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Serial

S01 - Ep. 3: Leakin Park

Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.581.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It’s February 9, 1999. Hae has been missing for three weeks. A man on his lunch break pulls off a road to pee, and stumbles on her body in a city forest. His odd recounting of the discovery makes Detectives Ritz and MacGillivary suspicious. For instance, why did he walk so far into the woods - 127 feet - to relieve himself? And that’s just the start. A look into the man’s past reveals some bizarre behavior.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Previously on cereal.

0:02.0

He kind of just always generally annoyed me because just the constant paging her if she was out.

0:09.0

Each time that she ended the relationship or took a break,

0:12.0

it was never a thing where I was like

0:13.7

pestering her or like going to her house knocking on the door. He said to me that he

0:19.1

was going to tell her his car was broken down and ask her for a ride. Tell her

0:25.0

for a ride. This is a global tell link, prepaid call from

0:31.0

A non-seyan.

0:32.0

An inmate act from Maryland Correctional Facility.

0:38.8

From this American life in W.B. E.C. Chicago, it's serial. One story told week by week. I'm Sarah Canig.

0:47.2

The cops who investigated the murder of Hayman Lee were both experienced Baltimore City detectives.

0:52.8

Their names were Ritz and Gilavray, Bill Ritz and Greg

0:55.5

McGillavary.

0:57.0

And how I wish right now that I could play U-Tape of their perspective on this case,

1:02.2

but they didn't want to be interviewed.

1:04.4

When Bill Ritz finally turned me down after six weeks of back and forth, he said he didn't

1:08.5

see the point.

1:09.7

The case has been adjudicated, he said.

1:11.8

What good would it do? I also spoke on the phone briefly to

1:15.9

McGillavary and he said just a few sentences to me and one of them was, beyond question,

1:21.3

he did it. Meaning, Adnan did it.

1:24.0

He didn't him or ha or hesitate.

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