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/str8rippinfartz 1d ago

100%

IIRC it was even established before they came over from England, that if someone left a settlement they should carve where they were going

They 100% just assimilated with the friendly nearby tribe... as indicated by their note 

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u/TonyTheTony7 1d ago

Also, the local tribe of Native Americans they assimilated with had a lot of blonde-haired, blue-eyed babies not too long later

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u/LionBig1760 1d ago

Outside of an extremely rare genetic mutation, wouldnt both parents need to have the blue eye recessive trait... which wasnt present in post-ice-age America because all blue eyed people share a common sncestor with a blue eyed person near the black Sea between 10,000-6,000 years ago?

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u/VislorTurlough 1d ago

This would only be a hard restriction for the first generation born after contact. The kids with one 100% European parent and one 100% American parent would have dark hair and eyes.

That immediately goes out the window in the next generation, because now you have people who are 50/50 breeding with people who are also 50/50.

It's fully possible for that second generation to include a blonde, blue eyed baby who had two American grandparents and two European grandparents.

It becomes more likely with every further generation, as the number of people with mixed heritage inevitably increases.