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Serial Podcast: A Complex Case Of Adnan Guilty

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Recently in a podcast called Serial narrated by Sarah Koenig brought up a complex case of a murder of a teenage girl in 1999. The podcast goes over information about the case and the possibility of the main suspect Adnan Syed of being innocent. In 1999 on January 13, Hae Min Lee was murdered by manual strangulation. Hae Min Lee’s ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed was found guilty 6 weeks later and has been serving time in prison ever since. The state found Adnan guilty, but I do not believe that he was the culprit. They used a kid’s testimony named Jay to put Adnan away, but his claims keep changing over time. The state should not declare Adnan guilty because Jay’s testimony is too inconsistent. Jay is very inconsistent in his testimonies. According to Serial Timeline Map, Jay’s first interview he said that he saw Hae’s body in the trunk of her own car at the Edmondson strip …show more content…

The state can only know for certain where Adnan’s phone was at a given time due to the cell phone towers picking up the phone when it was being used. They used Jay’s testimony and the cell phone towers against Adnan to put him away, but the two do not corroborate with each other. According to Serial Timeline Map, at 11:45 Jay states that Adnan is with him and they are going to Security Square Mall. However, the cell phone tower that gets pinged is near Mount Hebron because there was a call happening at 12:07 on Adnan’s phone. This shows that Jay is lying because his story is not matching with the cell phone tower pings. However, Adnan says that Jay dropped him off at school around this time, so the cell phone tower pings corroborate more with Adnan’s testimonial than Jay’s. Another example is when there is a call at 4:58 and Jay claims that Adnan and himself are buying weed near Forest Park Avenue. The cell towers that gets pinged at 4:58 is nowhere near where Jay mentioned he was

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