The Podcast Serial: The Adnan Syed Case

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.

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.

Jay provides a plethora of information for the state that is just credible enough to ensure that Adnan would be convicted and not himself. Jay protecting himself in court is why Adnan receives such an unfair

In Serial it tells the audience how “Jay kept changing his story over and over again from yeah we went to a national park and smoked weed to No we went to Leakin Park smoked weed then we buried her body”. Why would Jay keep changing his story? Was he trying to protect someone or just himself? In Serial it also says that “Jay knew where the car was and there was a green patch of grass where it was found”.

He clearly lied to one of the officers, which is why he is guilty. Lying to an officer about something that significant, especially in this case is a big deal. Throughout all of the time that this investigation took place, Adnan lied to the police several more times. Although, some of those lies were not as weighted as that last one was. Most of the time, when people lie they try to at least make more of an effort to cover it up.

“(Serial.02.10). Sarah Koenig is the author of the Serial podcast and almost everyone that Sarah Koenig talked to said that he was just sad and that he wasn’t ever filled with rage or vindictiveness to the point where he would go and murder her. Adnan was a good kid, he did well in school,he had a job, and he volunteered at the mosque, so the State's motive doesn't stand in the eyes of anyone that knew Adnan. Adnan wasn't heartbroken when Hae and him broke up and this is shown when Saad says that “it was still proof that he wasn't obsessed with Hae. He wasn't.

Adnan Syed couldn’t have killed his former high school girlfriend, Hae Lee, 20 years ago: “I know it’s physically impossible for people to be in two places at one time.” Syed, the subject of Sarah Koenig’s hit podcast “Serial” and Amy Berg’s HBO docuseries “The Case Against Adnan Syed,” was convicted of killing Lee, his ex-girlfriend, in 1999. But McClain, who was never called to testify during the first trial, said she had a 20-minute conversation with Syed in their high school’s library at the same time prosecutors say Lee was murdered”. Another witness who testified to seeing Adnan was Rabia, She claims to have gone into the library and saw Adnan printing papers, they even managed to chat for a bit, As Koenig comments, “And she told me, that

Therefore, Adnan is innocent because he wouldn’t have a reason to kill her if they didn’t

One piece of evidence that proves that Adnan is innocent and that did not kill Hae Lee is Jay's inconsistencies in his stories and interviews when talking to the police. When Jay is being interviewed by the police he tells in chronological order what happened and what he remembers from that night when Hae Lee was murdered. Evertime Jay told his story a small detail or location would change and not match up with the original story. In Episode 4: Inconsistencies Jay is being interviewed by the police, they had asked “why would you lie about the location? ”. Jay responded with, “Because I’m

In this podcast, she story tells about the murder that occurred in January, 1999 in Baltimore County, Maryland in the United States of America. The victim, Hae Min Lee, a highschool teenager of Woodlawn High School was strangled to death. The police and prosecutors reviewed the evidence collected and concluded that Hae’s ex boyfriend, Adnan Syed committed the heinous act. Adnan was

This case has twists and turns with surprises that never allow the reader to catch their breath. In 1999 Hae Lin Min Lee was murdered, on February 25th, 2000, Adnan Syed, her ex boyfriend and fellow classmate, was convicted of her murder. The circumstantial evidence that was presented and ineffective counsel led to an unjust verdict. Racism and stereotypes shaped the outcome of this case tremendously. The justice system has failed many times, and yet again, the conviction and sentencing of Adnan Syed was the wrong verdict.

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.

Some people have concluded that Adnan Syed is guilty due to his poor memory and inability to provide evidence for his alibi during his testimony. The prosecution's case against Adnan Syed was primarily based on the testimony of Jay, a friend of Adnan who claimed that he helped him bury Hae Min Lee's body. However, Jay's testimony was inconsistent and changed several times throughout the investigation and trial. One of the most significant pieces of evidence that supports Adnan's innocence is the alibi witness, Asia McClain. In the discussion with Sarah Koenig and Rabia, a lawyer , Rabia explains what Adnan said to the audience, "He's like, the only thing I could offer is I remember there's a girl I go to school with.

One of Adnan’s best friends Saad stated in episode 2 of the podcast named “The Breakup” that Adnan had been talking to and dating multiple other girls and was “a player” just a month after him and Hae broke up, which shows that he was in no way obsessed with Hae and therefore had no reason to want to kill her. It has been argued by Hae’s friend Aiesha that the relationship was slightly obsessive on Adnan’s part, but since the couple had to keep their relationship a secret from their families as explained earlier, they wanted to be sure they spent as much time as possible together. Although some behaviors exhibited during the relationship seemed slightly overpowering, overall Hae and Adnan had a very typical relationship and there is no proof that the breakup was anything but a normal high school split, which gives absolutely no reason for anyone to believe Adnan would have killed Hae because

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.