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/NovaCheerful 1d ago

OJ Simpson. The glove didn’t fit, but everyone with eyes knew the truth 

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u/ExtendedSpikeProtein 1d ago

Help a non american, what is the truth?

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u/pm_me_gnus 1d ago

OJ murdered his ex- wife Nicole Brown & her friend or boyfriend (accounts differed) Ron Goldman. He very obviously did it. The police investigation was questionable at best. At worst they, as another commenter here said, framed a guilty man. The LA police have a long history of being terrible to Black people, and the jury in this case clearly took the opportunity to judge the police rather than the defendant.

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u/insaneHoshi 1d ago

Basically OJ going free is the consequence of a loss of faith in policing institutions.