Serial podcast on TAL
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http://serialpodcast.org/
Anyone else listening? Really interesting concept - a journalist is re-investigating a potentially dubious murder conviction and making weekly episodes as they go along. Very gripping.
At this point, I think they got the right guy. Unless the weed dealer has a clear motive for lying through his teeth...
Anyone else listening? Really interesting concept - a journalist is re-investigating a potentially dubious murder conviction and making weekly episodes as they go along. Very gripping.
At this point, I think they got the right guy. Unless the weed dealer has a clear motive for lying through his teeth...
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Yeah, it'll be interesting to see opinions change about: a) who we actually think murdered Hae, and b) whether we feel there is reasonable doubt about Adnan doing it.
I'm not sure he did it. The timeline in episode 5 seemed pretty tight. It's also weird that after being in jail for so long someone would so casually lie like a psychopath, but maybe that's it. Maybe he is a psychopath. It just seems weird.
I'm curious if we'll hear an interview with modern day Jay.
Totally. I'm willing to believe that Adnan did it as of now, but Jay's not telling the whole truth. Is it just because he's protecting his drug dealer ish, or is there something else...
The timeline was wonky. How could he strangle her in 1 minute and get her in the trunk in public? I mean the timeline could be wrong and he still did it. It just brings up lots of questions. And Asia? Hmmm. The streaker?
Particularly sketchy that he never tried calling Hae after she disappeared.
It's hard to believe he's NOT the killer at this point, even though there isn't any direct evidence outside of Jay's testimony.
Anyone else seen Forbidden Lie$? It reminds me of this because the subject is also very charismatic and also likely lying through their teeth the whole time.
I ripped through the first 6 episodes. It's a great podcast.
Here is where I stopped believing Adnan; when he refused to feel at all bummed or emotional about Hae dumping him for an older dude. Even all these years later, he tries to act like he was just super adult about the whole break up. I find it too implausible to think that a young high school kid would be totally unfazed by the fact that the old dude at fucking Lens Crafters moved in on his girlfriend.
His attempt to act all "nah, I just want whats best for her" makes me feel like he's trying really hard to act as if he had no motive to kill her.
I have no idea which way I would go on this if I were an actual juror, but as a casual bystander; he seems like he is very good at disguising true emotion and he's had tons of practice with it because of having to hide a second life from an immigrant family his entire life.
Also, the fact that the cops call him the DAY she goes missing and he DOESN'T immediately call her is kind of damning, in my opinion...it's circumstantial for sure, but it doesn't sit well with me at all.
I'm not saying it went down the exact way the court claims it did, there might have even been a third person.
Just my 2 cents....I can't wait to hear more.
also found the series The Staircase on youtube, which I'd heard great things about and apparently follows a similar format. Plan on watching this soon:
check out The Staircase, from what I've heard it's basically what you're asking for.
I'm pretty curious as to what season 2 will be. Can't imagine they'll carry on with this case, but maybe revisit when there's news. I think it would be cool if they found another interesting case to study and see how they'll do it differently given their experience in this first one.
[strong]Potential Serial Finale Spoilers[/strong]
Like was said above, the finale ended as expected. Of course, given all of the detail we found out, any competent juror in 2014 would acquit, but this all went down in 1999, a very different social climate than we have now. Hard to say what SK or any of us would have done in that court room at that time.
I think Season 2 will be a different case, especially given her relationship with the Innocence Project now.. they must have tons of cases to choose from. I am sure we will hear more about this case, if at least what comes of the new DNA submission.
The only thing anyone can really hang their hat on from all of the evidence is that Jay knew where the car was.
Haha. All Sarah Koenig ever wanted was to work alongside Geraldo Rivera...
But I used to watch those type of shows when I was a kid, so I'm cool with that analogy.
Also he's starting his own podcast
And that interview would have been key to the series. If he ever does an interview, it is clearly going to be tailored in his favor.
I guess I could have googled the article and linked it instead lol.
I don't even listen to the podcast. Just found this whole thing interesting.
Part 3 should be up soon.
I actually felt bad for Jay after reading part 2, but in the end, I still think he's lying. It seems to be what he does.
Honestly though, if the podcast coupled with Jay's ever-shifting timeline of events doesn't spark an official - i.e. police department re-examination - then, well, it would be sad. The detectives put together a pretty weak case from jump that didn't seem to hold up at the time, and holds up even less now.
Edit: Of course, I'm not naive enough - especially in light of The Wire rebroadcast in HD - to think the Baltimore PD is resource rich for reviews of closed cases. But, still!