[martin_fierro]

"If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age." -- Charles Pierce in a January 5, 2003, Boston Globe Magazine article

[scott7278]

That's unreal.

[sine_nomine]

But instead, Ted murdered her, giving no solace to her grieving parents in their old age.

Losing a child is very difficult, but losing a child to murder is perhaps the worst kind of grief one can impose on parents. I know of cases where they never recovered. They are savaged and broken by the horror of the crime, especially when the murderer was known to the family, as Ted was.