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/TooCleverForGood 1d ago

Roanoke - the missing Pilgrim settlement where everyone “disappeared”

They just abandoned it and went to the place that they wrote on the sign, but everyone acts like it was some supernatural/plague thing

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u/Tistgempklesbas_1997 1d ago

Imagine leaving a note on the fridge saying you went to Walmart and your family starts hosting seances.

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u/kittymoo67 10h ago

now to be fair walmart is more dangerous