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This paper will consist of an analysis of the case presented in the podcast Serial. The podcast Serial is based on a first degree murder case in Baltimore, Maryland, USA that took place on January 13th, 1999. The case consisted of Adnan Syed, a 17-year-old Muslim boy attending his final year of high school being charged with the first degree murder of his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. 16 years later, Adnan is adamant that he did not commit the crime, however he is still serving a life sentence for her death. In relation to the case, alibi believability, polygraphs, psychopathy, interrogations, inconsistencies within Jay’s story and confessions will be discussed throughout this paper.
The evidence will show that the State's main witness, Jay Wilds, who was allegedly involved in the aiding of the victims murder, is an unreliable witness. Jay’s testimony has many inconsistencies and misleading information. During Jay’s interrogation with the police, he changes multiple parts of his story. The following are a few of the modifications the witness made, one Jay states to have refused to help in the digging of the victims grave but later reforms his story and states he did. Two, Jay told police Adnan informed him about his plan to murder Ms. Lee the day the murder occurred but later alters his story and says Adnan had frequently mentioned killing her.
In Janet Malcolm’s book the Journalist and the Murderer uses element of nonfiction where it gives an observation of the relationship between writer Joe McGinnis and convicted murder Jeffery Macdonald. The elements that Malcolm focuses on through out the paper include the characterization on how McGinnis acted towards MacDonald to earn his trust and change his view of the story; as well as MacDonald as a character himself and McGinnis character no longer having a connection to his subject. Malcolm also focuses on the element, scene versus exposition through out the piece to help give her analysis between the two people as she becomes more involved with the journalist and the Murderer. The characters of MacDonald and McGinnis as told
These statements show how she was not able to stick with one story about the place that she came from to the spot of her father’s dead body; rather, she kept changing her story which proves that she was guilty of the murder. These are some examples regarding Lizzie’s strange behavior by giving different answers to the same question which proves her guilty of the
Homicides are unlike many others, since one’s intentions are discrete as soon as they have a reason to murder. Threatened obligations are innumerable due to the character's personality and their way of thinking into certain circumstances, although a distinct detail can affect the situation. When little to none consequences have any impact to the “murderer” who caused victim's injury, or death, they are responsible regardless of what their intentions are. For instance, a distressed officer, U.S. Marshal Edward Mars, pleaded to end his miserable life due to the pain he was suffering from the shrapnel. Everyone in the camp suggests the cruel deed.
In this chapter, narrator O 'Brien talks about how the men in the platoon were looking for Kiowa 's body after the rain had partially ceased. We find three different perspectives in the chapter: Lieutenant Jimmy Cross 's, the young soldier 's, and the rest of the men in the platoon. This quote belongs to Jimmy 's perspective. In it, we readers sense his feeling of guilt for loosing one of the men of his Company because he feels that Kiowa 's death was his mistake due to his lack of intuition that something bad could happen near the shit field and his lack of courage for refuting the higher
The murder notes were Frank’s idea, Conley testified, “Frank dictated the notes to me”. The defense had several goals, first they hoped to cast serious doubt on the prosecution’s time line. Second, the defense planned to produce a series of character witnesses who, they
This piece of text is suspenseful to the reader because the reader does not know where the narrator is or what time period this event
The Unnamed narrator, an algebra teacher in Harlem, reads of the arrest of his younger brother Sonny on claims of selling and using Heroin. The narrator is deeply disturbed the thought of his brother reminds him of his algebra students. He realizes that his students might end up like his brother someday given the obstacles and obstacles they encounter at Harlem. What the narrator believe is that Sonny succumbed to the destructive influence of Harlem life. To some extent the narrator feels that he is responsible for whatever happened to Sonny because he is a victim.
One sign of the narrator being insane is that he has impulsive behavior. For example, the narrator says, “First of all, I dismembered the corpse, I cut off the head, and the arms, and the legs, or … works as well” (12). This means that he cut off the body without thinking about it beforehand. Furthermore, the narrator also says that he did not just leave the body there, but hid it too. All of this matters because it was a very sudden action
Details that only the killer would have known. Then the killer went on and
In a passage, when a narrator is personally involved in an event it is more effective for the story being told. First when the narrator is more personally involved in a story it gives the reader more of a chance to figure out the other side of the story. Also, it allows the reader to see the narrator's point of view of the event or story happening. A narrator being involved with the story makes it much better.
Throughout the story, three major details of the narrator’s psyche are confirmed. First, we learned of the narrator’s deceitfulness. Every morning he lies to the old man with the least bit of guilt. The next continues to prove the madness as the narrator feels utter joy from the terror of another. Lastly, the narrator fabricates that the old man is simply not home to assure the officers.
This man will to try to convince this court that his is innocent of murdering his aunt, who treated him like a son. However, Devon Emmerson has no alibi, money matching the exact amount of cash from the church offering was sound in Emmerson’s house, and shoe prints from the scene of the crime match only to his
All characters are accused and redeemed of guilt but the murderer is still elusive. Much to the shock of the readers of detective fiction of that time, it turns out that the murderer is the Watson figure, and the narrator, the one person on whose first-person account the reader 's’ entire access to all events depends -- Dr. Sheppard. In a novel that reiterates the significance of confession to unearth the truth, Christie throws the veracity of all confessions contained therein in danger by depicting how easily the readers can be taken in by
