A Connecticut judge granted a new trial to Michael Skakel, the nephew of RFK’s widow Ethel Skakel on Wednesday.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel was granted a new trial on Wednesday by a Connecticut judge who ruled his attorney failed to adequately represent him when he was convicted in 2002 of killing his neighbor in 1975.

Late in September, DNA testing confirmed her maternity of the tragic tot, the source said. The mom has nine other children by three men, and never reported her child missing. Finally confronted by investigators, she blamed the father, who had custody …

But earlier this week, police announced that a new tip and a DNA test had allowed them to finally identify the baby's mother, a dramatic turnaround in one of the city's more notorious cold cases. On Saturday, they also revealed the girl's name …

Her body was exhumed for DNA testing in 2007, and then again in 2011. In July, detectives tried another round of publicity on the 22nd anniversary of the discovery. They canvassed the neighborhood where her body was found, hung fliers, circulated …

The baby's rotting remains were found stuffed inside a picnic cooler along the Henry Hudson Parkway on July 23, 1991. The little girl was naked, bound, beaten and sexually abused. Cops revealed this week they made a break in the case — using DNA to …

The three daughters of David Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk, tried to block the claim of distant relative Patrick Carnegy, who had never met their father.

Sue Pullin, pictured, brought in a surveillance expert to find out who was vandalising her mother’s grave, in Bristol. She was shocked to see it was her cousin, Amanda Lester.

Royal baby fever may have gripped much of Britain and indeed the rest of the world but, as one American TV interviewer found out when she interviewed the Queen’s first cousin, Margaret Rhodes, 88, not everyone is in a frenzy of anticipation.

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