The Murder of Dariusz Janiszewski and The Book That Was Written About It

In 2000 a Polish man named Dariusz Janiszewski was kidnapped, starved, tortured, and murdered. The case quickly went cold and the murderer, Kristin Bala, almost got away with it... until he published a book about it, titled Amok. Bala changed many details in the book, but the similarities seemed too obscure to be merely coincidence. Using the book as a roadmap to murder, investigators were able to unravel his motive and piece together the inner-workings of his mind. He was a self-centered, egotistical man who wanted to control everyone around him and he ultimately let his hubris get the best of him.

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Traynor, ian. “Polish Author Jailed over Killing He Used as Plot.” The Guardian, 6 Sept. 2007, www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/06/books.booksnews.

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