Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.

And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.

We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the

true crime campfire.

In Dostievsky'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're 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,

and 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

hit 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.

This is, is it fiction?

The Crimes of Christian Bala. So, campers, for this one were all the way over in Poland, December 2000.

Despite the chilly day, some friends were out fishing on the Oder River when one of them looked up from his tackle box and saw something floating in the water, something that looked strange,

out of place.

He shielded his eyes and squinted at it, trying to figure out what he was looking at.

It could be a big log, he thought, but then he saw the hair.

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