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The Case Of Adnan Syed

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In 2015, 149 people were cleared for crimes they didn’t commit after serving years of time (Ferner). In this case, Adnan Syed isn’t that lucky. In January 1999, Hae Min Lee went missing and was later found dead in Leakin Park. Authorities charged Adnan Syed, Hae’s ex-boyfriend, for her murder. But here’s the catch. Authorities did not confront Adnan until six weeks after Hae was found. As you can imagine, the memory was hazy for Adnan from six weeks ago. This story was given to us through the podcast called Serial. The narrator in this podcast is Sarah Koenig; this series of podcasts drew attention to Adnan’s case. Jay Wilds, Adnan’s friend, testified that he helped Adnan bury Hae's body and he knew all the details. But Jay’s story had many inconsistencies. Also, many people testified that Adnan was a great guy who has never been in a fight. Lastly, Adnan Syed was seen during the time frame he was supposedly killing Hae. Asia McLean wrote …show more content…

Some argue this because if there wasn’t an actual murder committed by Adnan, then Jay wouldn’t know these important details. However, this knowledge provided by Jay could just be proving that Jay is the murderer. For example, Jay claimed he refused to help dig the hole for Hae’s body, but then he claimed he did help dig the hole (Koenig, “Inconsistencies”). That is such a big detail that you would think is hard to forget or mess up. Well, he could have just been saving himself but he was already tied into the murder when he talked with the detectives. Another example that sticks out is how Jay knew where Hae’s car was (Koenig, “The Deal With Jay”). This proves that Jay knows more about the murder than he probably should. These two pieces of evidence, along with many others, prove that Jay has had more involvement in the murder than we think. These details could prove that Jay is guilty instead of Adnan and he just pinned it on

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Jay states he was at Cathy's house with Adnan “before they went to bury her body. It was about six o’clock at night.” This quote proves that Jay was involved in the murder. He clearly wouldnt have admitted that he murdered Hae and burried her body. By saying he only helped bury the body would relieve the possiblity of him being the murderer because he now shows evidence that he was together with Adnan.

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On January 13, 1999, Hae Min Lee went missing; she was expected to pick up her little cousin from kindergarten. Then on February 9, 1999, Hae’s was body was discovered in Leakin Park in Baltimore City, Maryland; her cause of death as manual strangulation. Police arrested her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed on February 28. On February 25 of 2000, Syed was convicted of first degree murder and then in June 6, he was sentenced to life plus 30 years. From what was presented at trial, I do not believe Adnan Syed killed Hae Min Lee.

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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.

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In his version of the story, he is the only one who can fully account for Adnan's whereabouts, however, his claims of the “hours between noon and six pm on the call logs do not match Jay's testimony” (Episode 10). The state is very Adamant that Hae Lee was dead by 2:36 pm that day, which is smack dab in the middle of when Jay's story does not match the call logs, so how does Jay know Adnan committed the murder?

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Adnan Syed who is now 35, was sentenced to life in 1999 for the murder of his girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Was he innocent or guilty? Syed was blamed guilty but in the podcast Serial, the host Sarah Koenig discovers many things about the day of the murder and different sides of the story. Adnan Syed is innocent. As Sarah Koenig interviews the friends and family of Adnan Syed she learns lots of information the judges and detectives decided to disregard.

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Let’s Get Serial: The Unsolved Story of Woodland High School’s Murder Back in 1999, on January 13th right after school lets out in Baltimore city, Hae Min Lee’s life is taken from her. The holes and unanswered questions in her case make it intriguing, and confusing to answer who did it?

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Can you imagine yourself killing another person? Better yet forgetting that you did! Adnan is guilty! Adnan was a 17 year old Muslim male in high school who had a reputation as a good student. But later he was convicted to the charge of his ex girlfriends murder.

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The evidence that the state had on Adnan failed to provide an alibi, the cell phone evidence, Jay Wilds' testimony, and that Adnan had motive to kill her. Why was there so much evidence that wasn’t tested? They didn’t test DNA that would have been on Hae’s body. If you were being strangled, would you just let it happen or would you fight back?

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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.

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Adnan claimed he possessed his phone at this time which shows he was with Jay. Jay knows what Adnan did at this time making him a credible witness. These calls matching Jay’s story proves his timeline is the truth about Adnan killing

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There were other possible alibis and witnesses that could have proved Adnan did not kill Hae, but detectives did not look into them well or not at all. Jay was the State’s main witness. He provided a motive to the police, lead the detectives to Hae’s car, saw Hae’s body, and was Adnan during the majority of the day. (Episode 1, 2, and 4). Jay was there with Adnan when he was talking about killing Hae and why he wanted to.

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She states “A year after Adnan was arrested and the case came to trial, Jay walked up to the witness stand. There’s a moment when Adnan muttered something to him” (45). By Adnan calling Jay pathetic he showed that he couldn’t believe Jay would rat him out. This incident shows that Adnan is a liar and is mad at Jay for going to the police, showing that he is guilty. Even after controlling himself through the whole case he snapped when he saw the man that betrayed him.

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In court, the state of Maryland uses Jay’s testimony to prove Adnan’s innocence. Police interview Jay multiple times before the trial. In each of the interviews, Jay testifies differently. “In the first taped interview, Jay says Adnan only told him that same day that he was going to kill Hae. Two weeks later, Jay says that Adnan had started talking about it beforehand - four or five days before”(Episode 4. 00:25:39-00:25:51).

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When Lee broke it off, their friends had conflicting interpretations of Syed 's behavior: he was either cool with it, sad, or in a rage, leading some to believe that he conspired to kill her. Lee went missing in on the afternoon of January 13th, 1999, in Baltimore and Six weeks later, her body is discovered in Leakin Park. Serial 's goes over "follows up on long-dormant leads, rechecks alibis, and questions assumptions." During interrogation, it becomes clear that Adnan cannot seem to

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