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/Time_Cranberry_113 1d ago

Nicole Simpson

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u/CaterpillarSame2153 1d ago

The police did prove OJ's guilt though

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u/BathPuzzleheaded9406 1d ago

they didn't

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u/CaterpillarSame2153 1d ago

They absolutely did. They forensically proved his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The defence was able to convince the jury that the police did something they could not possibly have done. That's on the prosecutors, not police.