Krystian Bala

Krystian Bala (born 1973) is a Polish author and photographer.

In 2000 Bala, who believed his wife to be having a affair, demanded that she admit to sleeping with a man named Dariusz Janiszewski. He later tracked down Janiszewski at the motel where he worked and abducted him, torturing and starving him for four weeks before tying a rope around his neck and throwing him in a river. Three years later, Bala published his first novel, Amok, which was influenced heavily by Bala's murder of Janiszewski. However, this proved to be his downfall when officers investigating the cold case discovered that Janiszewski's phone, which was stolen by the killer, had been sold by an account named ChrisB7 registered to Krystian Bala, leading them to discover similarities between the book and the real-life murder of Janiszewski. In 2007 Bala was found guilty of murder. The next year he won a retrial, but lost again and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Trivia

 * He was convicted on the grounds that his book contained details of the crime that only the killed would know.
 * When officers searched Bala's home, they found evidence that he was planning another murder to tie in with a second novel.
 * He is regarded by the YouTube channels WatchMojo.com and MostAmazingTop10 as one of the dumbest criminals in the world.