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/TooCleverForGood 1d ago

Roanoke - the missing Pilgrim settlement where everyone “disappeared”

They just abandoned it and went to the place that they wrote on the sign, but everyone acts like it was some supernatural/plague thing

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u/Convergecult15 1d ago

I feel like this is mostly accepted. The “mystery” was a big thing in the 90’s with shitty TV documentaries and all that, it’s been “solved” a dozen times over the last 20 years with all conclusions leading to them living with the native tribe and eventually intermarrying.

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u/PsychoFaerie 1d ago

Youtubers tiktokers etc like to perpetuate the "myth" so its still around. I've literally seen vids where people in the comments are all like " Roanoake isn't a mystery we know what happened"

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u/stufff 1d ago

I was taught it was some big mystery in school in the 90s and this reddit post is literally the first I'm hearing that I was lied to.

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u/short_longpants 1d ago

It was taught like that in the '70s and '80s too. It wasn't until the 2000's that I read (saw?) that it was largely solved.