I read somewhere she was quickly moved to her town for burial - you mean the parents were paid off that soon, not to get an autopsy? And no one ever wanted to exhume the body?
I don’t think the author is correct when she implies Teddy got the other men to try to get MJ out - I have never heard any account of 4 or 5 OTHER married men diving to rescue her - rescue Teddy from the PR nightmare, yes.
From what I’ve read in the past few days, there was an effort to exhume her body but her parents fought it. I’ve also heard that shortly after her death the parents moved to a much nice house.
No doubt her parents were persuaded by a consiglieri with a big check that convicting Teddy wouldn’t bring MaryJo back, so they might as well have some (blood) money for their loss. How could a perfectly middle class couple ever go up against the Kennedys and their slime machine without destroying their daughter’s reputation, as surely would happen? She was, after all, heading off in a car from a drinking party to a hotel with a married man. Better to just be quiet and let the whole thing die down. So, once again, at least it appears, the Kennedy power and money got Teddy out of a mess.
My memory from the time was that he tried to get a cousin to say he (the cousin) was driving the car. Thus, the call to the desk clerk complaining of the noise next door, and asking the desk clerk what time it was, to establish his alibi.
Honorable statesman, right.