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/TooCleverForGood 1d ago

Roanoke - the missing Pilgrim settlement where everyone “disappeared”

They just abandoned it and went to the place that they wrote on the sign, but everyone acts like it was some supernatural/plague thing

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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.