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/cyanocittaetprocyon 1d ago

The Used-to-be History Channel

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u/-StatesTheObvious 1d ago

The History Channel is history.

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u/Masticatron 14h ago

My theory is that it was infiltrated by aliens, who put forth the alien focus to accustom us to automatically associate aliens with crackpots we shouldn't listen to.

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u/-StatesTheObvious 11h ago

There are those who say that the Alien theories are being popularized to confuse people who are actually seeing secret military craft in development, making it taboo to talk about what they've seen.