THE SUTTON REPORT
TOMMY SKAKEL
A purposefully prejudicial analysis of Tommy
Skakel and his testimony, designed for evaluating
how best to proceed with questioning during his
upcoming interview.
Let us say it is about 9:30 on the night of October
30, 1995 [sic]. At this point, basically
everybody has left the Skakel residence. Helen Ix and
Jeffrey [Geoffrey] Byrne left a little while
ago. Michael is gone (we'll assume for now)--he left
with Jim Terrien, John, and Rush. Tommy watched as
Andrea and his sister Julie drove off after he helped
Andrea retrieve the car keys. In short, the coast was
clear. If, as Tommy has expressed, he was sincerely
concerned about appearances and making an effort to
conceal a tryst with Martha (and if he genuinely lied
about his homework assignment as an excuse to stay
behind with her) then his mission was accomplished.
When Tommy went back to meet Martha the need for
discretion was over.
So why, now that the coast was clear, did Tommy and
Martha brave temperatures of forty degrees and have
their encounter on the grass when access to either a
comfortable bedroom, or the van, was a few mere steps
away? In terms of appearances, mutual masturbation on
the back lawn does not, by any standard, constitute a
continuing effort to be discrete. Plus, by most
accounts, the Skakel van was well-known as a place
the boys would take willing young ladies.
Another factor to consider: Tommy admits having about
4-5 beers with dinner. There is no sensible reason
why he would exaggerate his alcohol consumption. If
Tommy says that he [^] about five beers, you can
assume he had at least that many, if not more. He
also states that when everyone returned to the house
after dinner, more beer was consumed by himself and
others. So, in the space of about two hours, Tommy
had, it is fairly safe to surmise, about seven beers.
Now, it is no secret that the Skakel family has a
history of heavy drinking, but still, for a sixteen
year-old boy, that's a lot of alcohol in relatively a
short period of time. So, we have Tommy rolling
around on the grass with his pants down, in forty
degree temperatures, after consuming a lot of
alcohol. It is very hard to understand, then, how he
could have gone through the motions of seduction,
foreplay, and reached orgasm, all in the
space of twenty minutes?
Is Tommy's account possible? Certainly. He may claim
it was because he was drunk that he didn't
take Martha inside. However, Martha was not drunk.
She also, according to Tommy (and I quote from Mr.
Krebs' report on a recent interview), "forcibly and
verbally rejected Tommy's advances" when he started
feeling her breasts at the side of the house during
some "kidding around." This was when, we can safely
assume, Helen Ix, probably left because she found the
behavior of Tommy and Martha to be
"embarrassing."
Yet, Tommy maintains that Martha agreed to wait and
meet him for a rendez-vous. He implies that by
waiting to meet him, Martha was consenting to a
sexual encounter. If that was the case, why did
she allow the encounter to occur
outdoors--especially since, according to Tommy, he
met back up with her inside?
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