A desperate search has been launched for Robert F. Kennedy's granddaughter and her eight-year-old son after they went missing on a boating trip.
US reports have identified the politician's relatives as two boaters that went missing in Maryland last night, before a canoe near where they went missing was found empty.
Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, 40, and her 8-year-old son Gideon Joseph Kennedy McKean went missing in the Chesapeake Bay, near Annapolis.
Her husband David McKean confirmed his wife and son’s disappearance to the Washington Post. He told the newspaper his wife and son “popped into a canoe to chase it down.