RFK’s 8-Year-Old Great-Grandson’s Body Found 6 Days After Tragic Canoe Accident, Police Confirm
Eight-year-old Gideon McKean‘s body was found 2000 feet away from where the body of his mother, Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, had been uncovered on April 6, according to police. The pair had vanished six days earlier after paddling a canoe into the dangerous, choppy waters of the Chesapeake Bay. An air and water search led authorities to locate the bodies two and a half miles away from where they launched their canoe — Maeve’s mother Kathleen Kennedy Townsend‘s waterfront property in Shady Side, Maryland. The duo had headed into the water to retrieve a lost ball, according to Maeve’s husband, and Gideon’s father, David McKean, who announced their presumed deaths via Facebook on April 3.