Even in death, there is no peace for Mary Richardson Kennedy.
Less than two months after she was found hanging in a barn behind her Bedford mansion, Mary Kennedy's body has been dug up on her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s orders and moved to a remote area of a Massachusetts cemetery.
Mary Kennedy's siblings were blindsided by the transfer of her casket, said Peter Bienstock, a lawyer for the Richardson family.
"The Richardsons weren't asked," Bienstock said. "The Richardsons weren't informed. The reasons he did it are known only to him."
The burial transfer from one part of St. Francis Xavier Cemetery in Centerville, Mass., to another is the latest twist in the saga of RFK Jr.'s estranged wife, who hanged herself after being locked in a bitter divorce battle with a member of one of America's most storied political families.
The Daily News first reported that Mary Kennedy had been buried near Robert Kennedy Jr.'s aunt and uncle, Eunice, and Sargent Shriver, but was moved 700 feet to an isolated plot away from Kennedy kin on a hill near the cemetery entrance.
Immediately after her death, the Richardsons waged a legal battle against Robert Kennedy Jr. to wrest control of Mary Kennedy's body and have her buried closer to Westchester County. RFK Jr. ultimately won control of her body under court order from a judge in State Supreme Court in White Plains, but the Richardsons consented after protracted discussions on where the body would be buried, Bienstock said.
"The original site was negotiated in the courthouse pretty specifically," he said. "The (Richardson) family was very concerned with access. There was a lot of discussion about precisely where it would be."
Bienstock said he could not say whether the Richardsons would have approved the transfer had they been asked.
http://newyork.newsday.com/news/nation/mary-kennedy-s-body-dug-up-on-rfk-jr-s-orders-1.3833234
Those Kennedy's...gotta luv 'em. Even in death, when you're out, you're out.
Less than two months after she was found hanging in a barn behind her Bedford mansion, Mary Kennedy's body has been dug up on her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s orders and moved to a remote area of a Massachusetts cemetery.
Mary Kennedy's siblings were blindsided by the transfer of her casket, said Peter Bienstock, a lawyer for the Richardson family.
"The Richardsons weren't asked," Bienstock said. "The Richardsons weren't informed. The reasons he did it are known only to him."
The burial transfer from one part of St. Francis Xavier Cemetery in Centerville, Mass., to another is the latest twist in the saga of RFK Jr.'s estranged wife, who hanged herself after being locked in a bitter divorce battle with a member of one of America's most storied political families.
The Daily News first reported that Mary Kennedy had been buried near Robert Kennedy Jr.'s aunt and uncle, Eunice, and Sargent Shriver, but was moved 700 feet to an isolated plot away from Kennedy kin on a hill near the cemetery entrance.
Immediately after her death, the Richardsons waged a legal battle against Robert Kennedy Jr. to wrest control of Mary Kennedy's body and have her buried closer to Westchester County. RFK Jr. ultimately won control of her body under court order from a judge in State Supreme Court in White Plains, but the Richardsons consented after protracted discussions on where the body would be buried, Bienstock said.
"The original site was negotiated in the courthouse pretty specifically," he said. "The (Richardson) family was very concerned with access. There was a lot of discussion about precisely where it would be."
Bienstock said he could not say whether the Richardsons would have approved the transfer had they been asked.
http://newyork.newsday.com/news/nation/mary-kennedy-s-body-dug-up-on-rfk-jr-s-orders-1.3833234
Those Kennedy's...gotta luv 'em. Even in death, when you're out, you're out.
