![]() ![]() “We just needed to get the right documents, spend enough time, talk to the right people, find his alibi, and then I did find Asia, and she was real, and she remembered, and we all thought, How hard could this possibly be?” As it turns out, it was extremely hard. “When Rabia first told me about Adnan’s case, certainty, one way or the other, seemed so attainable,” she said. I mean, innocent people go to jail all the time! Everyone knows the police are racist and lazy! I’m sure if we put some of that good old Northeastern liberal effort into it, we could have this whole thing cleared up in 12 episodes! This week, Koenig basically admits to thinking just that. I mean what did we expect? That This American Life was going to solve a murder? It says something about 21st Century America, and especially the parts of it that obsess about podcasts (so the educated, liberal parts) that we have more faith in public radio than in professional murder-solvers (i.e., the police). That’s what required of jurors.” To which I say WHAT THE HOLY FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? If you’ve been investigating this murder for a year and you think “in your heart of hearts” that this guy is guilty, that’s a pretty big thing to just dangle out there like that. ![]() A little more damning, she says, “Even if, in my heart of hearts, I think Adnan killed Hae, I still have to acquit. It involves Jay.īut, still, says Koenig, she couldn’t really swear that Adnan is innocent. You’ll notice, if you look closely, that in fact it doesn’t involve Adnan at all. So, again, at the end of the day, Jay’s testimony is literally all of the actual, hard evidence connecting Adnan to the murder of Hae Min Lee. So, I guess what I’m saying is thank you, Sarah Koenig, for making me realize that I made the right decision not to finish that application to law school. It was unbearable for me, it made me feel like getting up to take a walk, like I was stuck doing homework I didn’t understand and couldn’t bear. Just as an aside, let me say how colossally boring I found every second of discussion of the call log. The call log from Adnan’s phone is full of conflicting evidence and doesn’t really seem to back up the state’s case, something we (yet again) explored in this week’s episode. There’s Jay’s confession, backed up by the fact that he knew where Hae’s car was. ![]() What real, factual evidence is there? After a year of investigating, she’s not much further than the Baltimore PD got in a few weeks. If she was a juror, she’d vote to acquit. Legally, she says, she just doesn’t think there’s enough evidence to convict Adnan. And then, she… sort of doesn’t take a side. “I don’t really think you should take a side.” Koenig thanks Adnan, but assures us-her dear listeners, her loyal fan base, the people that made Serial the most popular podcast in the country, who funded another season of the show in a few days, the people who’ve turned what’s basically a mystery radio show into a national obsession in the year 2014 (about 80 years after anyone would have that that was possible)-that she is going to take a side, that she couldn’t leave us without a verdict. What should she say? Did he do it, or not? “I think you should go down the middle,” he tells her. They’d been talking about how to end the show. At the end of this week’s Serial, the very last episode of this first season, Sarah Koenig plays us a bit of tape of Adnan. ![]()
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