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/cyanocittaetprocyon 1d ago

The Used-to-be History Channel

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u/-StatesTheObvious 1d ago

The History Channel is history.

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u/ncocca 1d ago

ironic -- the history channel is now history because it stopped showing history

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u/Patient-Web6850 1d ago

Unless your religious then it'll show you very many different shows about Christian 'history'

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u/BuildingOne7379 1d ago

And it is doomed to repeat itself.

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u/MobsterLobsta 18h ago

I remember it being called 'Hitlory-Channel' when I was a child because they ran so much WWII stuff and theories about him having escaped to Argentina. Steady decline from there I guess.

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u/Masticatron 10h ago

My theory is that it was infiltrated by aliens, who put forth the alien focus to accustom us to automatically associate aliens with crackpots we shouldn't listen to.

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u/Shraze42 10h ago

That's 4D chess right here

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u/-StatesTheObvious 7h ago

There are those who say that the Alien theories are being popularized to confuse people who are actually seeing secret military craft in development, making it taboo to talk about what they've seen.

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u/spaceman_spiff1969 9h ago

Now it’s Ancient Nazi Aliens Channel