The serial killer curveball at the end was pretty interesting. I’m not sure that’s the DNA they are expecting to find though.
glad that they were finally able to briefly break down Adnan’s walls though with the testing of evidence he was and probably is coming off very much a sociopath (psychopath?)
I actually think that ended as well as it could.
[spoiler]Adnan killed her for sure. My thinking was along like the lines of the producer, Dana, in that he would have to be so unlucky for all of these things to fall into place perfectly to frame him as the killer. Like Barnz, I was glad that explored the sociopathic (is that even a word) side to him because that was the feeling I was getting pretty much the whole time.
But are we going to find out what happens with the DNA / serial killer stuff?[/spoiler]
Not in the show, it’s done. There’s a website , and the original chick who put Sarah onto it has a blog where she writes stuff as well. Apparently according to her the cops told Jay they were going to arrest either him or Adnan…
Presumably the innocence project has a web presence too.
Jay’s given his first interview.
The key witness in the prosecution of Adnan Syed, the Baltimore high school student convicted of killing his girlfriend in 1999, has spoken out for the first time about his involvement in the case, which was the subject of the recently concluded, massively popular 12-part podcast Serial.
Jay Wilder had refused to give an in-depth interview to Sarah Koenig, a producer on National Public Radio’s This American Life and the host of the Serial spin-off, and had declined to allow his brief interview with her to be recorded. Serial did, however, raise serious questions about the reliability of Wilds’ testimony.
Now, though, Wilds has given an interview to The Intercept – a journalism site in the US that was established with the explicit aim of probing the documents leaked by Edward Snowden – in which he outlines his relationship to Syed, who has spent the past 15 years in jail for the murder of 17-year-old Hae Min Lee, and gives his account of what unfolded on the afternoon of January 13, 1999, when police claim she was strangled by her former boyfriend.
Adnan Syed.
Adnan Syed. Photo: Serial
And not for the first time, Wilds’ account raises as many questions as it answers.
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Wilds contradicts the testimony he gave at Syed’s second trial (his first was abandoned), and given that his trial testimony contradicted his two earlier police interviews it is impossible to know where, or even if, the truth is to be found in his version of events.
Wilds tells The Intercept reporter Natasha Vargas-Cooper that he lied to police about where he first saw Hae Min’s body. He previously had told police he saw the body in the trunk of her car at a shopping strip, then at trial says it was outside a “Best Buy” supermarket.
Now, he says, he saw the corpse in front of his own house.
“I didn’t tell the cops it was in front of my house because I didn’t want to involve my grandmother,” Wilds told The Intercept. “I believe I told them it was in front of 'Cathy’s [not her real name] house, but it was in front of my grandmother’s house.”
Best Buy still figures in this latest account, though. “Hae’s car could have been in the parking lot, but I didn’t know what it looked like so I don’t remember,” he says.
"When I pick him [Syed] up at Best Buy, he’s telling me her car is somewhere there, and that he did this [strangled her] in the parking lot. But that, according to what I learned later, is probably not what happened.
“Wherever her car was at the time I picked him up from Best Buy, it probably stayed there until he picked me up later that evening.”
Wilds has a slightly different account of the much-discussed timeline. He claims that “between 3pm and 4pm” he picked Syed up from the Best Buy parking lot, having not yet seen the body but having been told by Syed that he had killed Hae Min.
“We drive over to Cathy’s house to smoke [dope]. Cathy has people over when we get there. Now I don’t wanna tell the people at Cathy’s that this guy I’m with just killed his girlfriend and the cops just called because then they would all be a part of this f—ed up thing.”
As for the question of motive, Wilds seems to believe that Syed – a student in the select-entry “magnet” program at the high school they attended together (Wilds was a mainstream student there) – was unused to failure, and took the break-up especially hard.
“From the way he carried himself, at least, it looked like he had never lost anything before,” Wilds says. "And it was really hard for him to deal with being on the losing end.
"In that situation, he was the loser. And people were starting to find out he was a loser, ‘Oh, you and Hae aren’t together anymore. She got a new boyfriend?’ And he didn’t know how to deal with that.
“However he ended up doing it – whether it was premeditated, an involuntary reaction at that point in time – he just couldn’t come to grips with being a loser and failing. He failed; he lost the girl.”
Wilds says he has varied his testimony so often because he was initially afraid of going to jail for his own drug dealing, and of bringing his grandmother, with whom he lived, into conflict with the law.
He also claims to have tried to protect the high school kids to whom he had sold weed. “People had lives and were trying to get into college and stuff like that. Getting them in trouble for anything that they knew or that I had told them – I couldn’t have that.”
The transcript of Wilds’ interview with The Intercept is the first in a series in which he gives his version of events.
Koening’s own series – which was downloaded more than five million times – ended with the tantalising prospect that the killer of Hae Min Lee might have been a serial killer and rapist called Ronald Lee Moore.
Despite her apparent desire to do so, she couldn’t in the end clear Syed of murder, but her show did make a convincing case that he should never have been found guilty.
It’s doubtful that was the intention of Wilds in finally breaking his silence, but he might just have made the same point all the same.
There’s a lot more here…
Asia Maclain now happy to testify she saw him in the library when the prosecution said he was elsewhere
I am guessing we dont have to worry about spoilers any more. Half the issue with this case seems to be the timeline the prosecutors stuck so rigidly to. It is clearly wrong and didnt happen that way. It worked for the first case but if it goes to retrial there is no way it could stand up
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Asia Maclain now happy to testify she saw him in the library when the prosecution said he was elsewhere
I reckon it actually happened at the school and not the best buy.
So he could still have done it.
I reckon him and jay did it.
It’s totally possible he did it but it didn’t happen anything like the prosecution’s story
If a retrial is ordered I dont think the prosecution would bother. There original case is in tatters. Not sure they are able to change their story which would make the whole thing a shambles. I still think he did it.