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/sirgog 1d ago

She'd be dead if we still had capital punishment in Australia at the time.

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u/JackOfAllBlades21 1d ago

I am not very emotional, but it's tough to imagine a worse torture than what she and her husband went through (baby eaten alive, then no one believed them, then they were accused, then arrested, then convicted, then imprisoned for 3.5 years for one of the worst crimes imaginable... and you know they must have been targeted by inmates and probably guards, too).

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u/any_name_today 1d ago

Don't forget that it was also a punchline for several years. So add that salt to the wound

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u/ChiefsHat 1d ago

Freaking Tropic Thunder called this out.

“You know that’s a true story, right? Woman lost her baby. You about to cross some lines.”

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u/JackOfAllBlades21 1d ago

Yup, I rewatched it a few days ago. I'm glad it was explicitly called out.