We always seen/heard/read about dumb criminals. Has the opposite ever been true a smart criminal? Not including that white collar crap?

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Getting people to dismiss their crimes as “white collar crap” is the primary trick of smart criminals.

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• CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Never, of course.

  Because that was what made him smart: that you won’t hear about him.

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  • DB Sweeney
  • Jack Ripper
  • The Lufthansa Heist
  • Antwerp Diamond Heist

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  • hesh@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    DB Cooper

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    • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      lol, ooops

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  • pet1t@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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)

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You wouldn’t know, would ya?

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• 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you are a good criminal no one will ever know.

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They exist. You’ll hear about the crime but you won’t have the identity of the perpetrators:

  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.

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• MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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