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Posted On: September 6th 2007
Posted By: Adam Coozer
Source: New Zealand Herald |
Writer convicted of murder he described in novel
LONDON - A Polish author, travel writer and intellectual whose best-selling novel described a grisly murder has been jailed for 25 years for committing the crime he had so vividly portrayed.
The killing of Dariusz Janiszewski in 2000 was notably gruesome.
The victim - a successful, popular professional - was humiliated, starved and tortured, before having his hands bound with a rope that was looped around his neck in a noose.
When fishermen scooped the body out of the river Oder, it was stripped to shirt and underpants and the limbs had been distended and bore marks of torture.
The police had no leads and after six months the search for a culprit was abandoned.
But the murderer could not resist gloating over his cleverness.
During the investigation, anonymous emails were sent from South Korea and Indonesia to Polish television's equivalent of Crimewatch, describing the killing as "the perfect crime".
Those were just straws in the wind.
But fully five years after the killing, the detective in charge of the investigation, Chief Inspector Jacek Wroblewski, received an anonymous call suggesting he take a look at a novel entitled Amok, written by Krystian Bala and published two years earlier.
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