Murder Of Hae And Jay Wilds

Although Stephanie McPherson and Jay Wilds had different motives for killing Hae Min Lee, they succeed to falsely incriminate Adnan Syed in spite of all the evidence that clears the defendant of this crime. Adnan’s best friend Stephanie McPherson and her boyfriend Jay Wilds both have as much of a motive to murder Hae Min Lee as Adnan Syed does. According to Ms. Muse, a teacher at Woodlawn High, Stephanie was considered “gorgeous inside and out, a lovely girl, just like Hae” (teachers). In such a small high school, the pressure put on the students who want to attend college is monumental. Therefore, only knowing that Hae and Stephanie were two of the most intelligent and athletic girls in the school raises the question to whether they were

Firstly, January 13th, 1999 was Stephanie’s birthday, however, there weren’t any phone calls placed for her on that day (call log, ep.1). Adnan had an excuse for not calling her because Jay was in possession of his phone, but what is the reason behind her boyfriend not trying to make contact with her? Given all the previous details about their loving relationship, the only plausible answer to this question would be that they spent at least part of the day together. Additionally, the couple made sure that their means of committing the murder would be tragic, but not sadistic. This way a straight-A student such as Adnan Syed could’ve easily done it, planned or not

Despite this, Jen was left in the dark. In her first statement, Jen mentioned that she had no idea about what had happened to Hae Min Lee, and she was telling the truth (serial who what when). When she was randomly questioned, Pusateri contacted Jay who directly lied to her. Wilds told Jen Pusateri that Adnan Syed is guilty of the crime, as to not complicate his story and eventually have his friend turn against him. This way, the two murderers were the only ones who knew the truth, but had many witnesses such as Chris and other personal acquaintances (people map). With all this evidence, Jay needed one more credible proof to make himself reliable to the