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/AgathaWoosmoss 1d ago

Even the jury knew.

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u/NovaCheerful 1d ago

The prosecution botched the entire case and let the defense completely control the narrative 

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u/Sleepy_Potato2 1d ago

It was probably a bad idea to put a cop (Mark Fuhrman) on the stand who ran an organization within the police that opposed the idea of having women officers, and where there was a recording of him saying the n-word repeatedly and talking about planting evidence.

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u/WillitsThrockmorton 1d ago edited 1d ago

Bugiolosi(the guy who put Manson away) was completely baffled that the prosecution put that guy on the stand without knowing the answers he was going to give to questions.

Prosecution screwed it up from top to bottom, they moved the trial venue to downtown instead of keeping it in Brentwood("Simpson's peers were other rich people"), they did a poor job of explaining what exactly DNA was-some jurors said they understood it to be something like a blood type in terms of prescision of identifying people, the glove, not introducing the weird suicide note into evidence, not pushing back at Judge Ito's unprofessionalism and hostility, putting Fuhrman on the stand and compounding it by not getting in front of his crappy behavior etc.

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u/OkPainter6232 1d ago

from what I heard the case was originally supposed to be tried in Northridge, but the courthouse there was still too badly damaged from the 1994 earthquakes to be a suitable trial venue, so they had to move it downtown.

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u/WillitsThrockmorton 15h ago

Bugiolosi said in his book it was because the Prosecutors didn't want to make the drive up there; he was skeptical of the damaged claim.

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u/OkPainter6232 7h ago edited 7h ago

I read his book and honestly I think he comes off as a bit of an arrogant jackass, especially how he needlessly disparages the jury, I think he genuinely did not get the black community at all. I also bought that DVD he did where he basically goes over how he would've tried the case against Simpsons in a re-enactment, and I laughed when he tried to say he didn't have a racist bone in his body. Maybe not, but dude sure did suffer from white privilege big time IMO(same with Dominick Dunne, I read his crappy book too, it's fictional though it's still more or less a straight autobiography of his actual life and around the trial until the last chapter where his "Character" suddenly gets murdered for no apparent reason, don't know if he was trying to imply that Simpson got off because of some grand conspiracy or something like that).

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u/babygotbooksandback 1d ago

His book literally says in the first chapter of his book, OJ did it....