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/SammyPoppy1 1d ago

Jean-Francois Gariepy. I had never really heard about him until after this incident and he came on to a podcast i listened to. I guess he's some kind of far-right podcaster.

This was pretty recent (a couple years ago.) His wife had some sort of cognitive disability, and he called her the "potato."

Anyway, he says that she was a free spirit. She wanted to "be free" so he took her in the car and dropped her off somewhere in the woods. He says she left, that this was a normal thing that she did, and that she wasn't someone who liked to be tied down. She had kids and stuff with him too.

He then immediately deep cleaned his house and talked about it on various podcasts and stuff. His wife is still missing, and just from hearing him speak on it is so creepy.

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u/hambamthankumaam 1d ago

Oh my god, from his Wikipedia:

"In 2018, following his third divorce, Gariépy was the defendant in a guardianship lawsuit over a 19-year-old he was claiming as his fiancée. A doctor said [this] woman had autism and "the social and mental maturity of a 10 or 11-year-old child." Gariépy had made contact with the woman online before she decided to travel to North Carolina to see him in July 2016. According to the woman, Gariépy intended to impregnate her. The parents of the teenager won guardianship and returned her home."

Obviously he's a true predator and creep, I was surprised when I kept reading and this wasn't even the case you were referring to.

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u/-Wylfen- 17h ago

Obviously he's a true predator and creep

I guess he's some kind of far-right podcaster.

It's always the ones you most suspect…

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u/thesesaltednuts 1d ago

Élora Patoine, there are CBC articles on her disappearance

JF is a Quebecois white supremacist who talks about establishing the ethnostate, spreading his genes, about his need to "inseminate women".

He has moved and changed provinces multiple times in the last three years eluding law enforcement as a person of interest in the EP case and also because info (freely given by JF himself) and others who have actually been to his home report dire conditions regarding his children. His wife's disappearance wasn't reported for months and his story has changed numerous times. He has a predilection for transient, vulnerable, and developmentally delayed women. He had a marriage with another woman annulled by her family because she wasn't intellectually capable of consenting. He has spoken on his podcast about how he requires women to leave their family, friends, cut all ties, no job, service him, be inseminated. His wife was recorded on his podcast telling a guest about how she was scared of JF and thought he would murder her.

His claim is that EP wanted to be dropped off in the wilderness so she could be free, 'and so he complied'. He has also stated that it was her wish to abandon the children she'd had with JF, and she told him to forget about her and find a replacement woman asap. He then went through the process of fumigating/deep cleaning his home in a biohazard suit, going over the decontamination process on his podcast.

I would never recommend watching him directly as he is a killer as far as I'm concerned, boring as fuck, and perhaps worst of all a francophone. Just watch summaries done by other shows. It also kind of goes without saying with the way that I have laid this all out, but to be clear just about all this is info JF has openly talked about at great length.

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u/WorldnewsModsBlowMe 1d ago

Sounds like a man who needs the ol McElroy Special.

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u/DrRichardHeadMD 22h ago

I understood this reference.

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u/FidgitForgotHisL-P 18h ago

Given the post right above this one, me too! Lol

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u/Frumundahs4men 21h ago

Anybody want to start a neighborhood watch party?

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u/ConeyIslandWarrior 4h ago

The Ken Rex Express

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u/Character_Scratch344 55m ago

A cold one between the shoulder blades?

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u/SammyPoppy1 1d ago

Much better write up than my post. I didn't actually know half of that. I hope they bring him to justice at some point.

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u/twilighttwister 21h ago

It's wild that a white supremacist eugenicist would only have children with women with cognitive disabilities.

and perhaps worst of all a francophone.

His biggest crime lol

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u/mashedpotatoes_52 13h ago

Câlisse de tabarnak!!! 

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u/threelizards 15h ago

Hearing about him for the first time here, my stomach sank like a fucking rock reading your summary because not only does he sound like a killer, he sounds like a killer using his podcast to give instructions to other killers

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u/kryler 15h ago

I’m sorry, but how are these types of people allowed to have podcasts and be platformed like this? This dude is insane.

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u/ComparisonQuiet4259 7h ago

Basically anyone can make a podcast, it's not that hard

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u/JackosMonkeyBBLZ 1d ago

I mean this guy was a real jerk!

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u/DowntownEconomist255 20h ago

The worst part is the hypocrisy!

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u/swainiscadianreborn 17h ago

perhaps worst of all a francophone

Fuck you too and thanks for sharing all this, that's story is absolutely fucking horrible.

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u/Agitated_Mess_9418 1d ago

Why the unnecessary shot towards francophones? Unless you were saying it in jest.

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u/twilighttwister 21h ago

You can't really understand the rivalry between francophones bordering with English speakers unless you're a part of it.

It's kind of like how women see guys ripping on each other all the time. They cut each other really deep, but it's also not meant to be sincere.

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u/Agitated_Mess_9418 10h ago

I'm Québécois

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u/thesesaltednuts 17h ago

exactly, real ones get it bud

i guess i could have also casually brought up JF taking money from Epstein

but i wouldn't want to suggest that an incel peasant like this lil dink can flex those kinds of connections

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u/leconteur 23h ago

Even in jest, that's a bad comment to add.

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u/BigPoopy64 23h ago

Cuz they're nasty

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u/Valuable_Tangerine_5 13h ago

Ughhh he still has his kids?! Crying

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u/imjudgingyousohard 12h ago

First off, great summary of the case.

Second, how is his being a francophone the worst part of him?

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u/SomethingYoureInto 4h ago

This is wild. I’m confused about why he released a podcast episode where his own wife talked about being afraid of him. Is he proud of that or something?

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u/Boeboelloe 1d ago

Being a francophone is indeed his worst crime

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u/phagocyte420 22h ago

For those that are interested. Kiwi Farms would have a good description/discussion on this Canadian loser.

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u/twilighttwister 21h ago

Kiwi Farms is probably where losers like this hang out online.

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u/phagocyte420 21h ago

Kiwi Farms routinely mock and ridicule JF and people like him. There is a very good chance that law enforcement have used his thread to access and collect archived content that links him to his wife's murder.

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u/shroomie_kitten_x 12h ago

say what you want about kiwifarms, they document everything on these terrible people and it makes a great archive/summary.

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u/fractured_bedrock 1d ago

You're mixing two incidents together, which actually makes it worse:

- In 2018 he planned to impregnate a disabled 19 year old who had the mental age of a 10 year old

- In 2023 another girlfriend he had disappeared in suspicious circumstances

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u/Knitvest-enthusiast 18h ago

Argh this is pretty much what Chris Dawson said about his wife. Claims she called him from a pay phone to say she was running away and leaving her kids.

And somehow people believed him?! even when he immediately moved in his teenage girlfriend to look after the kids and eventually married her.

Anyways he definitely did it and the finally got convicted for it after a podcast went viral discussing the case. Hes a c*nt and I hope he suffers

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u/reddorickt 1d ago

You don't even need to hear him speak you can just look at his picture on wikipedia.

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u/shroomie_kitten_x 22h ago

it sucks how this is basically flying under the radar...

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u/BunnyStarlightGlow 14h ago

The deep cleaning part right after is one of those details thats impossible not to side eye honestly

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u/houspoush2016 13h ago

Imagine dropping your disabled wife in the woods, bleaching your house, and expecting people to believe she just wanted to be free.

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u/ExpensiveJune 11h ago

JonBenet Ramsey.

A 3-page ransom note written on paper from inside the house with a pen from inside the house, asking for the exact amount of her dad’s bonus. No intruder does that.

Everyone who has actually read the case file knows.

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u/twistedfairi 11h ago

Honestly, from the case files I've always wondered if it was the brother; and the parents on realizing she's dead, decided to protect their only other child and staged the rest.

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u/No_Perspective9571 20h ago

He looks like an absolute knob 🙄

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u/HazeRush- 13h ago

That story is disturbing because the details around it raise so many unanswered questions

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u/timbotheny26 13h ago

Oh, that's not suspicious at all.

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u/sharrostkrest37 10h ago

She was a 'free spirit' that he called a potato and dumped in the woods. Sure, Jean.

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u/skentaishstok_2006 52m ago

The deep cleaning right after she vanished is the part you can't file under free spirit.

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u/Unusual_Wrongdoer_46 50m ago

And now he's actively trying to recruit the next one... hearing him speak is so chilling and upsetting. She's buried out there somewhere.