Krystian Bala
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Krystian Bala (b. 1973) is a Polish writer and photographer. In 2007, Bala was jailed for 25 years for planning and leading the murder of Dariusz Janiszewski, an advertising agency owner, in Wrocław in 2000. The Wrocław police had failed to solve the murder, until it was brought to their attention that a very similar murder featured in Bala's first novel, Amok (2003), published several years after Janiszewski's killing. The case drew widespread media coverage in Poland. In 2007 the appeal court ordered a retrial of the case, while Bala stays in prison.
The case is the subject of an article by David Grann in The New Yorker.[1]
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- ^ David Grann, "Letter from Poland: True Crime", The New Yorker, Feb. 11 & 18, 2008, pp. 120–135.
