Dorthy Moxley had tears in her eyes as she hugged her son, John, in the courtroom. More than 25 years after her daughter Martha had been beaten to death, a jury had found a man guilty of killing her.

Moxley was savagely beaten to death in her posh Greenwich, Conn., neighborhood. Her body was found in the early hours of Oct. 31, 1975, on her family's Greenwich estate.

Mildred Ix, close family friend of Thomas and Michael Skakel, suspects in 1975 murder of Greenwich, Conn, teen-ager Martha Moxley, testifies before grand jury investigating slaying; Skakel ...