STATEMENT OF THE CASE On January 13, 1999. the defendant Adnan Syed (seventeen), lived in Baltimore County, Maryland and was accused of the murder of his ex girlfriend, Hae Min Lee (seventeen). Jay Wilds is involved in the crime, an acquaintance of Adnan who claims to have helped bury the body of Hae Min Lee. Stephanie Mcpherson, was Jay Wilds girlfriend at the time of the murder.
One of these friends was Adnan Syed, her ex-boyfriend and another popular kid. He was arrested and charged for her murder based on witness testimony from a distant friend, Jay Wilds. 15 years later, Sarah Koenig revisited the case to present in her podcast, Serial uncovering lots of evidence along the way. The evidence she finds both supports and opposes his guilty sentence but ultimately, the strongest evidence points to Syed being guilty, due to his weak alibi and the strength of the evidence opposing him.
Obsidian Mekediak Tyler Bonnette RD 117 19 Dec 2022 Rhetorical Analysis of Sarah Koenig’s ‘Serial’ Adnan Syed was convicted for the murder of Hae Min Lee February 25, 2000. Syed has claimed his innocence since he was arrested. Syed’s conviction was based on Jay Wilds’ testimony. Wilds claimed Syed had strangled Hae Min Lee, and convinced Wilds to help bury her body. Sarah Koenig’s initial purpose of creating the podcast ‘Serial’ and investigating the conviction of Adnan Syed for the murder of Hae Min Lee was to conclude if the state's case against Syed was flawed and in doing that, Koenig was successful.
In fact, I think it only further corroborates my theory that Jay killed Hae on his own and then pointed to Adnan. Because if you were in possession of your friend’s car and your friend’s phone, how would you make it look like your friend was with you? By calling someone in your friend’s phonebook whom you did not know. During the trial, the lawyers question Nisha about a time in which Adnan called her and then put Jay—at Jay’s insistence—on the phone to say hello. While Nisha confirms that such a call did happen, she is adamant that it was made from the adult video store where Jay worked.
The state also thinks Adnan probably did it as a revenge kill. After all, he did go against his religion and beliefs to date her. Adnan’s friends have to say he didn't really care that they broke up nor did his mood change he was the
Serial, a thrilling investigative journalism podcast by Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder, is about the Baltimore, Maryland murder, of Hae Min Lee in 1999. Hae Min Lee was a popular high school senior at Woodlawn High School. She disappeared after school on January 13th, 1999, and six weeks later her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for her murder. Sarah Koenig investigates her murder through this podcast and searches more about what exactly happened to Hae Min Lee. Koenig interviews Syed many times to figure out his innocence or guilt.
“The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.” These words are spoken by Plato, a Greek philosopher; they speak for many injustices we have in today’s world and related directly to Adnan Syed and his conviction. In the podcast Serial, investigated by Sarah Koenig, released in 2014, she captures the journey of Adnan Syed’s conviction and the murder of Hae Min Lee in Baltimore, Maryland in 1999. Although there are many factors that point fingers at Adnan being guilty of the murder of Hae Min Lee, many things have been uncovered which can prove otherwise. Adnan Syed was targeted because of his racial, religious, and cultural differences; this, along with his lack of motivation to kill Hae Min Lee and the inconsistent stories of the State’s
Anya Schultz, the author of a review titled Serial: A Captivating New Podcast, works to show how multiple narratives and stories can be manipulated and sometimes vastly misinterpreted. Serial, an intriguing, enthralling podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig, tells the story of Hae Min Lee, a young, beautiful, high school senior who was murdered in 1999. Lee 's case, as Koenig and Schultz point out, has a few missing pieces of information that were never accounted for. For example, how did the jury come to the conclusion that Lee 's ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was truly guilty? Why did Syed 's lawyer forget to mention the letter from his acquaintance Asia McClain that could have polished his alibi?
Adnan could not have killed Hae he gave up so much for their relationship. They loved each other. deeply They had there problems like every other relationship, and they always fought broke up then got back together. In the end they always got back together. In Hae's diary she is always talking about their relationship, and how much she loved him.
A journey offers life changing experiences, in which challenges can dictate one’s path. Physical journeys involve the identifying of the new and exploring the changing environments, which leads the explorer on fresh new experiences. The process of physical journeys and inner journeys allows the protagonists to reflect on the impact of the trip. This is done through a variety of audio and visual techniques which are present in both Barry Cook’s Film Mulan 1998 and The Serial Podcasts, by Sarah Koenig.
There are some things that people like to keep private. Also, there are some things that people want to bring to public light. People either do this for fame, glory, and money or they feel the need to give us knowledge about something that happened in the past. Sarah Koenig did an open podcast about the death of Hae Min Lee without asking the permission of her family. However, she looks into the case built against Hae’s ex-boyfriend, Adnan and finds several flaws in it.
Finally, I would like to look at a podcast called Serial. The first season of Serial follows the murder of a high school senior Hae Min Lee in 1999. After searching for six weeks, her body is found buried in the local park. Her ex-boyfriend, Adnan, is arrested and charged with her murder. However, Sarah Koenig, host of Serial, believes there is something fishy about the case from the start.
This proves that Adnan was the one who killed her. Jay and Adnan both committed a serious crime. Adnan killed Hae with the help from
Putting these circumstances aside, it was said by many that the relationship was pretty typical and Adnan got over the breakup easily. This was said by teachers and friends of both Hae and Adnan. One of Hae’s friends, Becky, explained the relationship as “just a silly, teenage, high school, relationship” (Koenig “The Breakup”) which proves that Adnan was not as upset as the prosecution made him out to be at trial. Another notable aspect is that after Hae and Adnan broke up, Hae got in a small car accident and asked Adnan to come help her, her new boyfriend Don also showed up and confirms that him and Adnan had a cordial meeting and explains that they talked for 10 to 15 minutes even after the car situation had been figured out (Koenig “What We Know”). If Adnan was really that broken up about the breakup, he would not have been so friendly towards the new guy who seemed to take his place in Hae’s life.
These people say that since Hae broke up with Adnan and that was enough reason to want her dead. However, Adnan was a smart kid who would realize that killing someone for breaking up with you is not a valid reason. Adnan was not hurt enough to kill Hae; he was devastated when she died and he didn't know about it when he was told. Also, they say that Adnan had enough time to kill Hae. What this opinion fails to take into account is that Asia saw Adnan at the library around the same time of the murder and she was never used in court as an alibi (Koenig, “The Best Defense is a Good Defense”).
