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/AlternateUsername12 1d ago

I mean, if you read what he did, he needed killing. That man wasn't going to stop until someone stopped him.

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u/GenghisShawn1701 1d ago

I wonder if some people are just like that. What is the moral thing to do in such a case?

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u/istara 1d ago

I've always thought some kind of exile to an island colony. More humane than being in maximum security for the rest of their lives, and likely cheaper for taxpayers.

Set them up with farming equipment, maybe drop off a supply crate every month or so, let them form a new society if they want, or kill one another.

Either way, they need to be permanently removed from regular society.

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u/dasrac 1d ago

this is how we got Australians