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At this point, it’s worth examining what precisely Kennedy said about the incident in his August 2024 video, in which he speaks with, for some reason, Roseanne Barr.
“I was taking a group of people hunting in Goshen, New York, in the Hudson Valley,” Kennedy says. (Goshen is in Orange County, New York, home to a bear population that Hynes said the cub might have belonged to.) “And then a woman in a pickup truck in front of me hit a bear and killed it.”
Kennedy claims he put the bear in his pickup truck with the intention of “skinning her” and “putting the meat in my refrigerator” because she was “in very good condition.”
“And you can do it in New York State; you can get a bear tag for a road-killed bear,” Kennedy adds.
He and his friends had a wonderful time falcon hunting, Kennedy said, and the day wore on. Eventually, he found himself running for a trip “back into town” to dine at the Peter Luger Steak House – likely the original location in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, rather than the one on Long Island – and decided he didn’t have enough time to drop the bear off at his home in Westchester, New York. So the bear came (apparently) to Brooklyn. But when Kennedy’s dinner also lasted a long time, he realized he had to get to the airport.
“I wasn’t drinking, of course, but people were drinking with me and thought it was a good idea,” Kennedy says, insisting for the second time that he was breaking absolutely no laws that day. “I had an old bike in my car that someone asked me to get rid of. I said, ‘Let’s put the bear in Central Park, and we’ll pretend it was hit by a bike.'” It would be fun, funny for people. He explains that there was “a series” of fatal bike accidents around that time – there were two in the last few months – that inspired the idea.
In the video, Kennedy claims he was surprised to wake up the next morning and find that the story of a dead baby black bear in Central Park was big news — again, bears don’t live in Central Park outside of its zoo — and had prompted a major response from law enforcement. What made Kennedy particularly anxious, he claims, was a news report that the bike was being sent to a forensic lab to be fingerprinted.
As Hell’s Gate summed up shortly after Kennedy’s video was posted, “??????????”
Despite the new documents that WIRED is able to release, questions remain about the decisions Kennedy made on that day in 2014. Let’s review the timeline: The bear was discovered on the morning of Monday, October 6, 2014. If Kennedy had actually disposed of the bear the night before, it would have been Sunday, October 5, 2014.
Kennedy claims to have found the bear in the Hudson Valley area, on a road approaching Goshen, New York. A stop in Westchester en route to Peter Luger would have added about 35-70 minutes to the trip. Perhaps, even if he met friends familiar with his alleged love of animal carcasses (his daughter once claimed he decapitated a dead whale with a chainsaw, strapped its head to the top of his minivan and took it home, although a later investigation by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said his claim was “unfounded”), he was allegedly unacceptably late. But why couldn’t Kennedy have just abandoned his mission to skin and slaughter this baby bear by placing him in a wooded area anywhere between Goshen and New York, especially knowing he had a flight later? Only one man knows the answer.
