Adnan's Murder Case Analysis
Almost 20,000 people in the U.S are incarcerated for crimes they did not commit. However, Adnan Syed is not one of these innocent people in jail. In Baltimore 1999, Adnan Syed was charged with the murder of Hae Min Lee. Adnan has claimed his innocence ever since, which sparked a great deal of interest in the public. In 2014, one American journalist, Sarah Koenig, explored Adnan's murder case. She studied the facts and interviewed several people from the case. Sarah created a podcast called Serial that discusses the evidence of a possibility that Adnan could be in jail while he is innocent. Except, Adnan's forgetfulness proves he's guilty since the timeline Jay provides also matches the cell phone records. Adnan doesn’t remember anything
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Some people suggest Jay had a motive to kill Hae because Adnan could’ve possible been flirting with Jay’s girlfriend. Except Adnan had more of a motive to kill Hae. Hae wrote Adnan a letter talking about their breakup which said, “You’re taking this too seriously” (Koenig, “The Breakup). Adnan was so upset after Hae broke up with him that she had to write him a letter to calm himself. Adnan became infuriated with Hae, which would make him a more reasonable suspect than Jay. Also, others may say Jay lied about his timeline since there were many inconsistencies, but really there are too many coincidences that determine Jay knows what happened. Jay told the detectives, “We buried the body in Leakin park” (Koenig, “The Alibi”). The cell phone records showed there were two calls in Leaking park that night from Adnan’s phone. Adnan said he had his phone that night which as too considerable of a coincidence that Jay could be lying since the cell phone calls matched his story. These pieces of evidence establish Adnan with a higher possibility of being the murderer of Hae.
Adnan Syed is guilty in the murder of Hae Min Lee and should be left in jail. With the Nisha call and the Leakin park call matching Jay’s timeline, there is no doubt Jay is a firsthand witness in this case. On top of that Adnan can’t recall anything that happened on the day of the murder, so he appears as if he is the only legitimate suspect of this
Some people suggest Jay had a motive to kill Hae because Adnan could’ve possible been flirting with Jay’s girlfriend. Except Adnan had more of a motive to kill Hae. Hae wrote Adnan a letter talking about their breakup which said, “You’re taking this too seriously” (Koenig, “The Breakup). Adnan was so upset after Hae broke up with him that she had to write him a letter to calm himself. Adnan became infuriated with Hae, which would make him a more reasonable suspect than Jay. Also, others may say Jay lied about his timeline since there were many inconsistencies, but really there are too many coincidences that determine Jay knows what happened. Jay told the detectives, “We buried the body in Leakin park” (Koenig, “The Alibi”). The cell phone records showed there were two calls in Leaking park that night from Adnan’s phone. Adnan said he had his phone that night which as too considerable of a coincidence that Jay could be lying since the cell phone calls matched his story. These pieces of evidence establish Adnan with a higher possibility of being the murderer of Hae.
Adnan Syed is guilty in the murder of Hae Min Lee and should be left in jail. With the Nisha call and the Leakin park call matching Jay’s timeline, there is no doubt Jay is a firsthand witness in this case. On top of that Adnan can’t recall anything that happened on the day of the murder, so he appears as if he is the only legitimate suspect of this