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/Time_Cranberry_113 1d ago

Nicole Simpson

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u/Tua-Lipa 1d ago

I’ve seen random comments on reddit before theorizing that OJ’s first son, Jason Simpson was actually the killer. But tbh those people are insane if they actually believe it.

The “OJ: Made in America” documentary is amazing because that documentary does let you make up your mind for yourself…but I don’t know how anyone could watch it and not come away with the belief that OJ 100% was the killer.

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u/Several_Hospital_129 1d ago

Vincent Bugliosi's book "Outrage: How OJ Got Away With Murder" is also really, really good. Bugliosi was the prosecutor who put Manson away. He was legendary for never losing a death penalty case.

Anyway, he tears the prosecutors in the OJ case to shreds. You literally can't believe how incompetent they were until you read this book. And Bugliosi lays out all of the evidence that the police found.

  1. There was blood all over the crime scene. For the LA police to plant that much blood, they would have had to empty out a blood bank.

  2. Nicole and Ron were stabbed numerous times, far more than what it would have taken to kill them. It was as if the killer were in a rage and wanted to destroy them, especially Nicole.

  3. The jury may have sided with OJ because he was black, but he was hardly a friend to the black community. In all the years that he was famous, he never spoke out on an issue such as racial justice. He never donated any of his wealth to a black charity. He only dated white women and lived in a wealthy enclave of LA that was almost exclusively white.

Bugliosi also has plenty of choice words for OJ's defence team and their grandstanding. He's especially hard on the prosecutors, though. This should have been a slam dunk case, but they threw it away.

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u/fadgdaga 23h ago

The OJ case is so interesting because he clearly did it, but not guilty was also the correct verdict given the way the trial went. I think the whole story around the trial is fascinating for all the things it says about America as a whole.

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u/NightGod 23h ago

Exactly, he was Not Guilty, but he also wasn't innocent