If you had to bookend Hae and Adnan’s romance, you’d put a school dance right at the beginning and then another one right at the end.

And in all those months, what she’s most writing about is Adnan. And the last entry is dated January 12th, the day before she went missing. T he first entry is Ap, right when they started going out. What’s remarkable about the diary, and what makes it so helpful is that it’s essentially a chronicle of the Adnan era of Hae’s life.

It was read by many people, cops, prosecutors, even Adnan. And the other information I have to go on are Hae’s own words about their relationship, because I have a copy of her diary. A kind of school within the school, and they all took classes together, and hung out together, and they dated each other. And even though they went to a big, tough high school, Adnan and his friends were clumped together in a magnet program of about thirty kids. Some of them had known each other since elementary school. Mostly their friends, because they were a close-knit group. That’s what I’m trying to find out in today’s episode, by talking to lots of people who knew Hae and Adnan. ”īut was that what their relationship and breakup were really like? Was he so hurt that he decided to kill her. This was not a crime about love, this was a crime about pride. Make no mistake about it, ladies and gentlemen. He felt betrayed that his honor had been besmirched, and he became very angry, and he set out to kill Hae Min Lee.” Or this is from closing, “ It was humiliating, what she did to him. Prosecutor Kevin Urick told the jury in his opening statement, “He became enraged. He was so wounded by her, and so furious, that he decided to kill her. And the motive the State supplied, the basis for the whole thing, was that after Hae broke up with Adnan, he couldn’t accept it. So to p ick up where we left off, last episode, you heard how the prosecution told the story of this murder at Adnan’s trial. We’re telling this story in order, the story of Hae Min Lee, an 18-year-old girl, who was killed in Baltimore in 1999, and the story of Adnan Syed, her ex-boyfriend who was convicted of the crime. You probably heard episode one on This American Life, or through our website,, but if you haven’t, stop. Automated voice This is a Global-Tel link prepaid call from Adnan Syed an inmate at a Maryland Correctional facility… Sarah Koenig From This American Life and WBEZ in Chicago, it’s Serial. Sarah Koenig But I think, I think, Asia, like, you might be that technicality.

Asia McClain Even now, it would be nice if there was some technicality that then would prove his innocence. Detective She was concerned because she was being asked questions about an affidavit she had written. There was absolutely nothing abnormal about that day to me. Adnan The only thing I can say is, man, it was just a normal day to me.

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