Summary Of Serial By Sarah Koenig

Is it difficult to tell whether someone is guilty or innocent? In the story of Serial narrated by Sarah Koenig is about a murder case that happened on January 13 1999. This murder happened with a girl named Hae Min Lee and supposedly her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed happened to commit the murder. Adnan was proven guilty and arrested months later. But, there is news popping up that he has a new trial that will either have him stay in prison, or let him him out. After investigating, it is clear that Adnan is innocent because he has an alibi, he had no idea where Leakin Park was, and his behavior wasn’t strange. First of all, Adnan is innocent because he had an alibi from a girl named Asia. In Asia’s explanation of what happened that day she states,

In the story, Sarah Koenig interview one of Hae’s friends and she explains that, “I think it was probably mostly normal, but things that, like, he kinda just always generally annoyed me, because, just the constant paging her if she was out, um, and he’s like, “Well I just wanted to know where you were.” And it’s like, “I told you where I was gonna be.” Um, if she was at my house, and we were having a girls night, he would stop by, like he would walk over and try to come hang out, and its just like, “Have some space!” Um, and it’s one of those things, at first it’s like, “Oh! It’s so cute! Your boyfriend’s dropping by.” But then the tenth time, it’s like, “Really?” (Episode 1, Page 31.) Here, it is one of Hae’s friends states that he was really over possessive while they were together. He would constantly check up on her even though she told him where she was going. Adnan seems really not trustworthy of Hae and doesn’t want her anywhere without him. So, if he killed Hae it was out of jealousy since she had found a new love interest. However, Adnan is innocent because right after the break up he began to date multiple girls. While Saad was talking to Sarah she said, “When they had broke up, Adnan and Hae had broke up, it'd been like a month, maybe more. She had already started dating another guy, and I was like, “Adnan's dating multiple girls!” I was like “I can tell you some of the girls that he's dating.” I was like “he is not upset about him and Hae breaking up.” (Episode 2, Pg. 38) This proves that he is innocent because Saad clearly says that he wasn’t overprotective. He was dating multiple girls after the break up. Usually, people date other people once they are over their ex. Therefore, Adnan is innocent because of the murder because