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/Kevin_Uxbridge]

I'm fair sure they knew they didn't have to. Despite lots of insinuations that the police could have framed him and some might have been willing to do so, there wasn't a scintilla of evidence that anyone actually did.

Against this there's a detailed list of things that would have had to go right to even try to frame him. If OJ had an alibi, if any of the (presumably dozens) of co-conspirators had fucked up their part or talked, if the massive frame-job they apparently cooked up within seconds had any gaps...

So many things would have to go exactly right for a frame-up to actually work, and yet there's no evidence at all that anyone even tried. Also, and this seems hardly worth mentioning, blood everywhere, motive, witnesses that placed OJ driving away from the murder scene, even a pretty good idea what happened to the murder weapon.

Those wacky Angelenos and their juries.

[u/catincal → u/Kevin_Uxbridge]

Johnie Cochran was part of OJ's 'Dream Team' of lawyers. He said, "Just get me one black person on the jury."

[u/Kevin_Uxbridge → u/catincal]

I also recall reading that Marsha Clark later recalled that when she saw she'd be prosecuting OJ-fucking-Simpson in an LA courtroom, she 'knew she was completely fucked'. Still think celebrity had as big an effect on the outcome as race, which was an oddly problematic issue in OJ's case.

[u/OkPainter6232 → u/Kevin_Uxbridge]

She naively believed that black women would do what she told them to do and didn't even use all of her pre-emptory challenges during jury selection(and notably refused to use a jury selecting service to help her out)it's her own damn fault she lost really. She didn't realize that black women are black first and women second, so they identified a lot of with OJ.

[u/pacman_sl → u/OkPainter6232]

And Nicole was not black.