Adnan Syed's Guilty Case

Adnan Syed was convicted of murder 17 years ago. He’s been in jail ever since. But what if he wasn’t actually guilty? What if all this time someone else was supposed to be in his place? This is what investigator Sarah Koenig has been working on finding out. She’s determined to prove one man’s guilt or innocence. Did Adnan Syed really murder his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee in 1999, or was he wrongly convicted. After investigating, it is clear that Adnan is innocent because, he has an alibi at the time of the murder, he had never heard of or been to the place where the body was buried, and his friend’s story about Adnan’s guilt doesn’t add up. To begin with, Adnan had an alibi at the time of the murder. An old highschool classmate, Asia McClain, …show more content…
The police interrogate Jay multiple times. Each time they question him, his story of that day changes. Sarah says,“In the first taped interview, Jay says they're grabbing some food at a restaurant when Officer Adcock calls Adnan asking if he's seen Hae. The next time he tells it, he says that when that call comes, they're at a friend's apartment –…” (Ep. 1, p. 63). In this interview, Jay completely changes the location that they were at when they get the call asking about Hae being missing. This is suspicious because why would Jay lie if he say’s he’s supposedly innocent. Koenig also states“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.” (Ep. 1, p. 63). Again, Jay lies about what Adnan and him did the day of Hae Min Lee’s murder. It’s a possibility that Jay is lying because he never really did all of those things with Adnan. Every time he got interrogated, he could’ve been forgetting the lies he made up and therefore had to say something else. In conclusion, Adnan is innocent because Jay, the person Adnan was mainly convicted off of seems to be lying about