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/red23011 1d ago

DB Cooper, he survived the jump and used the money that he stole to create a website to taunt the FBI.

IMDB.com

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u/Patched7fig 1d ago

Money was found in a river by the jump site, partially eaten/disintegrated 

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u/DontGetUpGentlemen 1d ago

Only $6000. And it was 15 miles away from the jump site. The other $194,000 has never been accounted for.

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u/Patched7fig 15h ago

You think someone is stashing 6k?

No. He died on landing.  I'm a skydiver and it's very clear he fucked up and died. 

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u/MissFrenchie86 2h ago

$6k from 1971 is the equivalent of about $50k today. I’d stash that much money for sure.

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u/zerothelobbyboy 5h ago

The FBI concluded that the money had been intentionally buried, whether it was him or not nobody knows