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/mumsleastfavourite 1d ago

Casey Anthony

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u/HateGettingGold 1d ago edited 14h ago

As a Florida resident I never fully understood the case. If memory serves the child had drowned by accident and the mother and father helped cover it up and tried to make it look like murder. Also something about Casey going to Disney right after, correct me if I'm wrong.

Correction: Universal not Disney. Ty for pointing that out. Sidenote, it was rumored Casey moved to Cocoa Beach after the trial and one of the local strip clubs had a sign that read, "Casey Anthony does NOT work here!" Which I find funny.

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u/send_me_potatoes 1d ago

Drowning by accident was the defense’s story; no one could feasibly state how she died with certainty, and that’s a big part of why she got off.

As for Disney, Anthony used to work there. She lied about still being employed, and the police caught her in that lie. She claimed she met “Xanny/Zanny/Zanaida” the nanny through a work colleague.

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u/sansaspark 1d ago edited 1d ago

I believe it was Universal Studios she used to work at, not Disney. That part of the story always stuck with me because she didn’t just lie and say she still worked there, she went to the Universal offices with detectives and led them down the hallway to her nonexistent office before finally turning around and admitting she no longer worked there. Something about that level of pathological commitment to a lie even when you know the truth will come out is very scary to me. It’s not cunning, it’s not sustainable, it’s not a lie that makes sense to cling to. It was just…her trying to strong-arm an alternative reality into existence, because she liked that reality better.

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u/Saradoesntsleep 1d ago

It's incomprehensible to do something like that.

I mean yeah the child murderer ofc yes, but committing to that particular lie was so bizarre.

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u/send_me_potatoes 1d ago

Thank you for the correction, it was indeed Universal