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[Music] it was 9:30 a.m. November 13th the year 2000 a male caller phoned an advertising company in the city of rots
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valve Poland wrought Slav is the 4th largest city in Poland and has a population of about six hundred and
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thirty five thousand people at different times throughout history rut Slav has been part of Bohemia hungry the Austrian
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Empire Prussia and Germany it became part of Poland in 1945 as a result of border changes after the Second World
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War the male caller wanted to speak to the owner of the advertising company Dariush Janoski
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he needed three advertising signs made up and he needed it done urgently but it was the mother of Dario shoe answered
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the call when she asked further questions about the job the caller refused to speak to her he demanded to
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speak to Dariush Dariush wasn't in the office and so his mother gave the caller his cell phone number she didn't
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recognize the caller's voice and he didn't leave a name although she thought he sounded
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professional Darius returned to the office later that day he mentioned that he had been contacted by the male caller
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about the urgent job and he arranged to meet with him later that afternoon at 4:00 p.m.
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Darius left the office to meet with the Corp he left his car in the parking lot which his family said was unusual as he
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usually took his car when meeting with customers away from the office Dariush never returned to his car and he
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never made it home to his wife he never contacted anyone to let them know where he was which was completely out of
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character his wife reported him missing [Music] it was four weeks later on a cold
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overcast morning in December fishermen were casting out into the river Aundre the spot they were fishing at is a
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remote hard spot to get to it is 60 miles out of the city of rots love so you can only get there by car but then
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you have to park and walk several hundred meters through a forest to get to the river it wasn't a popular spot
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it wasn't frequented by anyone other than fishermen and even that wasn't very often the fishermen spotted what at
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first they thought was a log but as it drifted closer they saw a head of hair a closer inspection revealed they had
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discovered the body of a male the male had serious injuries there were signs he had been beaten and tortured his head
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was in a noose and his arms and feet were tied with rope that connected to the noose so he was in a backward cradle
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position it was designed so that the noose would get tighter the more he moved his arms and his legs
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the fisherman immediately contacted police who arrived and established a crime scene police divers searched the
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river for any further evidence but they found nothing other police searched the surrounding banks and forest area but
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they also turned up nothing the body had been in the water for quite some time so
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zero forensic evidence was located police searched through missing person reports and found a match - 35 year-old
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Darius UNICEF's key in the postmortem the forensic pathologist discovered the nhf ski stomach was completely empty
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this indicated had been starved for at least three days prior to his death and first the pathologist believed the cause
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of death was strangulation however based on the amount of water found in the lungs he changed his position and
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believed en a chef's key may have been still alive when he was thrown in the river
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there was no doubt you know Chesky had been murdered investigators believe given the way he was killed and may have
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been gang-related they also believe more than one person may have been responsible ENF cesky was over 6 feet
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tall and weighed over 200 pounds but criminal psychologist David Holmes believed that given the circumstances it
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indicated to him there was a great deal of anger involved this was extremely personal and whoever was responsible had
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made it their mission to punish y'know chefs key if police could establish a motive that would give them a clearer
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picture if it was gang-related or maybe more personal they interviewed ENS chef skis wife family friends and business
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associates they learned he was a successful young businessman he was popular friendly a gentle guy liked by everyone
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his hobby was playing his guitar and writing music for a rock band he played in with a few friends his business
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records were examined and no signs of any trouble at all there were no problems in his marriage and he and his
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wife were planning to adopt a child in the near future he had no criminal record and was not linked to any
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criminal associates no debts no enemies police came up with the zero potential motives for murder the investigations
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thought very early on no forensic evidence no witnesses no motive nothing the Polish media started referring to
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the murder as the perfect crime police turned to a popular Polish TV show nine nine seven nine nine seven being the
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emergency telephone number in Poland the show is the Polish version of America's
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Most Wanted that had already helped solve several other cases police have been stuck on in the past and it would
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help give pront on exposure to unicef skis case the broadcast though ended up being considered a disappointment there
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were plenty of hits on the website in the months and years after the episode aired
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police were surprised to learn that the website hits had come from a virus Japan
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South Korea and the United States which was unusual for the Polish television show but they got no useful information
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at all they were no closer to solving the case the police had no idea who had killed Janoski
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the only other useful piece of information that they had was the call that was made two younger chefs Kees
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office at 9:30 a.m. the day of his disappearance that was traced to a pay phone down the street from the office
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the pay phone was also used to call Eunice Chesky cell phone less than one minute after the call to his office but
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police weren't even sure the calls were related to his disappearance the police investigation was completely abandoned
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in June 2001 it was sent to the cold-case shelf Yana chefs Kees family and his friends remained haunted by his
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death but the media attention had died off the case disappeared from the minds of the public around 18 months later in
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2003 Rostov police conducted a routine review of all unsolved murder cases the fall of Darius Janiszewski
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made its way to the desk of Detective yachak Rudovsky Rublev ski was 38 years old and had been
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a police officer for nine years he had strong Catholic values and two liked the idea of being a cop and being able to
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represent the good fighting evil when he wasn't working as a detective he studied
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psychology at university to try and better understand the criminal mind Rublev ski was vaguely familiar with the
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nhf skis murder he remembered hearing about it at the time but he didn't know any of the details he studied the fall
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for several hours when he first got it trying to find any sign of a clue that had been missed by the original
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investigators he found nothing and was initially as stumped as they were he wasn't sure about the organized crime
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angle didn't seem to make sense to him given UNICEF's keys background unless it was a case of mistaken identity what was
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perfectly clear to him though was the offender or offenders had a severe hatred and wanted him to suffer the case
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stay with wróblewski he studied the file again the next day and the day after trying to find something anything his
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persistence paid off Yin a chef's key had his cell phone with him when he left his office and it had
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never been found wróblewski focused on trying to track down the inner chef's keys phone that
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was his starting point he wasn't jumping for joy at the lead he was fully aware the chances of finding it were very slim
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it could easily have been missed by the police divers and still be at the bottom
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of the river or just about anywhere else for that matter he enlisted the help of
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a newly hired telecommunications specialist the specialists explained that if the phone wasn't lost or
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destroyed and it was still being used they could easily track it but they would need the IMEI number they were in
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luck after all this time Janusz Jessica's wife still had the receipt from when the phone was purchased and on
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that receipt was the IMEI number rube Leske couldn't believe his luck when they discovered the phone was still
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actively being used rube Leske tracked down the current owner of the phone this owner had only recently purchased it
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they were quickly eliminated from the investigation but Wroblewski track down the person they had brought it from and
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on and on at when the phone had been bought and sold several times since she and chef ski disappeared by working
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backwards through the phone owners Wroblewski eventually found the men who had possession of it only days after
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UNICEF's key disappeared this man had purchased the phone from an Internet auction site Allegro just three
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days after yanovskiy went missing Rublev ski was able to find the listing the seller's user name on the option side
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was Chris b7 wróblewski traced the registration details of Chris b7 and found out that user name belonged or men
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by the name of Christian Bala Krystian Bala was the eldest of two children born into a middle-class family his father
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was a construction worker and a taxi driver he was a bright in intellectual child and a good student although
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through junior school and high school he often had conflict with other students he was very egocentric and considered
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himself to be superior to other students he was the first member of his family to
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go to university where he studied philosophy his big ego and supreme confidence remained but at university he
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was immensely popular both with fellow students and with lecturers some considered him to be a student Casanova
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as he attracted a lot of female attention one professor described him as having a very inquisitive and rebellious
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mind through University he started to turn into a bit of a fabricator of stories about himself he liked to play
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games with people he made up so many stories that had got to the point where even his friends didn't know what
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stories were and weren't true about him Barlow is one of the brightest philosophy students at the University of
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rot Slav he graduated in 1997 with the highest possible grades and then enlisted in the ph.d program he always
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dreamed of an academic career however things changed he had married his sweetheart stache' and she had given
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birth to a son he now had a family to support so he dropped out of the ph.d program and bought a cleaning business
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he was incredibly smart but he wasn't a good businessman he blew all of the money that came in and by 1990
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9 he had filed for bankruptcy he's marriage crumbled as well stache' said the main problem with their marriage is
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the barley' couldn't stop cheating on her there were always other women they divorced in 1999 and two years later
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Bala was living abroad he had lived in Asia in the United States making a living by writing for travel magazines
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teaching scuba diving and teaching English in 2003 Bala published his first novel titled a mock nothing stood out in
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the initial background check of Bala hardly any criminal record - Samara - stuff Ruby Lipsky was keeping a very
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open mind he thought it was quite possible Bala had a totally innocent explanation for selling UNICEF skis
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phone maybe you'd found it maybe it had been given to him by somebody else well maybe it even bought it at a secondhand
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store as Wroblewski couldn't go overseas to speak to Bala and there was nothing really jumping out at him on his
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background check he decided to focus in on the novel he had written a mock a mock is a sadistic novel it contains
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graphic sex and violent scenes the story revolves around the main character Chris
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he is a board Polish intellectual who is into philosophy his wife catches him having sex with her best friend and so
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she leaves him Chris then starts abusing alcohol and goes on a sexual rampage sleeping with many other women
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throughout the book Chris mocks traditional philosophers and criticizes the Catholic Church in one scene Chris
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and a buddy steal the statute of scene if any from a church in chapter 9 of the book Chris murders his girlfriend to
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marry by tying a noose around her neck and stabbing her he conceals the murder so well he is never caught the main
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character Chris also hints in the book that he had previously killed a man who had done him wrong the book was
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published in 2003 and it didn't do too well few Polish bookstores carried it because of its graphic nature and those
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that did carry it placed it on the high shelves out of the way so children couldn't pick it up despite only selling
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a few thousand copies Bala said this I'm truly convinced that one day my book will be appreciated history teaches that
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some works of art have to wait ages before they are recognized Rudovsky considered a few things Chris the name
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of the main character is the English version of barlas first name Christian it is also the name he used on the
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auction site to sell you know chefs Keys phone the book describes getting away with murder the victim in the book is a
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woman however there are similarities with the noose around her neck but what made the hairs on the back of Rublev
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skis neck stand up was the part of the book where Chris sells the knife he used in the murder on an Internet auction saw
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the detail of young Chefs Keys phone being sold on an Internet auction site after his murder was never made known to
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the public rube less he could see parallels between the book and the real-life murder investigation of yellow
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chefs key his Philip was that there were too many parallels to be just the coincidence
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wróblewski looked into the character of Chris more closely and found the following similarities dibala
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both Kristen bala were consumed by philosophy both had been left by their wives both had a company go bankrupt
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both travelled around the world both abused alcohol and the scene where Chris stole a statue of st. Anthony matched
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one of the entries on Bhalla criminal record he had been arrested for stealing a statue of Saint Anthony from a church
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[Music] wróblewski knew that these similarities were evidence of nothing it's quite
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common for authors to draw from their own life experiences when writing books and creating characters wróblewski
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wondered though if barla had gotten the inspiration for Chris's murder scene from a real-life event
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Bhalla became his prime suspect for the murder of Darius Janiszewski although he
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was quite aware he didn't really have any evidence other than the fact that Bala had sony ownerships keys phone
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three days after his disappearance that was nowhere near enough to extradite Bala back to Poland ruble s he couldn't
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even find a connection between Bala and Yana chef's key there was no evidence that they have known each other
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Wroblewski didn't question Bhalla family or close friends he couldn't risk them tipping off Bala because the fear was he
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would never return to Poland if he thought the police were after him Bala had made sporadic visits back home
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to briefly visit family and friends so ruble s key would be patient and hope that Barla would return again ruble s he
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continued studying barlas book he handed out chapters of the book to different officers and got them to analyze it
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trying to find any other clues or hidden messages that could be connected to Yana
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chef sees case Rublev she became obsessed with the last line of the book which reads this was the one killed by
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blind jealousy wróblewski belaid bala maybe even them the motive tiene chef's Keys murder with this line jealousy he
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also became fixated on the part of the book where Chris hints at murdering a man who had done him wrong in the past
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was Bala telling them something Wroblewski was undertaking a very unorthodox investigation method and not
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everybody supported it he was warned to proceed very very carefully a work of fiction didn't mean murder
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but Wroblewski was convinced the MOC was a road map which led to the murder of Darius Janiszewski as your beliefs key
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looked harder at Bala he found something else on the Internet site Allegro one month before UNICEF ski
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disappeared Bala had clicked on a book titled accidental suicide or criminal hanging there was a police manual and in
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it were descriptions of different ways to tie a noose again it was evidence of nothing but it was another little piece
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of information that when added to everything else wróblewski knew didn't look good for
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Bala Bala eventually returned to Poland in 2005 wróblewski had been working in a
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chef's Keys case for two years Bhalla passport flagged when he entered the country he was arrested on the 5th
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of September after leaving a drug store Varla gave away nothing at first he denied having anything to do with the
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murder he was dismissive of police questions and said he didn't even know Jana chefs key had never met him had
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never even heard of him had no idea who he was when Bala was asked about selling his
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cellphone he said he couldn't remember where he got it from it was five years ago they then questioned by Allah about
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a mock by Allah agreed he had used different parts of his life in the novel such as the stealing of the statue but
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Bala said show me an author who doesn't do that then they asked the question they do have help killing inner chefs ki
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Bala almost looked offended and chillingly replied he did not have any help he killed him on his own but almost
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as soon as he said that he started urgently looking around the room and started making weird facial expressions
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he asked for something to drink because he was feeling terrible then requested a
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doctor the interview had to be suspended and an ambulance was called they examined him but couldn't find anything
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wrong with him they said he was fine to continue the interview was restarted Bala retracted his confession then
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refused to say anything further he wouldn't sign the interview documents so the police were unable to use what he
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had said because it wasn't signed he was given a polygraph test the results were
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declared inconclusive in Poland police can hold a suspect for 48 hours then they have to either late charges or
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release the case against Bala was still circumstantial at best there was no solid evidence against him at all no
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motive no confession and police still hadn't been able to link Bala to UNICEF ski they decided to charge him with
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selling stolen property being younger chefs his phone and for paying a bribe this is something that had nothing to do
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with the murder investigation it was something police uncovered in their extensive background investigation
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of Bala the charges meant Bala would have to relinquish his passport and remain in
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Poland Rublev ski had worked hard on the case for two years but he just couldn't
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connect the dots he felt the investigations slipping away from him as he was sitting back flicking through
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barlas passport he noticed stents for South korea-japan in the United States it clicked almost immediately the hits
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on the page dedicated to UNICEF's agent murder on the 9:97 website at the time they were baffled as the wire local
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polish case was attracting attention from those countries Wroblewski compared the date of the website hit to the dates
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Bala was in those countries and they were a perfect match it strengthened his belief he was on the
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right track but again it still wasn't evidence of murder meanwhile Bala was a free man
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while he was waiting for the two charges to be heard he was accusing police of harassing him trying to persecute him
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for his art he also made a complaint he was kidnapped and tortured by police when he was first arrested
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he got some support from friends and members of the public who are outraged police who are unfairly targeting in men
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because of a novel hero one of barlas previous girlfriends set up a defense fund for him and an Internet campaign
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was launched about the police persecution of Bala the campaign said Bala was being persecuted for writing a
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book that went against the Catholic Church and Polish tradition Barla became a victim they contacted human rights
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organizations and letters poured in from around the world defending Bala and his
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right to freedom of expression in accordance with article 19 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights people were
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demanding that Rudovsky and other officers involved in a case be held accountable and brought for justice a
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psychiatric evaluation was ordered on Bala he was found to have narcissistic traits
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he considered himself to be a superior human being smarter stronger and much more intelligent than anyone else Rublev
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she was still trying desperately to find the evidence he needed to charge Barlow
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with murder Jiri examined the phone calls that were made from the pay phone to you know
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chefs DS office and cell phone this time with the help of the telecommunication specialists they discovered the calls
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have been made with a phone card that had a unique identifying number although they weren't able to trace who had
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bought the card they could find out what other calls were made with it they discovered the card had been used to
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make 32 calls over a three-month period along with the calls to NSS keys office and cell phone calls were also made to
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barlas parents his girlfriend at the time other friends of Marla and his business associates boobless key didn't
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really doubt it before but now he was certain he had the right man but it still wasn't enough to charge Bala with
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murder Sohrab Leske looked further into his breakup with his ex-wife Sasha wróblewski had tried to interview star
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numerous times before but she flat-out refused so this time we Lipsky tracked down one of her friends
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who was able to fill him in with what he needed to know Bala was extremely possessive and controlling of stache' he
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was also physically violent towards her he would constantly check her phone to me and to know who she was talking to
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and then he would beat her up accusing her of cheating on him even though he cheated on her countless times Bala
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could do whatever he liked but he expected stache' to do as he told her after their divorce Bala remained
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extremely possessive of stache' he would stalk her and did his best to continue to control her every move in the summer
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of 99 after the divorce stache' went out with her friend that was now speaking to Wroblewski they went
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to the Crazy Horse nightclub in Rostov Stash's started chatting to Darius Janiszewski in the club stashes friend
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new Jana shitski from around town so she was certain it was him she was speaking
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to ruble s key was sure he had just connected the dots between Bala and younger chefs key but he needed to hear
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it from stache' armed with this information he was finally able to get stash at the talk to him what finally
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convinced her was when Wroblewski showed those sections of a mock stache' was so
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disturbed by similarities in the book to what she had experienced in real life that she agreed to talk stasher
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confirmed that she had met yen s chef ski at Crazy Horse nightclub they spent the night just talking after which
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Janice Chesky gave her his phone number they later went on a date and checked into a motel
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however stasher says when she found out unit shifty was married she left before anything happened a few weeks after this
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incident Bala showed up at her apartment in a drunken state he kicked down her door and beat her screaming he knew
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everything about her Indiana chefs key he even screamed out what hotel and what room number they went to
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as he was beating stache' he was screaming he had hired a private detective and he knew everything
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when Stasha later heard ENS Chesky had gone missing she asked Bala if he had anything to do
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with it he said he hadn't started didn't pursue it any further or go to the police with this information as she
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didn't believe Bala was capable of murder upon hearing this wróblewski immediately
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thought back to the last line in a mock this was the one killed by blinder jealousy that line made a whole lot more
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sense now Bala was charged with the murder of Dariush younger chefs key the first day of the trial was the 22nd of
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February 2007 in Poland the jury is made up by the presiding judge one other judge and three citizens
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barla complained his novel was being misinterpreted and that the police had taken random parts of his life and
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presented them in a fictional story that suited their theory of the murder he again claimed he had never met Yana
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chefs key and didn't know who he was police had the information from stache' but there was no corroborating evidence
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it was staches word against bartlett's Bala was claiming stache' was just being a vindictive ex-wife making up stories
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trying to get him in trouble maybe he could have convinced the jury of that maybe not but police now had
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more evidence against him after charging Bala with murder they searched his parents home Bala had
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left some belongings there before heading overseas in amongst those belongings they found a notebook with
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details of Yana shift key and his company written down they also found a pen and a business card with Vienna chef
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his name and company details on them Bala had always maintained that he never knew UNICEF's key had never met him
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never heard his name didn't know a thing about him it was going to be hard to stick to that story Neela
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prior to the trial commencing the judge had made a ruling macht could not be used as evidence at
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the trial the judge didn't consider the description of a fictional murder as evidence but police had a lot more
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information now a witness came forward and testified that Bala had questioned her extensively about youngish FCE prior
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to his disappearance Bala wanted to know everything about him where he worked who
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his friends and family were how we could be contacted a friend of barlas also came forward and testified that during a
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New Year's Eve party in 2000 Bala was at the same club as stache' Bala thought a
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male bartender was making advances towards Tasha and he started screaming at him that he would take care of him
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and he had already dealt with such a guy it took five people to restrain Bala that night after all the evidence was
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presented the jury retired to reach their verdict guilty Bala was sentenced to 25 years prison he immediately
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appealed his conviction the appeal sided logical and factual inconsistencies in the trial one being the cause of death
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medical examiners could not agree on what the cause of death was one testified Genachowski had been strangled
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another testified he had drowned Bala also used a comment made by the judge in the trial as if grounds for his appeal
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during the trial the judge commented she wasn't sure if Bala had acted alone or with an accomplice to the surprise of
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many the appeals court annulled his conviction they ordered a neutral but they ruled that Bala would have to
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remain in prison until the outcome of the new trial was reached the appeals court stated that there was an undoubted
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connection between Bala and the murder but there were gaps in a logical chain of evidence
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Bhalla rachel was heard in december 2008 he was convicted of murder for a second
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time the sentence of 25 years was upheld Bala maintains his innocence and says he's being set up according to him all
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of the evidence against him was planted and somebody is after the stream wróblewski claims that the crime scene
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in the book M was the key for his investigation which is absurd he must be I don't know and indeed
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complete injured illiterate ages about this kind of language came which has no relationship with anything in real life
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some suspect amok was a confession written to clear barlas guilty conscience others don't see it that way
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they believe Bhalla desire was to achieve literary immortality by writing what he believed was the perfect story
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he's been quoted as saying there has never been a book quite like this they believe Bala was too smart for his own
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good he thought he was so intellectually superior to everyone else that he never
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considered being caught was a possibility that's why he freely wrote about the murder and left behind so much
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evidence Bala had started writing a second novel at the time of his arrest police seized his computer with the
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beginning stages of this second novel line they also found that Bala was collecting information on stashes new
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boyfriend he had even posted on an internet forum asking if anyone knew him they believe stashes new boyfriend who
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is going to be barlas second to murder victim who would then write about in his second novel Bala has vowed to finish
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