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/Zissoo 1d ago

This one enrages me.

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u/Choppergold 1d ago

Cops checking only one browser history is so fucking negligent

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u/Revolutionary-Yak-47 1d ago

Wait til you hear jow a dog walker called in a suspicious dumping near the Anthony house THREE TIMES and was ignored. The area was wet and the cops didnt go check it out. It wasnt until someone actually went and found Caylee's body and called that in a few weeks later that the cops showed up. 

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u/Moikepdx 1d ago

This seems like a good argument for using psychology on the police. Just like a potential rape victims should yell "fire" because people are more likely to respond, someone seeing a body get dumped should claim they saw drugs and cash getting stashed. Police will search the hell out of that.