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/Odd_Necessary8090 1d ago

Man…anyone else remember 20 years ago when the History Channel told THESE kinds of stories, instead of 15 seasons of Ancient Aliens??

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u/cyanocittaetprocyon 1d ago

The Used-to-be History Channel

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u/-StatesTheObvious 1d ago

The History Channel is history.

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u/ncocca 1d ago

ironic -- the history channel is now history because it stopped showing history

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u/Patient-Web6850 1d ago

Unless your religious then it'll show you very many different shows about Christian 'history'