More hands go up.
This is Elan School, a private facility whose setting in the woods of southern Maine belies its purpose. The Elan prescription is a mix of boot camp discipline and intense encounter groups. Conn. Skakel is the grandson of industrialist George Skakel and the nephew of Ethel Skakel Kennedy and the late Robert Kennedy. The big fact that everybody who was there pretty much knew about was that he was placed there because they did not know whether or not Michael murdered the girl,'' said former Elan student Chuck Seigan in a taped police interview. Skakel's lawyer, Mickey Sherman, disputes accounts of the former classmates or won't comment because they are potential witnesses.