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. This podcast does raise some questions about America’s court system. Flaws in the case deal with disregarding a witness's testimony and not having physical evidence against the suspect. This would seem sketchy to almost anyone. Koenig uses different devices to achieve her goals. …show more content…
She interviews a variety of people who were involved in the case and friends of Hae Min Lee as well. Koenig looks into the case that was built against Adnan. The state believed he murdered Hae was that he wasn't supposed to be dating her at all since his parents were conservative Muslims. They used this against him in two ways. One way was that he had nothing left if they broke up and that Adnan would be outraged and kill her. Another way was that Adnan was a duplicitous liar and played a “good Muslim” at home. Koenig then later finds out that a “potential alibi” was left out of Adnan’s case since it conflicted with Adnan’s own alibi despite him not remembering what happened on that day. In other words, it was too late since he had already been …show more content…
She mentions "I'm not a detective or a private investigator...," and "I've not a crime reporter." She also says, "Now imagine you have to account for a day that happened six weeks back." Koenig is trying to make herself seem like she's unbiased. However, in the podcast, she starts trying to convince us that Adnan may be innocent. She does this by focusing on the flaws of the case built against Adnan and not vice versa. One example is the potential alibi of Adnan that was left out in the murder case against him. This shows that Koenig herself is being biased. This shows that she is only trying to push for own agenda of Adnan being innocent. She is achieving this agenda by profiting off another person's story. This isn't an ordinary story but also a misfortune. Profiting off a misfortune is a sign of greed and being apathetic. Her use of ethics and logical appeals are very convincing
One evening, a woman, Hae Min Lee was killed in the city of Baltimore in 1999. Apparently, Hae Min Lee’s ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed has been convicted, and has since been sentenced to life in prison, for the past 15 years. For fifteen years, he maintains to be innocent to this day. The perpetrator of Hae Min Lee’s murder is done by a third-party with the assistance of Jay, because Adnan was seen elsewhere at the time when Hae was supposedly killed.
This makes the audience think Adnan is evil and could have killed Hae. Another reason Adnan can be the killer is he because he is an EMT. Adnan is smart and quick, and can know how to strangle someone and bring them back to life if he wanted to. An EMT has lots of practice and skill with life and death situations. When Adnan was being interviewed, he first told the cops that he was driving his own car, but during a different time he said he was getting a ride from someone.
The Nisha Call was one of the important calls because it was one of the calls between noon and five p.m. During Jay’s two interviews and testimony, he also claims that Adnan had strangled Hae because she broke his heart. When detectives questioned Adnan he claimed to
Susane Abe Mrs. Milio English 11R 23 March 2015 Amanda Knox : In Depth of Controversy Guilty or Innocent There have been many questionable convictions that caused people to inquire its validity throughout history. The Meredith Kercher trial has been very well known and controversial. The case had attracted a large amount of public attention. Despite all the convictions and efforts, the accuracy of the trial is ambiguous.
When Adnan was in Hae'a car, he found a priority chance to strangle Hae, and then he called jay drive to school picking up him and buried Hae's body. After that, they went to Cathy's home. In Adnan's testimony, he stated that he did not stay with jay at that time because he was going to buy a birth day gift to jay's girl-friend, Sephanie. The star witness, Jay proofed that Adnan showed Hae's body to him and they buried the body. The opposing view of Adnan was murder said that Jay's testimony had changed several times, his story was incredible.
On January 15, 1999 highschooler Hae Min Lee was reported missing and weeks later found dead. She was a victim of murder and died by manual strangulation. Her ex-boyfriend Adnan was arrested for the murder. Adnan is still in prison today. Sarah Koenig is the narrator of Serial.
This made the police, and including Koenig to be suspicious of Jay, thinking this might be a lie. Adnan is innocent because of Jay’s inconsistency with the cell records and the cell towers. There were several parts in Jay’s story that he changed in his second testimony which led to many inconsistencies.” Adnan’s was the first case to use a Cell Tower Pinging Technology, which Jay’s story doesn’t corroborate with the times”(Serial Episode 4). This means that Jay was making a story up to try and convict Adnan
In January, 1999 a teenage girl was found murdered, and her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was found guilty on minimal evidence. The sentence of Adnan not only shook the entirety of the families and friends of Lee and Syed, but all of America in 2014 when Sarah Koenig started a podcast, titled Serial. Adnan Syed should not have been found guilty in 1999, and using sources from Serial, including a timeline that does not make sense and that has been changed many times, conflicting stories from people involved with the murder, and lack of evidence used to sentence Adnan Syed for being guilty. The first piece of evidence that the state proposed to the judge and jury was the timeline that Jay Wilds told police. In Jay’s statement to police at his first
Adnan could not have killed Hae. On January 13 Hae Min Lee was last seen around 3:00pm after school and her body was found in a woodsy park on February 9 and was identified two days later. The first suspect for the crime was her ex-boyfriend Adnan who was still attending high school. After the sloppy course of interrogations the jury found him guilty with the murder of Hae. But then what was the evidence that was used to lock Adnan up for his whole life, there was no physical evidence that Adnan killed Hae and secondly none of the stories that Hae's friend make are really truthful to what actually happened mainly referring Jay at this point.
In the process of Sarah Koenig’s journey to the truth, the audience is moved along with Sarah Koenig, to uncover the events and obstacles taken on Adnan’s physical journey. Sarah Koenig recreates the events of Adnan’s physical journey on the day of the murder and conveys it to the audience. Adnan claims his innocence which then triggers the thought, ‘Is it possible?’ Sarah Koenig quotes Adnan, “… It is virtually impossible if you consider the following facts…” The effect of the re-enactment helps the viewer understand the physical distance that the State alleges Adnan undertook.
First off, lets start off with Adnan’s alibi and what he was doing after school at the time of Hae’s murder. In the beginning of the time Adnan spent in jail, Adnan received letters from a girl called Aisah McClain. Let me just say first that Aisah and Adnan weren 't best friends or played important roles in each other’s lives, at all. Aisah McClain had nothing to benefit from writing these letters to Adnan. These letters indicate that Aisah had seen Adnan in the library right across
The most difficult thing an author can do when telling a story, is attracting an audience, and maintaining the audience’s engagement. In Serial, while telling the story of Adnan Syed, Sarah Koenigs attracts the audience with her purpose which is proving that Adnan Syed was wrongfully convicted and isn't completely guilty. Sarah maintains the attention of her audience by using emotional, and logical appeal, while also establishing credibility. In other words she uses the rhetoric made up of Pathos, Logos, and Ethos.
Asia claimed she saw him the day of the murder in the library while she was with her boyfriend and boyfriend’s friend. She also claims that they had a conversation that day. Also, he could be innocent because Jay’s testimony had multiple inconsistencies. For instance, in Jay’s testimony he talked about how he and Adnan went up to Patapsco State Park to smoke and that's when Adnan and him talked about Hae, but when he testified in court, the whole story on it disappeared like it never happened. Because of these inconsistencies, Jay is not a reliable source at all and should not be the main determining factor in whether or not Adnan is
This story alone ultimately convicted Adnan. No physical evidence was ever found. Reporter Sarah Koenig realized the patchy story of this case
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.