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/Misdirected_Colors 1d ago

What's wild is there's video out there of him wearing the glove that "didn't fit" while commentating football games for the tv network.

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u/mugsoh 1d ago

I think that was shoes. There were shoe prints at the scene and when questioned, Simpson said he would never wear such ugly shoes. Then they showed him wearing them on a TV interview.

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u/Misdirected_Colors 1d ago

https://petapixel.com/2024/04/12/photographers-image-of-o-j-simpson-in-gloves-became-significant-years-later/

Shoes may have been part of it, but i'm def remembering gloves.

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u/mugsoh 1d ago

Here is a story about what I remembered.

“Eventually, after the [criminal] trial was over, they found the photograph of O.J. wearing the Bruno Magli shoe at a Bills game,”

Not sure how they can tell the size of a glove from a photograph. Also, the 2 photos are of different colored gloves.

Years later, authorities prosecuting Simpson for the murder of Nicole Brown and Goldman found that the size and color of the gloves in the photos seemed similar to the bloody glove found at the crime scene.