Dorthy Moxley, the mother who fought to bring her teenage daughter's killer to justice in a roller-coaster Connecticut murder case, has died.

Dorthy Moxley remained a compelling figure in the story of a mystery that captured world attention with its wealth and celebrity, its dead-end investigations and an outpouring of films and publicity.

The 92-year-old mother of a murder victim whose death spurred the conviction—and later the overturning of said conviction—of a member of the Kennedy family, died Tuesday from complications of the flu,