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Former Kennedy relative found dead (In Submerged Car)
AP | 3/17/04

Posted on 03/17/2004 3:03:33 AM PST by kattracks

VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The body of a local socialite once related by marriage to the Kennedy family was found in a sunken car, authorities said.

Police do not suspect foul play in the death of 65-year-old Hope Sheridan, who was last seen March 8. Family members in Windham, N.Y., reported her missing on March 11.

Sheridan is the ex-mother-in-law of Michael Skakel, a cousin of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Skakel, 42, is serving 20 years to life in prison for the beating death of his Greenwich, Conn., neighbor, Martha Moxley, in 1975.

Divers found Sheridan's car Monday afternoon after a sheriff's helicopter noted two faint parallel marks at the end of a retention pond.

The car was submerged in about 15 feet of water 75 feet from shore. Sheridan's body was found on the passenger side, Detective Keith Harmon said. He said there were no skid marks on the grassy area going into the water.

"It appears from the preliminary findings that this was an accidental death," said Indian River County sheriff's spokesman Joe Flescher said.

Investigators were awaiting the results of a medical examiner's toxicology tests.



TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: Florida; US: New York
KEYWORDS: chappaquidick; hopesheridan; kennedycar; kennedyfamily; michaelskakel; neverridewithted; obituary; skakel; verobeach
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To: kattracks
MIL of Skakel means she was the cousin of Ethel Kennedy, not Robert Kennedy.
21 posted on 03/17/2004 3:57:50 AM PST by Carolinamom (Currently re-programming my thinking to positive mode.)
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To: SLB
Where was Teddy and how much did he have to drink?

Where was Teddy the night of March 8th?

22 posted on 03/17/2004 3:59:57 AM PST by GOPJ (NFL Owners: Grown men don't watch hollywood peep shows with wives and children.)
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To: kattracks
I'm surprised this has not surfaced before now
23 posted on 03/17/2004 4:05:47 AM PST by Cowman
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To: kattracks
75 feet is quite a leap from shore. But who knows, maybe it's all downhill.

The Skakels get my attention for another reason. A good friend of mine was struck and left crippled by a car driven by one of the Skakels, not sure who.

24 posted on 03/17/2004 4:09:57 AM PST by T'wit (I'll believe Global Warming when climatologists use computer modeling to win Power Ball a few times)
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To: arasina
Sunkendrunken, now that is funny.
25 posted on 03/17/2004 4:16:03 AM PST by jeremiah (Sunshine scares all of them, for they all are cockaroaches)
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To: kattracks
at the end of a retention pond.

An EPA mandated retention pond. They are everywhere, unenclosed. Many of them in new developments are disguised as duck ponds and prettied up with fountains.

I think I will go into the retention pond enclosure business.

26 posted on 03/17/2004 4:19:46 AM PST by Flyer (Don't abandon our military - Re-elect President Bush!)
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To: kattracks
this was an accidental death

But so was Mary Jo Kopeckne's death.

27 posted on 03/17/2004 4:21:05 AM PST by 11th Earl of Mar
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To: GOPJ
Click on image to go to Y Ted K site
28 posted on 03/17/2004 4:33:47 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: Bon mots
“If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old.
Through his tireless work as a legislator,
(Democrat) Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.”

– Charles Pierce, January 5, Boston Globe

29 posted on 03/17/2004 4:45:30 AM PST by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
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To: visualops
She was on the passenger side yet it was "accidental"?

Why are these people reporters if they can't find the curiosity to ask that question.

30 posted on 03/17/2004 5:09:15 AM PST by StriperSniper (Manuel Miranda - Whistleblower)
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To: kattracks
Wow...this is creepily close to me. I lived in Windham NY for a short period in my youth, and my Grandmother lives in Vero Beach. I better stay away from Kennedies (always good advice...to anyone)

< /tin foil hat>
31 posted on 03/17/2004 5:17:19 AM PST by blanknoone (At least the Spanish socialist party call themselves socialists.)
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To: thegreatbeast
Out for a joy ride with Teddy?
32 posted on 03/17/2004 5:40:47 AM PST by Godfollow
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To: StriperSniper
That is a consistent failing too!
I need to start drawing cartoons, cuz right now I see a reporter/puppet, strings controlled PC/Dem/Socialist manipulator. Instead of "Press" ticket in hat band, it says "Mouthpiece" (or "Useful Idiot").
33 posted on 03/17/2004 7:18:01 AM PST by visualops (Two Wrongs don't make a right- they make the Democratic Ticket for 2004!)
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To: visualops
Instead of "Press" ticket in hat band, it says "Mouthpiece" (or "Useful Idiot").

Or 'Ministry of Truth', but even that may be too much to expect the sheeple to understand. :(

34 posted on 03/17/2004 8:16:10 AM PST by StriperSniper (Manuel Miranda - Whistleblower)
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To: SLB
Never mind Teddy. Where was John F&&in Kerry?
35 posted on 03/17/2004 10:11:58 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough (I think, therefore I love America.)
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