In the new biography RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise, an alleged passage from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s journal reveals that he once cut off a dead raccoon’s penis.
As reported by TMZ, the new Isabel Vincent-penned biography on Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services includes an excerpt from his journal in which he wrote about the time he played with some roadkill next to his parked car. “I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members turned out to be,” Kennedy allegedly wrote in the passage.
The “weird” family members he’s referring to here are his brother Douglas Kennedy, who is a journalist, and cousin Bobby Shriver, a Democratic activist and attorney. According to RFK’s bizarre journal entry, his children were sitting in the car as he removed the penis from the dead raccoon.
This would be a shocking confession if it didn’t come from RFK, who has a history of weird interactions with dead animals. In a profile for Town & Country in 2012, his daughter Kathleen recalled that her father had an interest in animal skulls and skeletons. She said that he once decapitated a dead beached whale and strapped it to the top of the family minivan for a five-hour drive home.
In 2024, he admitted that he left a dead bear cub in Central Park and then staged the scene to look like a cyclist accident.
“So, I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because I was going to skin the bear, and it was in very good condition, and I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator," Kennedy willingly admitted in a video shared online. “And you can do that in New York state. You can get a bear tag for roadkill bear.” When he realized that he couldn’t make it home in time to refrigerate the bear meat, he placed the carcass in Central Park and “thought it would be amusing for whoever found it.”
His cousin, Caroline Kennedy, also shared last year that RFK used to “show off” to his extended family by killing animals using a blender.
“His basement, his garage, and his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available, and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks,” she wrote in a letter urging lawmakers to reject his nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services. “It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence.”
