The next day she goes to the cops and tells them that Jay told her Adnan killed Hae. On February 28, Jay gets interviewed by detectives, he tells them everything he knows; how Adnan showed him the body and then leads them to Hae’s car, this proves that Jay was at the scene. But Jay's story changes, the next time he is asked by the detectives he admits to assisting Adnan with burying the body, he later tells Jenn that he needs to clean up the shovels and that he needs her help. These inconsistencies make it hard to believe that he is a solid witness, he doesn't change his story once but multiple times. He tells the Cops that he is sure the murder happened at the Best Buy parking lot and that Adnan later called him from a payphone there, he draws detectives a map of the location of the payphone but when you look through the blueprints and ask the primary and recent owners, no one has ever seen a payphone outside at the parking lot. Before we go any further we need to know the time of the murder, the state's timeline is from 2:15-3:30 pm, this is when Adnan went from Woodlawn High school to Best Buy and between all this still had time to kill Hae, the problem with this is that it's nearly impossible. Investigators Sarah and Dana tested the State's timeline, they accounted for the traffic of getting out of…
Eyewitness testimonies are considered unreliable and were neglected for helping gather evidence in Steven Truscotts case. There are two witnesses that provided evidence that indicates that a car could have been present where Lynn Harper was rapped. George Edens found Lynn Haper's body and said you could see car skid marks. Bob Lawson said he saw a car parked near spot but he had never seen a car there before. This all corresponds with Steven Truscotts statement that he left Lynn Harper near highway 8 and saw her get into a car. Jocelyne Godette who was 13 provide the police with evidence that did not match up. She testified that she went to the bush looking for Steven that evening because they had a date. But previously she had said she went looking for Lynn. She also asked a local farmer to change his stament to match up with hers. People believed Jocelyne even though her evidence was false and made Steven look responsible . Gordon Logan who was 12, told police he looked up from fishing and saw Steven and Lynn ride across the bridge. Then, shortly afterwards he saw…
On February 25, 2000 Adnan Syed’s world came crumbling down around him. Adnan was convicted to life plus thirty years for the murder of his high school ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Although Adnan was convicted, he is not guilty. The prosecution's case was shaky and was built around one witnesses constantly changing testimony. The witness was Jay Wilds, the neighbourhood drug dealer and a former schoolmate of Adnan’s. As well as the prosecution's main witness being unreliable, the cell phone tower data that they used to convict Adnan says on the cover sheet that the cell phone data from incoming calls can't be used to reliably and precisely locate a cell phone. Lastly, the autopsy report of Hae Min Lee showed fixed frontal lividity, the phenomenon…
Its January 13th and Hae leaves school around 3pm to pick up her younger cousins from their school, a responsibility she takes rather seriously. But, she never shows. Hae’s parents now become concerned as Hae is nowhere to be found, they call the cops. The cops begin their investigation by asking a few familiar faces about Haeś whereabouts. Roughly a month later on February 1st, 1999 the police investigating Hae's death received an anonymous call from a person who still remains a mystery to this day, saying ¨Look at the Ex-boyfriend, Adnan. He did it¨. Adnan and Hae dated for a while prior to her murder,…
First of all, Adnan has an alibi that, according to cellphone records, Hae was dead by 2:36 P.M, and Asia McClain clearly remembers…
In Serial, Adnan is betrayed by those around him and falsely convicted for the murder of Hae Min Lee, showing that Adnan should deserve a retrial. First, the police interrogates Jay a lot. One of the days Jay was interrogated, 3 hours of the interrogation was not recorded. Jay has something new to say every time with a different version of a story. In this 3 hours Jay probably had said many things. In those stories there might have been crucial amount of info that could have helped but was not recorded. Second, the prosecutor maybe turned on Adnan and helping Jay. A question sparked people's attention when Jay was asked how he attained a lawyer. It was strange about how he attained a lawyer. Jay claimed he was not allowed to get one until…
In the tapes of Jay’s interview with investigators the listener often hears a tapping noise. That tapping noise isn’t made by Jay, but by the investigators. The investigators aren’t shy about giving away certain details or wording the question differently so that Jay ends up saying what they want to hear. While it is a serious allegation to point the fingers at the cops for trying to twist the truth or come up with their own story, it is not unlikely for police to do such a thing. In Undisclosed episode three, author Susan simply clearly states what she thinks is really going on in the tapes with Jay and the detectives, “The detectives are repeatedly bullying Jay into giving answers that they want. The detectives will tell Jay that he needs to give a certain answer, and again and again Jay complies. He does say what they tell him to say, and it’s not that subtle either.” Jay was only looking out for himself, he didn’t care if Adnan got charged with Hae’s murder. He and the detectives were determined to have their story made to look credible by Jay so that they could convict…
Adnan is in jail and knowing that he may or may not have done it, but Jay changed his story over and over, and Adnan said the same story and didn't change anything and when he thought of something he told them what he remembered. When someone asked Jay if he said something that he said before he would say that he didn't say that, which he did he changed his story to make him look innocent when he probably isn't. Jay should of got sometime in jail instead of no time because they didn't even think of when he helped Adnan dig the hole they didn't ask Adnan if he helped him or not they just went off of what Jay said and what Jay said probably isn't right.…
Is Adnan guilty? Adnan is not guilty because it is possible that he did not have enough time to kill Hae. The day she went missing was around Ramadan, so he would have had a busy schedule including the holiday which demonstrates he didn’t have time to kill her. He would never have any private moment to kill her since the parking lots at school and Best Buy are always busy. In the podcast, Koenig reads an excerpt of the letter she received from Adnan, There are 1500 other students filling the hallways and stairwells of a four story building.…
Come get me. I’m at Best Buy.” ( Koenig Episode 1) After Jay met up with Adnan at Best Buy Adnan showed Jay Hae’s body laying in the trunk. Adnan tells him that he needs to go to track practice to make an appearance so that he doesn’t look suspicious and then later meet up to barry the body. Later on Jay then changes his story and then when the police say something to him about it he says, “Like I said, he knows I sold drugs, I mean...that was, I mean, that’s...he could get me locked up for that, I mean. I’m sure if I ratted him out for killing Hae, then he wouldn’t hesitate to turn me over for selling drugs.” (Koenig Episode 4)…
The next point on why Adnan is guilty is because of Jay's solid testimony. Jay shows police exactly where hae's car is and leads them to it . ("Once they're finished at headquarters, they all drive out in the middle of the night to where the car is parked, on a grassy hill behind some row houses off Edmondson Avenue. Within a few hours, they'll have a warrant for Adnan's arrest.") Jay knew exactly where Hae’s car was and shows the police exactly where its at. Jay had a big role in this murder and Adnan is still acting like nothing happened. Jay might have some inconsistencies, but he is very consistent with his information and perspective of this whole mess. While in Serial Sara try’s and make him look like a big time drug dealer to try and…
This report will critically overview and analyse the initial police response of the 1993 Stephen Lawrence murder investigation, covering all aspects of an investigation and how it’s meant to be pursued. It will highlight key steps that were not meet by the initial response in the Lawrence investigation including the ‘five building blocks’, the ‘Golden hour(s)’, appointment of an Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) and then these key principles will be critically compared to that of the Lawrence investigation and using relevant academic sources. The MacPherson Report (1999) will be looked at in relation to these key principles as this report was the main inquest into the failings of the police in the Stephen Lawrence Murder investigation. Also whether the incident was meant to be classed as a critical incident or not will be discussed as this can affect the initial response of the police and their investigation.…
When the outgoing call to Nisha from my cell phone was used to prove that my acquaintance, Jay, and I were together at the time of Hae’s death, I was immediately shocked as I was in school during that time. Sarah Koenig, the writer of Serial, who has been researching my case, believes she has found a few viable explanations as to why this call does not in fact link me to Hae’s murder. My 2:23 second outgoing call to Nisha went to her answering machine but Nisha said she didn’t have one. Koenig researched and found that I was charged for the call, supporting the fact that the call was unanswered, as it was over 30…
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of Jaycee’s imprisonment, but never found anything amiss. Philip was a sick man, and obviously…