A decade-old mystery surrounding a dead bear cub found in New York City’s Central Park has been solved with a confession from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In a video posted on social media on Sunday, the presidential candidate confessed to placing the bear in Central Park and making it appear as if a cyclist had hit it.
Kennedy recalled that in 2014 he saw a van strike and kill a bear while he was driving to Hudson Valley for falconing. His first thought was to utilize the bear for its meat but ended up delaying dinner to New York City. This led him and his other diners deciding to leave it there so that it looked like it had been run over by a cyclist.
The act was meant as a joke, admitted Kennedy but it turned out to be more than that as he became an instant media sensation. He said there had been some thoughts of giving fingerprints from a relevant bicycle which would have pointed directly at him according to the police. The pre-emptive confession came partly because of an impending negative story from The New Yorker magazine. Moreover, Tatiana Schlossberg, Kenedy’s second cousin and ex NYT journalist, had once covered the bear incident not knowing where the information came from.