S01 Update 1: Day 01, Adnan Syed’s Hearing

Serial - Serial S01 - Ep. 12: What We Know

On January 13, 1999, Adnan Syed was a hurt and vengeful ex-boyfriend who carried out a premeditated murder. Or he was a bewildered bystander, framed for a crime he could never have committed.\xa0After 15 months of reporting, we take out everything we’ve got - interviews and documents and police reports - we shake it all out, and we see what sticks.

Serial S01 - Ep. 12: What We Know

He left his cell phone in the car with me. Tell me he called me. Hey now at this point

You know why he's leaving the car with you. Yes, and why is that?

I definitely I just stand and someone could look at this and say oh man, you know

He must be lying. They still coincidentally

He told me to speak with Jay and I was like okay, cuz Jay wanted to say hi. So I said hi to Jay

The uselessness of what we're trying to do by recreating something that doesn't fit

The coordinates of someone's dream or something

You know, I have never been able to explain it and it is what it is if someone believes me or not

This is a global talent. Play pay call from

And in late at a Maryland correctional facility

From this American life and WB easy Chicago. It's cereal one story told week by week and this episode 12 is the final week

Final episode of season one of this podcast

It's been a year since I first contacted it at none and I'm still talking to him regularly

I'm still asking him the basics still thinking I don't know that he'll remember something or maybe he'll just get so frustrated with me that he'll crack

I still want to know what you were doing that afternoon

I want to know who had your phone and I want to know what you were doing that afternoon

Serial returns with a history of Guantánamo told by people who lived through key moments in Guantánamo’s evolution, who know things the rest of us don’t about what it’s like to be caught inside an improvised justice system.

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0:00.0	Previously on cereal
0:02.0	He left his cell phone in the car with me. Tell me he called me. Hey now at this point
0:06.2	You know why he's leaving the car with you. Yes, and why is that?
0:11.2	Because you said you're gonna kill him
0:13.2	I definitely I just stand and someone could look at this and say oh man, you know
0:17.1	He must be lying. They still coincidentally
0:19.3	He told me to speak with Jay and I was like okay, cuz Jay wanted to say hi. So I said hi to Jay
0:24.9	And that's all I can really recall
0:26.9	The uselessness of what we're trying to do by recreating something that doesn't fit
0:33.1	It's like trying to plot
0:35.2	The coordinates of someone's dream or something
0:38.0	You know, I have never been able to explain it and it is what it is if someone believes me or not
0:43.6	You know, I have no control over
0:47.9	This is a global talent. Play pay call from
0:52.4	It's not a say it
0:54.4	And in late at a Maryland correctional facility
1:03.0	From this American life and WB easy Chicago. It's cereal one story told week by week and this episode 12 is the final week
1:10.7	Final episode of season one of this podcast
1:13.7	It's been a year since I first contacted it at none and I'm still talking to him regularly
1:18.1	I'm still asking him the basics still thinking I don't know that he'll remember something or maybe he'll just get so frustrated with me that he'll crack
1:26.0	I still want to know what you were doing that afternoon
1:30.2	I want to know who had your phone and I want to know what you were doing that afternoon
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Serial S01 - Ep. 12: What We Know

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