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S2 Ep97: Hae Min Lee & Adnan Syed: Leakin Park's Buried Secrets (Part 3)

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🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

It was an unseasonably warm January afternoon in Baltimore County, Maryland when 18-year-old Woodlawn High School senior Hae Min Lee left school in her gray 1998 Nissan Sentra and headed out to pick up her six-year-old cousin from kindergarten before going to her job at the local LensCrafters. But sometime after leaving Woodlawn High School and before picking up her little cousin, Hae Min Lee vanished into thin air. Less than a month later, maintenance worker Alonzo Sellers was driving back to his job at Coppin State College and drinking a beer when he realized he had to use the bathroom, and it couldn’t wait. Mr. Sellers pulled over on the side of the road and walked deep into the woods to relieve himself, at which point he made a gruesome discovery. According to his later testimony, Mr. Sellers said quote, “when I looked down I seen something that looked like hair, something that was covered by dirt. And I looked real good again, and that’s when I seen what looked like a foot” end quote. Alonzo Sellers had stumbled upon the body of Hae Min Lee, she had been strangled to death by the bare hands of her attacker, and within a few weeks, the police would make an arrest for her murder. But, the suspect was a person that no one would have suspected capable of such a horrific crime, the ex-boyfriend of Hae, a sweet and smart 17-year-old named Adnan Syed. But, stay with us, because, it’s complicated…

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow.

0:16.1

And I'm Derek Lovasser.

0:17.5

So today we're heading into part three of the current series. I can say that I've been

0:24.4

spending so much more time with this case than I usually do, going over time lines, going

0:30.2

over cell phone records, going over like cell phone towers, you know, trying to learn

0:34.8

about cell phone towers because it's a whole different language. And it's just been

0:40.0

an incredibly frustrating journey so far because I'm used to kind of being able to organize

0:47.5

things. And it's just so impossible to organize this case and the details of it in a way

0:52.7

where it makes sense at all. And you know, I think a lot of people feel that way, hopefully

0:58.0

now that you know, we're together here and we can run things by each other. We can clear

1:02.5

things up a little bit, but it's just been a wild ride. How have you been doing with

1:06.5

the case?

1:07.5

Good. I'm definitely invested in it now. And this is one of those cases where I think it's

1:11.8

good to sit here and listen to you kind of lay it all out. But I had to do my own research

1:16.6

as well too because there's just so much to it. And just to be completely transparent, there's

1:22.2

so many people invested in this case. And frankly, there's people who feel like they know

1:27.2

the case better than the people who worked it. So you really got to be as people in this

1:33.2

field, we really have to dot our eyes and cross our teeth because we know, unfortunately,

1:38.2

there are people who are watching and listening to this just to call us out on something and

1:42.8

just do some waiting to pounce on something we say or do so that they can say, see, they're

1:48.2

full of shit. They don't know what they're talking about. So I'm not saying that's the majority

1:51.8

and that's the profession we're in. So we sign up for it. It's something I'm very used

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