So you've committed an awful crime, but you've got away with it for years. What's the logical thing to do now? Keep quiet?

Well not Krystian Bala who decided to write a novel with a storyline suspiciously similar to the crimes he committed. I don't think that was his best plan.

Tune in to find out exactly how he went about it and how he thought he could cover it up... no one would suspect someone named Chris B was actually him right?

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Teasers 

Auction

Lake

Novel 

Trigger Warnings 

Murder 

Starvation 

Torture 

Drowning

Stalking

Domestic Abuse 

Possible depictions sexual assault

Sources 

Wikipedia 

The New Yorker

NBC News

Ray William Johnson Youtube Video 

Spiegel Article 

Guardian Article 

DNB Research Paper

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krystian_Bala

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/02/11/true-crime

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna20611732

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3TSpgTC1IY

https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/murder-he-wrote-author-sentenced-to-25-years-over-homicide-he-described-in-novel-a-503796.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/books/06arts-POLISHAUTHOR_BRF.html#

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/sep/16/crimebooks.features

https://d-nb.info/1210836696/34

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/06/books.booksnews

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2007/09/23/2003380130

https://www.criminalelement.com/true-crime-thrusday-krystian-bala-and-truth-laced-fiction-poland-murder-jim-carrey-new-yorker-david-grann/

https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/murder-he-wrote-author-sentenced-to-25-years-over-homicide-he-described-in-novel-a-503796.html

https://www.criminalelement.com/true-crime-thrusday-krystian-bala-and-truth-laced-fiction-poland-murder-jim-carrey-new-yorker-david-grann/

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