He was very calm and not alarmed. I said, 'Listen to me. But I wouldn't recommend releasing files before you review them. Make a decision after that. But make sure you read through all of them.
Files are confidential.
Contrary to the belief that Skakel was working to protect his son or sons from the consequences of what they'd done, the man was horrified by the girl's death and shocked that his son was a suspect, Czaja said. They apparently made their point, for later that day, Skakel told police they no longer had his permission to access the records. The events that have transpired this year make it clear that denying police access to information about Tommy was appropriate, Czaja said. When they came searching for Tommy's records, they were going down the wrong trail. In the 1990s, Michael became a focus of the investigation after he changed his story about where he was the night of the murder.