Sarah Koenig's Murder Essay

On January 15, 1999 highschooler Hae Min Lee was reported missing and weeks later found dead. She was a victim of murder and died by manual strangulation. Her ex-boyfriend Adnan was arrested for the murder. Adnan is still in prison today. Sarah Koenig is the narrator of Serial. You can conclude that there are many parts in the series where Sarah is biased. It seems that Sarah’s stance on the issue is that she thinks Adnan could be innocent.
Sarah uses Ethos throughout the series. By using Ethos Sarah makes the audience decide what’s right and what’s wrong based on what they hear. “The cops interview him at least four times that I know about. Two of those are on tape. And Jay also tells this story at trial – not once, but twice cause the first proceeding ended in a mistrial. So, at least, say, six times he's told what happened. And each time, some

In the detective’s notes, it says “Patapsco Valley State Park 1630 hour” and next to it says “Sun getting ready to hit mountain tops”. In episode 5 Sarah clarifies that 1630 hour is 4:30 and sunset that day wasn't until 5:05. Jay says that at the cliff Adnan and he talked about how it was when he killed Hae and that he felt sad but not really, “We’re standing, overlooking a whole bunch of stuff at this cliff and he starts telling me about how it was when he killed her. How he said he wrapped his hand around her and-- her throat and she started kicking and he said he looked up to make sure nobody was looking in the car at him,” (Jay, ep.5). Sarah comes on and says that at the trail the whole conversation at the cliff never happened and instead the conversation took place in Adnan's car, “Come trial, when Jay’s on the stand talking about where they went that day, this whole trip to Patapsco, it never happens. It’s just not there. That talk they have? Instead, it happens in Adnan’s car,” (Koenig, ep.5). This is also example of Jay changing his