montgomery wrote:
Kay knows because she knows that Micheal is evil. Micheal's sister is in denial, overlooking the death of her own husband and her brother at Micheal's hands.
There's a big difference between knowing someone is evil and knowing that they definitely without question performed a specific action for which the knower (Kay) had no reason to suspect the evildoer was capable of. Anyway, Kay doesn't think Michael is evil; if she did, she wouldn't be hanging out with him in Part III. She just thinks he's been corrupted, which is why she prays for his soul. As for Connie, there's no indication at all, as far as I can remember, whether she really knows the truth about Fredo--to say she's in denial suggests that she knows something. Why would she guess that Michael killed Fredo--Michael could have easily blamed his brother's death on someone who was retaliating for Hyman Roth. The drowning story is too obvious of a cover story, which is exactly why everybody would have believed it.
flyonthewall2983 wrote:
I don't think it had to be spelled out to Kay that Michael had Fredo whacked.
Michael didn't publicize that he was ever dissatisfied with Fredo, and if anyone saw that he was, then the public hug at Mama's funeral should have set their mind at rest. And even Kay wouldn't think that Michael would stoop to killing his own brother--surely this "Sicilian thing" would protect Fredo just as much as it would ensure that Michael's non-family enemies would get whacked. Also, Kay wasn't anywhere near Michael through all of these events--she just wouldn't have had any knowledge of what was happening in the family anymore.