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EXCLUSIVE: RFK Jr.'s Troubled Wife Mary 'Didn't Want to Die' and Hadn't Been Talking About Suicide Prior to Death - Stoking Fears Hanging Was 'Rehearsal' Gone Wrong · Fresh Intelligence

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Robert F. Kennedy J. R. S. X.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, may have desperately attempted to escape a news before her 2012 suicide, according to a new biography RFKJR.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Fallen Rise reports indicate that in the days leading to her death, Mary had not expressed suicidal thoughts.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The couple was married for 16 years and had four children before RFKJR, filed for divorce in May 2010.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: On May 16, 2012, Mary was found dead by hanging in a barn at their
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Her autopsy revealed anti-depressants in her system, with no alcohol present.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The biography suggests she might have had a moment of hesitation before her death.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Friend noted, it's conceivable that she didn't want to die.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of times people put a bag over their head and see what it might feel like.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Westchester County Medical Examiner ruled her death as esphyxiation by hanging.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The report indicated signs of a struggle, with bruises on her fingers and blue fingernails, suggesting she might have tried to loosen the news.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Dr. Canjlata, a char-noted.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The fingers from both of Mary's hands were between the rope and the neck fingernails were cyanotic blue because of compression.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Shortly before her death, Mary discovered journals in which RFKJR detailed affairs with at least 37 women dating back to 2001.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She reportedly hid these journals as insurance amid their contentious divorce.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One entry revealed his discontent.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Everything that I coveted yet always on the lookout for something I can't have.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Kennedy often blamed Mary for his infidelity, claiming their intimate life was lacking.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You wrote, our bed is an unfriendly place.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She rarely speaks to me of anything but scheduling.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Mary, who struggled with alcoholism, had appeared, depressed, and despondent leading up to her suicide.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Following her death, RFKJR told police, she told me she was sorry for everything.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Everything was her fault.