Author Gets 25 Yrs. After Using Murder He Committed In Book Plotline

It’s been the plot of countless movies – man authors murder mystery novel and uses the plot to commit the real act. But authorities in Poland insist it really happened and they’ve sent a man away for 25 years after convicting him of a murder he described in one of his own books.

The scribe, a man named Krystian Bala, wrote a  tome called “Amok” back in 2003. The plot centered around the murder of a fictional woman. But when the book came out, a tip led police to take a closer look at Bala and his writings. They’d been investigating a case three years prior to publication that had eerily similar details. In 2000, the body of a businessman had been fished out of a river in the town of Wroclaw, not far from the German border. Forensic evidence indicated that the victim had been starved and tortured before he was killed.

When detectives started investigating, they were startled to find the details in Bala’s book closely resembled what really happened. And many appeared to be facts only the killer could have known. And when they discovered that the author’s wife had an illicit love affair with the dead man, they began to hone in on the writer. They eventually amassed enough evidence to show that Bala committed the crime. He was found guilty of the grisly slaying and was sentenced Wednesday to spend the next quarter century behind bars.  

The author went to prison protesting his innocence. He continues to claim he put the story together using newspaper reports and that he simply made up the rest, and charges that he was beaten by interrogators during questioning. Many of his fans are sure he’s innocent, and have begun Internet sites pleading for the world to help free a man they believe is wrongly imprisoned.

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