Now Levitt has gained exclusive access to Det. Frank Garr’s thousands of pages of notes, a bouncing-off point for his own investigation. “I am going to document how the Skakels feared Michael’s involvement right from the beginning,” Levitt tells NEWSWEEK. He is also going to home in on another Kennedy cousin, Michael’s brother Tommy, who has admitted lying to police about his alibi and was a longtime suspect in the murder. “There is somebody whose full role we don’t know,” Levitt says. “The Skakels and RFK Jr. are still circling the wagon, trying to pin this on anybody except a member of the family.” Indeed, next week The Atlantic Monthly will publish a piece on the case by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. An early draft of that article leaked in the fall, causing a furor in part because Kennedy alleged that Moxley’s grief-stricken brother was once institutionalized and should be considered a suspect. While The Atlantic will likely excise many of Kennedy’s questionable claims by press time, it’s a safe bet that RFK won’t be calling one of his own a killer.
