A court in Wroclaw, Poland, sentenced an author to 25 years in prison for planning and directing a murder that resembled a killing in one of his novels. “Amok” author Krystian Bala suspected ...

Police quickly identified the victim as Janiszewski, who had disappeared four weeks earlier. But they struggled to dig up clues and dropped the case after six months. Five years later, a tip led them ...

Novelist Krystian Bala said his 2003 book, Amok, was a work of fiction inspired by news reports of the 2000 torture and murder of a businessman.