Bala thought he was clever. He thought he could outsmart the police by turning his crime into a novel, believing that fiction provided a shield of plausible deniability. Instead, he wrote his own indictment.
Krystian Bala was not a typical thug. He was a philosophy graduate, a diver, and an intellectual. He was also, by many accounts, a narcissist. When the police began to dig, they found a motive rooted in jealousy. amok krystian bala
In 2003, Detective Wroblewski received a strange tip. A new novel titled Amok had been published in Poland to modest acclaim. It was a gritty, nihilistic thriller about a murder. The tipster suggested the author, an intellectual drifter named Krystian Bala, might be responsible for the real-life murder of Janiszewski. Bala thought he was clever