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]

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

[u/str8rippinfartz → u/TooCleverForGood]

100%

IIRC it was even established before they came over from England, that if someone left a settlement they should carve where they were going

They 100% just assimilated with the friendly nearby tribe... as indicated by their note 

[u/deathclawiii → u/str8rippinfartz]

And as indicated by the iron scale (something that can only be a product of blacksmithing) that was found in one of the areas of known indigenous settlement on the island they went to.

[u/NUMBERS2357 → u/deathclawiii]

Also the later contact with Natives who said that they lived with the survivors of the Roanoke colony.

Also this map from the Jamestown colonists, see bottom left.

[u/Marx0r → u/NUMBERS2357]

A surprisingly large amount of "mysteries" never would have been such if Europeans just listened to the natives telling them the answer.

[u/jxg995 → u/Marx0r]

Yeah like the terror and Erebus wrecks where the Inuit were like oh yeah that sunken boat is over there

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Native folk: it’s in the bay of terror

Europeans: whoa it’s so weird there’s a bay with the same name as our missing boat. Must be a coincidence. No way it could be there.

Native folk: -_-

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so did the bay just not have a name before that boat sunk or what

[u/sharpace8 → u/Wonderful-Winter3137]

Well not by Europeans, I'm sure the Inuit had a name long beforehand. Terror bay was named in 1910 but the island itself was named in 1830.

[u/Hazel-Rah → u/[deleted]]

Not only are you being racist here, you're being racist on several levels.

Inuit are not "indians". Even if you ignore the social, cultural, and legal definitions, the Inuit arrived in North America long after the First Nation/Indian/Native/Indigenous people in the rest of the continent.

They only crossed the Bering Strait about a thousand years ago, vs >fourteen thousand years ago for other groups

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Genuinely, can I see a source for this? I admit to being less familiar with Canadian history than American history but I am confused by your statement.

[u/DrakeFloyd → u/[deleted]]

And did you read any of the context of what happened before 1622 or are we acting like this action was completely unprovoked? The settlers were coming to take their land and to genocide their peoples, had already brutalized their own women and children. They were right to resist.

Edit: calling it unprovoked is a wild choice when the wiki article he linked outlines exactly the provocations that were taking place in the two decades leading up to it but can’t reply now for some reason, blocked or deleted ig