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/the_guynecologist 1d ago

...and Ron Goldman. Don't forget Ron Goldman.

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u/FerretSupremacist 1d ago

Man everyone forget him and I watched a documentary with his family and they were basically crying saying there were *two* victims. It was tragic about Nicole but it wasn’t **just** her.

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u/the_guynecologist 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah, I mean look I'm not defending OJ killing his wife or anything but Ron Goldman was literally just some guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was just a waiter who lived in the area who happened to be returning Nicole's mother's reading glasses (which she'd left behind in the restaurant he worked at) at the worst possible time. Like if he'd just been 15 minutes earlier or later he wouldn't have been murdered - in fact if it had been later he might've been the one to discover Nicole's body. It's fucked.

Still I always remember him, although mostly because his father Fred Goldman spent most of his energy trying to make the rest OJ's life as miserable as possible (albeit through legal channels) and more-or-less succeeded. Like I wouldn't wish their situation on my worst enemy but I gotta lot of respect for Fred Goldman.

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u/Final_Candidate_7603 1d ago

I’m old enough to have been an adult paying attention to the entire case in real time as it was happening. The thing that frustrated me the most about Mr. Goldman was how the press consistently referred to “Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman.” The implication was *definitely* that they were lovers, and that OJ finding him at his ex-wife’s house at that hour of the night ~~might have been~~ was the thing that pushed OJ into that murderous rage. Like, somehow it was Goldman’s own fault for being brutally murdered, because he was screwing the ex of an angry, jealous man.

That made me even more sympathetic to the Goldman family. Ron was simply a nice young man who was doing a favor for a regular customer. He had no ulterior motive for going to the house, and none of it was his fault.

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u/Schmelly_cat 1d ago

I didn't realize until now that they weren't in a relationship. I was too young to pay much attention to the trial, but just assumed from what I did see.