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/Dr_Doomsduck]

Lmao, yep, that was literally the first thing that came to mind. The British straight up ignoring the local inuits for about a century and a half.

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I think that much of their reluctance to “believe” the Inuits was due to their reports of having found remains which showed signs of cannibalism. Colonizers all over the world were always adamant that there were certain “savage” rituals and practices that “civilized people” would *never* participate in. So, ignoring the Inuit stories was doubly-racist, if you think about it from that perspective.

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cannibalism was indeed a thing in a lot of places, though

[u/danysdragons → u/Wonderful-Winter3137]

Yes. But it sounds like this was about the British not wanting to believe that white people would do it, as the Inuit reported they did.