• Is It Fiction? The Crimes of Krystian Bala

  • May 3 2024
  • Length: 44 mins
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Is It Fiction? The Crimes of Krystian Bala

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  • In Dostoevsky’s book Crime and Punishment, the character Raskolnikov says, “All people seem to be divided into 'ordinary' and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because they are ordinary. Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like…just because they happen to be extraordinary.” Spoken like a true psychopath, my dude. It probably won’t surprise you to hear that Raskolnikov murders an old woman in that book—not just for the money, but to prove to himself how “extraordinary” he is. That the rules most of us abide by aren’t for him. Today’s case is about a modern-day Raskolnikov—a self-proclaimed intellectual whose grandiose narcissism hid a deep well of rage and insecurity, and led him to not only commit a brutal murder, but to tell us all about it on his blog.

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    Sources:
    The New Yorker, David Grann: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/02/11/true-crime
    Taipei Times: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2007/09/23/2003380130
    The Guardian, Elizabeth Day: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/sep/16/crimebooks.features
    Sky TV's "Killers: Behind the Myth," episode "Bala: The Novel Killer"

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