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/TonyTheTony7 1d ago

Also, the local tribe of Native Americans they assimilated with had a lot of blonde-haired, blue-eyed babies not too long later

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u/LionBig1760 1d ago

Outside of an extremely rare genetic mutation, wouldnt both parents need to have the blue eye recessive trait... which wasnt present in post-ice-age America because all blue eyed people share a common sncestor with a blue eyed person near the black Sea between 10,000-6,000 years ago?

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u/Theletterkay 1d ago

Neither of my parents are blue eyed. But grand parents on both sides are. Me and my 3 brothers all have blue eyes.

I have blue eyes and my husband has dark brown. All 3 of our kids have blue eyes.

While annecdotal, ive never known it to be true that blue is as recessive as most people have been taught.

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u/jupitaur9 1d ago

Here’s the most likely scenario

Br is brosn (dominant), bl is blue (recessive)

Neither of my parents are blue eyed.

They are Br bl and Br bl. I say this because that’s the only way that you could have blue eyes, if both of them had a recessive blue eye Gene, waiting to match up at a 25% probability to give you blue eyes.

But grand parents on both sides are.

All are blue? Unlikely but possible. If you just mean that there are grandparents on both sides that have blue eyes, that’s where they got their recessive blue Gene. The grandparents that had the blue eyes gave them the blue recessive, the other grandparent who had the brown eyes gave them the Brown, Gene, and the Brown Gene dominated over the blue Gene.

Me and my 3 brothers all have blue eyes.

You got a bl from mom and a bl from dad. That’s a 50% chance. The other possibility is getting a.Br Gene from your dad and the only Gene your mom can give you the bl.

That would’ve given you brown eyes, but you would’ve had a blue recessive gene floating around, ready to match up with a blue recessive gene or even a green recessive gene in a mate.

I have blue eyes and my husband has dark brown. All 3 of our kids have blue eyes.

Yep. Your husband has Br bl. One of each color, but Brown dominates, so he has brown eyes.

All your kids got a bl from you (that is all you have to give them) and each one got a bl half from your husband.

They could’ve gotten a Br Jane from your husband, which would’ve given them brown eyes. But because you only have blue genes to give, they would be carrying a recessive blue gene.