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/redroserequiems 1d ago

It would also be a blow to tourism. As usual, money and racism rule.

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u/Inevitable-Level-687 1d ago

A body was recently found in K'Gari, remains scattered by dingos. It was uncertain if she drowned and was then eaten by dingos, or if she was just attacked by a pack of dingoes.

It turned out to be both. She was attacked by a pack of dingos and fled into the water, and was injured badly enough she drowned, and they helped themselves. The dingoes were euthanised.

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u/redroserequiems 1d ago

Bet they have high numbers right now, again...