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Who Is Sarah Koerig´s Serial?

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Serial by Sarah Koerig was the first podcast series to come to listeners. Released in October 2014. Sarah reported on the tragic case of a high school girl by the name of Hae Min Lee's random disappearance. She was found deceased in Leakin Park and Baltimore, Maryland in 1999. Sarah was brought into this case by somebody that was a friend of the person that was convicted. Adnan Syed was 17 years old and was sentenced to life in prison charged in the murder of Hae, his ex-girlfriend. Sarah decided to dig deep into the story and get the side of the “murderer” that everyone thought was the bad guy. Adnan is introduced and is instantly not the typical “murderer” that most people would say. He’s a nice, kind, charming fellow who seems to never be able to hurt a fly. Adnan tells his side of the …show more content…

With all this information, Sarah was able to build a strong foundation for this case. As the series continues, Sarah takes the audience through hell storms on whether or not Adnan actually committed this heinous act against Hae. Jay's story wasn’t consistent enough to point all fingers at Adnan. Jay's story changes plenty of times but is always ruled out. Mr. S also is a big piece to this case due to his claim. “I grabbed a beer out of my refrigerator. It was a 22-ounce Budweiser. I was drinking it on my way back to the school where I work at, and had to go to the bathroom, so I pulled over and I went further into the woods so nobody would see me urinate, and when I discovered what looked like a body–” (Leakin park, Sarah) Mr. S stopped at this random spot and went back exactly 127 feet back to do his business and mysteriously found Hae. Sarah continues to test her theories after this, trying to make sense of the evidence the state had vs. the actuality of the evidence. One of the main characters who also helped the state case was Cathy, a friend of

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Near the crime scene, the police found a tire impression cast, shell casings, blockbuster cases, a rolled condom, and a condom wrapper. Right next to Hae's Body were feathers, rope and a bottle of brandy. Her body was covered with dirt and leaves. Mr. S drank a 22oz Budweiser while on his way going back to the college where he had to make a pit stop to go to the bathroom. He went 127 feet into the forest to find a spot to pee where he saw a forty foot fallen tree on the ground and he then saw her body near it.

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According to the state’s timeline, at 2:36 pm on Wednesday, January 13, Syed had already strangled Lee in a Best Buy parking lot. However, both Syed and Lee had alibis. In fact, it’s impossible for either of them to have been there.

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Sarah then created a podcast dedicated to bringing attention to her case. Sarah conversed with many witnesses who had information about Hae’s murder. Sarah questioned Jay Wilds, who supposedly helped bury Hae. Adnan was clearly innocent

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The Undisclosed Podcast then discovered that Gutierriez may have actually requested testing of the DNA, but the request was mad too late. This could be seen as another example of Gutierrez's neglect for the case. Gutierrez continued to neglect the case; whether it was the alibi that Asia provided that could have finally cemented where Adnan was on the day Hae went missing, to her choice of not disputing the cell tower records because they records were stated by an expert to not be valid in a court of law. The question that must now be asked is: How many other cases have had these same flaws and therefore how many innocent people are in prison?

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January 13th, 1999 a 17-year-old girl named Hae is manually strangled, to death. Six weeks later Hae’s ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, is convinced of the murder. He is given a life sentence, plus thirty years, for his crime. Jay was the main witness at the trial. His story is as follows.

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These calls were discovered on February 18th after the police subpoenaed Adnan’s cell phone records. The records led to the questioning of Jenn on February 27th, who had met with the detectives after she had enough time to speak with Jay. She recalls that the night of January 13th Jay met with Jenn and expressed that he really needed to reveal a secret he had been keeping. The big secret being, “Adnan killed Hae.” Jenn, the next day with a lawyer and her mother alongside, she proceeded to provide the police with a motive for Adnan as she stated that, “Adnan said that Hae broke his heart.”

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Serial Podcast Evaluation The investigation lead by Sarah Koenig throughout the Serial Podcast effectively displays the inconsistencies in Jay Wild’s testimony while also providing other details, such as inaccurate call logs and lack of evidence, that convey how Adnan Syed was wrongfully convicted for the murder of Hae Min Lee. The audience is given different versions of Jay’s testimony regarding where and how Adnan allegedly murdered Lee throughout the various episodes of Serial. Within the episodes, the testimony changes frequently from small details to large, significant events. In Episode 4 entitled “Inconsistencies”, the drastic discrepancies between Jay’s various testimonies are finally revealed.

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There are many interview with Jay, Adnan, and other of his friends but who really is saying the truth to this case. The question everyone's asking is Jay saying the truth, he said everything he knew according to him, he didn’t stay quiet he went ahead and said it. Jay is blaming Adnan for Hae’s murder but in the other hand Adnan said the he didn’t do it. That he would never do a cruel thing such as that, he respects his family, his religious, and Hae. My confusion and my question is did Adnan really do it or not?

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Afterwards she notices the time it takes for the interview. Sarah and Jim believe that Jay worked with the investigators to clean up his story. This seems to be evidence not taken into consideration during Adnan’s case, which is why Sarah looked into it. This use of evidence or logos by Sarah helps persuade the audience to believe Adnan isn’t

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Adnan, as is said by Sarah Koeing, "Adnan was the kind of kid who would stand up when your parents came into the room, Ali said. At parties or events, he’d be the first one to ask, 'how can I help you, Aunty? Do you need help setting up those tables, Uncle?'"(Serial Transcript 11). Besides the moments when Adnan was kind to his friends or his family, it is clear as Sarah talks to him throughout the podcast that he truly doesn't know anything about Hae's murder. Sarah also spoke to Deirdre Enright a lawyer in a different, but similar, case, who said "...when you have an innocent

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However, the beginning ends with detectives interviewing Jay, an acquaintance of Adnan, who claims that Adnan repeatedly spoke about murdering Hae, and called him when he had supposedly

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Jay has the main picture drawn out right for the police to link the murder case to Adnan with the help of Adnan’s cell phone records. This is where the conviction starts. Adnan panicks as he get a certain phone call

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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.

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On October 3, 2014, a podcast by the name of Serial was released. The story of this podcast followed one woman’s journey to solve the murder of Hae Min Lee, a high school girl who was murdered in 1999. This woman’s name is Sarah Koenig. In the beginning, Sarah Koenig got a call from a woman named Rabia, whose brother was a good friend of Adnan's. She claimed that he was innocent.

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These two reasons are all that a person should need to believe that Adnan didn't have enough motive, or time, to kill Hae. Jays testimony sets the timeline and proves there is enough evidence, which is not presented by Adnan’s lawyer, to say Adnan is innocent by a straying story. The time period where Hae could've been killed does not match Adnan’s timeline. Jay, who is a convicted felon, was the only witness and is trusted to give a good story. Cristina Gutierrez, who was Adnan’s lawyer, had medical issues that distracted her from using useful information in his case.

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