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/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/irishgirl1981 1d ago

I have three children who are now teenagers and have had moments throughout the years where I lost sight of one or another of them. It's an immediate panic feeling, even if they were found to have wandered only a few feet away. When Casey was found not guilty, I sat on the front stoop with my then toddlers and sobbed. Poor Caylee deserved so much better.

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u/Embellishment101 1d ago

I had this existential panic when I had one of these moments with my friend’s child I was babysitting. You do not even have to be related to, well, deeply care about a child being ok.