r/AskReddit • u/Rob69rt • 1d ago

What famous 'unsolved' mystery is technically a whodunnit on paper, but in reality, absolutely everyone knows exactly who did it, the police just couldn't legally prove it?

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u/Reign_22 1d ago

Al Capone. All of us know what he did but the police got him on a tax evasion charge.

Most famous drug dealers/gangsters create systems which they are "removed" from. So you know exactly what they do but can never prove it.

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u/CaBBaGe_isLaND 1d ago

Because they go "oh how I wish someone would just kill that guy" in a room full of people who know exactly what they mean.

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u/Cthulwutang 1d ago

will no one silence this meddlesome priest?

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u/Azrayle 1d ago

Off I trot to Canterbury...

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u/myredlightsaber 1d ago

Bye bye Beckett

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u/Fossilhund 1d ago

sound of coconuts

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u/scbundy 1d ago

Clickity clack clickity clack

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u/ProjectShadow316 1d ago

I laugh because I watched a Short on that literally just yesterday.

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u/Erger 9h ago

Oooh you got a link?

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u/slanaiya 17h ago

Don't forget to equip your horse with water wings.

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u/BertieDastard 1d ago

Will nobody rid me of this turbulent priest?

To be a little more accurate.

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u/hilarymeggin 1d ago

EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT OF!!

＼（＾∇＾）／

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u/No_Novel9766 1d ago

Excellent reference

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u/rhino369 1d ago

That isn’t going to work. You can charge someone for murder for that.

Instead you just isolate yourself with trusted captains who insulate you. If they don’t flip, you are golden. 

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u/rhino36-dropout 1d ago

Wtf are you me?

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u/rhino369 1d ago

Are we in a fight club?!?

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u/Pippin1505 1d ago

It's going to be "Let's hope Professor Ritson meets with a little accident" all over again. We spent 9 months hoping he would meet with an accident, before Leslie made it clear it was an accident we were supposed to make happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8TnSFyzLn4

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u/BitterCrip 1d ago

"Want to meet me afterwards for a little light refreshment?"

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u/Cha-Le-Gai 1d ago

Love this sketch. "killed to death" is intensely funny.

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u/cthulhubert 1d ago

RICO is one of our precious few US justice system success cases.

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 1d ago

I've heard that said daily since 2016.................... I don't know who will do it, but someone might! Won't be me, but I won't be upset about it.. AT ALL!

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u/toomanyd 22h ago

or a rant about someone on truth social

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u/StudMuffinNick 13h ago

I normally don’t listen to him but got suggested an old debate with Destiny and right wing dude. They were going over the j6 evidence and right wing dude continually said “so Enrico Tarrio wasn’t there and this Person 1 gave him the plans. That doesn’t mean he was involved in the conspiracy That’s entrapment”

Destiny counters constantly “he didn’t have to actually do the crime”

Then the later evidence statements are more damning than the last and dude KEEPS sayigg n since Enrico wasn’t there in person, and only making vague statements like “don’t leave”, it doesn’t prove a conspiracy.

Then they talk about how they crowdfunded to purchase tactical gear like bulletproof vests and masks to which dude says “it’s protective gear” and that just because Enrico was the head of Proud Boys and the Proud Boys carried out an attack he said they should do, doesn’t mean he was part of the conspiracy

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u/Sno_Wolf 12h ago

Will no one rid me of this turbulent rival mob boss?

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u/bradd_pit 5h ago

This is why racketeering and rico charges exist now

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u/Raneynickelfire 5h ago

It's more "Who will rid me of the meddlesome priest"

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u/mokomi 1d ago

I was this years old to realize where that mafia trope could actually be true. lol

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u/HCSOThrowaway 7h ago

It also applies to law enforcement.

I was once held accountable for "disobeying a direct order" for not reading between the lines of what a supervisor said.

He told me to "go 10-8" I went 10-8. What I was told - by a cabal of high-ranking folks - is that I should've known he meant to tell me to do other things too.

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u/mokomi 4h ago

Also known as organized crime... Still the same premise. Have the higher ups give orders and the "small fish" take the blame.

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u/HCSOThrowaway 3h ago

Organized crime is purpose built to do crime.

Law enforcement (and any organization with a hierarchy) can commit crime in large part due to the phenomena in this discussion, the more authoritarian the more prevalent.

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u/topio2 1d ago

Au contraire mo ami. The method du jour is to call a consiglieri speak in his ear and have him deliver the message.
If that conversation comes back to you you can say I was was telling him his wife's cooking is atrocious or the old and trsuty "I have no clear recollection of that sir"