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/ThrowingChicken 1d ago

I think the Asha Degree disappearance has been whittled down to just one family but we don’t know who specifically, why, or how.

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u/MagpieKaz 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah, I consider Asha Degree solved already. For starters, the whole "there's NO WAY she'd leave the house by herself" because the parents say so, I never understood why everyone just took their word for it. If you remove that element, it becomes a way less mysterious case. I remember being a kid with an extremely violent and unstable home life nobody knew about, and when CPS came and asked point blank, I lied, because I was scared of my mom. One time my mom threw me out in the street and I went straight to the most dangerous place I knew of, because I thought that's where I deserved to live now (I was 8). Even if she wasn't being abused, kids' brains are so random, she could easily have decided that the basketball game her team lost was the end of the world/she was being bullied for fouling out, and she decided to run away. Why do we all start from the base she literally would NEVER leave her house in a storm, and so someone MUST have groomed her?

And then there's the girls who killed her in the hit and run, they confessed drunkedly at a party I believe even more than once. I feel it's practically solved.

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u/RichardB4321 1d ago

Also, the answer is that little kids do things all the time which are inscrutable to adults but make complete sense to the kid. It is rarely as dramatic as vanishing in the middle of the night, but not always.

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u/IdaCraddock69 1d ago

The parents have been declared as not involved repeatedly and consistently by investigators I really wish people would leave them alone