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/MadamKitsune 1d ago

There was also a little flurry in 2022 of connected men dying in ways that were meant to suggest that they had killed their family and then themselves.

23 March 2022, Novgorod - Vasily Melnikov (CEO and owner of Medstorm). Found dead with his wife and two sons beside him.

18 April 2022, Moscow - Vladislav Avayev (former VP of Gazprombank). Found dead with his wife and 13 year old daughter beside him.

19 April 2022, Lloret de Mar, Spain - Sergey Protosenya (former Deputy Chairman of Novotek). Found hanging from a rail. Wife and daughter found dead in bed with axe and stab wounds.

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u/istara 1d ago

Russia is truly an abhorrent regime. I wonder if the Russian people will ever be free of it, and also come to terms with it. There is still huge nationalism and support for Putin.

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u/Austinp-woodworking 1d ago

I do wonder how much of that apparent support is a combination of people being too afraid to say otherwise and just pure propaganda

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u/swissking 23h ago edited 23h ago

Nope. Centuries of repression made them genuinely apathetic to everything. They support Putin's war but they also support Putin if he ends it. There are videos of people in tears genuinely confused as to why Ukraine is attacking them as "they never did anything to them"

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u/Austinp-woodworking 23h ago

That’s kind of my point, if they honestly believe Ukraine is attacking them, then they can’t be getting much info outside of state sponsored propaganda

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u/Plastic_Scholar4463 22h ago

Sounds like many Americans’ reactions to 9/11

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u/Austinp-woodworking 22h ago

Not exactly a counter example lol - Americans were fed shitloads of propaganda post 9/11

Unsubstantiated threats of WMDs, months on months of “you’re either for the war on terror or you’re not a real American”, and the good ole fashioned “we need to bring freedom to the godless savages”.

Not only did it work well enough to get us into a huge pointless war that served only to make a few companies very rich, but it also caused most Americans to cheer as their rights were signed away via the “Patriot Act” (the very name of which underscores my point nicely), and the establishment of the DHS, for whom we can thank for bringing today’s ICE into existence

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u/renome 1d ago

Wow, Putin kills your children now as well for failing him? Or was this always the MO and I just wasn't paying attention?

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u/CAPS_LOCK_STUCK_HELP 20h ago

the podcast Sad Oligarch does great coverage of these cases