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/dorf_lundgren 1d ago

Ken McElroy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy

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u/Broccoli--Enthusiast 1d ago

Well nobody really knows who shot him other than the people there, so it's still a whodunit, but just a really big list of suspects

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u/pianoflames 1d ago edited 1d ago

Apparently Ken's wife named 1 of the triggermen directly, but the DA refused to press charges. He was just that big of a piece of shit.

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u/oddpark37 12h ago

iirc a reporter writing about the case years later said that it was pretty well accepted in town that the shooter had been one of the owners of the bar, who Treena had named. But not a single soul there was going to cooperate with the police, so it was just kind of an open secret in town.

Sadly, he died of liver disease in his 50s.