Within three months, the couple was in marriage counseling. So she was stuck. Walking in first, the caretaker suddenly asked, Whats that over there? and spotted Mary, in black gym clothes and sandals, suspended slightly above eye level, from an overhead beam by a rope, neatly knotted, White reported, nine times around her neck. Her face was tranquil, her hands, palms facing outward, lodged between her neck and rope, almost as if attempting to pull it away. In a story told in Bobby's affidavit and confirmed by one of his friends, the first major crisis in their marriage concerned the way Mary treated Bobby's two children from his first marriage, who stayed with them three weekends a month. She is suspected of overdosing, according to multiple news outlets, though her cause of death is pending a toxicology report. Bobby had what his brother Doug called the Kennedy "St. Francis complex," always trying to do good and help people, and he reached out to Mary as if reaching out to a version of himself. After talking to Bobby and Mary, Gunderson says, "I was convinced the diagnosis of BPD was correct. The Richardsons were far from wealthy, but they managed to send Mary to the progressive Putney School in Vermont. I know you have told me that her frequent suicide threats are not real. Bobby read that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association lists nine criteria for BPD, five of which must be present for a diagnosis. Even hed cop to that.). Mary seemed to have every one of the nine, including a perceived sense of abandonment, a lack of identity, recklessness, suicidal threats, intense feelings of emptiness, and inappropriate displays of anger. At that time, there was another Mary Richardson, the beloved local newscaster. Mary vowed that she would kill herself and before doing so tell the world what a monster he was. Mary's eldest sister, book editor Nan Richa rdson, was also involved in human rights causes with Kerry Kennedy, now divorced from Cuomo. Mary, 52, hanged herself at the familys estate in Bedford, N.Y. in May. According to the New York Daily News an autopsy revealed that her fingers were . She did not want her marriage to end and that reality was slowly, progressively coming. In the summers at their Greenwich, Conn., estate, Ethel and her siblings enjoyed a game of riding up on the backseat of a convertible while the driver passed under low-hanging trees, trying to knock off the passengernot unlike the game of football on skis that Bobby's brother Michael was playing when he crashed into a tree in Aspen in 1997 and died. Mary Kennedy's Death A Suicide: Hanged Herself In A Barn Pics The scurrilous affidavit, which is the entire basis for the Newsweek article, was written by Bobby Kennedy as part of a contentious custody battle and was nothing more than a brutal psychological weapon in the divorce case.
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