RFK’s granddaughter and her son presumably drowned last Thursday, which isn’t that odd considering how frequently people from this family die in unusual ways. There is something particularly weird about this, both in the details and her husband’s reaction. Chances are nothing will ever come of this; they never really solved RFK’s of JFK’s murders so why would anyone dig into this?
40-year-old Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, who is Robert Kennedy’s granddaughter, and her 8-year-old son Gideon McKean went missing in a canoe in the Chesapeake Bay on Thursday. The Cast Guard located the canoe, but never found the mother and son. They are presumed to have drowned and Maeve’s husband has accepted that his wife and son are dead.
Tragic? Yes. Weird? Also yes. Maeve’s husband, David McKean, wrote a Facebook post detailing the events and it seems absolutely crazy:
First off, the McKean family, which includes 2 other kids, fled Washington D.C. to escape the coronavirus, which is a terribly rich elitist thing to do. They went to a beach front house owned, but not occupied, by Maeve’s mother, Kathleen, who is RFK’s youngest daughter. This entire episode is basically the plot of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death.
As the story goes, Maeve and son Gideon were playing kickball by a cove on the property. How do 2 people play kickball and why wasn’t the rest of the family present and participating? Remember, the family was on coronavirus lockdown/isolation, so it’s not like the husband or the rest of the family had anything important to do. Again, why was it just the mom and one of the children doing this?
Another solid question is, if husband David nor the rest of the family were present, how does he know what was going on?
According to husband David, the ball Maeve and Gideon were playing with ended up in the calm shallow cove so they hoped in a canoe to retrieve it. How would he know this?
Also according to David, a strong current swept his wife and son out into the Chesapeake Bay, which isn’t something that could happen. In his own words, this cove was “protected from the wind” and was shallow, so there are no strong currents or winds that could have blown them out into the greater bay.
Things get weirder because this guy had no idea his wife and son were missing, yet somehow knew when they went missing. Some random person spotted them from shore 30 minutes after they were swept out to see. If David didn’t know they were swept out to sea, how would he be able to fix a time to when they were swept out to sea?
Also, if someone from shore saw Maeve and Gideon in the canoe and called the Coast Guard, why couldn’t the Coast Guard find them? The Coast Guard was given a pretty good indication of where they were but couldn’t locate them. However, much later they were able to find the capsized canoe miles away from where they were sighted.
If Columbo were investigating this, he would have about a million “one more questions” for the husband. How does he know all of the things he claims he knows leading up to the disappearance? Why wasn’t he with his wife and son when they disappeared and why didn’t he even realize they were gone? Who is the person who spotted his wife and son out at sea and why weren’t they there when the Coast Guard arrived?
Maybe the husband, in his grief, is just doing a really bad job of describing what happened. Then again, his Facebook post isn’t filled with the kind of grief one would expect a day after a husband lost his wife and son. 24 hours after his wife and eldest child died, this guy seems like he’s genuinely at peace with what happened and that’s the most suspicious thing of all.
