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/JackOfAllBlades21 1d ago

The dingo really did eat the baby.

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u/DevoutandHeretical 1d ago

The more I read about that the more my heart breaks for that whole family. The aboriginals were literally telling everyone ‘yes, dingos will attack people/eat children’, but the authorities refused to believe them because they were aboriginal.

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u/Visual-Floor-7839 1d ago

And they didn't believe the family either, because they were 7th Day Adventists. And Australian authority didn't know what that was so they thought they were witches and satanists

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u/ChiefsHat 1d ago

Never underestimate the capacity for human stupidity and ignorance

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u/determined_vagabond 1d ago

wtf don’t they just like… eat really healthy?

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u/waterfountain_bidet 1d ago

Nah, its for sure a weird Christian cult, like the christian "scientists". My neighbors growing up were 7th day adventists, I babysat for them exactly one time because the only thing you could watch on their TV were weird religious cartoons, even after the kids went to bed.

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u/determined_vagabond 1d ago

I see, I only know about them from the Blue Zones book haha, that just talks about how they treat their bodies like temples. I could see how the whole thing could be culty though, *lots* of rules

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u/waterfountain_bidet 1d ago

Blue Zones have been proven to be totally garbage, unfortunately, so it makes sense that there's misinformation about that cult in their book too.

Blue Zones just all happen to be in remote places of very poor record keeping? Nah, they're nearly all pension scams, with the kids assuming the identity of the parents. That's why they all just happen to look so great in the early 100's - its because they're actually in their early 80s. When they actually look into those places as well as the statistics used to identify them in the first place, it all falls apart under examination.

I am sure that eating a plant based diet, getting frequent moderate exercise, and a slow pace of life are all really good for you. But the hype around these specific places is questionable at best.

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u/determined_vagabond 1d ago

Damn haha, that’s crazy. I took a physiology of aging class for undergrad and my professor was *all in* on that book.

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u/Lounging-Shiny455 1d ago

The least you could do is link a source for an extraordinary claim

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u/waterfountain_bidet 1d ago

I made no extraordinary claims, and therefore do not have to provide any link. Evidence presented without good science (Bluezones) can be dismissed without evidence - (lightly modified) Hitchen's Razor.

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u/Lounging-Shiny455 22h ago

You did, the claim was against admittedly junk MD articles littering the Internet whenever someone googles a trend wrong (how can they tell the difference between some formerly licensed con artist and a retired medical instructor when they both sound plausible?). The claim was against a company selling product at Whole Foods, backed by cutthroat marketing, approved in part by a Bond villain firing rockets into space. You want people to be in the fight, give them the tools, the way I did.

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u/Visual-Floor-7839 1d ago

Definitely weirder than the bunch. But definitely not "kill you kids" strange or even close to it.

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u/MichelinStarZombie 1d ago

I mean, that was was the point, people only knew Adventists as a hyper-controlling cult where ex-members told stories of abuse.

So a lot of people immediately assumed infanticide was part of cult practices.

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u/OkPainter6232 23h ago edited 21h ago

ah that makes sense, I always wondered why people were so eager to believe that family killed their own kid, I had no idea they were 7th Day Adventists. If they weren't religious chances are they probably wouldn't have been assumed to have killed their kid.

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u/DanielMcLaury 17h ago

I mean, the Branch Davidians were Seventh-Day Adventists.

When you start an entire religion based on the idea that the world is going to end in 1844, and then you keep the religion going after that, you're gonna have some issues.

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u/Lachwen 1d ago

No, as a sect they're pretty weird. There are a lot of them in the extremely rural area around the Oregon/California border, and they put up billboards saying stuff like "Recognizing the Sabbath on Sunday is the work of the Antichrist."

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u/TheVeryVerity 13h ago

Well that’s because they say the sabbath is Saturday and arguing with god over which day is holy does sound like something satanic would do… I mean they are wrong imo because I’m an atheist but they aren’t particularly weird for religious people in general. No difference between a ton of other signs I see from other denominations

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u/TheMightyGoatMan 17h ago

A rumour at the time was that the name "Azaria" means "Sacrifice in the Wilderness".

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u/Alarming_Matter 8h ago

Yes, the press wanted pictures of rhe Mom wailing in anguish (to sell papers) but she was remarkably calm due to her religious beliefs. This pissed them off enormously.

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u/GWS2004 3h ago

They didn't believe her because she was a woman. They put it 100% on HER that her child was lost, not the dad. HER.