Serial Podcast: A Case Against Adnan Syed

Over the past few months there has been another visit into the 2000 murder trial of Adnan Syed, who was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, and is currently serving a life sentence at a Maryland state prison. The case was covered in a twelve part podcast by the name of “Serial”. The podcast which is hosted and produced by Sarah Koenig goes through the evidence behind the conviction of Syed to attempt to come to a verdict of her own. After listening to the Serial Podcast in its entirety and after carefully examining the evidence for the case against Adnan Syed it is in my professional opinion that Jay Wilds was in fact guilty for the murder of Hae Lee. Jay Wilds was the key witness in the case against Adnan and was involved

The interview with The Intercept was meant for Jay to come out and explain what he witnessed at the time of the murder. Jay agreed to the interview to clear his name since the exposure from the Serial podcast has brought unwanted publicity to both Jay and his family. In this interview Jay talked about some very important topics in this interview and some of these topics actually work in Adnan’s favor even though it was not intended to be that way. Throughout the case Jay has been known to have a various amount of inconsistencies in his testimony. For example, In one interview with police he tells them Adnan showed him Hae's body on Edmonson Avenue and in another interview with police he tells them it was at a Best Buy. There was many inconsistencies throughout the duration of the trial but they were overlooked for unknown reasons by the jury. In the interview with the Intercept there is even more inconsistencies within Jay’s story which portrays Jay as a liar. One example of this is how in the interview Jay is now saying at no point was he shown the body at Best Buy while in the testimony he specifically said he was shown the body at Best

This is where it was produced. It went national, but it was produced in Baltimore. This is where people would have their house firebombed and still tell the police they knew nothing about it rather than to try to make some sense of what’s going on.” This can show a very plausible motif to commit the crime and continue to frame Adnan. This passage shows how Jay saw himself as a target and didn’t want to get any unwanted attention from the police. Jay also admitted to not cooperating with the police completely in this passage from the interview, “I wasn’t openly willing to cooperate with the police. It wasn’t until they made it clear they weren’t interested in my ‘procurement’ of pot that I began to open up any. And then I would only give them information pertaining to my interaction with someone or where I was. They had to chase me around before they could corner me to talk to me, and there came a point where I was just sick of talking to them. And they wouldn’t stop interviewing me or questioning me. I wasn’t fully cooperating, so if they said, ‘Well, we have on phone records that you talked to Jenn.’ I’d say, ‘Nope, I didn’t talk to Jenn.’ Until Jenn told me that she talked with the cops and that it was ok if I did