Behind the Mary Kennedy tragedy

Kennedy historian Laurence Leamer reveals the heartbreaking story of Mary Richardson Kennedy’s long decline

IN the weeks before Mary Richardson Kennedy began searching the internet for instructions on how to make a noose, the façade of a life she’d so desperately fought to maintain was rapidly crumbling.

She was in the midst of an excruciatingly ugly divorce from Robert F Kennedy Jr, the second son of Robert and Ethel Skakel Kennedy.