No matter how the car found it's way into the water, the question is......how did the orca manage to get out and she remained behind.
I always wondered about that.
......how did the orca manage to get out and she remained behind.
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Hard to say what happened exactly, but my guess is, being the self-serving loser liberal that Fats is, he did not give a damn about her, and let her drown. It was probably all that fat, drunken slob could do just to get himself (all of it) out of the car...and then start calling all his stooges in the government to start protecting his miserable fat butt.
Crap floats!
This is THE question of the incident, and one that has never been answered. When they drove away from the house where the party was happening, both Kennedy and Mary Jo were in the front seat of the car, according to witnesses. When her body was found, Mary Jo was in the back seat, in a position "consistent with" her breathing in an air pocket. There was no autopsy, but the condition of her body at the time she was pulled from the car was "consistent with" her having died of suffocation and not drowning.
Why didn't she get out of the car on her own when Kennedy did? First, it's safe to assume they were both well under the influence of alcohol and who knows what else. Then...
After they left the party, a police officer saw the car parked in a dark area. He didn't know who was in the car, but he thought it was a man and woman making out. Kennedy knew the cop saw the car, and might have thought the cop saw him, so he took off and drove off the bridge shortly thereafter.
The car flipped over into the water on the passenger side. Mary Jo might have been (a) unconscious before the car went in, or (b) injured/stunned when the car went in.
Putting all that together, the only answer that makes sense to me as to why she remained behind is this: She was already in the backseat when the car went over. (I'm not convinced she was conscious at the time.) She wakes up and is disoriented due to being under the influence (and possibly being injured during the accident). She may not fully grasp why she's in an upside down car in water, and her first instinct is to breath. So she raises her head as far as it can go. Unfortunately, it's the wrong direction, because with the car upside down, the windows are below her head.
And, most tragically of all, Mary Jo was probably panicky and certainly tried to reassure herself that Ted would get help. Only he didn't. I honestly believe he would never have reported the accident at all if the car was not found -- which it might never have been if the water were deeper there.
OldFriend wrote:
> No matter how the car found it's way into the water, the question is......how did the orca manage to get out and she remained behind. <
He wasn't in the car. He got out shortly before, for fear that an approaching policeman would find him and Mary Jo making out.
Then he made his way back to the mainland, while poor MJ -- who was lost -- drove right off of the bridge.
I know that most people don't accept this explanation. But I maintain it's the only hypothesis that fits all the PROVABLE facts of the case.