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Comparing The Textual And Violent Murder Of Hae Min Lee

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The sudden and violent murder of Hae Min Lee was concluded by the state that Adnan was guilty; however, it's entirely possible that the state’s evidence was not credible, and Hae’s murderer still runs free. In the popular podcast “Serial” by Sarah Koenig, the state concluded and ended the case, sending Adnan’s teenage life away. Although the evidence the state provided may be convincing, The evidence that wasn’t presented leaves the case in shambles, and puts someone else to blame. To begin with, the state's main witness, Jay, who claimed to have helped Adnan bury Hae's body, provided inconsistent statements and changed his story multiple times. Additionally, the prosecution relied heavily on cellphone tower data to place Adnan at the crime scene. …show more content…

But it's inconsistent because you couldn’t tell when the date on which the fingerprint originated. From a practical standpoint it was 1999, and it was regular to use maps to navigate, Adnan and Hae were close, so it could’ve been a common coincidence that was taken too far. This evidence proves how the lack of physical evidence further proves that the states conviction was wrong from the beginning. Even though it can be proven that the state wasn’t credible, there are a couple of strong pieces of evidence that prove that Adnan could've killed Hae and the trial was right. For example in episode 6, the text states, “He was, he was, with a friend and the friend said something like, ‘look what I have’ and he popped the trunk and that’s what he saw.(Koenig 7). This is what checks out about the conviction. The neighborhood boy that witnessed Adnan showing Haes body to Jay, seems to be the exact same story that Jay confirmed at the trial. However, Koenig explains how the neighborhood boy saw a movie and it could be possible that it adapted to this story; witnessing something traumatizing would be something to be able to tell

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Through the multiple times I listened to the Serial podcast, and vigorously wrote down notes during each episode, I have finally come up with a conclusion or conspiracy theory on who murdered Hae Min Lee. Serial follows the real life story of the murder of Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland. Her body was discovered in nearby Leakin Park a month later. She had been strangled to death by someone’s bare hands. Soon after, her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested, tried, and convicted of the murder.

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The state uses Jay as their key witness in the case against Adnan, but Jay's story changed where Adnan showed him Haes body. Jay says in one of his testimonies that Adnan showed him Haes body in the Best Buy parking lot, then he changes it in his testimony to “I went to pick him up from off of Edmondson Avenue at a strip and he, uh, popped the trunk open and…”(Serial 05.17). Jay was a friend of Adnan’s: they smoked weed and hung out together. The day of the murder according to Jay was that he picked up Adnan after he killed Hae and left her in the trunk of her car. This is where the two different places that he mentioned where Adnan showed Jay Hae’s body is the Best Buy parking lot and a strip off of Edmondson Avenue are important because these places aren’t similar either, one is a tech store and the other is an outdoor drug market.

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The prosecution case against Adnan Syed was mainly based on the testimony of Jay wilds, who said he helped bury Hae Min Lee's body. Jay's testimony was supported by the cell phone records that placed Adnan on the site on the Day Hae Min Lee disappeared. According to the prosecution, the evidence sayed that Adnan had a motive to Kill Hae, because he was jealous and possessive of her. However, there are inconsistinces in Jay’s testimony, which has changed multiple times over the years. Some people also claimed that He was pressured into providing false testimony by the police.

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This includes two crucial details that, in the opinion of many, are difficult to mix up: whether or not Jay actually assisted in burying Hae's body, and where Adnan allegedly showed him Hae's body. In the first recorded interview with Jay, he stated that he was unwilling to assist Adnan in burying Hae's body and that Adnan had allegedly shown him the victim's body on Edmondson Avenue at 3:25 PM. On the contrary, Jay claims in his second recorded interview that he assisted in burying Hae's body and that Adnan allegedly showed him the body in a Best Buy parking lot. The mixing of these two details opposes the suspension of whether or not what he is testifying is accurate. Since seeing a body would be traumatic and not a simple memory you could easily mix up, explain to me how Jay would forget any of these details.

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Jay knew things that he wasn’t telling the cops or he was simply hiding something. Wouldn’t it be better to just tell the truth rather than make up a whole bunch of different stories? Some might think that Adnan was the cause of Hae Min Lee’s death because he was her ex-boyfriend and he had a motive to kill her. However, the night Hae went missing Adnan still tried to make sure she was ok and hung out with people that kept trying to check up on her. For example, in Serial it says “Adnan called her house 3 times to check to see if she was okay because she didn’t pick up her cousin that day”.

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Adnan can’t be considered guilty if there isn’t enough evidence present for a jury to make such as life changing decision. The only evidence used in this case was one testimony and the defendant’s phone records. The testimony was made by Jay Wilds who was with Adnan during the time of Hae’s disappearance. He stated that Adnan planned everything ahead of time and asked him to help after her death. Jay admitted to helping with the disposal of the body, but he’s testimony doesn’t sound trustworthy.

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