Adnan Syed Case

January 13th, 1999 a 17-year-old girl named Hae is manually strangled, to death. Six weeks later Hae’s ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, is convinced of the murder. He is given a life sentence, plus thirty years, for his crime. Jay was the main witness at the trial. His story is as follows. Adnan gave Jay his car and cell phone so that he could buy his girlfriends a present. Adnan then told Jay that he was going to kill Hae. Jay then drops Adnan off at school. After school Adnan kills Hae in her car by strangling her. Then he calls Jay from the payphone at Best Buy, telling Jay to come pick him up and that the murder was done. They then smoke some weed and discuss where to hide the body. Later in the day, they decide to bury the body in Lincoln

During this podcast the case was analyzed, new suspects were interrogated, and new evidence brought to light. This case has recently been granted a new trial due to reasonable doubt. At the end of the podcast, the narrator leaves the audience to come to a conclusion themselves. By analyzing the evidence it is evident that Adnan Syed did kill Hae. To begin, the call log found on Adnan’s phone criminalizes Adnan. The first call that is damming is made is from a pay phone at Best Buy. Jay, the key witness, claims he received this call around 3:45 pm. During this call, Adnan tells Jay that he has murdered Hae, and needs Jay to come pick him up. At first, it seemed like this phone booth didn’t exist because there is no evidence of one being outside. However, blueprints for the building revel that there was a phone booth inside of the store. This call from Adnan was a consistency in Jay’s story; in both his interviews and his

A case specialist said, “Most killers can seem like ordinary people.” Adnan fits this mold as a regular teenage high schooler. He had friends, he was on a sports team, but he also had some illegal tendencies. Adnan would steal money from the Mosque on a regular basis, never stealing more than $40 to avoid getting caught. He also commonly smoked weed. On a different note, Adnan and Hae’s relationship had to be kept secret because their parents did not approve of them dating, which means the Adnan was under a lot of pressure to keep the relationship a secret. When Hae broke up with Adnan, Adnan would have felt betrayed and hurt that someone he gave up so much for didn’t want to be with him anymore. These feelings would have built up inside of Adnan occasionally slipping out in joking comments like, “I’m going to kill that *****”. Adnan probably didn’t plan to murder Hae, he most likely snapped and killed Hae in the heat of the moment says another case specialist. Sometimes, when a person snaps like that they suffer memory loss of the event and cannot remember what they did. Because of the circumstances in which the murder was committed, Adnan would be a perfect candidate for the