Rumors

Serial

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🗓️ 11 December 2014

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Almost everyone describes the 17-year-old Adnan the same way: good kid, helpful at the mosque, respectful to his elders. But a couple of months ago, Sarah started getting phone calls from people who knew Adnan back then, and told her stories of a different kind of boy.

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0:00.0	Previously on cereal.
0:02.0	What did he tell you?
0:04.0	He told me that she had broke his heart.
0:07.0	It was extremely wrong for anyone to treat him that way.
0:10.0	He was like the community's golden child.
0:12.0	I think like the odds of you getting the charming sociopath you're just not that lucky
0:17.1	You you don't think that I know you at all? I mean for you to say that I'm a great person I mean like a nice person I've
0:24.3	to only talked to you on the phone a few times
0:27.8	this is a global tell link prepaid call from... I'm saying.
0:34.0	An inmate at, from Maryland Correctional Facility.
0:38.0	Its call will be recorded and monitored.
0:41.0	If you wish to watch it in each call
0:43.0	from the national...
0:45.0	From this American life in W.B.
0:51.0	From this American life in W.B.E easy Chicago, it's serial one story told week by week.
0:55.8	I'm Sarah Kaneig.
1:00.3	For two months now I've been grappling with rumors about Adnan.
1:03.4	People telling me there's stuff you don't know about Adnan,
1:06.4	stuff you need to know, to understand who you're dealing with.
1:08.9	These communications came in the form of phone calls, many phone calls, sometimes one-on-one, sometimes
1:14.9	conference calls, also texts and nervous emails.
1:18.8	I can't tell this one, I've spoken to that one, and then that one gets worried that I've broken my word, which I
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