"He dragged a lot of stuff out of Howard AND Howard did not get "total control" of the body and COULDN'T exclude Virgie."
Best thing that came from the hearing and I think Seidlin wanted to avoid what happened at Daniel's funeral from happening at ANS's.
What bothers me is the assumption by all that ANS WANTED to be buried in the Bahamas. Assumptions can be made that she would have wanted to be buried by Daniel, but no assumption should be made that she wanted either Daniel OR herself to be buried in the Bahamas. IMO, that decision was entirely out of her hands and drugged up mind and in the hands of Sterns. She always stated she wanted to be buried by Marilyn Monroe...I heard no testimony that has her saying specifically, "I want to be buried in the Bahamas."
You're right. Actually all the early news reports after Daniel's death indicated his body was to be shipped to the US for burial. Somebody along the way changed that idea....and I don't think Anna was in any state of mind to be the one to do so.
Their burials have also caused a lot of negatives among the Natives. They like their Island life and Howard has disturbed it.
Daniel would never have wanted to be buried in the Bahamas. But nobody cared about that because he was dead now and dead men don't talk. Unless they have wills (valid ones) and apparently he didn't.
So it became a consideration of only what was best for Stern and Smith. And Anna was obviously opting out for his continuing line that they must live in the Bahamas to keep away from Birkhead's paternity suit. I now think that it was more than that they were worried about the suit...I think they were worried that if he could prove paternity AND that Anna was a hopeless drug addict and unfit mother, he could get custody of the baby.
They both had a lot to hide. Stern had the most to hide, and from the looks of it, he had schemes that went all the way to severe criminality.
Anyway, the excuse for her Bahamas burial traces back to their sorry insistence that Daniel be buried there. An American citizen who happened to die while visiting his family due to Dannie Lynn's birth. Yeah, riiiiiight.
And of course, the mother must be buried next to her son. It's what SHE would have wanted. What about what HE would have wanted in the first place? Never mind. It was never about HIM.