FBI sketch of DB Cooper and Kenneth Christiansen photoHave private investigators cracked the case of the world's only unsolved skyjacking? Has the most infamous missing man since Judge Crater finally been unmasked? Was he a mild-mannered airline employee ... and former paratrooper?
According to a marvelously written article in the new New York Magazine, a strong new suspect has surfaced ... well, not "surfaced" exactly, since he's dead, but you get my drift.
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In a true story that would make a great plot for a novel that was about a true story, a Polish mystery writer is facing murder charges for allegedly committing the real torture-murder that he fictionalized in his grotesque best-seller "Amok" (pictured at left).
My head hurts already.
When cops realized that the murder described in author Krystian Bala's novel matched the actual facts of a grisly murder in Wroclaw, Poland, they busted the author. The author, claiming he merely used newspaper accounts of the killing to write his story, passed a lie detector test and was actually halfway around the world at the time of the murder. But investigators found that the victim had been involved with Bala's estranged wife, and that Bala himself had sold a cell phone exactly like the victim's missing phone four days after the crime.
Even better, the lead investigator is a detective named Jacek Wroblewski. Can you just see the the book-jacket now: "A Jacek Wroblewski Mystery." That's better than Stephanie Plum!
Now this whole life-art-life puzzle would make a great book, wouldn't it? A novelist writes about another novelist who might have committed a murder and then fictionalized it. Then somebody could tell the story of how it happened, and it would be an author writing about a novelist who write about another novelist who might have committed a murder and then fictionalized it.
My head still hurts.
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