Amok: The Perfect Murder

The True Crime Room with Emma · Jun 1, 2026 · 10m

In 2000, businessman Dariusz Janiszewski walked out of his office to meet what he believed was a potential client. It was the last time anyone would see him alive. Weeks later, his body surfaced in the dark waters of Poland's Odra River, bound in a cruel restraint designed to punish every movement. The case baffled investigators for years, yielding few clues and no obvious suspects. Then an unlikely figure emerged from the shadows: Krystian Bala, a brilliant philosophy graduate, aspiring novelist, and self-styled intellectual obsessed with the boundaries between truth and fiction. As…