# Which ONE Crime Would You Like The True Answer To? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 8, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101 "2010-01-08T00:25:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/1 "2010-01-08T00:25:57Z")
OK we all know that Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father 40 whacks and when she saw what she could do, she gave her mother 42. But she was found “not guilty,” so did she? (OK the rhyme is totally screwed up from the facts, but…) We all know OJ is guilty or do we? And we all know that [Lindbergh Baby](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindbergh_kidnapping) was kidnapped by Bruno Richard Hauptmann or do we? Just like we know [DB Cooper](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB_Cooper) died after parachuting out of the plane? If you could pick one crime and go back in time and tape it so there would be no doubt whatsoever, which one would you pick to witness and tape? I would also include things like the [Black Dhalia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dhalia), which was never solved But for the purposes of this thread it has to be a crime, not like a disappearance, like Jimmy Hoffa. We would assume some crime was involved but no one can be 100%. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/2 "2010-01-08T00:27:00Z")
For me I’d definately like to know what REALLY happened in the Lizzie Borden case ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/3 "2010-01-08T00:28:51Z")
JFK assassination. Just to shut them all up. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/4 "2010-01-08T00:30:59Z")
I’d like the identity of Jack the Ripper. Though I’m fairly sure that if his name was finally revealed, we’d all say “Who?” Certainly none of the “case closed” claims has stood up to investigation, particularly the various famous names that have been accused. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/5 "2010-01-08T00:50:15Z")
The case of Olof Palme - the head of state of a Western European country (Sweden), in time of peace, assassinated by someone who made a clean getaway, in the second half of the twentieth century ( 28 February 1986 ). > **[Assassination of Olof Palme](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Palme_assassination)** > > On 28 February 1986, at 23:21 CET (22:21 UTC), Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbeth Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen. Lisbeth Palme was slightly wounded by a second shot. The couple did not have bodyguards with them. > Christer Pettersson, who had previously been convicted of manslaughter, was convicted of the murder in 1988 after having been identified as the killer by Mrs. Palme. Howe... ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/6 "2010-01-08T00:55:20Z")
I would really like to know how OJ murdered those two people - Iam certain that he did not act alone. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/7 "2010-01-08T00:55:54Z")
The murder of JonBenet Ramsey. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/8 "2010-01-08T00:57:06Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > I would really like to know how OJ murdered those two people - Iam certain that he did not act alone. But isn’t OJ himself out there, trying to find the \*real \*killer? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/9 "2010-01-08T00:57:57Z")
I would like to know what (if any) role Amanda Knox actually played in her roomates’ death. IF she was indeed involved, she is truly evil; both for the murder of Meridith Kercher and for convincing her parents that she is an innocent victim of circumstance, and letting them spend over a million dollars defending her… ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/10 "2010-01-08T01:01:03Z")
Black Dahlia…some of the theories are so twisted\*, I’d really like to know what really happened… I’m not sure whether I’d be more disappointed if the real answer was as twisted as the theories, or simple and straightforward. - I’m thinking particularly of Steve Hodel’s…er…‘evidence’, for want of a better word, that his father did it. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/11 "2010-01-08T01:03:41Z")
I’m the first to say JFK? ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/12 "2010-01-08T01:15:39Z")
> [@thirdname](#): > > I’m the first to say JFK? Post 3 ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/13 "2010-01-08T01:16:50Z")
The true fate of the crew of the [Mary Celeste](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste)? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/14 "2010-01-08T01:23:16Z")
I have just enough conspiracy nuttiness in me to want to know, without doubt, what happened with the JFK assassination. ---
**Author:** ![Pray\_for\_peace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pray\_for\_peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pray_for_peace)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/15 "2010-01-08T01:25:21Z")
The [West Memphis child murders](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_3) (I believe the WM3 were wrongly convicted). ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/16 "2010-01-08T01:29:25Z")
JonBenet Ramsey. I know that makes me sound pervy but I got really interested in it a while ago and it’s such a bizarre case. Her family was ruled out but the way it was done, it looked so much like an inside case… ETA: I’m not the only one. I don’t feel so skeevy. ---
**Author:** ![Pray\_for\_peace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pray\_for\_peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pray_for_peace)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/17 "2010-01-08T01:32:15Z")
If I can have a second choice, I would say the murders of [the Rafay family](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/25/48hours/main711556.shtml) - [probably](http://www.rafayburnsappeal.com/) another wrongful conviction. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/18 "2010-01-08T01:45:12Z")
> [@Sidney Evgeni Jordan](#): > > If I can have a second choice, I would say the murders of [the Rafay family](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/25/48hours/main711556.shtml) - [probably](http://www.rafayburnsappeal.com/) another wrongful conviction. When I watched the 48 Hours episode (I think it was a 2 hour special) about the case, there was not much doubt in my mind that those two were absolutely guilty… I dont want to spend hours pouring over a website, but do you have something fairly concise that I could read that casts doubt on their guilt? I promise I would read it with an open mind. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/19 "2010-01-08T02:02:46Z")
Yes, I guess the JFK would be nice just to show everyone it was Oswald alone. However, learning 100% who the Zodiac killer was would be nice. I’m sure he’s dead, though. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101/20 "2010-01-08T02:09:41Z")
> [@Sidney Evgeni Jordan](#): > > The [West Memphis child murders](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_3) (I believe the WM3 were wrongly convicted). Gets my vote as well. The case against the WM3 was lousy. I can’t say for sure they didn’t do it, (though I don’t think they did), but there is too much doubt to send those boys to jail. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-one-crime-would-you-like-the-true-answer-to/524101.md?page=2)