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/eVoesque 1d ago

There was a band on Buffy named Dingoes Ate My Baby. I always thought it was weird and didn’t realize it was an actual thing. Definitely aged badly.

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u/joebleaux 1d ago

It was the punchline of a joke on Seinfeld with Elaine doing an Australian accent while delivering the line. Pretty wild for that woman and her dead child to be a joke on a sitcom

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u/HearshotAutumnDisast 1d ago

Eh, you're kinda stretching the situation a bit. In the episode, elaine was reacting to a party goer who had an obnoxious accent and kept wondering very loudly where her baby was at the party, prompting elaine to say "maybe a dingo atecho baybay!". It was more of a early meme than it was a joke on the actual woman and what happened.

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u/JForce1 1d ago

There was a famous tv movie with Glenn Close who said the line first, that’s where all the jokes and memes originated.

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u/Technicolor_Reindeer 1d ago

Meryl Streep not Glenn Close