Sarah Koenig's Murder Case

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Admittedly some people think Adnan is guilty of the murder. People think that because when Adnan was in highschool he used to smoke weed with his friends. However that does not prove anything because other times Adnan always went to track practice after school. All the people around him says he’s a nice person. So therefore there’s no reason for Adnan to kill Hae Min Lee.

However, Adnan Syed did not kill Hae Min Lee. Tons of evidence supports the fact that Adnan is truly innocent. He loved Hae, they loved each other. He had no motivation to kill her, he had other girls and he had other friends. Adnan was very lovable and no one would think to believe that

The case of Adnan Syed became very popular after the journalist Sarah Koenig made a podcast with her group and collected all the information that related to Syed’s case. Sarah and her team made many interviews with Syed’s friends and the people who related to the case. The trial convicted that Syed had killed his ex-girlfriend. Many of Syed’s friends believe that Syed is not guilty. Also, many people who did not personally know Syed and read the case about him think he was not guilty. Other people see he involved in the case, so he is guilty. There are many doubts about the court's decision to imprison Syed lifetime. These doubts made this case mysterious. Syed may be not guilty if the detective, prosecutor, and the jury

One hole is Jay Wilds’ interview. Jay allegedly helped Adnan bury Hae’s body. The police did not have any supporting evidence just Jay’s testimony. It was as though Jay’s word was more reliable than Adnan’s. If a onlooker only heard parts of Serial, they would think that Jay and Adnan were best friends. However, that was not the case. In the words of Jay, they did not have a “real friendship.” (Vargas-Cooper, "Exclusive: Jay, Key Witness from 'Serial' Tells His Story for First Time, Part 1”) They just smoked together about two or three times. If that is true, why would Adnan ask someone who is not his “real friend” to help him bury a body? Or even mention to Jay that he was going to kill Hae? There is some suggested evidence that Jay could have been prejudice against magnet students at Woodlawn High School. Adnan was a magnet student. Jay said that he resented the school because the school added a magnet wing and received better stuff. He said, “ These people [magnet students] were different from us, and they didn’t have to interact with us…but their gym, lockers, parking, was down in the magnet wing. And I found that to be a bit of slap in the face.” (Vargas-Cooper, "Exclusive: Jay, Key Witness from 'Serial' Tells His Story for First Time, Part 1”) It could be that Jay was jealous of Adnan that he framed Adnan for the murder of Hae. The justice system seems to just let

It was July 10 2015 a very sunny afternoon when a Waller county cop came in contact with a young woman named Sarah Bland. Pulling her over the cop’s accused Sarah bland of not having her turn signal on when trying to switch lanes to the right. Furthermore after that the cop asked MS. bland for her license and registration. In light of that happening, he walked back to his car to do some paper work. Uniquely a few minutes later the officers come back to the car to ask MS. bland what’s the matter. Likewise responding back, She replied I did nothing wrong. In addition to saying I was simply trying to get over to move out of your way. At the same time the officer asks MS bland can you please put out your cigarette? Above all, with Ms. Bland not putting out her cigarette the cop became crazy. Despite knowing her rights the officer says step out the car with your hands up.

There is definitely an abundance of inaccuracy in stories and time lines, leading to many questions and theories of what truly happened on the 13th of January, 1999. On that January day Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School, was supposedly murdered by Adnan Syed. This murder case has many suspects and witnesses, but the star witness was Jay Wilds. Jay’s testimony was crucial for the state to bring Adnan Syed to trial. Although the state used Jay’s testimony, that doesn't mean it was truthful or correctly used in a court of law. Jay’s testimonies, stories, and statements in fact have many contradictions and changes. The difference in the stories Jay gives are going lead many to questions to why the court used his story to put Adnan Syed

Sarah Koenig, author, composer, and detective of “serial” a podcast about the case of Adnan Syed, gave me the choice to decide who committed the crime. After careful examination, I have decided that he didn’t commit the crime. Jay was a low life criminal, the guy you go to when you get in trouble, but

After investigating, it is clear that Adnan is innocent of the murder of Hae Min Lee because when they broke up, he had no anger, he did not know what the place was on where she was killed, and of how Mr. S, a suspect saw the body which was not visible to anyone other than him. First, one reason that Adnan Syed might be innocent is because when they both broke up, Adnan was not mad or anything and took it with no anger. Sarah Koenig, the narrator of Serial claims to say that when they broke up, they took the breakup like anyone would quoting, “But nearly everyone I’ve spoke with, Adnan’s friends and teachers say he took the breakup like anyone would” (Episode 2, pg. 36). This shows that after they broke up, he took the breakup like anyone would without anger. If he took the breakup with no anger or fury, why would he have taken his anger out (when

On February 9, 1999, Lee's body was found by a passerby in Leakin Park. On February 1, 1999, the Baltimore County Police received an anonymous phone call suggesting that Lee's ex-boyfriend, Adnan Masud Syed, was responsible for her murder, and that Syed had threatened to kill Lee On February 3, Baltimore Police received call records for a cell phone belonging to Syed. They noticed a number of calls on the day of Lee's disappearance to a woman named Jen Pusateri. When questioned, Pusateri told police that a friend of hers, Jay Wilds, who had known Syed from high school, told her that Syed had killed Lee. The police questioned Wilds, who told them that he had helped Syed bury Lee's body and dispose of her car. Syed was arrested on February 28, 1999, and charged with first degree murder. Officers also interviewed the man that discovered the victim's

Even I can’t remember what I was doing on that exact time yesterday or the day before that and the day before that. We just aren’t capable of easily remembering things like that without it having great significance. My point is, if Syed did not kill Lee then it is perfectly normal for him to not recall any memories of that exact time of that day. There was nothing significant about what he said he was doing after school. His afternoon from what he described seem mundane and showed n significance. The ones who can remember seems to be his classmates and all of their statements connect. He was at the library checking his email during that time of the day. Even the vendor by the gym where Lee regularly buys her snack dismissed the accusation that Syed was with her in her car in that time period. I am no detective nor a professional but someone either Jay or Syed is lying. And I think it’s Jay who is lying. Syed may not be able to recall a time period but Jay’s statement seems to be inconsistent. And the whole trial was about he said-she said. There was no tangible evidence of the crime scene that can point to anyone. The State's’ case was purely derived from the possible motive of a heartbroken, sad, and angry

With over five million downloads Serial is one of the most listened to podcasts. It is narrated by Sarah Koenig who looks at the murder case of eighteen year old Hae Min Lee. Hae disappeared on January 13, 1999, after failing to pick her younger cousin up from school. Six weeks later on February 9, 1999, her body was found among with dozens of others in Leakin Park. The cause of Hae’s death was manual strangulation which later resulted in the arrest conviction of her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed. Syed has been sentenced to life plus thirty years of imprisonment.

In a board game, a player can go forward two steps yet find themselves going back three steps. This is what Sarah Koenig has to deal with, in the podcast, Serial that she produces. Every time that she gets a lead there’s always something that does not fit, pushing her back to the beginning. Sarah is trying to discover what really happened with the murder of Hae; however, there is an abundance of theories of what people think happened. The main one being that Adnan killed Hae, and this is what the court’s final theory was. That is not true since, Jay killed Hae Min Lee and Adnan was an accomplice on January 13th, 1999.

On January 13th, 1999, a teenage girl named Hae Min Lee was reported missing in Baltimore, Maryland. Nearly a month later, her ex-boyfriend, 17-year-old Adnan Syed was charged with her murder and sentenced to life in prison. The case was put to rest. However; uncertainty still surrounds this case. The one question that still needs to be answered is; did Adnan Syed really kill Hae Min Lee? The “Serial” podcast, hosted by Sarah Koenig attempts to answer this question. The in-depth analysis that the Serial podcast provides draws attention to the numerous flaws that the State’s case consists of. The lack of forensic reports, the alibi provided by Asia McLean and the inconsistencies of Jay’s testimonies all point to one, logical answer to

The purpose of this paper is to discuss and analyze the practices conducted by law enforcement during the investigation of the murder of Ashley Smith. The following pages will discuss the crime scene investigation, the evidence collection, the investigative steps following the initial crime scene investigation, the interviews of witnesses and suspects, and other strategies performed by the acting case investigators. Constitutional challenges have surfaced regarding specific pieces of critical evidence and a section of this paper will analyze the admissibility of this evidence. Lastly this case’s law enforcement processes will be contrasted with textbook processes in an effort to determine the validity of the case’s outcome.