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Case Against Adnan Syed
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Adnan Syed is innocent
How Jay is Involved
Evidence #2
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January 13th 1999
On Jan. 13, 1999, Hae Min Lee left Woodlawn High School and never came home. About a month later, her body was found partially buried in nearby Leakin Park, at Baltimore’s western edge. A police investigation led to Lee’s ex-boyfriend and classmate Adnan Syed, he pleaded not guilty and was convicted in 2000 of first-degree murder and kidnapping. He was sentenced to life in prison and has maintained his innocence ever since.
The Case Against Adnan Syed
This is Adnan's Entire Timeline of Hae's disappearance
The Entire Schedule Time Frame
7:45-10:40am- Classes
10:45am- Adnan Calls and offers Jay his car
10:45-11:15am - Lunch time Adnan leave w Jay
11:15-1130am- Adnan gets dropped off at school and Jay keeps he phone
11:15-12:50pm- free period
12:50-2:50pm- Psychology Class
1:27pm- Adnan marked late to psychology class
2:15-3:30- Adnan goes to library and talks to Asia
3:30- 5:00pm- Track practice
4:30-5:pm- Jay picks up Adnan from track (late)
6-6:25- Adnan and Jay go to Cathy's house
6:07-6:24- police call Adnan looking for Hae
7:00-8:00- Adnan picks up food for his dad at the mosque
8:10-8:30- prayers at the mosque
Teen Love or a toxic relationship ?
The answer is these two were deeply in love. Adnan and Hae were students at Woodlawn. The two were classmates and friends also both athletic, smart and outgoing. After attending the prom together, as teenagers do, the two fell into an intense relationship. Hae wrote often in her diary about her new boyfriend, admitting in one entry, "I think I might just love him." And Adnan returned the passionate affection, writing in a poem for his girlfriend, "I cherish this love that I have found ... Hae Lee, no doubt she's my pyar (love)."-SERIAL
Hae and Adnan's relationship
Evidence #1 The Autopsy Report
At Syed’s 2000 trial, Syed acquaintance Jay Wilds testified that Syed showed him Lee’s body in the trunk of Lee’s car, and that he helped Syed bury Lee in Leakin Park around 7 p.m. the night of January 13, 1999, about four-and-a-half hours after Syed allegedly strangled her.
But Chaudry says the autopsy report makes this scenario “impossible.”
“The autopsy says that after she was killed, she was lying somewhere flat on her face for at least 10 to 12 hours before she was left in the park,” says Chaudry. “Where was she those 10 hours?”-SERIAL
Evidence #1
Evidence # 2 Lack of Soil Evidence on Adnan's body from burying body
Wilds testified that after he and Syed buried Lee, Syed drove Lee’s car from the park to a nearby street and dumped it. "Yet no soil from Leakin Park was ever found in or on Lee’s car in tests conducted by the Baltimore Police crime lab."- SERIAL
Evidence #2
What went wrong in the Relationship ?
Problem in relationship
- Adnan's parents had immigrated from Pakistan and his family practiced Islam.
- Any romantic relationships outside of marriage were off-limits for Adnan.
- Hae wrote in her diary about her discomfort of coming between Adnan and his Muslim faith.
- eventually, someone did end up coming between Adnan and Hae. It wasn't a family member, but another boy.
- In December 1998, Hae broke up with Adnan and pursued a relationship with a boy..DON
- but the two remained friends after their breakup, even still talking on the phone.
How Jay is Involved
Adnan and Jay have known each other since middle school. As teenagers in high school, they were just mutual friends but it is stated that Jay was a drug dealer and Adnan would often buy weed off of Jay.
Jay claims that through out the day at the Westview mall, Adnan told Jay that he was planning to kill Hae. Once they left the mall, Jay drove Adnan's car to drop off Adnan at school and Adnan left his phone in the car, telling Jay he would call him. Jay was left with Adnan's car and claims that it is because Adnan was going to kill Hae which means he would pick him up at the location where he would kill her. Later on that day, Jay recieved the call from Adnan saying, "That bitch is dead. Come and get me. I'm at Best Buy." Jay gets there and sees Hae's car. Jay states, "He opens the trunk. And all I can see is Hae's lips are all blue, and she's pretzeled up in the back of the trunk. And she's dead."
Jay's change of Story Tape #2
Jay's change of stories
Jay gets questioned again by the detective, "where did you go?" Jay replies with, "We went to Security Square Mall." In the first tape, Jay claimed that they went to Westview. In addition, Jay states in the first tape that he did not want to dig the hole with Adnan. On the second tape, he claims that they both dug the hole to put Hae's body in it.
When Jay recieved the call from Adnan, Adnan told Jay to pick him up at Best Buy, at least this is what he told the detective in the first tape. He changes the location to "Edmondson Avenue at a Strip."
Tape #1 and Tape #2 are two different stories coming from Jay. We need to recall how Adnan was shocked when he heard that Jay was involved because Adnan claims Jay had nothing to do with it since Adnan never did anything. It was all a made up story.
The Palm Print
Leakin Park Map
Evidence #3
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"The most incriminating piece of physical evidence against Adnan Syed was a fingerprint, or rather, a palm print. Police found it in the backseat of Hae’s car.One page was ripped out from the map. At trial they pointed out that it was the page that showed Leakin Park." The fingerprint on the map can be days maybe even months old. "This is just a coincidence that they found his finger print on the map. The palm print might be in the car because she want to escape or runaway from her parents after she graduated." -SERIAL
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As stated further into Serial it say "Adnan had ridden in and driven Hae’s car many times, all their friends said so. The ripped out page showed a whole lot more than just Leakin Park. In fact, it showed their whole neighborhood, the school, the malls, probably ninety percent of where they most often drove. And that page didn’t have Adnan’s prints on it. His palm print was only on the back cover of the book. Plus, thirteen other, unidentified prints turned up on and in the map book. None of them matched Adnan, or Jay. So, the prints weren’t exactly conclusive."
Lack of DNA and Other Non-Circumstantial Evidence
Chaudry tells PEOPLE that police collected swabs from Lee’s body – including vaginal swabs – but they never tested them for DNA despite the fact that Lee was found with her long black skirt gathered above her waist.
Chaudry suspects they didn’t do this and other DNA testing because the results would show Syed had no involvement with Lee’s murder.
evidence #4
How her body was found
Alibi Witness Asia McClain
Shortly after Syed’s arrest, McClain wrote Syed two letters reminding him about their time that day. Syed had given the letters to his original defense attorney, Cristina Gutierrez. But Gutierrez never contacted McClain and she never got to testify at his trial that she was with him until about 2:40 p.m. the day Lee disappeared.
Evidence #5
Work Cited:
https://people.com/crime/adnan-syed-is-innocent-and-i-can-prove-it-lawyer-rabia-chaudry/
https://genius.com/Serial-podcast-episode-4-inconsistencies-annotated
https://genius.com/Serial-podcast-episode-1-the-alibi-annotated