Nearly a decade ago, a dead bear cub in New York’s Central Park caused a mystery. The animal was found with serious injuries in 2014 – its head was on the back wheel of a bicycle. Now, independent US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has admitted that he was responsible for the incident.
The discovery caused confusion in October 2014, when a hiker and her dog found the dead black bear cub. It was horrifying and very strange, explorer Florence Slatkin explained at the time, asking: “Why was the bike there?” Investigation revealed that no black bear from nearby zoos was missing; the animals are not native to Central Park.
Kennedy describes the incident in video
This mystery has now been solved: presidential candidate Kennedy admitted that he had something to do with the incident. In a video he posted on the X platform, he explained that he had placed the bear in the park. With this move, he wanted to prevent an article in the New Yorker that wanted to bring this bizarre case to light. Kennedy explained that it was a “bad story.”
Here Kennedy explains how the bear cub came to the park:
Kennedy wanted to use carcasses
According to his confession, Kennedy took the bear while on a falconry expedition in the Hudson Valley of New York. The animal was run over by a van – Kennedy had planned to skin and eat it. But he allegedly did not have time to do so, because he had to catch a flight.
“We thought it would be fun”
Some of his group then came up with the idea – while drunk – to dump the carcass in Central Park and make it look like the bear had been hit by a bicycle. He happened to have the old vehicle in his car. “We thought it would be funny,” the presidential candidate justified himself. “The next day it was all over TV,” Kennedy told actress Roseanne Barr in the X video. “I just thought, ‘Oh my God, what have I done?’”
He was concerned because the bike was covered in his fingerprints. “Luckily it calmed down after a while,” Kennedy said.
Kennedy comes from the American political dynasty of the same name. According to a current Reuters/Ipsos poll, he is favored by eight percent of voters and is considered a dead heat. Since every vote could count in the November election, his participation could become a problem for the Republican and Democratic candidates, even if Kennedy were to steal only a few voters from them.
Source: Krone
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