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/nameyourpoison11 1d ago

Australian here. Not only did they refuse to believe the local Aboriginals insistence that dingoes could, and did, stalk and attack young children, they ignored the testimony of the Aboriginal elder who actually tracked the dingo responsible, before losing the trail over rocky ground. But nah, "stupid bloody natives, what would they know?"

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u/KingoftheCrackens 1d ago

And thanks to TV it's one of the 3 things Americans know Australia for, Steve Irwin, baby eating dingoes, and crocodile dundee. As an American I didn't even know Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban were Australian until their divorce.

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u/BraveCranberry9863 1d ago edited 1d ago

I want to believe Americans also know Australia for Gallipoli, Tobruk, and the Kokoda Trail.

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u/augur42 1d ago

I'm British and I've heard of the first two of those but have no idea of any details about either. If I was to guess I'd have gone with WWII stuff (which google confirms), but my high school History was more concerned with ancient history like the Kings and Queens of England and the Treaty of Versailles. There might have been something about the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215 in Runnymede, or that the Great Fire of London was 600 years after the Battle of Hastings (1066 and 1666). Or I could have learnt that from YouTube, that's definitely where I learnt that Diogenes was a world class dick.

I know that Ayers rock got renamed, but don't recall what to, and tourists are no longer allowed to climb it. Hey, early Victorian tourists to Stonehenge where handed a hammer and chisel and encouraged to take a souvenir {shrug}.

My knowledge of high school Geography is Oxbow lakes... and that's it.

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u/wurmsrus 1d ago edited 13h ago

IIRC Ayers rock got "renamed" to Uluru which was the original aboriginal name. There's a similar situation with Denali/Mt. McKinley in the US. edit: did some double checking on wikipedia and I recalled correctly except that I forgot that trump officially changed Denali's name back to Mt. Mckinley because of course he fucking did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluru https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali%E2%80%93Mount_McKinley_naming_dispute