Hae Min Lee Research Paper

COINCIDENCES AND INCONSISTENCIES

February 9, 1999. The body of Hae Min Lee was found in Leakin Park. Fingers were quickly pointed towards young, 17 year old, Adnan Syed.

Adnan’s case is a complex one, there’s not a lot of evidence against him, however there are a lot of coincidences that happened the day of Hae’s disappearance. The question everyone's asking is, did he do it? Here’s the controversy; Adnan became a suspect to the Baltimore police because he had broken up with Hae prior to her disappearance, yet there was no physical evidence on Hae that led Adnan to be the murderer. In Hae’s diary, all she wrote about was how much she loved Adnan and how he’s changed her. There are speculations, however that Hae only wrote about the positive

A psychologist, I can’t seem to remember his name, mentioned that when someone commits a murder they experience amnesia and say they didn’t do it and don’t remember doing it when they have the weapon in their hand. He said that this might have happened in Adnan’s case, he committed the murder and completely forgot, but again, there’s no physical evidence on the victim proving that Adnan was the one who murdered her. We also need to consider the release of Ronald Lee Moore just 2 weeks prior to Hae’s murder. His previous victim being a Korean girl as well. Maybe it was a coincidence that he was released and the strangulation prints on Hae were possibly from Moore. In July 2014, a cold case in Baltimore County was solved when new DNA evidence was tested. It could’ve been used to prove Adnan’s innocence. In 1999, Annelise Hyang Suk Lee, a 27-year-old female of Asian descent, was found raped, beaten, and strangled to death in her apartment bedroom. Police reexamined evidence from the case in March 2013, and a DNA profile was developed from one of the items and matched Moore’s profile. It’s super coincidental that Annelise’s murder happened in the small period of time that Moore was out of jail, same period of time as Hae’s