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Serial

S01 - Ep. 11: Rumors

Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.581.9K Ratings

🗓️ 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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