People don’t know about the smart ones because they don’t get caught.

Never, of course.

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

Convincing people to dismiss their crimes as “white collar crap” is the most insidious trick of successful criminals.

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.

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.

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

• DB Sweeney Cooper
• Jack Ripper
• The people behind the Lufthansa Heist
• The people behind the Antwerp Diamond Heist
• Whoever disappeared Jimmy Hoffa

You wouldn’t know, would ya?

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 without a statute of limitations or harms someone that can retaliate anyways.