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She agreed that there were similarities between Chris and Christian, but that, quote,

basing an analysis of the author on his fictional character would be a gross violation.

Jacek also didn't want word of the investigation to reach Christian.

Then he might never come home.

Jacek decided to look through the profile for Chris B. on the Internet auction site that Christian had used to sell Darius' cell phone.

Christian Bala returned to Poland about two years after Jacek had begun investigating the case.

While he was out of the country, he'd been traveling, writing for magazines and teaching English and scuba lessons.

Officers arrested Christian on September 5th, 2005, as he was coming out of a drugstore in a town near Wrocław.

Christian later wrote an account of what he says happened.

He said that three men attacked him, forced him into the back of a car and put a black plastic bag over his head.

He wrote that the men beat him and then called someone on the phone.

He said he overheard one of the men say, he's still alive, and what about the money?

Will we get it today?

He said that the men drove for a while and then stopped, and one of them said, we can dig a hole here and bury him.

Christian wrote, I thought that this was going to be the last moment of my life.

But then he said the men started driving again and took him to a building where he was stripped and beaten some more.

When they started to interrogate him, he realized he was in police custody.

Jacek said that none of this happened.

He said they did arrest Christian outside of a drugstore, but without violence.

Quote, we used standard procedures and followed the letter of the law.