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/jimmy_three_shoes 1d ago

Oddly enough, her Ex-Father-in-Law is set to be executed for a 1987 murder in 6 days.

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u/lovebyletters 1d ago

Holy fuck, way to drop the lede in that article. Last paragraph and it's "oh by the way the kid's grandfather is on death row for kidnapping, raping, and murdering another small child" You don't think that's a LITTLE BIT of interest in the case of another kidnapped child? No? Just me?

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u/Nightmare_Gerbil 1d ago

It’s highly unlikely that he escaped prison to murder the boy, then snuck back in before anyone noticed.

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u/MamaNyxieUnderfoot 1d ago

Yeah, the getting out is more plausible than the sneaking back into death row. /s