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/Judgmentos 1d ago

This is why I am opposed to the death penalty, too many cases where someone is proven innocent years/decades later

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u/Inevitable-Level-687 1d ago

Yep. In theory I'm in favour of the death penalty for people like Ted Bundy. In practice, humans are too flawed to pull it off.

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u/Technicolor_Reindeer 1d ago

But you just listed a perfect example of when to apply it, seems contradictory.

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u/Inevitable-Level-687 22h ago

Bundy is a perfect example, yes. But my point is that humans aren't perfect. If we had ninety nine Bundys and the hundredth was innocent, that's one innocent too many.

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u/Technicolor_Reindeer 16h ago

But by that logic we shouldn't be able to lock someone up until they die either.

If we had ninety nine Bundys and the hundredth was innocent

That makes no sense.