Peaceful Krakow.
Or so it seems, because suddenly in various parts of the city
dangerous species of exotic snake have started cropping up.
Suddenly, a reptile expert appears who is able to deal with them.
His name is Leszek L.
He was known in Krakow as a reptile breeder.
Had many friends in the police, in the upper ranks, too.
I heard from many people
that Leszek L would drop the snakes there himself,
and then call the police.
Officers who took the call
then assigned him the job of picking up the dangerous reptiles.
In this way Leszek L simply made extra money.
He himself was dangerous, like a wild animal.
FIT FOR A KILLER
EPISODE 3
To me, it is very suspicious.
The whole Leszek L situation.
If you read the files carefully,
Leszek L informed on Robert Janczewski twice,
as if to make sure that the police would get busy with him.
There was deliberation as to why Leszek did that.
Because he absolutely didn't come acros as a law-abiding citizen,
who would do that out of a sense of civic duty.
To this day, I don't know why Leszek informed on his colleague.
I know he owed him money.
The 2.5 meter Indian python was found in a grove by her house
by Ms. Aleksandra Jałocha.
The snake was over here.
She was coming home from the shop.
She was frightened. The grove is near her home.
Children walk to school through here.
Officers called Mr. Leszek... to the scene, a local reptile expert.
Mr. Leszek says the reptile was apathetic and cold.
In warmer conditions, it might have been dangerous to humans.
A snake bite could even result in a hand amputation.
I had several interventions about, for instance, rattlesnakes,
one crawling next to the Barbican in Krakow.
Another one in the courthouse.
A cobra was seen at a housing estate. People are irresponsible.
I met Leszek at evening school.
It was the school in Łobzowska Street.
He had many hobbies.
He was into diving, as well as reptiles and herpetology.
Our acquaintance went on, but, as I said, on a different ground,
because at a certain point in time I started working with him, too.
He'd organize circuits around schools
during which he showed reptiles from his collection to the kids.
Leszek L himself boasted about having managed to smuggle
some exotic animals through the country's border under his shirt,
some wild reptiles, and not getting caught.
Between 1981 and 1989, we became friends, you could say.
I mean the friendship was there probably on my side only,
because I did anything I could.
I helped him with many things.
They were mates from as far back as vocational school.
He was this guru figure for Robert.
Much older, stronger, popular with women, and so on.
Maybe not popular, but a notorious flirt.
Leszek L supposedly treated Robert a bit,
one could say, like dirt.
A bit like his servant, there to do things for him
for which he didn't have the time or which he didn't feel like doing.
He wanted to have his guy
who would bring him lab mice for his reptiles.
He said there was this job at the animal quarters,
which involved emptying the cages,
putting in new wood chips, washing it all.
It all stank, because those were lab animals.
I met Leszek in 1978, I think.
He was a diver, I think a three-time Guinness world record holder.
He would organize slide shows at his place.
Because he traveled the world.
In the post-Communist reality, let's call it,
it felt like a different world.
At that time, Leszek was a highly likeable guy.
He could talk really beautifully about those dives.
Sadly, under the influence of alcohol his behavior would change completely.
A bit like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Two different people, totally different, unrecognizable.
On a drinking binge, he was unpredictable.
I was once at his place, he dragged on his cigarette,
and then, to use a bit of slang, mashed it out right here.
And he goes, "You're a tough mother..."
This was before Christmas in 1993.
That was all we saw of each other.
He was quite skilled at using the knife
He could surgically remove the skin from an animal.
One can presume he'd also be able to remove the skin,
with surgical precision, from a human.
Welcome, we are Maciej Kłeczek and Friends.
We're just getting started.
In the late 90s,
Kornet was a place where adventure opened its door wide.
One of the people who'd inspire various interesting stories
was none other than Leszek.
"Come over, I'll show you something interesting, I live nearby."
The atmosphere, looking back at it now, of a horror film.
The light of a 15W or 30W bulb creating this semi-dark ambience,
and an entire wall of various animal bones and skins
that were tanned, most probably, by Leszek himself.
Because he had skills of this sort.
We enter the last room.
From floor to ceiling, there are terraria.
Crocodile on the bottom.
Monocled cobra on the right.
On the left, a tropical rattlesnake.
And, on the very top, a black mamba.
He opens a large terrarium.
Inside it, there's this huge snake. As I later learned, it was a python.
He had a reticulated python.
Its name was Kaśka.
I see a crocodile running from room to room,
and hiding behind the sofa.
I'm like, "What the hell? What kind of a situation is this?"
It hid behind the sofa and started growling like a dangerous dog.
About this big. Leszek grabbed it at some point...
And held this crocodile's head against mine.
Then, suddenly... Chomp! In my arm. I feel the blood trickling.
It fucking bit me.
He goes, "Fuck outta here, Michael, you're fine."
He put the crocodile away, comes back.
"Damn, it really did fucking bite you."
You can see it.
He says, "You know, Michael, better not tell anyone."
Then he adds, "You know what, no one will believe you anyway".
And he laughs.
He seems to have lost it at some point.
CONVERSATIONS IN PROGRESS
Hi.
Our wonderful neighbor shot at me.
Luckily, the bullet went about three meters from me.
I only had surface burns on my face. Because had it been...
-Only? -Only.
Yes, we felt powerless. We contacted the television.
Two other neighbors and I.
Are those animals out of control?
The neighbor's snake broke loose.
We found it in the cellar, wrapped around a doorknob.
My husband says, "Darn it, this is starting to be dangerous."
I did it, I called the police, because I was afraid for my child.
The police came in and went out. Don't you worry, it's all set.
Leszek found out who called the police.
Came downstairs and said,
"If you call the police again, I'll really put you in your place."
He collaborated with the police,
so he's surely familiar to many officers.
He partied with them.
Even at the time when Katarzyna went missing,
Leszek spent New Year's Eve and New Year's Day
with a Krakow policeman.
Many officers, high-ranking ones, were good friends of his.
Mr. Leszek L would also tell stories
about inviting young girls to parties at his place,
and then making it impossible for them to leave,
for instance, by wrapping a snake around the doorknob.
I've heard from women who knew Leszek L
that he used to be violent, and would sometimes beat them.
Something was not right in that head of his.
It can't be ruled out that at some point perversion appeared.
"I have skinned a snake, why not a human?"
Would Leszek be able to skin a person?
I think he would be.
Since I kept fish, I'd often go
twice a week to Leszek's pet shop.
One day, I come in,
turn around and see a woman's face behind the fishtanks.
Her hair down, a bit reddish.
Next to her, a guy I didn't know.
Did that person resemble this one? Please, take a look.
Why, certainly. Just that she had her hair down.
She was there at the shop. One hundred per cent.
It's hard for me to tie the skinning of a dead snake
to what happened to Kasia.
There was no way to confirm Leszek being in any way connected to the case.
And did you perform a search of his apartment?
I can't remember.
I see it as if it were today.
But the date... No.
When was the shop closed?
-Because I can't remember. -1998.
Leszek L himself won't be of much help.
He died in 2007 after a period of severe alcohol use disorder.
Leszek L is another easy target because he's dead.
He can't defend himself.
It's easy for us to stretch certain things to his detriment.
One could spin theories about Leszek L being a suitable suspect.
It's hard to tell,
because due to the way the investigation was conducted,
we will never learn the truth.
APPELATE COURT 23/05/2024
I feel, Your Honor, like a prosecutor.
For the appeal is, indeed,
an indictment made by the defense of the police,
the prosecution, and the first-instance court.
And I say this, Your Honor, with full responsibility,
which I shall plainly show,
that I accuse these entities of, at least, looking away from the truth.
This isn't a circumstantial trial,
because there isn't even circumstantial evidence.
I won't be doing theatrics.
I won't be poking fun. I won't try to make the court laugh.
Because this case isn't like that.
I will remain serious.
Unlike the defense.
Going to the courtroom...
I could never fully know what the prosecution
was going to come up with.
What today's idea was going to be.
This is a mosaic of meaningless pseudo-evidence,
of conjecture.
One day, the prosecution claims he murdered her in the apartment,
the next, that he held her captive at the allotment.
The whereabouts of which is unknown.
He'd have to be shuttling her between the apartment and the allotment.
Shuttling her how?
Must have been the frame of his bike, as he cannot drive.
BASCK OFF, SATAN
CAUTION! DANGER ZONE
JANUSZ KUTYŁA JÓZEF JANCZEWSKI'S FRIEND, POET
I was notified in writing by prosecutor Krupiński
that I was to make available
all the spaces of my allotment in Balice.
I didn't know Robert at all.
He came here twice with his father to paint my window grilles and once,
he helped restore the window frames.
For money, of course.
Józef Janczewski was, for a certain period,
an acquaintance of my wife, Halina Kutyła.
For years we knew each other as poets.
The prosecutor's theory
was that Robert Janczewski might have got the keys from his father,
because Józef Janczewski had the keys to this allotment,
so that he could spend the weekends here with Halina,
and that he could have committed this crime, this murder.
This is why the prosecutor wrecked my entire allotment.
Here, there used to be a pond. As you can see, all dug up.
Supposedly it was to be brought back to its original state.
I suspect Mr. Prosecutor won't come here with a new pond.
And he says, "We found it." I ask, "What did you find?"
They lift the tarp, there she is, my dead kitty.
Come, Rudolf, don't be afraid.
Here, kitty kitty. No one will hurt you, come on.
As a result of these police actions,
a rumor spread in the village that they found 14 bodies,
that these murders took place at the poet's.
So my reputation was totally in tatters.
I honestly admit I was mad at him and I still am.
I wrote a poem for a certain Mr. Prosecutor P. K.
O, New Themis, without the blindfold.
Lift up your sword and weigh the deeds of such-and-such
and punish him according to what is lawful and just.
Amen.
APPELATE COURT 05/23/2024 - CLOSING SPEECHES
The number of things which were accepted although they never should have been,
best proves the fact that the rule:
"sentence at any cost" was very obvious here.
This conviction that we have caught the perpetrator.
And we only need to, as Advocate Znamiec put it,
perform the theatrics under the guise of an investigation.
For it was theater, not an investigation.
In this theater, everyone has their role.
Let us stick to these roles.
And here, Your Honor, I'd like to make an appeal to the media,
so that the media would stick to their role.
During the appellate trial, Prosecutor Krupiński got up,
pointed his finger at Michał, who was then sitting next to me,
and said, "It is not the way it seems to you, Mr. Fuja."
I can say to Mr. Fuja, the journalist present here,
who might have been manipulated, I don't know,
I don't want to get into that.
But it was, Your Honor, the leveling of these allegations,
this manipulation, contrary to the body of evidence,
which was supposed to create the impression of a cruel prosecutor,
a cruel policeman, of cruel law enforcement.
The defense, in its closing argument,
devoted a lot of attention to the polygraph test
and why it wasn't credible,
why it shouldn't be taken into account at all.
In the most stressful of situations,
because it's stressful to anyone,
being arrested, you take a person to the polygraph test, in the evening.
Who performs the test at this hour? Who?
Such tests must not, Your Honor, from a purely objective viewpoint,
be given any credibility, because the way they were conducted,
from a purely methodological perspective,
was an affront to the rules of the craft.
It was time came for the prosecutor's closing argument.
Prosecutor Krupiński got up and said that the test
had been performed properly and he had proof of that,
because he'd filmed the polygraph test, and he played us an excerpt.
What we saw there...
You have agreed to being tested.
I will hand you the statement according to which
you agree only to answer questions
pertaining to Katarzyna Zowada's murder
The other question
is if you agree for the exchange to be registered on video,
so that later there is no concern,
on the other side as well, that I'd suggested anything to you,
that I'd treated you badly, refused to grant you a breather,
a toilet break and so on?
I've just been to the toilet.
We're doing it, we're filming, right?
Do whatever you wish.
-Good evening. -Good evening.
-Bieńkuński. -Michał Fuja.
We've met in relation to this case, I don't know if you remember.
We have? Well, maybe.
You consider yourself Poland's most widely recognized expert
on this device?
I'm summoned to the most serious cases
covered by national media.
Is it true that the person tested should be warned, beforehand,
not right at the time of the test, that the questions are "yes" or "no"?
This is part of the investigators' tactics.
They decide.
Right, but the Supreme Court suggests this should not be done.
Instead of matter-of-factly stating,
"Sir, this test is optional. Do you agree or not?
You can interrupt the test at any time, please, remember,"
this is how an expert communicates.
Do you count on being able to cheat the device?
No, I have nothing to hide. Because if...
I always give an additional explanation to such people
that if the truth is different from what's stated,
I say, to put it colloquially,
"Man, go home, I'm going to hurt you trial-wise".
I'm going to reveal it by means of this test".
But you have nothing to do with it. So you have nothing to fear, right?
Am I right?
-Yes. -Alright.
Is this an advisement, or is this pressure to take the test?
You want to put me at the whipping post.
As if it's my fault he sat down, let himself be...
My role is...
He agreed, had his rights read out.
When did you learn that Robert was being treated psychiatrically,
that he has schizophrenia, and therefore takes medication?
When... Certainly before the test.
Before?
Because in interviews you say that mental illness is a contraindication.
Mental illness.
From the assessment I read,
I don't know if the doctors diagnosed him with a mental illness.
They did, with schizophrenia. Diagnosed in 1992.
I don't know if it said... If he is...
He might have some defect of a psychological nature,
but it wasn't specifically defined.
You were supposed to know if it was mental illness,
or some minor disorder.
If the expression "mentally ill" had been there,
I wouldn't have performed the test.
Does this mean the prosecutor was hidin Robert's illness from the expert?
The expert had already tested other people appearing in this case.
A dozen, maybe several dozen.
When you examined the detective, the one hired by the mother,
hidden knowledge came to light.
Then, you tested the principal of the school which Robert had attended.
There, too, it turned out he might have been hiding some knowledge.
You can't rule out his involvement in the crime.
Jacek... has hidden knowledge regarding certain circumstances
of the murder of Katarzyna Zowada and people involved in it.
Zbigniew...
It is highly probable that Zbigniew... has hidden knowledge.
Konrad... likewise.
Grzegorz... has hidden knowledge
and one cannot rule out his involvement in the crime.
Leszek... has hidden knowledge.
Whoever crossed Mr. Bienkuński's path possessed hidden knowledge.
I advise you not to get tested.
If I made such conclusions,
it means that to a certain extent those persons,
at a certain stage of this crime,
might have had this knowledge,
and were refusing to divulge it.
There were countless persons of interest in this case.
This one man was denounced by his own colleagues.
According to the tip, this researcher supposedly had,
among numerous educational specimens,
a woman's finger in a jar.
He gets a subpoena. He's welcomed by the Cold Cases team.
He is supposed to take a polygraph test and agrees to that.
In his lab,
he has heaps of tissue samples and explains the origins of each.
It is very quickly proven that the finger
didn't even come from a woman.
I don't know if you recall this researcher
from the Jagiellonian University, who used to work with tissues.
There was one, but I can't remember the face.
You did... You tested him, too.
Based on Peak of Tension tests,
one can conclude said individual fears the divulging of his knowledge
regarding his involvement in the murder of Katarzyna.
He loses all composure.
He is a broken man, physically and psychologically.
He doesn't know what will happen.
Doesn't know why he got caught up in that case.
The prosecutor's office requests
that the police inform the Jagiellonian University
about this man being in the very center of a murder case from years before.
On September 8, 2018,
less than two and a half months after these intensive measures
were instituted against him,
the man is unable to bear the pressure and commits suicide.
This man turned out to be innocent. Not involved with the case at all.
And how do we know if he was guilty or not guilty?
The prosecutor confirmed it for me.
That person had been libeled by former acquaintances
and had nothing to do with the case.
What is even more interesting,
all that happened six months after Robert's arrest.
That is, at the time when we were being persuaded
the prosecution was 100 per cent certain that Robert was Katarzyna's killer.
APPELATE COURT 6/27/2024
I remember that moment, sitting in the courtroom.
All of us waiting in anticipation to see what the ruling would be.
Just as the finishing touch was to be made, there was another turn.
The court decided to reopen the appeal proceedings
by conducting an additional procedure, namely,
a public hearing of persons who heretofore
had the status of anonymous witnesses in the case.
The evidence from anonymous witnesses is so important and so crucial
that any doubt would in fact undermine the whole verdict,
and the entire trial would have to be repeated.
The degree of anonymization was such
that we effectively had no idea what the witnesses testified.
We would get transcripts
which were devoid of content, essentially throughout.
Two very significant anonymous witnesses
numbers 2.2018
and 4.2018.
It turned out these anonymous witnesses
were two women who used to be Robert's neighbors.
REENACTMENT OF ANONYMOUS WITNESS TESTIMONY - 10/28/2024
I have a sick child, could we make it quick?
Does the witness,
in any of the photographs on the display boards,
recognize the woman whom she saw with the defendant?
Please, come closer.
This is the one.
This late autumn evening in 1998
the mother and daughter will remember forever.
On this day, they both hurriedly go out
into the stairwell of a residential building
in which they live, and where, on the same floor,
another apartment is occupied by their neighbor Robert Janczewski.
A strange man, interpreted as dangerous.
Never before seen by his neighbors with any girl.
The mother and daughter see two people walking upstairs.
One is the defendant, Robert Janczewski,
the other, a girl.
Her hood was up, and blond hair was sticking out, like here.
I was still in primary school.
When Mom saw that woman's picture on TV,
in some program for missing people, about missing people,
the woman on TV also had a pale face and blond hair.
A pale face.
She was identified based on her pale face.
A scary thing, to have a fair complexion.
We are dealing with a witness
who was six or seven years old at the time of the event.
This doesn't, of course, rule out the possibility of remembering,
but these events need to be approached with extreme caution.
Simple as that. As a child, I had a good memory.
And do you remember what you and your mom were wearing
when you passed the defendant on the stairs?
One needs to be mindful of the fact that human memory is unreliable.
Human memory is a process.
And each time I recall events, it is possible I modify them a little.
It is a myth that human memory works like a video camera,
filming me right at this moment.
You said before that she was half a head taller than Janczewski.
I said that?
It's in the minutes.
I don't know, maybe someone made an error.
Witness Ewa... would be visited by police officers.
They came "for a cuppa." To talk about Robert, the killer.
No subtleties. May the ladies know: Robert, the killer.
And her, the victim.
Is this the way investigations are now conducted in this country?
Before you question a witness on record, you have "a cuppa" with them?
And tell them what's been happening in the investigation?
The problem with the case is not whether on the date
when they supposedly recognized Katarzyna Zowada in the pictures,
they in fact did recognize her.
It is that before the questioning took place,
they had attended pep talks by the police,
and undoubtedly had the possibility
to familiarize themselves with images of Katarzyna Zowada,
which were widely published in the media.
I don't know if it's this particular woman,
but he was certainly going upstairs with a woman.
I'm not sure.
Something is said,
something is written down, and there's a problem.
I've been on security duty for 24 hours.
I'm tired.
The testifying witness Ewa... blurted out,
"I regret having met the defendant on that staircase,
because I wouldn't have to be going through this".
There is no truer account,
one more convincing as to the truthfulness of her testimony.
One was unsure, which would already mean the whole deal was doubtful.
The other one, in turn, was disproportionately certain.
She said at one point, "Yes, this had to be it, period".
I also saw the side of her face, and it simply matched the photo.
I am sure he was linking arms with her then.
And this certainty remains unyielding to this day.
How many more times are you going to ask me that, Your Honor?
The witnesses, as the Court can see,
on no level of evaluation of their testimony withstand scrutiny.
Especially in cases involving so much serious doubt,
one must take great care
so as not to tailor the interpretation of evidence
to a thesis posed in advance.
Have you ever been on the stairwell with a girl?
Yes.
-Yes? -Yes.
But not with the one of whose murder I'm being suspected.
As was later stated by anonymous witnesses.
Two people later said they allegedly saw me with Katarzyna Zowada.
Who were you with on the staircase?
There was a certain person, but I won't be going into details here.
If it turned out that Robert was guilty,
this would be a defeat for me.
Yes, yes.
A professional defeat,
as a therapist to a patient, who knows them.
Yes, but not the first one in my life.
If, after all, he did this, it means I let myself be fooled twice.
It would be the end of my career as a journalist,
because both times I'd have been in error and unaware of it.
The defendant may go ahead.
Your Honor, I, too, would like to say something in closing.
May I? Your Honor.
My name is Robert Janczewski.
"I am not 'The Skin.'
I am not 'The Beast.'
I am not a monster.
I did not kill anyone. I did not hurt anyone.
I am a human being and a citizen of this country,
whom law enforcement has been trying to, for nearly a quarter of a century,
implicate in the case of Katarzyna Zowada's murder.
I address the Court directly,
because this is my last chance to get justice.
Policemen told me outright that they knew I was the killer.
The more desperately I denied it,
the more Commissioner Michalec insisted that I was disavowing a crime.
To the end of my days, I will speak the truth.
I did not kill Katarzyna Zowada. I did not kill, means I did not kill.
Contrary to Commissioner Michalec's theory,
the words 'I did not kill'
are not a trace on the soul after a crime committed,
but words of desperation.
I am, in fact, screaming, 'Believe me, I did not do it.'
I've been in detention for seven years. This has been seven years of hell.
Each day, I wake up hoping
that a day will come on which this nightmare ends.
Today my fate is in Your Honor's hands.
I ask for acquittal.
No other verdict in this trial would be a just one."
APPELATE COURT VERDICT 10/31/2024
For His sorrowful passion have mercy on us, and on the whole world.
For His sorrowful passion...
We will now proceed with the announcement of the verdict.
Therefore I ask everyone to rise.
"A verdict on behalf of the Republic of Poland.
On October 31, 2024, the Appellate Court in Krakow,
pursuant to Article 414, paragraph 1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure,
relating to Article 17, paragraph 1,
point 1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure,
acquits the defendant, Robert Janczewski,
of the deed as charged in the indictment.
This ruling is legally binding
and means the defendant is now a free person."
I felt those seven years of believing in the case,
of not succumbing to, often contrary to public opinion,
the system, the Court,
I felt, after those seven years, that this injustice system had ended.
The Court has acquitted Robert Janczewski
after seven years in detention.
Do you feel guilty
because he spent those seven years locked up, wrongly accused?
You can feel guilty for making programs which are suggestive,
you could say, inspired by the defense.
So thank you very much.
It isn't a bad system, but there are certain individuals
who, for various reasons, act the way they do.
In such a way as to sentence someone at any cost.
It's not like the police will come for me or any of us and say,
"You're a murderer."
Because there are many reasons why we don't make good victims.
A good victim is one who is defenseless.
-Good morning. -Good morning.
Just fasten the seat belt, okay?
Yes, yes. Sure.
How are you feeling, Mr. Robert? Has it sunk in, what's just happened?
Yes, yes.
Good, because for us it still hasn't.
-I'm very sorry, but... -Take it slow, gentleman here can help.
To pull it.
We have time.
On the one hand, I felt it in my skin that you'll hold on,
but at the same time, paradoxically, I was really afraid for you.
I thank you for being such a decent man. Really.
I promised and I delivered.
I said to you, "No matter what, I won't leave you."
-Do you remember? -I do.
I repeated it to myself hundreds of times.
"You are not alone. I will pull you out, just hold on".
This will stay with me until the end, I think.
I remember arriving at the place
in which we'd arranged a meeting with Robert's mom.
We thank you from our hearts. We bow deeply.
No need to thank me.
Listen, you'll stay here for a moment.
I'm going to take care of some formalities.
We'll head upstairs shortly. And have a chat in peace.
Wait here a minute, okay?
I thought to myself then
that this is the most beautiful thing about this job.
Not only do you do interesting work, with the law, with court disputes,
but heck, you can also do some good.
Because there was good in there. There simply was good in there.
A modest goal is for Robert to survive.
For Robert to gradually stand on his own feet.
For him to see some hope,
the possibility to regain the sense that he has some influence on his life.
All the best. Stay in touch.
If Mr. Michalec is searching for traces on the soul,
I think this investigation, the harm done to Robert,
the unnecessary seven-year detention,
all this has left a trace on his soul, irreversibly so.
Now we know who didn't do it,
but, in fact, we should feel more concerned,
because this means the perpetrator might still be out there.
There's a thing which keeps bugging me,
and which came up very early on in the case:
an expertise from February of 2007, by the Department of Forensic Medicine
at the Collegium Medicum
of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
"Katarzyna Z sustained massive multiple-organ trauma
of a type consistent with being hit by a car,
or having fallen from a great height."
In December of 1997, Katarzyna had a suicide attempt.
For over two hours she sat on the dam in Dąbie,
where in the following year her remains would be found,
and contemplated jumping into the Vistula and drowning.
So it can't be ruled out the perpetrator found her body,
skinned it and threw the skin into the Vistula.
This is the problem with the case.
Due to how badly the investigation was conducted,
we will never learn what happened.
Moreover, it turns out that an innocent man
was harassed for 25 years.
I don't agree with sentencing people to life
unless there is proof of their guilt.
I think as a society we shouldn't stand for this.
We shouldn't stand for it as journalists.
This is what we're for. To watch those in power.
Those in power meaning not just politicians,
but also the police and prosecutors.
I have this dream to meet someone on my life's path.
A person
who could let in a ray of sunshine
with her smile.
For whom I could care
with every breath I take.
I am missing those years now,
those 25 years.
Because I had plans for my life.
I was 35.
Now I'm 60.
Is this my fault?
Then whose fault is this?
Prosecutor Piotr Krupiński and Detective Bogdan Michalec
declined to appear in the series.
The total financial cost of the 25-year investigation
remains unknown.