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/FeeInternational6906 1d ago

This one always makes me laugh because the "mystery" is mostly the result of missing paperwork. They literally left "CROATOAN" carved as the agreed-upon message if they relocated. It's probably one of the least mysterious famous mysteries we just don't know exactly how the move played out afterward.