Hae Min Lee Murder

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Despite the title and delicious background we will not be talking about breakfast foods or what kind of cereal I digested this morning. Instead our topic of conversation will be murder. One murder in particular; the murder of Hae Min Lee, a popular high school senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore Maryland. Hae mysteriously disappeared after school one day in January 1999. She was supposed to pick up her younger cousin but never made it to her school. Her body was found in a park about month later. She had been strangled to death. Although there had been a few suspects in her murder, her boy friend Andan Syed was charged. The podcast Serial by WBEZ91.5 out of Chicago tells the story of Andan's questionable arrest.

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