The reporter appears to be trying to imply that Kopechne was "killed" by the crash. Instead, according to a diver who recovered her body, she probably died from suffocation after several hours of desperately trying to stay alive in an air pocket.
IOW, Mary Jo probably would've lived, had Teddy alerted police immediately.
No autopsy was ever performed to determine her exact cause of death.
Now why was that? Could it be the Kennedys paid off the Kopechne family to refuse an autopsy?
He came under fire for not reporting the incident to authorities until the next morning. In the interim he reportedly made an effort to call a family legal adviser.
AND, in the interim, Teddy tried to persuade his cousin Joseph Gargan to be the fall guy and tell police that Gargan had been driving the Olds. This is according to Gargan himself.
Has Teddy ever publicly commented on the murder? Has he ever provided a lame excuse of any kind? I've never seen one.