It’s been a crazy news week for Mary Kennedy, yesterday we reported that Mary Kennedy’s body was dug up and removed from The Kennedy area of the cemetery, and a few days before that we reported that Mary tried stopping her own suicide. Click below for more information about who found her dead.

Melissa Nash

Permits are for the little people.
The body of RFK Jr.’s estranged wife was illegally exhumed from her not-so-final resting place and reburied without the necessary paperwork, Massachusetts officials told the Daily News.
And in a shocking new development, Westchester death records obtained by The News reveal Mary Richardson Kennedy was discovered hanging in a barn at her Bedford home around 1:30 p.m. on May 16 — but not by her husband and housekeeper, as first reported.
The suicide victim was instead found by her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor, a report from the Westchester County medical examiner showed. Kennedy, who battled drug and alcohol problems during her 18-year marriage to Bobby Kennedy, was last seen nearly 24 hours earlier by a caretaker on the property. She left no note.
Her recent burial relocation exposed a beyond-the-grave rift between her siblings and her powerful in-laws — a gap that was widening within hours of her suicide.
Bobby and Mary’s brother Tom, in dueling phone calls just 10 minutes apart, fought over which family would bury the 52-year-old mother of four.
The Richardson family boycotted the funeral after RFK Jr. prevailed in a court fight.
Kennedy hosted the wake at the family compound in Bedford and arranged for Mary’s initial burial near the Cape Cod graves of his aunt and uncle, Eunice and Sargent Shriver.
Barnstable Town Clerk Linda Hutchenrider told The News that no paperwork was filed before last week’s exhumation of the body laid to rest on May 19.
“When you deposit a body in Massachusetts, you need a permit,” said Hutchenrider. “And if the body is moved, you need another permit — even if it’s in the same cemetery.”
The new burial plot — on a lonely hillside near the cemetery entrance — was selected by a local gravedigger, who said no one from the Kennedy clan examined the location before the switch. The disinterment, just seven weeks after Mary’s burial near Hyannisport, was done without her family’s approval.
The News also learned that Mary Richardson Kennedy’s lawyers are seeking $278,490 in unpaid legal bills that RFK Jr. was supposed to cover from their bitter divorce battle. The June 25 filing by her attorneys described Bobby as “a tenacious and devious adversary. . . . Mr. Kennedy engaged in scorched earth litigation.”
Kennedy also stopped funding his wife’s credit card despite a court order to provide $20,000 a month in charging privileges to cover expenses for her and their children.
Beginning in December 2011, “Mary never again had access to the money she was supposed to,” a source said. “And she used that credit card for food, gas, clothing, stuff for the kids — basically everything.”
Attorneys for RFK Jr. did not return a call for comment Thursday, while Mary Kennedy’s lawyers declined to say anything.