American royalty: Kennedy 'curse' claims another two
victims
13 Apr, 2020 7:55am
"It started with a ball that had fallen in the water.
Last week, the kids had been kicking a ball around in the yard of a waterfront home in Maryland owned by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert F. Kennedy's daughter.
When the ball landed in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, 40, (Kennedy Townsend's daughter and RFK's granddaughter) along with her 8-year-old son Gideon got into a canoe to rescue it.
Around 4.30pm, a concerned person rang emergency services to say that he had seen two people in a "small canoe or kayak drifting in the bay".
Boats, helicopters and the Coastguard were scrambled, searching until night fell and then resuming the next day.
On Friday, an overturned canoe was found and on Monday, Maeve's body was discovered by authorities. Her son's body was found by divers about 600 metres from his mother on Wednesday.
"They just got farther out than they could handle and couldn't get back in," husband and father David McKean told The Washington Post.
In a statement Maeve's mother said, "My heart is crushed.""
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