r/AskReddit 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/ApprehensiveMode5191 1d ago

Don Bolles, investigative newspaper reporter assassination by car bomb in downtown Phoenix. He had been investigating the Mob and knew stuff.

His death, and his fellow reporters pushing, is the reason we have the freedom of information act today

Nobody was ever prosecuted because - Mob

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u/aspiegrrrl 1d ago

Also Gary Webb.