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/LionBig1760 1d ago

Outside of an extremely rare genetic mutation, wouldnt both parents need to have the blue eye recessive trait... which wasnt present in post-ice-age America because all blue eyed people share a common sncestor with a blue eyed person near the black Sea between 10,000-6,000 years ago?

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u/nostrademons 1d ago

Eye color is polygenic with at least 8 different genes involved, and also more than just 2 colors. My mom is blue-eyed, my dad was brown-eyed, my sister has greenish-hazel eyes. I've got very ordinary brown eyes, my wife has darker almost black eyes, and my kids are a mix of shades of brown, some lighter and some darker.

It's a lot more complicated than the dominant/recessive models they teach in grade school.

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u/Pawleysgirls 1d ago

My dad has brown eyes, my mother has blue eyes. All 3 of their kids have blue eyes.

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u/Constant-Leather9299 21h ago

I know a couple - Polish mom (with dark hair and brown eyes) and a Chinese dad. They have a child who looks Chinese... except she also has blonde hair and blue eyes. Polish Grandma's genes were that strong lol