I’m a sucker for detective stories so when a colleague told me about the podcast series, Serial, I was intrigued. After listening to the first episode, I knew I was hooked. I’m still listening to Season 1 which was first released in October 2014 and cannot get the story out of my head.
Is this a catastrophic miscarriage of justice – once again highlighting the inequities in America’s judicial system that disproportionately imprisons men of color – or did Adnan Syed commit the heinous crime he was convicted for? I really have no idea and that is the hook that has me obsessing over this series.
Season 1 Episode 1 The Alibi: It’s Baltimore, 1999. Hae Min Lee, a popular high-school senior, disappears after school one day. Six weeks later detectives arrest her classmate and ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, for her murder. He says he’s innocent – though he can’t exactly remember what he was doing on that January afternoon. But someone can. A classmate at Woodlawn High School says she knows where Adnan was. The trouble is, she’s nowhere to be found.
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