Version 1: Jay didnt help bury the body. Related: 7 addictive podcasts to listen to once you're done with Serial. In 2020 Serial joined the New York Times Company. Hae had also told her confidante, French teacher Hope Schab (32p), about the new relationship, as well as Inez Butler, a teacher and athletics instructor (12p) at the school. Cookie Notice Jay arrived to find Adnan with Haes car. 2023 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. But Jay spoke to the Intercept's Natasha Vargas-Cooper. Then, he did not tell anyone, even after Haes body was found and the car was advertised as key evidence in a murder case. Adnan arrived at Jays house. Adnan Syed was wrongfully convicted for the murder of Hae Min Lee because of the lack of evidence beyond reasonable doubt, the manipulation by Cristina Gutierrez, and a failure to pursue information that could have acquitted Adnan or diminished his punishment. Nobody remembered seeing Haes car leave campus on the 13th; nobody had any reason to do so. The other thing to understand is something about the culture of Baltimorethis is where the Stop Snitching video comes from. Just after 1.00pm, Jay dropped Adnan off at school, and left with Adnans car and cell phone. She told friends that she had spent the night (2p) at Dons house early in the week of January 11th; Don also confirmed (88p) that they had been intimate shortly before she was killed. Prosecutor Kathleen Murphy told the jury (8p) that Hae was dead in 20 to 25 minutes from when she left school. This claim has since become a major point of contention in Adnans case. According the Chaudry, the boot of the car in which Jay claims Hae's body was put in was never even tested for DNA. Her position from the photo mirrored the description given by Jay. Adnan smoked marijuana, which was not uncommon among suburban high-school students in 1999. SK goes on to dismiss that Jay says this. She showed up on his doorstep one day and begged him to talk for her series. Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be preferred. Adnans house was nearby, so they interviewed him first in the presence of his father. Soon after Jay got into Jenns car, he told her that Adnan had strangled Hae. The official line has long been that the Baltimore police department narrowed their attention to Adnan Syed because they received an anonymous tip-off. On cross-examination, Kevin Urick got Saad to admit (4041p) that he had not seen Adnan on January 13th, and that Adnan had said he and Hae often had sex in the Best Buy parking lot just after school. Support our mission and help keep Vox free for all by making a financial contribution to Vox today. Laura has appeared on Channel 5 News and radio to talk viewing habits and TV recommendations. Speaking in the documentary series, Chris said that "anything that I know is hearsay". This was subsequently confirmed by timesheet documents provided by LensCrafters, which a later investigation found could not have been retroactively altered. Jay led them to a vacant lot near 300 Edgewood Street in Baltimore, where police secured Haes 1998 Nissan Sentra. They took many classes together and became friends. He was also charged with trespassing on private property at one point as well.
He's now saying, no, Adnan never told me he would do it that day, he just showed up and said Ill be contacting you later. Support our mission by making a gift today. In The Case Against Adnan Syed, Rabia Chaudry argued that the description Jay gave of the body wouldn't have been consistent with the lividity evidence. "I wish that I had a really clear recollection of the 13th and what happened," she said. Nevertheless, there was nothing improper about Uricks actions. Do appeals courts truly test convictions, or are their opinions window-dressing? Eventually Hae broke up with Adnan. The detectives lost no time, accosting Jay at 11.30pm on February 27th at his workplace, an adult video store. This testimony corroborated Jays statement to detectives that Adnan had called a girl in Silver Spring Maryland on the afternoon of the 13th and that Adnan had put Jay on the phone with her. However, he explicitly says "I did not show them a location that was true." She missed that appointment and was never seen alive again. The car was found on Feb. 28, 1999. It was midnight. He tells the jury he lied to the police. The decision was entirely unexpected. None of this is particularly damning. Bear in mind that when Jenn and Jay first gave police this information, they did not know whether or not Adnan had given investigators an alibi for the afternoon of the January 13th. newsletter. Timing is important here. The decision about whether or not to testify is a momentous one, and only taken after long consultation. But she's also a family friend of the Syeds, and she brought the case to Koenig's attention. In late 1999 and 2000, she began ignoring some of her clients, missing appointments, and failing to follow through on promises. So, a serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict, including the many facts elided by Syeds advocates. CONFUSION Did Adnan do it? Adnan and Jay left Hae's car at the I-70 Park & Ride. I've told everybody the same thing, that I believed happened from day one," Jen said. In July 1999, Adnan briefly mentioned Asia McClain to his defence team as a possible alibi, but this is the only mention of her name in the defence files. This is one of several lies Adnan told about his relationship with Hae and his actions on January 13th. Adnan did have Hae's body in the trunk of the car and Jay did help him bury her in Leakin Park. Followers of this story have explored everything from high-school wrestling schedules and the structure of plastic automobile parts to the minutiae of Ramadan prayer practices. He tells a friend it was at the library. "Even people who think maybe Adnan is guilty should conclude this shouldnt have passed muster in a court of law," says Chaudry. And after all this research and consultation, Gutierrez provided official notice that Adnan could present up to 80 witnesses to testify he went to school, attended track practice, and attended mosque beginning at 8.00pm. U.S. News & World Report ranked it as the 7th most dangerous metro area to live in out of 150 different U.S. metropolitan cities, though its comparatively high violent crime rates frequently find it on top-five lists. He didn't want to be alone at work. The fog of controversy has tended to obscure a simpler and more important question: Did Adnan Syed strangle Hae Min Lee to death? People had lives and were trying to get into college and stuff like that. That remained the case until well after his conviction. Hae and Adnan began dating in March 1998 and fell in love. This would prove to be a fateful oversight. Jay is the only witness who actually places Adnan in Hae's car. Later in the same episode, Jen heard back the audio from her police interview which stated that the only reason she believed that the events occurred on January 13 was because the detective had told her that she received corresponding calls on that day. Serial began in 2014 as a spinoff of This American Life. In both of her police interviews, Adnans and Haes friend Debbie Warren said she had seen Hae alone in the gym around 3.00pm, although neither the prosecution nor the defence made a big deal about this when it came up at trial (2p), each for their own (different) reasons. Everyone keeps saying that Jay knowing where Hae's car was parked is the only "real" evidence in this case. He refused. What's more, he said, nobody else's DNA was identified either. Her law partner Mark Martin visited Adnan, as did other staff from her firm. Criminal lawyers understand the painful dilemmas faced by family members of defendants who ask their loved ones for alibis. "My story has never changed. Adnan has two brothers, the older of whom is named Tanveer. Scan this QR code to download the app now. Data Collection: The host of Serial, Sarah Koeing, opens the podcast with a talk she had with one juror that was involved in Adnan's case. Syeds lawyer, Justin Brown, said on Monday he was extremely disappointed by the Supreme Courts decision. Officer Adcock called Adnans phone at 6.24pm. In January 1999, Jays girlfriend was Stephanie, a beautiful 18-year-old then still in the Woodlawn magnet program, and he visited Woodlawn on occasion to hang out with her and her friends. December 29 2014, 3:55 p.m. On Jan. 13, 1999, Hae Min Lee, an 18-year-old high school student from Baltimore, went missing. Syed is serving a life sentence after a jury convicted him in 2000 of strangling his former girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, whose body was found in Baltimore. Adnans supporters point to the fact that Jay spoke to detectives for hours off-record, and they maintain that detectives helped Jay tailor his account to other facts. Yet it raised few eyebrows in 2000. "This completely destroys the state's case. The prosecutors did what trial lawyers do: they made the best argument possible based on incomplete and inconsistent evidence. 2. It's guilt that has to be proven. It was a lie that had no apparent explanation, and that made Jay's story even more impossible and absurd than it already was. I think what's happening here, is that he's saying that no, maybe he didn't actually show the police where the car was exactly, but he still didn't kill Hae and he's sure Adnan did. Open Document Adnan is probably innocent because the only solid evidence is Jay's inconsistent testimony. It would have been easy to take a drink cup from Adnans track practice (or Jays work), smear it with Haes blood and soil from the burial scene, and drop it in Haes car. In her summary, she said: Heard then sentenced Adnan Syed to life in prison for murder in the first degree and lesser sentences on the remaining counts, amounting to life plus 30 years. This is where it was produced. He refused. Adnans claim that he wanted to plead guilty in 1999 raises troubling questions. But they don't need to. Later on, in episode four, Adnan Syed's lawyer Justin Brown said that he was hoping to try and get some items tested, putting particular emphasis on some fingernails which, he hoped, might hold some DNA from Hae's attacker if she had scratched or clawed. Adnans family lived on the same street as this mosque, Johnnycake Road, and attended regularly along with many other families. The defence faced daunting challenges of its own, including Adnans decision not to testify and that his 80 alibi witnesses did not materialize. Front entrance to gym. Dions name did not come up again. Jay had witnessed the aftermath of Haes murder and Jenn had witnessed the aftermath of Haes burial. While he was at Jenns house, he received a call from Adnan at 3.45pm asking to be picked up (this is important). If that paragraph doesn't make much sense to you, then you probably haven't been following Serial, the wildly successful podcast in which Sarah Koenig reopens and reinvestigates the 1999 Baltimore murder case that put Adnan, who was then 17 years old, behind bars for the rest of his life. It was the great failing of Serial. Presumably to protect the real killer and pin the blame on Adnan. She admitted that she believed Jay and his story but. Laura has been watching television for over 30 years and professionally writing about entertainment for almost 10 of those. According to Adnans visitors logs covering the time between his arrest and September 21st, 1999, Adnan had 19 lawyer visits, including seven meetings with Gutierrez. Further, nobody knew precisely when Hae left campus. He is almost certainly the only person in America who finds himself in this unique and paradoxical situation. Each tower has a four-character code, and the three antennas are labelled A, B, and C. This makes it possible to determine the approximate location in which a cell-phone call has been placed or receivedsomewhere within the 120-degree slice of the tower antenna, and within its range of about two miles. Quarles had called Gutierrez a liar in court during a heated dispute, an accusation heard by the jury. A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict. Hes been charged with indecent exposure more than once, most recently in 2015. The grass expert conducted an experiment by attempting to recreate the very same conditions with the same type of grass, to see whether the greenery was the same. The success of that series helped trigger a tsunami of true-crime media, from basement-rant Serial imitators to glossy Netflix productions. It originated from the area covered by cell-tower antenna L651C, which does not include Woodlawn High School. Adcock called Haes friend Aisha, who told him she had heard from Krista that Hae was supposed to give Adnan a ride after school. Where was Hae's body found in Leakin Park? But that testimony shifting and shot through with holes as it is is all the prosecution had. There was no evidence of sexual assault, recent sexual activity, or a prolonged struggle. When Young Lee realised he was talking to Adnan, he asked where Hae was. Did police and prosecutors overreach? Almost by definition, the testimony of someone who repeatedly lies to you is not beyond a reasonable doubt; it's testimony that you would be unreasonable, Scandoval is bad for personal lives, really good for business, How some people get away with doing nothing at work, Hollywood is staring down the barrel of a triple strike. But Debbie also testified (40p) that, Adnan was very over protective of Hae. and our Flohr was a criminal-defence lawyer from New York who had recently relocated to Baltimore. First, because Hae missed her appointment to pick up her cousin at 3.00pm, suggesting she had been intercepted (at a minimum) by that time. At the first trial, Jay says they both got high in Adnan's car, but the second trial, he says only he smoked and Adnan didn't want to. Urick did not pressure her, not that it would have had any effect. A detective testifies Jay told him he first saw Hae's body on Franklintown Road.
into GPS, using this site. Now [Jay] is saying it wasnt 7pm. The result? The pair then collected a pick and shovel from Jays grandmothers house and drove to where they had left Haes car near I-70. On February 23rd, Coppin State College sent 70 pages of Sellerss employment records to detectives on the Hae Min Lee murder. When first contacted by Officer Adcock, at 1.30am January 14th, Clinedinst said he had worked until 6.00pm the previous day. I NEVER wanted to end like this, so hostile + cold. A few weeks later, Baltimore officially confirmed that it would not prosecute him again. Using cell-tower location data, he plotted the approximate location of Adnans cell phone during the 13th. Support our mission and help keep Vox free for all by making a financial contribution to Vox today. To try to defuse the Nisha Call, Gutierrez called Saad Chaudry to testify. His might be the only such case in American history. Put this together and Jay's lies begin to make a bit more sense.