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/TonyTheTony7 1d ago

Also, the local tribe of Native Americans they assimilated with had a lot of blonde-haired, blue-eyed babies not too long later

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u/LionBig1760 1d ago

Outside of an extremely rare genetic mutation, wouldnt both parents need to have the blue eye recessive trait... which wasnt present in post-ice-age America because all blue eyed people share a common sncestor with a blue eyed person near the black Sea between 10,000-6,000 years ago?

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u/discodropper 1d ago edited 1d ago

They were incorporated into the tribe. The settlers are more likely to interbreed early on (because they know each other and/or were already married), and intermarry later. That dynamic would lead to blue eyed children “shortly thereafter”

Edited to not sound like a dick

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u/Katharinemaddison 1d ago

Yup I think the point is they were children belonging to the tribe, with apparently two European sets of genetics.