For our one year anniversary, we're taking you to Poland to tell you about the murder of Dariusz Janiszewski whose body was found floating in the Ober River in December of 2000. His case would be shelved after six months of no leads, but in 2003 a novel called Amok is published and it has a plot line that is eerily similar to Dariusz murder. Amok, though, is a work of fiction, it's just a coincidence. Or is it?
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