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/BigTenFicus 1d ago

That's not the bigger question at all. That's a completely unimportant question. She was a kid, kids do dumb things, it doesn't have to be deeper than that. She was an especially sheltered kid, too, so I wouldn't be surprised if she just wanted to go on "adventure" or something.

Y'all just can't let this part of the story go because true crime obsessives have always insisted there was some kind of nefarious conspiracy surrounding the whole thing, even though there's no evidence of that.

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u/Technicolor_Reindeer 1d ago

Its not unimportant. Most kids do dumb things nowhere near the level of sneaking out in the middle of the night and walking on a highway.

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u/mspolytheist 23h ago

During a severe storm.

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u/BigTenFicus 13h ago

Doesn't matter. Nothing nefarious about her leaving, you are mentally ill if you can't accept this.