Michael
also told Sutton Associates he did not consider Martha
to be a flirt. By all other accounts--many of them
emphatic and coming directly from her good
friends--Martha Moxley was a relentless flirt.
This was an aspect of her character everyone
recognized, without negative judgment. (No one
considered her to be sexually promiscuous, or
inappropriately preoccupied with sexuality. Rather her
flirtatiousness seems to have been indicative of a
self-confident and cheerful disposition.)
So why did Michael dissent from the consensus on this
point? Is this a reactionary and defensive stance? Is
Michael wary of giving any indication that he
harbored resentment against her for her liaisons with
Tommy?
Now let's assume, as we suspect, that Michael did not
go to the Terrien's [Terriens']. Why would Tommy
and Jim Terrien want to make us believe he did?
Mark #4 10:15 The next time we have
Ken and Tommy
pinned down is sometime around 10:15 pm, depending on
who you believe is more accurate (Littleton says
Tommy came into the master bedroom at around 10:03
pm. Tommy says he arrived at around 10:17 pm).
Let us assume they are both being entirely honest to
the best of their recollection. After leaving Martha,
Tommy says he went up to his room for an
indeterminable period of time. He then went down the
staircase from the third floor to the second floor
where he noticed that his father's bedroom door was
open. Inside, Ken was sitting on the lounge chair,
watching The French Connection. Tommy joined
him and sat on the bed. After watching the chase
scene, Tommy says he went down to the kitchen for a
bite to eat, and then went up to bed.
Littleton says that Tommy came into the bedroom about
twenty minutes before the chase scene. The chase
scene began at exactly 10:23 pm. If Tommy really came
up twenty minutes earlier, Ken would have been in the
kitchen with Julie at that point. Most likely, Tommy
came up later than that, probably around a quarter
past. Littleton says that Tommy, in his estimation,
could not have murdered Martha Moxley before this
point. He seemed completely normal and relaxed at the
time.
If Julie has Littleton in the kitchen at 10:05 pm,
and Tommy has him in the master bedroom shortly
thereafter, it seems virtually impossible Ken could
have committed the murder of Martha Moxley--assuming,
as most do, that the murder occurred just after
Martha left Tommy's presence and headed for home.
Could Tommy have killed her after their sexual
encounter. Littleton says no. So if we are dealing
with Tommy, Michael, and Ken, as our suspect
triumvirate, and we believe that Martha was murdered
around 10:00 pm, on her way home after fooling around
with Tommy, only one of our suspects could possibly
have intercepted her: Michael.
Ridiculous? Hardly. A Tom Sheridan memo of 6/6/78
stated that [^] possible Michael could have
committed the murder and doesn't know it and possibly
someone else, i.e. Tommy, could have hidden the body
and taken Michael to the Terrien's [Terriens']
to provide him with an alibi. A memo of
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