At this level, it’s helpful to look at what exactly Kennedy mentioned concerning the incident in his August 2024 video, during which he’s talking with, for some cause, Roseanne Barr.
“I used to be taking a gaggle of individuals falconing up in Goshen, New York, up within the Hudson Valley,” Kennedy says. (Goshen is in Orange County, NY, residence to a bear inhabitants that Hynes theorized the cub might have belonged to.) “After which a girl in a van in entrance of me hit a bear and killed it.”
Kennedy claims that he put the bear in his van with a plan to “pores and skin the bear” and “put the meat in my fridge,” as a result of she was in “excellent situation.”
“And you are able to do that in New York State; you will get a bear tag for a roadkill bear,” Kennedy provides.
He and his associates had a beautiful time falconing, Kennedy says, and the day grew late. Ultimately, he discovered himself operating behind for a visit “proper again to town” for dinner at Peter Luger Steak Home—presumably the unique location in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, moderately than its Lengthy Island location—and determined he didn’t have sufficient time to drop off the bear at his Westchester, New York, residence. So the bear got here to (apparently) Brooklyn. However when Kennedy’s dinner additionally ran lengthy, he realized he needed to go to the airport.
“I wasn’t ingesting, in fact, however folks had been ingesting with me who thought this was a good suggestion,” Kennedy says, insisting for the second time that he was completely not breaking any legal guidelines that day. “I had an previous bike in my automotive that any person had requested me to eliminate. I mentioned, ‘Let’s go put the bear in Central Park, and we’ll make it appear to be he obtained hit by a motorbike.’ It’d be enjoyable, humorous for folks.” He explains that there had been “a collection” of deadly bicycle accidents round that point—there had been two in current months—which impressed the concept.
Within the video, Kennedy claims that he was shocked to get up the subsequent morning and discover that the story of a lifeless child black bear in Central Park was large information—once more, bears don’t reside in Central Park exterior of its zoo—and had prompted a significant regulation enforcement response. What made Kennedy particularly anxious, he claims, was a information report that mentioned the bike was being despatched to a forensic lab for fingerprinting.
As HellGate summarized shortly after Kennedy’s video was posted, “???????????”
Regardless of the brand new paperwork that WIRED is ready to disclose, there are lingering questions concerning the choices Kennedy made that day in 2014. Let’s assessment the timeline: The bear was found on the morning of Monday, October 6, 2014. If Kennedy certainly disposed of the bear the night time earlier than, that might have been Sunday, October 5, 2014.
Kennedy claims that he discovered the bear within the Hudson Valley space on a street approaching Goshen, New York. Stopping in Westchester on his solution to Peter Luger would have added about 35 to 70 minutes to the journey. Maybe, even when he was assembly associates aware of his purported love for animal carcasses (his daughter as soon as alleged he decapitated a lifeless whale with a chainsaw, strapped its head to the highest of his minivan, and introduced it residence, although a subsequent Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration investigation mentioned her declare was “unfounded”), he would’ve been unacceptably late. However why couldn’t Kennedy have simply deserted his mission to pores and skin and butcher this child bear by putting it in a wooded space anyplace between Goshen and New York Metropolis, particularly realizing that he had a flight later? Just one man is aware of the reply.
