David Grann

And she says for the first time that she had met Darius Januszewski in a bar.

They had later gone on a date.

They had gone to a motel.

She says they didn't have sex because she learned that he had been married.

But they were together and they had gone on this date.

He had left.

They never went on a date again and that was it.

but that Christian had showed up not long after at her apartment or at her home, broke down the door, hit her, was screaming, says, I know you had an affair, I know who was, I know the hotel, I know the room.

And so Christian Bala is indicted.

It creates a sensation.

He continues to claim that he is being persecuted for a novel he wrote, that he compares himself to Salman Rushdie, that he is being crucified for his literature.

That it was kind of cut, it was a cut and dry case?

Yeah, I mean, they presented it as, you know, if you take away the novel and, you know, this was a man allegedly who out of a fit of rage kidnapped or abducted somebody who had gone on a date with his ex-wife and then murdered him in this very barbaric way.

He did get a new trial, but he was found guilty in a second trial as well, and he's still in jail to this day.

at a really tough prison, kind of post-communist prison.

There'd been a riot there.

It was very harsh conditions.

And I remember going into the visitor's room.

I was surprised I was able to get in and able to see him.

And as I walked in, it's this very dismal place, and I see someone kind of standing in the visitor's room wearing a sweatshirt that said, I think it said University of Wisconsin on it.