Killers: Behind the Myth (2013–2015): Season 1, Episode 1 - The Novel Killer - full transcript

The most notoriouskillers hide in plain sight,

free to kill and kill again.

The most are not the criminalmaster minds of fiction.

In their heads, theycommit the perfect murder.

In reality, it's their
foolish mistakes,

which get them caught.

Some killers comeunstuck, because they are

too smart for their own good.

Charismatic Polish intellectualKrystian Bala believed

he could get away with murder.

He's now serving
25 years in prison.



On a gray Decembermorning in the year 2000,

fishermen find a
bloated, semi-naked body

drifting in the river
Odra in eastern Poland.

Stumbling across the bodywas extraordinarily unlikely.

This remote spot
is rarely visited.

It was
not a popular place.

It was hard to get there.

You need to drive there
by car and then walk

a few hundred meters on foot.

Finding
a body in the river

automatically erases
forensic evidence.

I believe thatwas the killer's aim, to make

it difficult for police.

The police reportthat the corpse is male and has



visible wounds to his body.

The victim wasbeaten with premeditation.

There were very
serious injuries,

including scratches
around his face,

caused by some kind of tool.

A police search ofthe missing persons database

reveals that the body isthat of Dariusz Janiszewski,

a 35-year-old advertising
company director

missing for just under a month.

News of the gruesome murderattracts the attention of crime

scientist Kacper Gradon.

When I firstheard about the case,

it was something really
extreme and very unique.

Janiszewski's head, hisneck, his arms, and his feet

were tied with rope in a verypeculiar way, that the more he

moved his arms, the
more he moved his legs,

the noose tied around hisneck would get stiffer

and it would
suffocate the victim.

When Gradonstudies the pathology report,

it revealed more
disturbing details.

The stomach
was completely empty

and the intestines of the victimwere completely empty too,

which indicates that
the person could

not have eaten for at leastthree days before death.

And based onthe amount of water found

in the victim's lungs,
it was established

that the victim was
still alive when

he was dropped into the water.

It looked like your
gang related execution.

Criminalpsychologist David Holmes has

his own theory on the killing.

The circumstancesof the body and the crime

itself would indicate
there's a great deal

of anger involved here.

It could have been carried outby some kind of organization

if this was a
punishment killing,

but this is very personal.

This is something that someonehas seen as their mission.

The
police investigation

begins by looking for a motive.

Detectives interviewedJaniszewski's wife and family,

business partners and friends,but find nothing that would

explain his brutal murder.

He was asuccessful young businessman

without any business problems.

He was not, at least to the
knowledge of the police,

involved in any type
of criminal activity.

He did not have any knownmarital problems whatsoever.

He was a popular,
nice person, liked

by his family and
friends, so there was

no clear motive for his death.

Detectives are
forced to admit there

inquiries have led nowhere.

The media are calling
it the perfect crime.

The idea of aperfect murder is quite scary.

It's something thattends to occur in fiction

and it's also something
that's incredibly

embarrassing to police forces.

Police know they needhelp, and contact...

the host of Poland's mostpopular TV crime show.

The police hadexhausted all their options

for the investigation.

We can reach the witnesses whomight not even know that they

witnessed it or might be
connected to the people

involved in the crime.

Prime time TV exposurehad solved many of Poland's

most intractable cases,
but although the show's

website receives plenty ofhits, there are no new leads.

The broadcastdisappointed us a lot,

since we thought we wouldreceive plenty of information,

but there was silence.

It
was very difficult.

There was no evidence that therewas anyone behind this murder.

We had no idea who killedDariusz Janiszewski.

The policeinvestigation is abandoned

around June 2001 and
the Janiszewski murder

slips out of the headlines.

Until eventually, around fiveyears later, one Krystian Bala

is charged with the murder.

Over the followingmonths, Poland would learn

of an extraordinary crime.

When
Bala was arrested,

it was one of the most importantevents in the criminal history

of Poland.

It was spectacular.

He
was being presented

as a famous traveler,photographer, intellectual,

maniac, and murderer.

Astonishingly,
Bala had written

a book in which he appearedto incriminate himself

in the Janiszewski murder.

British crime novelist,
Mark Billingham

is instantly hooked
on the story.

I was
fascinated by the notion

of the killer who'd,
almost inadvertently,

confessed to his crimeswithin a novel he'd written.

It's an incredibly
dramatic premise,

but also a ludicrous premise.

If I put it in a novel,people wouldn't believe me.

The chain of events
that led to Bala arrest

was just as extraordinaryas his trial.

In 2003, a year and a halfafter the case was abandoned,

a routine review
of unsolved murders

was underway in the cityof... Police HQ.

It would reveal the
astonishing mistakes

Bala had made in committingthe crime, overlooked

by the original investigation,blunders which eventually

led to his imprisonment.

I got
this case in 2003.

I was dealing with
crimes like murders,

robberies, organized crime.

Even with
his fresh eyes,

detective Wroblewski can findno connection to organized crime

or any other motive formurder, but he keeps ticking

and notices that the victim's
mobile phone was never

recovered from the crime scene,although Janiszewski had it

with him when he disappeared.

This is thephone we are looking for.

This was the starting point.

The missing phoneis Wroblewski's only lead,

so he focuses on
tracking it down,

all too aware it's likelyto be a wild goose chase.

The phone is probably lostat the bottom of the river

or most likely
destroyed by the killer,

but Wroblewski has an
incredible piece of luck

when he discovers
Janiszewski's wife has

kept the receipt for the phone.

On it is the
device's IMEI number.

If the phone is
still making calls,

this number could beused to trace the killer.

Against the odds, Wroblewski's
only lead pays off.

The phone is still in use.

Establishingthat this phone

was working after the murderwas the beginning of the case.

In the months
since the murder,

he discovers the phone hasbeen sold on multiple times.

This phonewas used by several people.

When
we established who

had been in possession of thisphone, we questioned them.

And
step by step, we

began to trace the perpetrator.

Wroblewskieliminates innocent buyer

after buyer, winding the clockback to the time of the murder.

Detectives questioned the manfound to be using the phone

immediately after the victimwent missing and discovered

the unsuspecting businessman
had himself bought

the mobile from an internetauction site just three days

after Janiszewski vanished.

The phone had been sold for 285Polish Zloty, about 70 Euros,

by someone with theinternet user name ChrisB7.

The registrationdetails proved that the account

belonged to Krystian Bala.

Krystian
Bala, a 30 something

Polish intellectual
and businessman,

may also be innocent.

Wroblewski begins todelve into his background.

Of course
we get excited that we

found a person--

-- that
there is someone

physically who fits in,--

-- but we haveto look the other way around.

We become
devil's advocate--

-- and start
to look for any element

that would prove his innocence.

Keeping an open mind,when Wroblewski follows Bala's

online trail, he discovershis personal blog

and a series of lurid extractsfrom Bala's first novel

describing a murder.

Bala's own translation ofhis novel pulls no punches.

I held
a knife with one hand

and with the other, I stuck aknife above her left breast.

Ribs cracked, but the longsteel blade entered her.

The blood is sparkling.

Bala insists his wordsare an act of pure imagination,

but for Wroblewski, they
ignite deep suspicion.

Police
are often called dogs,

because we follow the traces.

When the trace gets stronger,than we searched even harder.

To thedetective, the blog reads

like a diary of a murderer.

In 2003, the routine
investigation

of a gruesome cold
case is blown wide open

when detective
Wroblewski stumbles

across Krystian Bala's blogand a description of a murder.

The violent events describedonline turn out to be extracts

from Bala's first
novel titled "Amok."

The book promises readersan adults only experience.

The book ishalf hard core pornography

and half sadistic violence.

There's reallynot a great deal of plot.

Chris, the main
character in that book,

thinks he can do pretty
much whatever he likes.

The laws, both natural andlegal, don't apply to him.

Chapter ninefeatures a vivid description

of the murder of a
young woman called

Mary, tied up and stabbedwith a knife and left to die.

The narrator, referred
to throughout as Chris,

sells the murder weapon onan internet auction site.

Wroblewski orders
a copy of "Amok,"

and is struck by parallelsbetween the fiction

and the facts of
his investigation

into the murder of
Dariusz Janiszewski.

I have tosay that parts of the blog

were very similar to
the committed murder.

There was apart about selling a knife

on the internet auction
site and that knife

was used as a murder weapon.

That related to the
situation with the phone

sold on the auction site.

Along with the use ofa rope to tie up the victims,

Wroblewski feels
the similarities

are too great to be coincidenceand Bala becomes prime suspect.

Police search for thenovelist, but discover Krystian

Bala left Poland in 2001.
The case stalls.

Wroblewski knows he doesn'thave enough evidence

to pursue his suspect abroad.

There wasstill no clear reason why

anybody had killed Janiszewski.

They'd suddenly got this linkto this guy Bala, but why?

Bala didn't know this guy.

What did he-- what could
he possibly have had?

To move
the case forward,

Wroblewski needs to find
a tangible connection

between Bala and the victim.

He decides not to quiz
Bala's close associates

in case they tip him off thatthe police are on his trail.

Instead, he opts to
trawl through the pages

of "Amok," searching
for a motive

for Janiszewski's murder.

You could
say it was a very

precise analysis of the book.

We just wanted to
establish some facts.

I have
a feeling it was

a game for Bala, with
the murder and then

with writing about it,--

-- but writingand publishing about it

was very dangerous.

After weeksporing over Bala's novel,

Wroblewski believes
the key to the case

is revealed on the final pagein a reference to jealousy.

The motiveturned out to be mundane.

It was his extreme,
blind jealousy.

Despite his
unorthodox methods,

Wroblewski believes
he has now the motive,

but the suspect is still
nowhere to be seen.

Months pass, then in 2005Krystian Bala's passport

is flagged entering Poland,and Wroblewski can finally act.

Bala is arrested.

And over five yearsafter Dariusz Janiszewski

was brutally tortured
and murdered,

the prime suspect can
at last be questioned.

Prosecutor Kucharski
leads the interrogation.

I wanted to makeit comfortable to talk,--

-- so I asked forhis chains to be taken off.

Bala was
not a typical person.

You could see he was an anomaly.

Frustrated by Bala'sinitial dismissive attitude,

Kucharski directly asks if Balahad help killing his victim.

Bala's reply stuns
the prosecutor.

Krystian Bala saidthat he did not help anyone

and that he killed DariuszJaniszewski on his own.

I was surprised.

It turned out to be simple.

I was happy that the accusedconfessed to the crime.

But the prosecutor'seuphoria is short lived.

His behaviorstarted to change.

He started
to look around the room,

and he was making weird poses.

Krystian Balastarted to play with the phone.

Putting the
receiver on the phone,

he asked for something
to drink, because he

was feeling terrible.

Bala
asks for a doctor,

and the interview is suspended.

Theambulance that was called

said that there was
no medical reason,

which should stop us fromcontinuing the interrogation.

Bala is found
to be perfectly fit,

but when the interview restarts,Bala retracts his confession.

That ended
with him not signing

the interrogation documents.

Krystian Bala subsequentlyrefused to talk to me.

It's very
odd when Bala suddenly

decides to retract that.

It's as if he's just
playing with reality.

He gave
them the confession,

and then he took it away,like, I am in control.

You will play my games.

I am directing your scene.

Bala's
retraction is also

a red flag to the prosecutor.

He contacts psychologists to getto the bottom of the suspect's

baffling behavior.

Their findings help tounderstand Bala and the motive

for his crime.

- I
- appointed world class

experts from the best Instituteof forensic research in Krakow.

There was a
psychiatric evaluation,

which showed Bala had a veryspecific sociopathic behavior.

Psychologists focuson Bala's narcissistic traits.

He
considered himself

to be a superior human
being, much smarter,

much stronger, much
more intelligent

than the rest of the population.

It was Bala's
narcissistic mindset

that dictated his curiousbehavior in the interview room

and beyond.

When--
normal individuals

would feel the walls are closingin on them, there's no escape.

Unfortunately,
someone who's kind

of very narcissistic, then thiscould never be the situation.

They've always got a route out.

In his own mind, he is.

He's heading to
glory, recognition.

At some point, the
world will give

way and recognize him for amassive intellectual power

he is.

Bala's retractionis a serious blow

for the prosecution.

Kucharski will now be
forced to build a case

without a full
confession and he still

has no evidence beyond afictional murder to connect

the victim to the suspect.

The prosecution team beginto dig into the secret life

of Krystian Bala.

Bala was born into
a middle class

loving family in theSilesian region of Poland.

The elder of two
children, Krystian

was bright and intelligent.

He
was a smart child.

He was a good people, but hehad problems with other kids.

He got intoconflicts with other kids.

He stuck out.

He was egocentric.

Sometimes,people with those...

disorders are actually
quite functional.

It doesn't cloud yourjudgement, you don't see things,

you just basically
have very, very

strong traits, which eventuallywill become dysfunctional.

Your family tends to acceptall sorts of weird distortions,

because you are a
kid, you're their kid.

As you approach the real world,then it becomes unforgiving.

Bala was
the first member

of his family to
go to university,

where he studied philosophy.

He
goes to university

and immediately he
has to find himself

so he creates a persona.

He sees himself as beingentitled to the role of someone

superior to everyone else.

The one thing he did
have is the confidence

to try and carry that out.

He was animmensely popular student

with his teachers, who thoughthe was incredibly clever, which

he was, from his
fellow students,

from the man who thought hewas great fun to hang out with,

for the women who do
used to fall asleep.

I mean, he had-- he had a bit ofa sort of legendary reputation.

But
there was something

murky about Krystian
Bala, and people

were beginning to notice.

Krystian Balahad moments of being very good

and a very horrible person.

He was
definitely very smart,

but also very confrontational.

That's what people
were saying about him.

Confidenceis an aphrodisiac,

and in the short term, he foundthat he could pick up females,

that he could
actually charm them.

All the people that knew himback then testified to this,

that he would tell-- he wasbasically an enormous liar,

an enormous fabricator, andhe built these kind of myths

around his own character
to the point where he

almost started to believe them.

In 1995, age just23, the so called student

Casanova married hischildhood sweetheart, Stasha.

Stasha had dropped
out of high school

and worked as a
secretary in the city.

He
needed someone to be

there, someone
that would make him

look as a successful academic.

He just wanted someone toplay the role of a wife.

Shortly after gettingmarried, Bala has a son,

but tensions between him andStasha reach breaking point.

Personality problems

become most evident ininterpersonal relationships.

You will get narcissistic rage,you'll get narcissistic anger

and they will then inflict
physical, if necessary,

dominance over
the circumstances.

At that time,Bala was having many affairs,

but at the same
time, he was getting

more jealous of his wife.

Several witnessessaid the relationship

was very weird.

Krystiancould do anything he liked,

and his wife, Stasha,
was meant to stay

at home raising his children.

This
is someone who's

going to lose people from thisroller coaster all the time.

They're headed in a direction,which has got no real purpose

and this in itself is goingto end up with a collision

somewhere, some how.

Around 1998, Balaabandons his university studies

to start a specialist
cleaning company,

convinced he has a brightfuture as an entrepreneur.

I think hewas always someone who thought

of himself as a
great intellectual,

but that never quite
worked out for him.

He was never able to
make a decent living

as a great intellectual, so weended up being a businessman.

He thought he was going to bea very successful business man.

That didn't really work out.

Nothing kind of worked for him.

So I see a man whose
kind of ambition

was thwarted at every
turn and so maybe--

maybe he was looking
for fame and notoriety

in a very different area.

Within monthsthe business has crumbled,

along with his marriage.

A bitter divorce
followed in 1999,

but Bala couldn't let
the relationship go

and his obsession with
his ex-wife intensifies.

It was reported the
during in the trial,

a friend of Stasha'sdescribed how she witnessed

a jealous outburst from Bala.

The report claims he'd
followed Stasha to a bar

and threatened to kill
her and all her men.

It's very
common, particularly

with narcissistic individuals,to create another reality.

If you are with someone,
then they are yours.

They are your property andno one else can steal them

and if you actually do end upsplitting up with that person,

often it leads to
stalking behavior.

In summer 1999,Stasha meets a young musician,

Dariusz Janiszewski,
in a bar and they

begin a brief secret affair.

Bala becomes aware of
his ex-wife's betrayal

and confronts her
with his suspicions.

Krystian Bala shouted

once to Stasha that he
knew about her affair

with Janiszewski.

That was the most
important moment.

To the outside
world, Janiszewski was

a carefree budding musician.

He had no idea what
horror would be

unleashed by his secret
affair with Bala's ex.

On November 13, 2000,
Janiszewski disappears.

He experiences horrificabuse before his dead body is

recovered from the river Otra.

The torture and murder ofadvertising executive Dariusz

Janiszewski goes unsolved
for nearly three years,

until Krystian
Bala posts extracts

of his first violent
novel on his blog

and breaks the case wide open.

There is no colder

case than the-- than theJaniszewski murder at that

point.

Goes online, finds this book,and is just astonished at what

he's read and becomes a literaldetective every bit as much

as he's a criminal one.

With Bala
finally under arrest,

a media storm engulfsthe city of...

Suddenly, therewas press from around Europe.

It was big news.

The murderer described
his crime in his book.

Bala's novel,"Amok," becomes a best seller.

It was a huge story

and of course, once the
case became big news,

you know, this book
sold out everywhere.

As far as
the media is concerned,

Poland seems convinced the bookwill be enough to convict Bala,

but to the shock
of many, the court

decides the book will not beused as evidence in the trial.

The details that first arousedsuspicion are just too vague.

None
of that description

could be used in the
evidence material.

It's just a story
with similar events.

Gradon
believes that Bala hoped

to use his book as a kindof smokescreen in the court,

diverting attention away
from his own behavior.

Bala was obviouslytrying to refer to his book,

trying to humiliate thecourt by showing to the media

that the entire case isbuilt upon a work of fiction.

The
judge said, we are

not talking about your book.

We're talking about your crime.

You can
see Krystian Bala is

very, very angry that hispotential line of defense

Detective
Wroblewski spent months

analyzing Bala's book forclues, but now accepts

that the book is a red herring.

I can only saythat I agree with the court.

If the novel was going tocreate unnecessary chaos,

then the book should
not be used as evidence.

The Bala trialbecomes a media soap opera.

The handsome,
unassuming defendant

appears on front
pages every day,

but opinion is
divided surrounding

his involvement in the murder.

Undoubtedly,it was one of the most

spectacular crimes in thecriminal history of Poland,

and the trial was
equally spectacular.

There were differentopinions as to whether Bala

was or wasn't the murderer.

The smartly dresseddefendant is an enigma that

defies simple explanations.

He was avery smart guy, who then

made some very stupid mistakes.

It's a very odd
paradox, coming back

to Poland in the first
place when ostensibly

he's got away with this.

And off he's gone and, he'sgot a new life himself.

And then he comes
back to Poland,

wanders back in and, youknow, as his collar fell.

Bala, in away, when he left Poland,

he was leaving behind all tracethe crime and any connect--

possible connection betweenhimself and what had happened.

He was a chameleon
and he had no qualms

about creating new personas.

To return, again,
just generally shows

his massive overconfidence.

He's committed a perfect crime.

He may well carry on.

He can do what he likes.

He
must have just thought,

I got away with this.

He must have just fanciedhimself to the nth degree

and thought, I'm untouchable.

It was
whilst on his travels

Bala reinvented
himself as a novelist

and posted his fateful blog.

Putting
the book out on a blog

is another in a long
line of what appear,

when you look at him,
to be enormous blunders.

Holmes is
convinced that the blog

was a way for Bala to
find a wider audience.

The
novel, as much as it

may have felt like an
achievement to write it,

was a bit of a failure.

Of course, he can't reallyrecognize failure in himself.

It's a failure in the worldto recognize his brilliance.

So therefore, what do you do?

You blog it, you
put it out there

so more people can see it.

With the book nowsidelined, for the prosecutor,

the stakes are high.

With no confession and
no direct evidence,

the circumstantial case
must be water-tight.

Kucharski begins to
bombard the court

with the shambolic realityof Bala's perfect murder.

On the day of his
disappearance, witnesses

describe how Janiszewski
took a mobile call

before leaving the office.

Phone calls that

had been made to Janiszewskiwere made from a telephone box

just up the road and it wasa phone box that's operated

with a phone card and thosephone calls are registered

and calls made on
them are recorded.

Although policenever found the phone card,

every call made on it
was logged and made

available to detectives.

Among them wereconversations with Bala's

parents and his friends.

He called his office number.

Magnetic card allowed

us to believe with
100% certainty

that the card was used by Bala.

Thatincriminated him enormously.

I mean, just massivemistakes that are kind of--

an idiot would make.

And yet we know the Bala
is extremely, fiercely

intelligent, but maybe--

maybe too intelligent
for his own good.

Bala's troublesstem from his bizarre decision

to sell the victim's phoneand the ease with which it

was traced back to him.

It is
absolutely astonishing.

Yes, there were reasons why hemight have held onto that phone

for a couple of days.

He might have wanted to havea look, look through messages,

look through-- listen to them,but once he's done with it,

yeah, he smashes it
up, it's really basic,

he drops it in
the river, he does

something, not sells
it for a few quid

on an internet auction site.

- I
- think he actually

wanted a little bit of apayback, a little bit of cash

for my troubles and thetroubles you have caused me,

even though he had put the guythrough immense torture, death,

and he still wanted a few
in return.

Did he think hewas better than everybody else

or did he just getcareless and just screw up?

I mean, it's-- it's
quite difficult to know.

There's a very thin linebetween arrogance and stupidity.

Although thephone evidence gives police

there link between
Bala and Janiszewski,

the prosecutor stilllacks a motive for murder,

and Bala still insists
he never met the victim.

But dramatic witness testimonyjoins the dots between the men.

Iestablished that Krystian

got to know about
Janiszewski through one

of his wife's girlfriends.

She described in detail
how Krystian asked

her about their relationship--

-- and wasasking you about Janiszewski.

Like, where he works, where hecan meet him, and who he was.

He got very detailed
information.

They find thefinal missing link and this link

is the motive and that
motive is jealousy.

Detective Wroblewski'sinstincts about Bala's motive

turned out to be right.

He was jealous of
his ex-wife's lover.

The net is tightening,
but the prosecutor still

lacks any physical evidenceconnecting the two men,

but then the prosecutor
gets the break he needs.

Since Bala's arrest,
investigators

had been sifting the belongingshe left at his parent's house.

We need toremember that it was five years

after the victim waskilled, so we did not expect

to find any direct evidence.

But Bala's
stash of belongings

provides a treasure trove ofincriminating evidence that

would ultimately convict him.

Five years after
Bala left Poland,

detectives find new
evidence connecting

Krystian Bala to murdervictim Dariusz Janiszewski.

We found anotebook, which had details

of Janiszewski's company in it.

We also found apen in the accused's house.

It was
his company pin.

Even one ofJaniszewski's business cards

is found in Bala's hoard.

The idea Bala never
met the victim is

looking less and less credible.

He always saidthat he never knew Janiszewski,

that he'd never heard thatname, and that he'd never

met that person and
still, they were

able to find his belongings oritems related to his company

in Bala's possession.

Bala'srecklessness and overconfidence

also included the various
mementos of the crime.

It's a way, if you like,of continuously dominating

the victim after death.

It's quite a primordial thingto keep trophies of a killing.

As the
trial continued,

more of Bala's mistakeswere presented to the court.

TV crime show 997 had tried invain to help catch the killer

in 2002, butinvestigators now pointed

to a series of mysterioushits on the show's website.

For
two or three years,

we were receiving commentsrelating to this murder.

That wouldn't be unusualif it wasn't for the fact

that they came from alldifferent parts of the world,

mainly from Asia and America.

That was very weird.

Bala's passportcontained immigration

stamps that logged his movementsduring his absence from Poland.

When they startedto analyze the IP numbers--

-- entering
the 997 website,

they discovered they wereregistered in countries

where Bala was in at that time.

It was easyto connect it all together.

There
was evidence showing

the connection between theJaniszewski murder and Bala.

The website evidencehad convinced detectives

that they were on the righttrack, but in the end,

played no part in
his final conviction.

Prosecutors had even
more startling evidence

to offer, which came directlyfrom Bala's own mouth, just

weeks after
Janiszewski's murder.

One
of Bala's friends

gave very important testimony--

-- that during theNew Year's Eve party in 2000,

a drunk Bala shouted
that he had already

killed one of Stasha's lovers--

-- and that he didit using a rope or a cable.

It
proved to be, finally,

another nail in his coffin.

This wasn't bashing somebodyin the back of the head,

this wasn't poisoning somebody,this was brutalizing somebody

over a number of days,torturing them, starving them,

tossing them up and droppingthem into a frozen river still

alive.

It was a very personal murder.

He had a score to settle.

And that's all about Stasha.

In September 2007,Bala was found guilty of murder

and sentenced to
25 years in jail.

He would neverhave deliberately left clues,

but his confidence meant thathe would take ultimate risk

and without noticing,
leave evidence, which

was definitely going to tiehim to the victim and therefore

the crime.

I think
all these blunders are

indicative of the fact thathe never actually thought

he was going to get caught.

He is a complete paradox,hugely powerful intellect,

hugely stupid mistakes
that got him caught.

That's
how it is in life,

that even the most organizedperpetrators leave traces.

Every elementthat brings us closer

to the solution is exciting.

I will not deny it, it issatisfying when we succeed.

The perpetrator is
where he is meant to be.

From his
cell, Bala still rankles

at how his novel wasinterpreted by the police

as a blueprint for murder.

Wroblewskiclaims that the crime scene

in the book "Amok" was a keyfor his investigation, which

is absurd.

He must be, I don'tknow, an idiot, complete,

idiot, illiterate idiot.

The book is kind of languagegame, which has no relationship

with anything in real life.

I can not recognize my bookwhen it's cut off into pieces

and this is what I hate.

For once,
crime writer Mark

Billingham sees Bala's point.

- I
- don't think it's a kind

of autobiography of a murderer.

I don't in any sense think,look at these key passages,

which the police got soworked up about as being proof

of-- of his terrible murder,but I think they're proof

of a fairly twisted kind of--

of a twist-- a
very twisted mind.

Although Bala'sbook is pure fiction,

it still shines a
light on it's author.

As
a criminologist,

the most revealing
thing about his book

was how much of
himself it portrayed

and how much of his
character it revealed,

his manipulative and
psychopathic with

disregard for
others and his kind

of narcissistic andselfishness were all embedded

in the pages of that book.

From behindbars, Bala still protests

that he had nothing
to do with the murder

of Dariusz Janiszewski.

They have ruinedmy personal life, my family

life, my professional
life, and they

force me to live behind bars,this hell on Earth, for what?

For nothing.

I have never committed a crime.

I have never done anything,I should spend here a day,

and I have been here
almost eight years.

The judgement with such
absolute conclusions

had to be written by
brainless jellyfish.

Right now,
he can present himself

as an innocent person, a victimof an oppressive police system.

He knows that one
day he will be free.

If he says, I did
it, this was me,

he would be marked as
an offender for life.

Despite "Amok" playingno part in his conviction,

Krystian Bala will
always be known

as the murderer who incriminatedhimself in his own novel.