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Adnan Syed was in court facing the jury for 5 days and considered guilty. sameer hirbawi.

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Introduces the topic

Does a test run of current high schools kids about where they were on certain days dating back days and 2 and 6 weeks ago

Sarah was contacted by a friend of Adnan and was asked to look into the case

Explained the crime of the hey of how she was missing from picking her sibling up and was found dead in a shallow grave strangled to death a few days later : To me this was the hook of the story that really draw readers in

Explains how the case could have been thrown and how Adnan Haes ex-boyfriend could have been wrongly incarcerated for her murder

Jay's side of the story and his confession weeks later that he saw Adnan kill her and even helped dig the burial site. Claimed he was with Jay after school before track practice when she was murdered. Tore the perfect image of Adnan down, he was beloved in his community

Adnan sides with the story, claims he was at the library and lent Jay his car so Jay could buy his girlfriend a birthday present. There was one girl who witnessed Adnan at the library but never came forward or testified in front of the court

Talks about Derek and Asia McClain the possible witness to Adnan’s alibi for not commitng the murder

Asia admits to seeing Adnan in the library that day but he doesn't seem pleased when Sarah breaks the news on the phone Adnan doesn't have any hope left that he will be cleared

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Carlos, Nafoze, Ahmad, Nathaniel, Mahmoud

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Carlos, Nafoze, Ahmad, Nathaniel, Mahmoud

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(2:20) She starts to ask teens if they remember stuff from that day
(4:35) Hae was found strangled to death
(5:20) Adnan’s friend called to say he was innocent
(8:00) Adnan was smart and athletic
(9:30) Adnan was different from how he was seen
(13:20) Jay gets interviewed by the police
(15:30) Hay answers Adnan’s phone and is told Hae is dead and to come pick Adnan up
(16:30) Adnan goes back to school so he has an alibi and brags about killing Hae
(18.20) Jay and Adnan buried the body
(22:20) It is Stephanie’s birthday (Adnan’s friend and Jay’s girlfriend) And Adnan gives her a stuffed animal
(26:40) Adnan says it was just like any other day
(30:00) Asia writes letters to Adnan and asks why he didn’t tell anyone about being with her in the library, which he had forgot
(33:30) Adnan has been in jail for 2 months and Asia was seen on cameras in the library
(35:20) A private investigator was hired
(39:00) There was confirmation that there were cameras in the library in 1999
(42:35) Asia called the narrator when she was 33 and told her that it couldn’t be Adnan 
(50:00) Adnan calls the narrator and says that he wishes she had confessed that sooner because it is now too late as he is already in jail.
(51:20) Asia emails the narrator saying she does not think it was Adnan

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January 13th, 1999

Hae Min Lee disappeared.

Adnan and Jay go to the mall

Stephane’s birthday

Best Buy- where Adnan’s friend said they picked him up.

Library, Adnan’s track practice .

January 15, 1999

Snow storm hits Baltimore

February 9, 1999

Hae Min Lee’s body was found in a park in Baltimore.

She was spotted with her hair by the groundskeeper.

February 28, 1999

Jay was arrested and taken to interrogation

Adnan was arrested and taken to interrogation 2 hours later.

March 1, 1999

Asia wrote Adnan a letter explaining how she remembers talking to him at the library the day of Hae Min Lee’s murder.

6 weeks later

Adnan was arrested for Hae Min Lee’s murder.

Asia Mcclain was the only helpful person to Adnan.

A year later

After the 6 week trial, Sarah heard about Adnan’s case.

15 years later

Robia asked Sarah to check out Adnan’s case because she believes he is innocent.

Sarah looks over the case and finds it interesting.

Part 2:

Sarah made these structural decisions to give the listeners a bias towards believing that Adnan is innocent and that Adnan was wronged by the court system into going to jail for life, she achieved this by only listing off evidence from people who believed Adnan was innocent. She also did this to make us more interested in learning the full truth.

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Dylan Szabo, Matthew Katigbak,  Yoti Matheos, Moe Muntaser

1. tyler says hes in school
2. sam kept saying he went to work 3. and then school and then misspoke. he lied about going to work.
4. they talk about hae going missing, her being korean, her playing lacrosse, her being responsible
5.  when she didnt pick her cousin up for school
6. when the cousins school called, that's when hae's parents knew something was wrong, something was suspicious
7. on February 9th, hae's body was found in baltimore
8. they find the cause of death that she gets strangled with hands
9. Adnan gets charged with the murder
10. she got a email from robia about the case
11. she believed the attorney botched the case.
12. the lawyer died a couple years later
13. she went to go visit robia.
she was surrounded in papers and previous court documents.
14. robia is a lawyer herself.
15.Robia is 40 years old. she is very smart
16. There was BIAS towards Adnan because he was a honors roll student, good football player, homecoming king. She lied about being homecoming king. and lied about him being a track all star.
17.  hae and adnan were dating but adnan wasnt allowed to date.
18. his family never knew that he was dating, smoking, doing stuff, etc.
19. there was no physical evidence. no hairs, no fibers, nothing.
20. Jay comes up and they were mutual friends in middle school.
21. Jay kept telling different stories over and over again.
22. She knows someone is lying and she isnt sure who is lying yet.
23. In 1999, Adnan was arrested for the murder of Hae.

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PART 1: 0:00 - 4:08• It felt invasive because of the types of things she had to ask about teenagers’ personal lives: they sex lives, their drug habits, their relationships with their parents, and so on.• She says that it’s really hard to account for time in a detailed way. If something significant  happened on a particular day, you remember that and the entire day much better. However, if nothing significant happened, then the answers get very general. The discussions with the teenagers demonstrate how terrible and unreliable their recall was.                          PART 2: 4:08 - 5:15• She disappeared on January 13, 1999. She was a senior at Woodlawn high school in Baltimore County, Maryland. She was Korean. She was smart and beautiful. She was a great athlete; she played field hockey and lacrosse. She was responsible.• After school on January 13, she was supposed to pick up her little cousin from kindergarten and dropped her home, but she didn’t show up. Her body was found about aa month later (Feb 9th) in a big park. Someone had strangled her by hand.• Hae’s ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for her murder. He has been in prison ever since then.                                               PART 3: 5:15 - 9:02• Rabia is the one who wrote to Sarah about the case. She is a lawyer and member of Baltimore’s Pakistani community. She knows Adnan well, as he is her younger brother’s best friend. She believes in Adnan’s innocence and has been working since the trial to prove it.Rabia wrote to Sarah because she’d found some old articles Sarah had written about the defence attorney who had represented Adnan (her final case) and who had been disbarred for mishandling client money.• After Adnan’s trial, his lawyer was disbarred for mishandling client money. Rabia thought that this lawyer had purposely lost (“botched” / “thrown”) the case so she could get more money for the appeal. The lawyer had died a few years later.• What do Rabia and Saad say about their friend Adnan? Rabia said he was an especially good kid - smart, kind, goofy and handsome. People who knew him were stunned when he was arrested for murder. He was the community’s golden child. He was an honour-roll student, a volunteer, a member of the football and track teams, the homecoming king. He led prayers at the mosque. He was known to be someone who was going to go on to do something really big. (Sarah later found some inaccuracies in these statements.)                               PART 4: 9:02 - 12:50• He and Hae had been going out since junior prom, but Adnan wasn’t supposed to be dating. (His parents are conservative muslims.) Adnan had to keep the relationship secret.• The state said Adnan’s secrecy was proof that he was a liar., which was proof of bad character. They also used it to say that he had taken a huge risk by having the relationship, so he couldn’t handle it when she broke up with him.  • Saad is saying that he did all the same things as Adnan. Trying to be normal American teenagers and then lying to their parents is normal for children of immigrant parents.• What does Sarah say about physical evidence?There was none. There was nothing linking him to the crime, apart from fingerprints in Hae’s car, which he had been in many times.• Jay is the person whose testimony led to Adnan’s sentence.He was a friend of Adnan’s, though they weren’t super close. Jay sold weed and he and Adnan used to smoke together.• Sarah is interested in the fact that someone is lying - either Jay or Adnan - and she wanted to figure out who.                           PART 5: 12:50 - 19:30• Jay's story is basically this: had been shopping with Adnan. Adnan said that he was going to kill Hae. Jay said he didn’t take it too seriously. On the morning of the 13th, Adnan left school and drove to Jay’s house. It was Jay’s girlfriend Stephanie’s birthday, and Jay needed the car to go and buy her something.Adnan came to pick him up and they went shopping at the mall. After they left the mall, Jay dropped Adnan back at school. He left his cell phone in the car and said he’d call. Jay saysthis was because Adnan was going to go and kill Hae, and he wanted Jay to pick him upafterwards. Later that afternoon, Adnan called and said Hae was dead and to come and get him atBestBuy. Jay meets him there at the BestBuy car park. Adnan shows Jay Hae’s dead bodyin her car boot. They both leave in Adnan’s car and hang around together for a few hoursas if nothing had happened. Then Jay drove Adnan back to school so he could be seen attrack practice.After track practice, Jay picks up Adnan and they drive around. Hae’s family calls. After thecall, they go get some shovels and collect Hae’s car and drive around before getting toLeakin Park, where Jay buries Hae’s body. Jay says he helped dig the hole but didn’t helpbury her.                    PART 6: 19:30 - 27:56• She was struck by two things: he was way bigger than she had expected, and he has giantbrown eyes “like a dairy cow”.• He said none of it was true at all.• He loved her in the highschool way but also got over her once they had broken up. He saidHe was sad but not obsessed. He says he had no ill will towards her at all. He said he feltlove, friendship and respect for her.• Adnan cannot refute Jay’s story because he can’t remember enough specific details of theday.• The state says Hae was killed during this period. Adnan couldn’t account for his specificwhereabouts. His memories become non-specific. • He says that day was a completely normal day, so most of his memories of the day are notspecific, or they are informed by what other people remember. It plays both ways becauseif he’s innocent, it makes sense that he wouldn’t remember particular details, but if he’sguilty, it seems very convenient - because he has no specific story, nobody can fact-checkhim.                                   PART 7: 27:56 - 35:00• He mentioned that a girl he went to school with, called Asia Mclean, had written him lettersand gone to visit his family because she specifically remembered him being in the librarythat afternoon straight after school. His lawyer had said they weren’t useful.• The most shocking element is that she has never been contacted by any attorneyregarding the information she had given. There is proof that the attorney saw the letters.The case desperately needed an alibi witness, and yet Asia was not contacted.                                   PART 8: 35:00 - 38:10• Asia’s fiancé says that the investigator they hired could not speak to Asia and that hebelieved that Adnan was guilty and deserved his punishment. The fiancé later calls andsays to leave them alone.• She undermined her statement by staying that she wrote the affidavit only because shewas being pressured by Adnan’s family.   PART 9: 38:10 - 49:08• the whole case relied on her memories of that afternoon. If Sarah can talk toAsia, she thinks she can solve the case.• They found that the things that might have been useful to them - the security tapes and thesign-in list - did not exist anymore.• No - neither of them could remember the details.• She says she trusts the court system. Because she was never questioned, she assumedthey did everything correctly.She got spooked when she got the knock on the door from the private investigator.• Adnan said that he and Hae had broken up. He seemed pretty chill about it.• She says she remembers being really angry (pissed) about Derek being late, and she alsoremembers because of the snow storm.• She doesn’t think that Adnan did it based on his composure and personality, but sheacknowledges that sometimes people who seem nice can do terrible things.When she hears that her statement could have changed the outcome, she sighs heavily.                              PART 10: 49:08 - END• He doesn’t sound excited, whereas Sarah thought he would be.• He’s heartbroken because it’s too late now for this evidence to be useful.• They both feel the same way about Adnan. From what they know of him, they don’t thinkhe could have done it, and they hope that he is proven innocent. However, they both havedoubt. They know it’s possible that he is a really good liar and did actually do it.      

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PART 1: 0:00 - 4:08• It felt invasive because of the types of things she had to ask about teenagers’ personal lives: they sex lives, their drug habits, their relationships with their parents, and so on.• She says that it’s really hard to account for time in a detailed way. If something significant  happened on a particular day, you remember that and the entire day much better. However, if nothing significant happened, then the answers get very general. The discussions with the teenagers demonstrate how terrible and unreliable their recall was.                          PART 2: 4:08 - 5:15• She disappeared on January 13, 1999. She was a senior at Woodlawn high school in Baltimore County, Maryland. She was Korean. She was smart and beautiful. She was a great athlete; she played field hockey and lacrosse. She was responsible.• After school on January 13, she was supposed to pick up her little cousin from kindergarten and dropped her home, but she didn’t show up. Her body was found about aa month later (Feb 9th) in a big park. Someone had strangled her by hand.• Hae’s ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for her murder. He has been in prison ever since then.                                               PART 3: 5:15 - 9:02• Rabia is the one who wrote to Sarah about the case. She is a lawyer and member of Baltimore’s Pakistani community. She knows Adnan well, as he is her younger brother’s best friend. She believes in Adnan’s innocence and has been working since the trial to prove it.Rabia wrote to Sarah because she’d found some old articles Sarah had written about the defence attorney who had represented Adnan (her final case) and who had been disbarred for mishandling client money.• After Adnan’s trial, his lawyer was disbarred for mishandling client money. Rabia thought that this lawyer had purposely lost (“botched” / “thrown”) the case so she could get more money for the appeal. The lawyer had died a few years later.• What do Rabia and Saad say about their friend Adnan? Rabia said he was an especially good kid - smart, kind, goofy and handsome. People who knew him were stunned when he was arrested for murder. He was the community’s golden child. He was an honour-roll student, a volunteer, a member of the football and track teams, the homecoming king. He led prayers at the mosque. He was known to be someone who was going to go on to do something really big. (Sarah later found some inaccuracies in these statements.)                               PART 4: 9:02 - 12:50• He and Hae had been going out since junior prom, but Adnan wasn’t supposed to be dating. (His parents are conservative muslims.) Adnan had to keep the relationship secret.• The state said Adnan’s secrecy was proof that he was a liar., which was proof of bad character. They also used it to say that he had taken a huge risk by having the relationship, so he couldn’t handle it when she broke up with him.  • Saad is saying that he did all the same things as Adnan. Trying to be normal American teenagers and then lying to their parents is normal for children of immigrant parents.• What does Sarah say about physical evidence?There was none. There was nothing linking him to the crime, apart from fingerprints in Hae’s car, which he had been in many times.• Jay is the person whose testimony led to Adnan’s sentence.He was a friend of Adnan’s, though they weren’t super close. Jay sold weed and he and Adnan used to smoke together.• Sarah is interested in the fact that someone is lying - either Jay or Adnan - and she wanted to figure out who.                           PART 5: 12:50 - 19:30• Jay's story is basically this: had been shopping with Adnan. Adnan said that he was going to kill Hae. Jay said he didn’t take it too seriously. On the morning of the 13th, Adnan left school and drove to Jay’s house. It was Jay’s girlfriend Stephanie’s birthday, and Jay needed the car to go and buy her something.Adnan came to pick him up and they went shopping at the mall. After they left the mall, Jay dropped Adnan back at school. He left his cell phone in the car and said he’d call. Jay saysthis was because Adnan was going to go and kill Hae, and he wanted Jay to pick him upafterwards. Later that afternoon, Adnan called and said Hae was dead and to come and get him atBestBuy. Jay meets him there at the BestBuy car park. Adnan shows Jay Hae’s dead bodyin her car boot. They both leave in Adnan’s car and hang around together for a few hoursas if nothing had happened. Then Jay drove Adnan back to school so he could be seen attrack practice.After track practice, Jay picks up Adnan and they drive around. Hae’s family calls. After thecall, they go get some shovels and collect Hae’s car and drive around before getting toLeakin Park, where Jay buries Hae’s body. Jay says he helped dig the hole but didn’t helpbury her.                    PART 6: 19:30 - 27:56• She was struck by two things: he was way bigger than she had expected, and he has giantbrown eyes “like a dairy cow”.• He said none of it was true at all.• He loved her in the highschool way but also got over her once they had broken up. He saidHe was sad but not obsessed. He says he had no ill will towards her at all. He said he feltlove, friendship and respect for her.• Adnan cannot refute Jay’s story because he can’t remember enough specific details of theday.• The state says Hae was killed during this period. Adnan couldn’t account for his specificwhereabouts. His memories become non-specific. • He says that day was a completely normal day, so most of his memories of the day are notspecific, or they are informed by what other people remember. It plays both ways becauseif he’s innocent, it makes sense that he wouldn’t remember particular details, but if he’sguilty, it seems very convenient - because he has no specific story, nobody can fact-checkhim.                                   PART 7: 27:56 - 35:00• He mentioned that a girl he went to school with, called Asia Mclean, had written him lettersand gone to visit his family because she specifically remembered him being in the librarythat afternoon straight after school. His lawyer had said they weren’t useful.• The most shocking element is that she has never been contacted by any attorneyregarding the information she had given. There is proof that the attorney saw the letters.The case desperately needed an alibi witness, and yet Asia was not contacted.                                   PART 8: 35:00 - 38:10• Asia’s fiancé says that the investigator they hired could not speak to Asia and that hebelieved that Adnan was guilty and deserved his punishment. The fiancé later calls andsays to leave them alone.• She undermined her statement by staying that she wrote the affidavit only because shewas being pressured by Adnan’s family.   PART 9: 38:10 - 49:08• the whole case relied on her memories of that afternoon. If Sarah can talk toAsia, she thinks she can solve the case.• They found that the things that might have been useful to them - the security tapes and thesign-in list - did not exist anymore.• No - neither of them could remember the details.• She says she trusts the court system. Because she was never questioned, she assumedthey did everything correctly.She got spooked when she got the knock on the door from the private investigator.• Adnan said that he and Hae had broken up. He seemed pretty chill about it.• She says she remembers being really angry (pissed) about Derek being late, and she alsoremembers because of the snow storm.• She doesn’t think that Adnan did it based on his composure and personality, but sheacknowledges that sometimes people who seem nice can do terrible things.When she hears that her statement could have changed the outcome, she sighs heavily.                              PART 10: 49:08 - END• He doesn’t sound excited, whereas Sarah thought he would be.• He’s heartbroken because it’s too late now for this evidence to be useful.• They both feel the same way about Adnan. From what they know of him, they don’t thinkhe could have done it, and they hope that he is proven innocent. However, they both havedoubt. They know it’s possible that he is a really good liar and did actually do it.      

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Hook:

Sarah explains that shes spent a year trying to figure out what 1 highschool kid was doing for an hour

The narrator explains that they aren’t a detective

She asks the audience if they can remember what they did 6 weeks ago

Cuts to the narrator interviewing kids on whether they remember what they did 6 weeks ago

Intro:

Sarah is talking to a kid who is believed to of murdered his girlfriend

She explains the scenario that happened on January 13th, 1999

We realize Adnan is the one responsible for his girlfriend’s death

Adnan was a good kid with great grades, loved by everyone

Cops paint him out as a bad person and pathological liar:

he had a girlfriend when his parents wouldn’t let him

He smokes weed

He drinks

He parties

Sarah and others explain this is most teenagers

Kicker:

We learn there was never any physical evidence tied to Adnan

The only evidence against him is a testimony from his friend Jay

Jay 100% says Adnan killed her in said testimony

Jays Testimony:

Jay and Adnan are hanging out in Adnan’s car

In the car, Adnan says he’s gonna kill his girlfriend

Jay drops Adnan off at school and drives off in Adnan’s car

Adnan left his phone in the car with jay

He says to Jay, pick me up when it’s done

Jay gets a call from Adnan’s girlfriend’s phone and it’s Adnan.

Jay comes to pick up Adnan

Adnan tells jay he did it and murdered her

They pull up to a lot with Jay’s car and Adnan shows Jay the body

They bury the body and smoke weed after

Climax:

Whether Adnan is guilty or not depends on whatever happened between 2:15 pm and 2:36 pm because that’s when his girlfriend was strangled

Jay’s story says that he was with him

Adnan denies this story and says it never happened

Adnan knows he got out of school at 2:15 pm and went to track at 3 pm

He thinks he was at the library between these times but there is no proof

The only proof is a girl that saw him at the library but she can’t be found anywhere

This girl sent Adnan a letter in jail telling him she saw him, this letter is the only proof they have

The Hunt:

Sarah goes out and tries to find Asia McClain, the girl that sent the letter

She sends Asia letters and emails but she doesn’t respond

She finds her friends from the time and tries to hunt them down

She goes to one guy’s house every day and searches for the other

One day she finds one of the boys, Jerrod who was Asia’s friend, and interviews him

She asks him about January 13th

It was 15 years ago though so he doesn’t remember

She asks if he remembers Asia McClain but he doesn’t

She decides Jarrod wasn’t useful

She keeps looking for the other friend Derek who was Asia’s boyfriend at the time

One day she finds him at his house and interviews him

She asks if he remembers Asia he says he does

He shows her a picture of them together

She asks if he remembers January 13th but he doesn’t

She asks if he remembers seeing Adnan at the library while picking up Asia

He says he doesn’t remember it but its likely that it happened cause he picked Asia up every day from there

The hunt for Asia is still on as her friends didn’t help

Asia McClain Call:

One day Sarah gets a call from a blocked number

It’s Asia and Sarah is delighted

Asia says she was calling to respond to Sarah’s email

Sarah aks Asia if she remembers January 13th and she does

Sarah starts asking about it

She asks if she saw Adnan at the library

Asia recalls talking to him on that day cause her boyfriend came in and didn’t like her talking to him.

She asks if she did write the letter

Asia remembers writing the letter to him

She asks why she didn’t go to court with that

Asia claims she never got a call from the court

Sarah gets a lot of information from Asia and is super happy

Asia seems to have a really vivid memory of that day though

She says its because that the day it snowed really bad and got her stuck in boyfriend’s house

Asia claimed that she did send the letter but doesn’t remember what time it was when she saw Adnan at the library

This doesn’t help solve the big-time issue but it’s enough to excite Sarah

Resolution:

With all the new information she’s gathered she calls Adnan at the jail

She lets Adnan know that she contacted Asia McClain

Adnan’s reaction is really bad, he doesn’t really care

He says he didn’t want to pop her balloon or anything but the info is useless at this point

It actually broke his heart because he wishes she said that 15 years ago in court