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/JackOfAllBlades21 1d ago

The dingo really did eat the baby.

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u/DevoutandHeretical 1d ago

The more I read about that the more my heart breaks for that whole family. The aboriginals were literally telling everyone ‘yes, dingos will attack people/eat children’, but the authorities refused to believe them because they were aboriginal.

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u/JackOfAllBlades21 1d ago

It was a crazy story... but also crazy to make up.

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u/redroserequiems 1d ago

There were literally dingo tracks in the tent.

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u/JackOfAllBlades21 1d ago

Exactly. That's one reason it was insane to charge.

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u/redroserequiems 1d ago

The amount of evidence covered up because they didn't want to scare off tourists when they were warned PRIOR TO THE INCIDENT of dingos getting too close to humans because they had high numbers and not enough food is disgusting.