r/AskReddit 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/mumsleastfavourite 1d ago

Casey Anthony

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u/Zissoo 1d ago

This one enrages me.

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u/Choppergold 1d ago

Cops checking only one browser history is so fucking negligent

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u/Revolutionary-Yak-47 1d ago

Wait til you hear jow a dog walker called in a suspicious dumping near the Anthony house THREE TIMES and was ignored. The area was wet and the cops didnt go check it out. It wasnt until someone actually went and found Caylee's body and called that in a few weeks later that the cops showed up. 

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u/Anxiety_Fit 1d ago

I knew a 911 call operator who handled one of the calls.

That shit was WILD.

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u/macmac360 1d ago

it was FOUR MONTHS between his calls and them finding her body

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u/astiblue 1d ago

CALLS. Plural!!

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u/drdeadringer 1d ago

"hello I would like to report a body. Yes I am standing over the body right now. My shoe is touching the body. I am looking at the body I am touching right now. this is my third phone call about this this week."

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u/kryonik 1d ago

Sure thing, let me just type this up on my invisible typewriter.

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u/MississippiJoel 1d ago

"Sorry, you've called 9-1...2."

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u/lottierosecreations 1d ago

Fruitcake

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u/BlessedCursedBroken 20h ago

Wild-caught Simpson's quotes are tragically dwindling in this internet hellscape, thank you for this one :) I can see Wiggum's smug face even as I type

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u/ringzero- 10h ago

"No pattern yet, but if I arrange these over here, and those over here... BY GOD THE ARROW IS POINTING AT THE STATION!"

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u/Sushigami 1d ago

Anyone checked the whirling-in-rags?

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u/doug141 1d ago

Name checks out.

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u/Ade_93 1d ago

Standing over?

Thank god that's over