The Serial podcast told a bizarre story of a high school senior, Adnan Masud Syed, who was convicted of allegedly murdering his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. This 12 episodic saga showcased the criminal justice system process, from arrest to conviction. The serial podcast addressed multiple issues within the case and states that it was possible that Syed was wrongfully convicted.
Adnan Syed, is a seventeen year old high school student, who may or may not have been wrongly convicted in 1999 of killing Hae Min Lee, Syed 's ex-girlfriend who was a senior at Baltimore County 's Woodlawn High School. Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee kept secret from their relationship a secret from their disapproving parents. When Lee broke it off, their friends had conflicting interpretations of Syed 's behavior: he was either cool with it, sad, or in a rage, leading some to believe that he conspired to kill her. Lee went missing in on the afternoon of January 13th, 1999, in Baltimore and Six weeks later, her body is discovered in Leakin Park. Serial 's goes over "follows up on long-dormant leads, rechecks alibis, and questions assumptions."
During interrogation, it becomes clear that Adnan cannot seem to
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These inconsistences doesn’t make Adnan innocent there is problems with his story as well. An example of this is Adnan inability to remember where he was that afternoon. If he just repeating his daily routine he should have told police what he was doing. Throughout the investigation of Adnan, he has not given a clear story. In addition to Jay 's testimony, evidence against Adnan Syed included a palm print on a map that could not be dated, and cell phone records. It is possible that Syed asked Lee for a ride after school to get into her car and kill her. Koenig goes through all the evidence, including the prosecution 's timeline and "some stray things" that don 't add up, including a neighbor 's story, the testimony of Jay 's friend Jen, and the sequence of cell phone calls
Jay provides a plethora of information for the state that is just credible enough to ensure that Adnan would be convicted and not himself. Jay protecting himself in court is why Adnan receives such an unfair
Adnan Syed Have you ever got accused of something you didn’t do but it looks like you did? Well, that’s exactly what happened to Adnan. In the Mystery Murder Serial podcast by Sarah Koenig, it explains multiple different stories about Hae Min Lee.
The podcast Serial by Sarah Koenig is about a court case that began in 1999. The narrator introduces us to several people who were involved in the death of Hae Min Lee, a high school student from Baltimore. She tells the story week by week, explaining the tragedy and the court’s decision on their main suspect; Adnan Syed. There is a controversy against the case, if Adnan was innocent or guilty. After looking at the evidence given in the first 5 episodes, it’s hard to believe he committed the murder.
Although Stephanie McPherson and Jay Wilds had different motives for killing Hae Min Lee, they succeed to falsely incriminate Adnan Syed in spite of all the evidence that clears the defendant of this crime. Adnan’s best friend Stephanie McPherson and her boyfriend Jay Wilds both have as much of a motive to murder Hae Min Lee as Adnan Syed does.
Priscilla Grinder was supposedly in the house when he “committed suicide” so automatically everyone believed her crazy stories. One of the most suspicious things about her suicide claims was the fact that each time she told the story to someone she changed it (the following information will mostly be sourced from exhibit C: Priscilla Grinder). As I have said she told the story three times and each had parts that were changed but the few that stayed the same were that there were multiple gun shots and that she never actually saw it happen, so she didn’t even see what really happened so how could she be a reliable source. In one of the stories she said that after two shots were fired he said to “fetch him some water” and that the “deed was done”, and as I have concluded from the autopsy reports it is impossible that he would have been even been alive after just one of those shots, let alone talked, which proves that she really didn’t even know what happened. In another one of her retellings of the night Lewis died she claimed that after the shots were fired he crawled across the pavement, which as I said before is impossible because either shot would have killed him instantly.
On August 7, 2015 a young women by the name of Heather Maples was found dead at The Cove Apartments, where she lived at. MPD Detective James Abbott discovered her body lying on her stomach, with signs of “blunt force trauma” to her head, and also marks on her neck which indicates strangulation. Her phone was discovered underneath her, so investigators went through in hopes of finding more evidence. She was last seen alive at a bar called Gentleman Jim’s Bar with a couple of male friends that night.
Adnan is Innocent Do you remember what you did on this day, exactly one week ago? You might remember some things about that day, or you might remember nothing. How about if I asked what you did 6 weeks ago on this day? Could you tell me?
Anya Schultz, the author of a review titled Serial: A Captivating New Podcast, works to show how multiple narratives and stories can be manipulated and sometimes vastly misinterpreted. Serial, an intriguing, enthralling podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig, tells the story of Hae Min Lee, a young, beautiful, high school senior who was murdered in 1999. Lee 's case, as Koenig and Schultz point out, has a few missing pieces of information that were never accounted for. For example, how did the jury come to the conclusion that Lee 's ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was truly guilty? Why did Syed 's lawyer forget to mention the letter from his acquaintance Asia McClain that could have polished his alibi?
At 7:35 AM, the violence began with Cho shooting a freshmen and a resident assistant. Police showed up not long after, but had no idea who the gunman was. The freshmen’s boyfriend was immediately a suspect because the police assumed this was a domestic violence incident. At 9:40 AM, Cho entered a classroom building, blocked some of the main doors, and began his attack. He went from room to room, killing as many students as possible.
Some people have concluded that Adnan Syed is guilty due to his poor memory and inability to provide evidence for his alibi during his testimony. The prosecution's case against Adnan Syed was primarily based on the testimony of Jay, a friend of Adnan who claimed that he helped him bury Hae Min Lee's body. However, Jay's testimony was inconsistent and changed several times throughout the investigation and trial. One of the most significant pieces of evidence that supports Adnan's innocence is the alibi witness, Asia McClain. In the discussion with Sarah Koenig and Rabia, a lawyer , Rabia explains what Adnan said to the audience, "He's like, the only thing I could offer is I remember there's a girl I go to school with.
However, what doesn’t make sense is that several hours later when Jenn and Wilds came back, Cathy recalls that they were smoothing it over and acting like what happened was no big deal, like they were trying to hide something big. This leads me to the conclusion that they were trying to hide the fact that Syed just killed Hae, because people usually aren’t so secretive over friends getting high and being on the phone with police
Detective Deirdre Enright says, “You don’t have enough to put Adnan away, not to me you don’t,” in episode seven of the Serial podcast. Sarah Koenig is the narrator of this podcast, and she delivers the evidence in an unbiased tone so that the audience can develop their own stance on the case, without being subconsciously swayed by her opinion. The case focuses on the trial of Adnan Syed, and debates whether or not he killed Hae Min Lee on January 13th, 1999. After weighing in all the facts, rumors, and theories, the only logical answer is that Adnan is, without a doubt, innocent of murdering Hae Lee. Pretty much the only thing the prosecution has to go off of is the cell phone records of that day.
Relationships, lies, murder, conviction. These are all aspects that come into play when talking about the January 13th, 1999 murder of high school student Hae Min Lee. Adnan Syed, Hae’s 17-year-old ex-boyfriend was convicted of her murder in 2000. The problem with this is that the only evidence the state had to convict Adnan was the stories told by others, specifically someone named Jay who was with Adnan for some of the day Hae went missing and had possession of Adnan’s car and cell phone. He claims Adnan made him come pick him up after the murder was committed and assist him in burying Hae’s body.
She states “A year after Adnan was arrested and the case came to trial, Jay walked up to the witness stand. There’s a moment when Adnan muttered something to him” (45). By Adnan calling Jay pathetic he showed that he couldn’t believe Jay would rat him out. This incident shows that Adnan is a liar and is mad at Jay for going to the police, showing that he is guilty. Even after controlling himself through the whole case he snapped when he saw the man that betrayed him.
Therefore, Adnan is innocent because Hae had to have been kidnapped from someone else because adnan couldn't have done a murder a person in 30 minutes because he had practice and witnesses said he was in the library. The second, reason why i think adnan was innocent because there wasn’t a phone both at buy best. This reason makes sense because Sarah went to the best buy jay said the murder happened at and they didn’t have a payphone outside so she checked with someone they’re and he said there is no record of a payphone being bought and the blueprint of the store didn't even have a blueprint