One of my feelings would be, "That *%$%^#* Jay!!!!!" I feel like if I were wrongly jailed based on one person's accusation, my hate for them would burn, at least in the moments when I was discussing my feelings before and at my trial. But I don't get the even keel about the guy who accused him of murder. I get his ability to speak fondly of other friends who testified for the prosecution about some little piece of the story they knew, like, "Oh, I heard Adnan ask Hae for a ride that day." Lots of wrongly accused people could forgive that. The one I can't help but seize upon is Adnan's apparent failure, despite repeated opportunities, to angrily denounce Jay, the man who told the cops that he killed Hae. I try to avoid the temptation to accord them any import. Listening to accounts of Adnan's behavior during the investigation and trial, I naturally kept thinking, "Is that how a guilty person would act? Is that how an innocent person would act?" For the most part, I think such speculation is best avoided, that committing a murder or being wrongly accused of one is a circumstance so unusual that we can't reliably say that a given reaction means anything. It's something that isn't conveyed on television crime dramas, for obvious reasons, and it turns behavior that would've seemed inexplicable-like writing a casual letter when he was about to be sentenced to life in prison-into an understandable thing.Ī 558-Million-Year-Old Mystery Has Been Solved Ed Yong
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For example, he explained how standing trial meant many, many hours just sitting in holding pens, doing nothing, waiting. Invisible aspects of the system come across partly in the course of Adnan describing what he went through and partly from his description of what that felt like.
SERIAL PODCAST EPISODE 9 TRANSCRIPTS SERIAL
But that's okay, or at least it doesn't bother me, because what we get instead, via Adnan, is a service that Serial provides: It gives us a peek at parts of the criminal justice system that just aren't portrayed in many other places, even in procedurals like Law and Order. Those nudges aside, we get little useful information that advances our notion of what really happened. But unlike last week's episode, they nudge the undecided listener back toward thinking that there is reasonable doubt about Adnan's guilt, as does hearing from the man himself for extended interviews about his story. Another person, a friend of Hae, feels certain she saw her on the day of the murder at a time that messes up the state's timeline. A person who regularly shoplifted at the Best Buy where Adnan is alleged to have called Jay after the murder insists there were no pay phones there. Conor Friedersdorf, Lenika Cruz, and Katie Kilkenny discuss the latest episode of WBEZ Chicago's popular non-fiction podcast Serial.įriedersdorf: Episode 9 of Serial, "To Be Suspected," begins with new reasons to believe that the state's explanation of Hae's murder is off.
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