Is It Fiction? The Crimes of Krystian Bala

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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