RFK Granddaughter Took Family Away to Escape Pandemic, Husband Says

David McKean, Maeve Kennedy Townsend Mckean and family attend the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Hosts 2019 Ripple Of Hope Gala & Auction In NYC in New York City on Dec. 12, 2019. Mike Pont/Getty Images for Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

The granddaughter of former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy had taken her family to Maryland to escape the CCP virus pandemic, according to her husband.

Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, 40, and her 8-year-old son, Gideon, were in a canoe near Annapolis when they disappeared on April 2, according to state officials and husband David McKean.