Murder In Sarah Koenig's 'Serial'

“The case was like a Shakespearean mashup-- young lovers from different worlds thwarting their families, secret assignations, jealousy, suspicion, and honor besmirched, the villain not a Moor exactly but a Muslim all the same, and a final act of murderous revenge. And the main stage? A regular high school across the street from a 7-eleven.” This was a quote from Sarah Koenig’s “Serial” podcast, explaining how the case looks at first glance. On January 13, 1999 Hae was strangled to death and Adnan was their number one suspect. Their only real pieces of evidence being Jay’s story of what happened that day. His story claims that Adnan killed Hae, showed him the body, and then made him help bury the body. Adnan went to court and was convicted

The probability of it and of some of the scenes that supposedly happened really being unlikely. According to Jay’s story and the court, Hae was dead by 2:36 PM, and the case lived or died in the 21 minutes before that. However, the chances of Hae and Adnan getting to Best Buy and Adnan killing her by that time is extremely unlikely. The author of “Serial” had tried to replay this route, going to all the places they supposedly went that day and taking into consideration other factors that would affect it as well. When the school bell rings that day to dismiss the students, they leave but have to wait for some of the hallway traffic to die down and then walk to their car. Once they were there, they had to wait for the buses to leave before heading to Best Buy. It had taken them 18 minutes to do all that and that wasn’t even adding the time it would have taken to go to your locker before leaving the school. However, then you must also add in the time it took to strangle Hae, hide the body in the trunk, and then go to the payphone and call Jay to come pick him up. All together, this took twenty-two minutes, which means while possible to do, it is very unlikely and learns no room for errors. After that, they followed the rest of the route Jay had given the police. Leaving Best Buy and going to the parking ride, arriving there at three. A call to Jay’s friend Patrick was supposed made at 3:59, an hour later, and after that they leave to go to these cliffs. It took twenty minutes to get there and, according to Jay, Adnan told Jay about how it felt and what was going through his mind. They were there somewhere between twenty to thirty minutes before leaving to take Adnan to track practice. However, this couldn’t of been the case because by time they would have gotten back to the school Adnan would have been an hour late and that would have been very noticeable. Why would someone who is