Imagine being a senior in the final year of high school--someone who plays sports, gets decent grades, and has many friends. Such a scenario is fairly common for many American students, as it was for eighteen year old Adnan Syed until he was arrested and charged with the murder of his ex-girlfriend. Syed’s case was relatively unknown beyond his local community; he was convicted and imprisoned. Then, a podcast called Serial came out, his story gained an incredible amount of attention, questions arose, and people started debating whether or not he really did commit murder. Despite the uncertainty that the podcast instigated among listeners, the evidence presented in the trial indicates Adnan Syed did, in fact, commit the murder and deserved his prison sentence. …show more content…
According to an article in Rolling Stone magazine, Syed’s guilt is clear due to incriminating evidence. Cell phone records indicate that on the night January 13, 1999, he was in the area where Lee’s body was located (McDonnell-Parry). Additionally, Jay Wilds, a primary witness and friend at the time, testified that on the day of Lee’s disappearance Adnan Syed was angry about his ex-girlfriend having started a new relationship with someone else and that he wanted to kill her (McDonnell-Parry). This reaction to her moving on further incriminated him because it gave him a motive to kill her (McDonnell-Parry). Through this evidence, the prosecuting attorneys presented a convincing argument against Adnan