Adnan Syed: The Murder Of Hae Min Lee

On January 13th, 1999, a 17 year old girl named Hae Min Lee was manually strangled and murdered, and the convicted killer: her ex-boyfriend. Hae’s body was found a month later on February 9th. Over the past decade, the continuity of the case has been questioned, rejected, or accepted by hundreds of listeners to “Serial”, a podcast narrating and interpreting every piece of evidence the host, Sarah Koeing, could come across. Through her hours of looking through court records, interviews, and even meeting with the alleged murderer, the case has been subject to public opinion. Adnan Syed did not kill Hae Min Lee because he had a reliable alibi, the witnesses had inconsistent stories, and there was never a clear motive.
Adnan had an alibi for 2:26pm,

First off, “We spoke to the landlord at the time and to the property manager, they had no record of a payphone. They dug up a photo of the store, from 2001, no phone booth or payphone. They looked up the blueprints for the store when it was built in 1995, nothing. The manager also said there is no record of a service agreement between Best Buy and any payphone company at that store” (“Page Talk” 4). Jay had stated that there was a payphone in the best buy parking lot, in which Adnan placed a call after showing Jay Hae’s dead body in the trunk of the car. Best Buy never having a pay phone makes it clear that Jay’s story is riddled with holes. Secondly, “I [Nisha] remember him telling me that Jay invite- invited him over to a video store that he worked at…” (“The Case Against Adnan Syed''15). The call Nisha remembers pertains to Adnan and Jay inviting her to the video store Jay worked at, putting the two of them together at the time and date of Hae Min Lee’s murder. But when Hae was murdered, Jay didn’t have the video store job, making this piece of information not useful in trial. These abnormalities weren’t unknown when he was tried, the detectives handling the case excused pieces of evidence that made Adnan look innocent to win a case, putting an innocent teenager in prison for