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[rooster59]

No signs of trauma found on body of Robert F. Kennedy's granddaughter

By Dan Whitcomb and Matthew Lavietes

 

The lights are on at the Hyannis Port Yacht Club by the Kennedy Compound where police are investigating the death of Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the granddaughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, U.S., August 1, 2019. REUTERS/Faith Ninivaggi

 

(Reuters) - An autopsy conducted on the 22-year-old granddaughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy found no trauma to her body, leaving the cause and manner of her death to be determined following toxicology tests, the local district attorney's office said on Friday.

 

Saoirse Kennedy Hill was rushed to Cape Cod Hospital in Massachusetts shortly after 3 p.m. EDT on Thursday after she was found unresponsive at the Kennedy family's compound in nearby Hyannis Port, the Cape and Islands District Attorney's Office said in a written statement.

 

Hill, the granddaughter of 91-year-old family matriarch Ethel Kennedy, was pronounced dead at the hospital, according to the district attorney's office.

 

The New York Times, citing two unnamed people described as close to the Kennedy family, said that Hill was believed to have died of an overdose.

 

"An autopsy performed today has revealed no trauma inconsistent with lifesaving measures. The cause and manner of death are pending the toxicology report," the district attorney's office said in the statement.

 

The case was under investigation by Barnstable Police and State Police detectives.

 

Hill was a student at Boston College, where she was a communications major and vice president of the Student Democrats, according to the Times.

 

The newspaper said she had written about struggling with depression while a student at a private preparatory school in Massachusetts in 2016.

 

'OUR HEARTS ARE SHATTERED'

 

She was the only child of Paul Michael Hill and Courtney Kennedy Hill, who was the fifth of 11 children of Ethel and Robert Kennedy. Paul Michael Hill was one of the Guildford Four, a group of men wrongly convicted of bombings carried out by the Irish Republican Army in 1974.

 

"Our hearts are shattered by the loss of our beloved Saoirse," the Robert F. Kennedy family said in a statement. "Her life was filled with hope, promise and love."

 

"The world is a little less beautiful today," Ethel Kennedy said in the statement.

 

"A brave young woman left our world yesterday. She left a gaping hold in the lives of all those who loved her dearly," Saoirse Kennedy Hill's great aunt, former California first lady Maria Shriver, said on Twitter.

 

"May God bless her. May God hold her parents during this unbearable hour and give them the strength to make it thru," Shriver said.

 

Ethel Kennedy has endured a series of tragedies that have befallen her family, including the assassination of her husband, then a U.S. senator for New York.

 

Robert Kennedy was shot to death in Los Angeles just after winning the California primary race for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968.

 

Two of Robert and Ethel's sons suffered untimely deaths - David, of a drug overdose in 1984 at age 28 and Michael at age 39 in a 1997 skiing accident.

 

Robert Kennedy's older brother, President John F. Kennedy, was himself assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, and his son, John Jr., died with his wife and sister-in-law in 1999 when the plane he was piloting crashed in the Atlantic off Martha's Vineyard, not far from Hyannis Port.

 

Hill's death comes weeks after the 50th anniversary of a scandal relating to a fatal car accident in which Robert Kennedy's younger brother, Senator Edward Kennedy, drove off a bridge connecting the tiny island of Chappaquiddick to Martha's Vineyard, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne.

 

The murky circumstances of that crash effectively dashed Edward Kennedy's presidential ambitions.

 

(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb and Matthew Lavietes; Additional reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Michael Perry, Bill Trott, Susan Thomas and Cynthia Osterman)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-08-03

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[Tug]

Probably opioids sad a waste of a young life with a lot of possibilities condolences to the family 

[zydeco]

The Kennedy curse still lingering.

[Farrows3399]

Shocking, how does this happen to someone like her. She is not some poor white girl in West Virginia with nothing going for herself. I took uppers when I was 22 and that would be understandable for partying , but an opiate/downer ?? And what about the people around her: It is very obvious when someone is taking opiates ?

 

Edited August 3, 2019 by Farrows3399

[Skeptic7]

That is one snake-bit family. ????

Edited August 3, 2019 by Skeptic7

[Basil B]

3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

She was the only child of Paul Michael Hill and Courtney Kennedy Hill, who was the fifth of 11 children of Ethel and Robert Kennedy.

There is a lot of them, so statistically possibly not that unusual for such a large family, but even still a number of them have had a helping hand from fate.

 

As a child of 8 I still recall the night they announced the death of JFK on TV, this was England I was watching ITV, Take your Pick was on, then a interruption news flash "John F Kennedy" had been shot, did not even know who he was, back to Take your Pick, then another news flash his condition was critical, then came he was dead, I saw the look on my mum and dads face they were shocked, they did not speak, then the TV just went to the interlude card for a long time, then the network ran a pre recorded programme of solemn music performed by the Hallé Orchestra, presume it had been to hand in case any of the senior royals or the PM or Churchill popped their clogs.  

Edited August 3, 2019 by Basil B

[Number 6]

Death at such an early age is tragic yet I've absolutely lost any sort of empathy for the 1%. Sorry if she was so unhappy with her lot and life.

 

We are far removed from Jack and Bobby. The days of Camelot and the moon landing. It's just another wealthy family with too much money. Should not even be news.

 

Edited August 3, 2019 by Number 6

[Pique Dard]

is the kennedy family cursed? i just wonder

[morrobay]

21 minutes ago, Pique Dard said:

is the kennedy family cursed? i just wonder

Not karma/curses. Try bad judgement. JFK Jr. was not fully instrument only qualified in his new plane when he left N. J. airport at 2030 to MA. He declined an offer from a local flight instructor to go along co-pilot. He was OK while flying up the coast with lights for reference but when he turned to go over the water he had zero visibility / pitch black. Became disoriented and went spiraling into the sea. 

Edited August 3, 2019 by morrobay

[Scott]

Troll posts removed.  

[from the home of CC]

the disease of addiction runs deep in that families genes.. 

[Credo]

4 hours ago, from the home of CC said:

the disease of addiction runs deep in that families genes.. 

There is no indication she was addicted to anything.   There is no indication they were illegal drugs. There is no toxicology report.  There are indications that it was a suicide.   

[sunnyboy2018]

12 hours ago, Basil B said:

There is a lot of them, so statistically possibly not that unusual for such a large family, but even still a number of them have had a helping hand from fate.

 

As a child of 8 I still recall the night they announced the death of JFK on TV, this was England I was watching ITV, Take your Pick was on, then a interruption news flash "John F Kennedy" had been shot, did not even know who he was, back to Take your Pick, then another news flash his condition was critical, then came he was dead, I saw the look on my mum and dads face they were shocked, they did not speak, then the TV just went to the interlude card for a long time, then the network ran a pre recorded programme of solemn music performed by the Hallé Orchestra, presume it had been to hand in case any of the senior royals or the PM or Churchill popped their clogs.  

It was the first time I noticed, or the BBC used, the spinning globe logo. 

[daveAustin]

13 hours ago, Number 6 said:

Death at such an early age is tragic yet I've absolutely lost any sort of empathy for the 1%. Sorry if she was so unhappy with her lot and life.

 

We are far removed from Jack and Bobby. The days of Camelot and the moon landing. It's just another wealthy family with too much money. Should not even be news.

 

That's harsh. Who cares how rich they are... one can be as equally disadvantaged, miserable (if she was) and trapped wherever you're at.

[Credo]

17 hours ago, Number 6 said:

Death at such an early age is tragic yet I've absolutely lost any sort of empathy for the 1%. Sorry if she was so unhappy with her lot and life.

 

We are far removed from Jack and Bobby. The days of Camelot and the moon landing. It's just another wealthy family with too much money. Should not even be news.

 

The list of famous and rich people who have committed suicide is rather lengthy.   It's not about not liking your lot in life.   It's about not liking life.   

[from the home of CC]

8 hours ago, Credo said:

There is no indication she was addicted to anything.   There is no indication they were illegal drugs. There is no toxicology report.  There are indications that it was a suicide.   

we'll see when the facts are released