- Independent presidential candidate admitted to dumping dead bear cub in 2014
- At the time, the case mystified New Yorkers
- Kennedy’s admission was made in a clip posted on X, ahead of magazine story on it
Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jnr has admitted he was behind a bizarre case involving a dead bear cub that mystified New Yorkers in 2014.
New York mystery
Kennedy has admitted that he was the person who placed the dead cub under a bicycle under some bushes in Central Park. The scene was later discovered by a woman walking her dog but was then picked up by and reported on extensively by the media. However, despite this, the mystery was never solved at the time.
Kennedy said that he had found the dead cub outside the city and had picked it up and put it in his van, intending to take it home and harvest the meat and its fur. Picking up roadkill is legal in New York state, as long as the authorities are notified.
However, at the time, he was travelling to an event and, by the time it finished, he realised it was too late to go home as he had to go to the airport. Not wanting to leave the bear corpse in his car for an extended period – for obvious reasons – Kennedy came up with a plan to dispose of it.
Joke backfires
For a joke, he decided to place it in Central Park under a bicycle – fortunately, he had an old one in his car – as there had been a series of bicycle accidents recently in New York. “We thought it would be amusing for whoever found it,” he said on the video.
“The next day… it was on every television station. I was like ‘Oh my God. What did I do?’
Kennedy made the admission to US actress Roseanne Barr in a clip posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday. This came just before the New Yorker magazine published a story about the case.
Looking forward to seeing how you spin this one, @NewYorker… pic.twitter.com/G13taEGzba
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 4, 2024
Kennedy is still running to be president, along with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, but his polling is currently in single digits.
