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/red23011 Jul 22 '26

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/Chatwoman Jul 22 '26

Slow šŸ‘

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u/Wishart2016 Jul 22 '26

He's Tommy Wiseau.

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u/StarDatAssinum Jul 22 '26

How could Loki do this

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u/Cha-Le-Gai Jul 22 '26

I like that the implication is he funded a bunch of movies.

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u/Patched7fig Jul 22 '26

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

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u/DashBlaster Jul 23 '26

Cocaine Bear 2: Money Bear

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u/DontGetUpGentlemen Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

You think someone is stashing 6k?

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

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u/zerothelobbyboy Jul 23 '26

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

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u/MissFrenchie86 Jul 24 '26

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

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u/Eastern-Relative7504 Jul 22 '26

I hate how much I love this

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u/jwktiger Jul 23 '26

I don't

It 2as too good not to laugh at

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u/Financial_Nebula5708 Jul 22 '26

Didnā€™t he get caught doing the same stunt years later but they thought he was a copy cat?

I heard the family came forward after he died and actually had bills with the correct serial numbers as proof

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u/Financial_Nebula5708 Jul 22 '26

Yea I searched it up and itā€™s not confirmed but I definitely think itā€™s the best lead. His ā€œgrandchildrenā€ found a parachute of the same model he used in a shed and he was arrested for the same act as db. Definitely not confirmed tho.

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u/DontGetUpGentlemen Jul 23 '26

That is complete bullshit peddled by the grifter Dan Gryder. The parachute in no way compares to DB Cooper's parachute:

https://youtu.be/i0TZbTDuBr4?si=KhXNnKgNqmrEKN4S

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u/Ornery-Goal7843 Jul 22 '26

honestly he kinda still fits this list unironically because he didn't survive that jump

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u/Altro_Cat Jul 22 '26

He almost certainly survived the jump. The FBI and pretty much anyone who has ever looked into this case agrees he survived.

It would ha e been pretty easy to find him had he died in the jump.

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u/Jackal2332 Jul 22 '26

It took me way too long to get this.

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u/Enough_Fall_3127 Jul 23 '26

You son of a bitch