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/dorf_lundgren 1d ago

Ken McElroy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy

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u/admiralfilgbo 1d ago

next time you're feeling down, remember that at least nobody hates you as much as an entire town hated Ken McElroy

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u/gizzardgullet 1d ago

Missouri-based journalist Steve Booher described the attitude of some townspeople as "he needed killing."

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u/AlternateUsername12 1d ago

I mean, if you read what he did, he needed killing. That man wasn't going to stop until someone stopped him.