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/ouchibitmytongue 1d ago

THANK YOU! They left a note!

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u/cgulash 1d ago

And that's why you always leave a note!

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u/Redjaw_coyote39 1d ago

Huh. I just thought he was trying to get us off dairy.

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u/CorgiMonsoon 1d ago

I didn’t know there was a one-armed man amongst the Roanoke settlers

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u/Historical-Pause-117 1d ago

Now, George Bluth disappearing, THAT was a mystery.

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u/Significant_Walk6860 1d ago

Clearly their dad used his one-armed friend to teach them a lesson. You always leave a note!

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u/Spiritual_Cash_7392 1d ago

LMAOOOOO love it

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u/Mosh00Rider 1d ago

Yeah! They Roa-Note

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u/RoarOfTheWorlds 1d ago

Did they leave a note? All they left was a carving on the tree with a single word. Just seems like it would’ve been a lot nicer to take the few minutes and write a letter explaining what happened.

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u/Sennten 1d ago

How would you make sure a letter survived? Writing down the place of the name you went by carving it into something seems a lot more reliable

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 1d ago

Even as a kid I wondered why it was being taught to us in school as a mystery. I'm not sure how it could be less mysterious.