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Determine if a person is guilty or innocent is a really hard point to answer or conclude. That is why in Serial by Sarah Koenig she is trying to give us evidence, events and stories to determine as a listener if Adnan, person being accused of murder is guilty or innocent. Just when the murder happen, people got the information that a 19 year old guy has been sent to jail with no more information that he was the one who made it. On this podcast Koenig is giving us events, information and new interviews, for listeners can determine if Adnan really do it. When a murder or an accident happen information and time to time events are really important to determine how happen and which person(s) are involved in. That's why in this podcast new information …show more content…
These all information that Koenig is giving through this podcast is really important for a listener perspective of the murder. In many parts of the podcast it was mention a phone call that was made just before the murder and that Hae was killed in some time between the phone call was lasted. Here is one part where the phone call was mention “which Jay has. And they say that must be the call Jay told the cops about. The one where Adnan call his own phone san say, come and get me. Im at Best Buy. You can see it on the call log. It just says ‘incoming.’ There’s no phone number attached to incoming calls. This 2:36 call was five seconds long. We get out a quarter, we put it in” (Serial E5). This quotes is showing how Jay and Adnan talked and agreed to find out in Best Buy that is the place where Hae was killed. The good part of is that this phone call was only told in the podcast Koenig did and was new for all the listeners of the podcast that was trying to determine who is the killer. New evidence is provided which is really helpful to final decisions. Also in the podcast there is many Jay's interviews where in each he changes the events.

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