Adnan's 'Guilty In Serial'

Sitting in a courtroom for a crime you didn’t commit, the future of your life depends on the jury and BOOM! You are in prison for the rest of your life and only 17 years old. On January 13, 1999, a senior of Woodland High School, Hae Min Lee was murdered by manual strangulation and later that year her ex boyfriend was convicted for first degree murder. He was convicted for a crime he did not commit. In the podcast “Serial”, explains this murder case with interviews, recordings from the trials, evidence, and even Adnan's perspective of everything based on this murder. In the podcast you never find out if Adnan is guilty or not but with all the evidence against him doesn't prove he killed Hae. Adnan Syed is not guilty.

The day Hae was murdered

is very messy and has many holes. Jay Wilds, the states key witness against Adnan, told the police everything that happened the day of the murder. Jay stated he helped Adnan bury Hae in Leakin Park after Adnan murdered her in broad daylight, at the Best Buy parking lot. Jay shows the cops where Hae's car was hidden too. At first Jay seems believable and seems like he is telling the truth but then his story starts to change.The evidence that ‘proves’ Adnan’s guilt, keeps changing. Jay's stories are very inconsistent. This makes Jay unreliable and and makes seem like a compulsive liar. Jay’s evidence against Adnan isn't much if he keeps twisting it around. Not only does Jay keep switching his story he also lied about a phone booth at the Best Buy parking lot. There is no record of there being a phone booth in the parking lot. The employees, landlord, and property manager don't recall there being a pay phone or phone booth. Another problem with Jay's story is that he knew about the murder even before the murder even happened when Jay and Adnan were smoking in the car. Now, Jay and Adnan were not close at all and would only would hit each other up to smoke. If Jay did know about the murder, why did he wait so long to tell the cops? Why would Adnan even have Jay, of all people, a guy he just smokes with, help him bury the body of Hae? These questions do arise in the podcast, Serial, because these points in this case are very questionable. This shows that Adnan is not guilty because this isn't reliable and very inconsistent evidence to convict someone of murder.
The whole entire murder case is a mess too, not only the day of it.

The timing of the murder according to the State had to happen between the time of 2:15-2:36. In Serial, Sarah Koenig, host and executive producer of Serial, actually recreates the steps Adnan did according to Jay’s story. Now the murder could of happen during this time and all the steps do fit from the time the bells ring from Woodlawn High School to the time Adnan ‘killed’ Hae. The big problem with this timeline is that Adnan would of have to have done everything perfectly, with no mistakes or delays, and that is impossible for someone to do that, especially Adnan. The State claiming this means Hae couldn’t of have fought back, there was no traffic, or even that Adnan can strangle her in a small amount of time, which is highly unlikely. Adnan could not have killed Hae in this amount of time. The timeline the State stated makes Adnan look not guilty due to the fact that he would have had to make the murder perfect and this murder case is not perfect at all but

messy.
After Adnan got convicted of this murder, a girl named Asia McClain that went to Woodlawn High School, started to write Adnan letters and stated that she was with him at the public library and two other people remember seeing him too.

Adana also states he remembered seeing her there too. She then later wrote an affidavit and it stated that they spoke for about 15-20 minutes and then she left around 2:40. The murder ‘happened’ at 2:36 so Adnan couldn’t have been ‘murdering’ Hae at this time if he was at the library. The ones who believe Adnan is guilty will say she undermined her own story but her story has so much details, she couldn’t of had made that up. She also wrote him letters stating what happened that day without anyone knowing so Asia claiming she only did it because the family was ‘forcing’ her to do so is false. The parents didn’t even know she existed until Adnan mentioned the letters. This alibi shows Adnan is not guilty because he was at the library of the time Hae was

murdered.
Many people will say Adnan is guilty, the jury did say so, so it’s understandable to believe it, but the first jury believed the opposite, they believed he was not guilty but they had to let them go because they heard Christina Gutierrez, Adnan’s first lawyer, get called a liar by the judge. They shouldn't of have convicted Adnan of first degree murder because there was no physical evidence linking him to the murder. There was no DNA, no fibers, no hairs, nothing. The only physical evidence was Adnan’s fingerprints but they did go out so of course there is fingerprints in Hae’s car. The only evidence they really had was Jay’s story and that not enough to convict someone of murder. Adnan Syed did not kill Hae Min Lee and it's shown in all the evidence.