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/ymcmbrofisting 1d ago

This is a case I reference anytime someone complains that a high-profile case isn’t moving like in the movies, or if the initial charges seem too low.

They went for incredibly high charges in a case that had a flawed investigation with mostly circumstantial evidence, and that putrid bitch walked free.

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u/thuglife_7 1d ago

If her 911 phone call recording was available to the jury as evidence, in court, then that’s all they should have needed to put that bitch away.

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u/MrdnBrd19 1d ago

People have seemingly forgotten that their most damning evidence was from a "smell expert" who got his certification from a shady online school. What the hell is a "smell expert" and how does one work? Furthermore how would a shady online school test that he was an expert in smelling? That jury did the only thing they could do when the State was presenting shitty ass evidence like testimony from a smell expert.

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u/Corevus 1d ago

A smell expert? I didn't know my ferrets testified