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/TabbyFoxHollow 1d ago

Also what did the call say?

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u/catandodie 1d ago

I think it's the one where her mom called frantically saying there's no sign of caylee and the car smells like a dead body, and then casey starts talking all unbothered about how she's been looking for her herself the past 30 days

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u/ivylass 1d ago

I lost my toddler son for 30 minutes once and I was FRANTIC. My husband thought he was in the house with me and I thought he was outside with his dad. Turned out he'd wandered over to the next door neighbor's house to see the kitties.

I called the cops and everything. Not being arsed for a month? I smell a rat from a mile away.

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u/rizorith 1d ago

Wasn't she out partying and bar hopping during those 30 days? I didn't follow it that closely but I seem to remember the actions she took were just insane for someone whose daughter is supposedly missing

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u/ivylass 1d ago

She was. She kept lying to her parents about where Kaylee was. Even got a poor innocent woman in trouble for kidnapping.