Body of Maeve Kennedy found, search for her son to continue

NEW YORK: The body of Maeve Kennedy Townsend, the granddaughter of the late Robert F Kennedy, was recovered on Monday and the search for her son will continue,

police

in Maryland said. The daughter of former Maryland lieutenant governor

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

, 40, and her son, Gideon McKean, 8, went missing on Friday after drifting out into the Chesapeake Bay on a canoe.


Charles County dive and rescue, one of the agencies searching for them, located Townsend’s body about 4km f her mother’s residence in

Shady Side, Maryland

, where the canoe was launched.

Police said it would resume the operation on Tuesday to search for Townsend’s son. The

Anne Arundel

County fire department had received a call last Thursday at about 4.30pm (local time) reporting that two people in a canoe were drifting into Chesapeake Bay.