Getting people to dismiss their crimes as “white collar crap” is the primary trick of smart criminals.
A truly smart criminal wouldn’t get caught. So you could argue any of the unsolved crimes were “smart”. But equally likely that they were just lucky.
People don’t know about the smart ones because they don’t get caught.
- DB Sweeney
- Jack Ripper
- The Lufthansa Heist
- Antwerp Diamond Heist
DB Cooper
lol, ooops
Belgium mentioned! Got to add to that!
- The people behind the Just Judges robbery
- The people behind the “Bende van Nijvel” (although very questionable reputation)
Never, of course.
Because that was what made him smart: that you won’t hear about him.
If you are a good criminal no one will ever know.
You wouldn’t know, would ya?
They exist. You’ll hear about the crime but you won’t have the identity of the perpetrators:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Bank_robbery
Although Cunningham and several others were eventually convicted of crimes uncovered during the investigation, nobody has ever been held directly responsible for the robbery.
It’s true often. You don’t hear their story because why would anyone smart want to openly admit to crimes!?
Anything worth gloating about is probably something that without a statute of limitations or harms someone that can probably retaliate anyways.
