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5 Verrochi breaks it off: Kate Zerike and Scot LeHigh, “Controversy Surrounds a Kennedy’s Alleged Affair with Baby-Sitter,” Chicago Tribune, April 25, 1997.
6 Kennedys separate: Zerike and LeHigh, “Controversy Surrounds a Kennedy’s Alleged Affair.”
7 “in a castle with a moat around it”: Michael Shnayerson, “Bobby’s Kids,” Vanity Fair, August 1997.
8 “an embarrassment in the press”: Shnayerson, “Bobby’s Kids.”
9 “private and personal matters”: Shnayerson.
10 “Omertà, Irish-American-style”: Shnayerson.
Chapter 50
1 Death of Anne Skakel: “Mrs. Rushton Skakel,” New York Times, March 7, 1973.
2 Greenwich royalty: David Van Biema, “A Crime in the Clan,” Time, January 23, 2000.
3 “Nixon, not Jack, in the 1960 election”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019), 141.
4 “throwing protocol into utter panic”: William F. Buckley Jr., “His Greatness Was More Than Relative,” Stanford Daily 150, no. 7 (October 3, 1966).
5 “more a self-made man than Joe Kennedy”: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 154.
6 Great Lakes Carbon Corporation: Van Biema, “A Crime in the Clan.”
7 Death of George Skakel Sr.: “Executive, Wife Die in Air Crash; Skakel, 63, Head of Carbon Company Here, Victim in Oklahoma Disaster,” New York Times, October 5, 1955.
8 Death of George Skakel Jr.: Buckley, “His Greatness Was More Than Relative.”
9 “They didn’t like discipline—the kids or the parents”: Leslie Yager, “Skakel Nanny Speaks After 50 Years,” Patch.com, December 22, 2013.
10 Ethel’s brothers as terrors of neighborhood: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, 154.
11 “more intense level of chaos”: Susan Campbell, “The House of Skakel,” Hartford-Courant, June 9, 2002.
12 “a coterie of priests and nuns and a series of live-in tutors”: Leonard Levitt, “Michael Skakel Was Convicted of Murdering Martha Moxley, So Why Is He Free?” Daily Beast, April 22, 2017 (updated May 8, 2017).
13 Skakel ages in fall 1975: Campbell, “The House of Skakel.”
14 “Best Personality”: James Feron, “Friends and a Fund Recall the Murdered Girl in Greenwich,” New York Times, December 23, 1975.
15 “the Moxleys were ‘Leave It to Beaver’”: Campbell, “The House of Skakel.”
16 “bludgeoned young Martha”: Feron, “Friends and a Fund Recall the Murdered Girl in Greenwich.”
17 A rare Toney Penna six-iron: Van Biema, “A Crime in the Clan.”
18 Decades go by without any arrests: Levitt, “Michael Skakel Was Convicted of Murdering Martha Moxley.”
19 “full-blown, daily-drinking”: Campbell, “The House of Skakel.”
20 The élan School: “Skakel Set to Go on Trial in 26-Year-Old Murder Case,” CNN, April 1, 2002.
21 “tough love and discipline”: Stevenson Swanson, “1975 Murder Case Revived,” Chicago Tribune, January 23, 2000.
22 1992 winter Olympics: Swanson, “1975 Murder Case Revived.”
23 “He helped me to get sober”: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., “A Miscarriage of Justice,” Atlantic, January/February 2003.
24 “I rarely saw the Skakel boys growing up”: Kennedy Jr., “A Miscarriage of Justice.”
25 “His primary passion in life is helping other alcoholics”: Kennedy Jr..
26 “one of the most honest and open people I know”: Patrick Rogers, “The Boy Next Door,” People, February 7, 2000.
27 Working for the Kennedys: David Chen, “Glare of an Old Horror Intrudes on a Privileged Life,” New York Times, January 22, 2000.
28 Known simply as “Skakel”: Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs, 141.
29 “the sweetest human being”: Michael Shnayerson, “Bobby’s Kids,” Vanity Fair, August 1997.
30 Vicki calls Skakel: Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs, 143.
31 Ethel and nephew: Taraborrelli, 145.
32 “some very disturbing news”: Taraborrelli, 235.
33 “accompanied Mrs. Verrochi to the hospital”: Shnayerson, “Bobby’s Kids.”
34 “any business telling a Kennedy what to do”: Shnayerson.
35 Sets Marisa up with a therapist, Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs, 229.
36 “not your place”: Taraborrelli, 238.
37 “He’s been trying to save everyone, left and right”: Taraborrelli, 261.
38 “He admitted to me”: Shnayerson, “Bobby’s Kids.”
39 “Nobody can stab you in the back”: Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs, 237.
40 “it was a bum rap”: Alex Kuczynski, “For Writers, a Murder Case That Had all the Ingredients,” New York Times, January 20, 2000.
41 William Kennedy Smith never met any Skakels except Ethel: Kennedy, “A Miscarriage of Justice.”
42 “Michael Skakel is guilty of this murder”: Craig Offman, “Kennedy Cousin Confesses Crush on Murdered Girl,” Salon.com, November 9, 1999.