music. Soon after, he and Martha would move to the
area around the shed, off the driveway, and begin
"making out."
Martha's friends reportedly left shortly after this
point because they found Martha's behavior to be
embarrassing. Clearly, her activity with Tommy was
purposefully demonstrative. It seems likely, as well,
that Martha's young friends were disturbed by the
inherent awkwardness of watching Martha blatantly and
immodestly courting the, affection of her
ex-boyfriend's older brother while in her
ex-boyfriend's presence. We know practically nothing
of how Michael reacted to all this, and it is a
glaring omission. Certainly, he had a reaction, and
it may have been extreme.
Michael's initial alibi hinged on testimony that he
was at the Terrien's [Terriens'] residence and
stayed there during the time when Martha was
suspected of being killed. There is curious evidence,
however, suggesting this is not exactly what
happened. In an interview under hypnosis, on May 4,
1993, John Skakel was asked where Michael was while
he and Rush were at the Terrien's [Terriens'].
The interviewer, on repeated occasions, tried to get
John to place Michael in the car and then at the
Terrien's [Terriens']. John could not. He
could only recall that someone else was in the car,
and that someone else was at the house. As much as
the interviewed [WW] persisted, John could not
identify that person as Michael.
Gaspar: Who is in the room with you? You,
Jimmy, who else?
Skakel: Rush.
Gaspar: Did you hear anybody come in or leave? Did
the telephone ring?
Skakel: I don't recall.
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