A tennager called Hae Min Lee was murdered on January 13, 1999. The cause of her death was by strangulation. The police and Hae's friends has been searching for her until she was later found in February 9, 1999 at the leakin park by a guy named Mr. S. when Adnan was convicted of murdering Hae. Leakin Park was a park where people describe it as scary or not a good place with people going there just to drink or smoke. Mr. S. was suspicious to the cops which led to many points of questioning. Deirdre Enright and her students that work for an Innocence Program, which they try to prove that Adnan is not guilty. Enright and her students provided more evidence and information about the lack of evidence that was brought to Adnan’s conviction. This …show more content…
This made the police, and including Koenig to be suspicious of Jay, thinking this might be a lie. Adnan is innocent because of Jay’s inconsistency with the cell records and the cell towers. There were several parts in Jay’s story that he changed in his second testimony which led to many inconsistencies.” Adnan’s was the first case to use a Cell Tower Pinging Technology, which Jay’s story doesn’t corroborate with the times”(Serial Episode 4). This means that Jay was making a story up to try and convict Adnan but it was based with the inconsistency with cell records and the cell towers near Woodlawn and Best Buy. Also the timeline with the calls between 12:07 to 6:07 weren’t matching up and led to another inconsistency. For example “The Nisha Call” it matches Jay’s story but it didn’t match the cell tower which pinged to a different tower at the time.( Episode …show more content…
Don didn’t remember anything he did that day just like Adnan and he lied about working the day Hae went missing. Don wouldn’t testify in the trial on what he did that day because he didn’t want to be involved in the case. But he was involved actually because the day she went missing he was not working at his store. Don and Adnan had went to Hae when her car broke down and Adnan took her home which probably means that Don could’ve been jealous and killed Hae. Don said “I was with Hae the night before and she wanted to spend the next day with me.”(Episode 12) This means that Don could’ve murdered her the next day. The police contacted Don because he was the current boyfriend of Hae and they found a note with Don’s name on it. When Don had his testimony, the state wanted him to make Adnan seem creepy and they wanted him to be intimidating. (Episode 12) This means that the state was against Adnan and they were trying to get Don to make him guilty faster. However, if an authority tells a person to make another person seem bad it tells us that they want Hae’s case to be over with and convict
The day Hae went missing authorities asked Don of his whereabouts and he provided an alibi. Don’s alibi was that he was working at his job at Lenscrafters, and was filling for
Asia had written letters to Adnan about believing in his innocence and she remembered seeing him in the library on 13th, during the time of Hae’s murder. She also wrote an affidavit statement for the detectives, in which Adnan had said he gave it to Ms. Guiterrez, along with the other letters. Furthermore, having Asia as an alibi witness for Adnan would have been very crucial information to the judges as she would’ve supported Ms. Guiterrez’s arguments of Adnan’s innocence. Also, the letters would have provided clear and specific evidence of where Adnan was located and when on the day of Hae’s murder, which proves that Adnan couldn’t have murdered Hae if the crime happened during the time period according
Jay Wilds was the state’s main, and only, witness. He says that Adnan killed Hae and then he called Jay from a phone booth outside of a Best Buy to show him the body and to ask him what to do. Afterwards, they both drive around a bit, get high, drive some more, bury Hae together, and then drive back home. There is even cellphone evidence to support Jay’s story. This all seems bad for Adnan until you look deeper into Jay’s story.
He clearly lied to one of the officers, which is why he is guilty. Lying to an officer about something that significant, especially in this case is a big deal. Throughout all of the time that this investigation took place, Adnan lied to the police several more times. Although, some of those lies were not as weighted as that last one was. Most of the time, when people lie they try to at least make more of an effort to cover it up.
Adnan was tried and convicted of a murder based on evidence that was, at points, proven to be misleading or false. The witnesses in the case lied, the timeline the state had was faulty because of its reliance on the cell records, and there are several alibis who say Adnan was not able to commit the crime because he was in other locations. It appears that the state was just trying to pin the crime on anyone they could without looking further into many obvious holes in their understanding of what happened. While it is not entirely clear who killed Hae Min Lee, it is exceedingly clear that there is a minuscule amount of reliable proof that Adnan Syed was the one who killed her and so he should not have been convicted of the crime.
In fact, I think it only further corroborates my theory that Jay killed Hae on his own and then pointed to Adnan. Because if you were in possession of your friend’s car and your friend’s phone, how would you make it look like your friend was with you? By calling someone in your friend’s phonebook whom you did not know. During the trial, the lawyers question Nisha about a time in which Adnan called her and then put Jay—at Jay’s insistence—on the phone to say hello. While Nisha confirms that such a call did happen, she is adamant that it was made from the adult video store where Jay worked.
Adnan’s friend Asia sent him a letter while he was in prison saying that she saw him on the 13th of January during the 21 Minutes that were stated to have been the time that he had killed Hae Min Lee. She states that she saw him in the library near the school. She states that she was talking to Adnan and her boyfriend came up to them and started arguing with her thinking that Adnan was hitting on her. After Adnan leaves she states that the time was after 21 minutes that the state put the time of the murder at. This means that Adnan could not have killed Hae in the time that was stated that he killed her.
“ Okay, so no one actually testified at trial that they saw Hae and Adnan leave school together.” So nobody saw them leave together, that’s some evidence that Adnan didn’t kill Hae. Also some people said “They’re still friendly; several people said they couldn’t tell or didn’t know that Hae and Adnan broke up.” so basically they were still pretty close after their breakup so honestly there is no motive that Adnan would have used to kill Hae. (S1.ep2.pg.40),
There are many interview with Jay, Adnan, and other of his friends but who really is saying the truth to this case. The question everyone's asking is Jay saying the truth, he said everything he knew according to him, he didn’t stay quiet he went ahead and said it. Jay is blaming Adnan for Hae’s murder but in the other hand Adnan said the he didn’t do it. That he would never do a cruel thing such as that, he respects his family, his religious, and Hae. My confusion and my question is did Adnan really do it or not?
The “Anonymous Tip” is a factor that has been heavily scrutinized by fans of the podcast; there was an anonymous tip given to police on February 1st that hinted at the “ex-boyfriend” would be a lead for the Hae Min Lee case; this tip is what put cops on Adnans trail and eventually lead to his arrest. It is now a popular belief that Wildes was the anonymous tipster, because apparently at one point in the message, the tipster indicated that Adnan and Hae had been broken up for a week before her disappearance, and the only other person interviewed about this case whom thought they had been broken up for a week was Jay. Adnans other peers knew that it was around three weeks. If it is in fact true that Adnan was the one whom called in the tip, then not mentioning this at the trial would be a constitutional violation. There was also a reward of around
Asia’s story shows that Adnan was not around Hae at the time of her murder. According to Asia, Adnan was in the library around 2:30 – the same time Hae was murdered- proving that Adnan was wrongfully convicted. Furthermore, Asia wrote Adnan a note which states “I’m not sure if you remember talking to me in the library on January 13th, but I remembered chatting with you. Throughout your actions that day I have a reason to believe in your innocence” (https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/1/the-alibi0). This restates my claim that Adnan being in wrongfully convicted based on Asia’s testimony.
Jenn and Jay did not want Stephanie to find out so after school on January 13, 1999, they went to talk to Hae. This talk was about bribing and convincing Hae not to say anything. Things got out of hand and one of the two ended up choking Hae and killing her. Since this wasn’t planned, they made up their story perfectly to frame Adnan. He’s the ex-boyfriend it would make sense to frame it on him.
This was proven by the locations of the pings given by cell towers. On Adnan’s part, both I and the reporter found his actions of not contacting Hae after she disappeared highly suspicious. I began to question Adnan’s integrity after I heard this. From jail, Adnan references a possible third party when he makes an odd call to someone at Kathy’s home. I wonder why the police never went the extra mile to figure out where that call came from.
These people say that since Hae broke up with Adnan and that was enough reason to want her dead. However, Adnan was a smart kid who would realize that killing someone for breaking up with you is not a valid reason. Adnan was not hurt enough to kill Hae; he was devastated when she died and he didn't know about it when he was told. Also, they say that Adnan had enough time to kill Hae. What this opinion fails to take into account is that Asia saw Adnan at the library around the same time of the murder and she was never used in court as an alibi (Koenig, “The Best Defense is a Good Defense”).
This proves that Adnan was the one who killed her. Jay and Adnan both committed a serious crime. Adnan killed Hae with the help from