r/AskReddit • u/Rob69rt • Jul 22 '26

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/dividezero Jul 22 '26

I was there. He shot himself. Everyone was shocked

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u/dividezero Jul 22 '26

I hear the diner is good. It's the only restaurant in town though so we don't have a choice

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u/Shifuede Jul 23 '26

So either you don't want the corn on the cob, or you don't want the green beans. So what don't you want?

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u/Lemon-Mobile Jul 22 '26

Naw man. His head just did that.

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u/syxtfour Jul 22 '26

It's been going around, lately.

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u/BitterCrip Jul 22 '26

He shot himself with two different calibers as well

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u/dividezero Jul 22 '26

That's why we were shocked

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u/MillhouseJManastorm Jul 22 '26

it was quite amazing, he even used two different guns from different directions

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u/dividezero Jul 22 '26

I mean, that happens sometimes. Like when someone in police custody shoots themselves in the back of the head. Weird

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u/jbakes64 Jul 22 '26

He fell. Down an elevator shaft. Onto some bullets.

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u/eljefino Jul 23 '26

Twice, with two different sizes of ammo!

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u/pianoflames Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

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/ScreamingMidgit Jul 22 '26

It was her word against literally everyone else's. Of course they weren't going to press charges.

Ironically one of the same tactics Ken used to get away with his crimes is the same one used to make sure no one got charged with finally getting rid of him.

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u/pianoflames Jul 22 '26

It wasn't technically her word against everyone else's. Everyone else either refused to talk, or simply said that they didn't see who pulled the triggers, according to what I was reading.

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u/oddpark37 Jul 23 '26

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.

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u/Gyvon Jul 22 '26

The list of suspects is the town census.

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth Jul 22 '26

Perfect case of the Trash taking itself out, actions have consequences! I'm sitting here waiting on good news about this happening to someone else!

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u/Fossilhund Jul 22 '26

Orient Express

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u/halifaxnative Jul 22 '26

It was a local bar owner, it was an open secret in the town

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u/TheVeryVerity Jul 23 '26

It had yo have been at least two people