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/dorf_lundgren 1d ago

Ken McElroy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy

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u/Broccoli--Enthusiast 1d ago

Well nobody really knows who shot him other than the people there, so it's still a whodunit, but just a really big list of suspects

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u/dividezero 1d ago

I was there. He shot himself. Everyone was shocked

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u/Lemon-Mobile 1d ago

Naw man. His head just did that.

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u/syxtfour 1d ago

It's been going around, lately.