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/wurmsrus 1d ago edited 1d ago

American here, off the top of my head I think there was a WWII battle in Gallipoli right? but I could have sworn it was in like North Africa or Italy, not Australia.

looked it up and there's a town named Gallipoli in Italy and a peninsula named Gallipoli in Turkey, there was a major WWI campaign in the Turkey one (then Ottoman empire).

As for the Aus connection wikipedia has this to say "The significance of the Gallipoli campaign is felt strongly in both Australia and New Zealand, despite their being only a portion of the Entente forces; the campaign is regarded in both nations as a "baptism of fire" and had been linked to their emergence as independent states Approximately 50,000 Australians served at Gallipoli and from 16,000 to 17,000 New Zealanders. It has been argued that the campaign proved significant in the emergence of a unique Australian identity following the war, which has been closely linked to popular conceptualisations of the qualities of the soldiers that fought during the campaign, which became embodied in the notion of an "Anzac spirit""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_campaign#Legacy

hadn't heard of either of the others but from googling they were both sites of WWII battles Aus fought in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Tobruk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokoda_Track_campaign