To be honest with you, I feel like I want to shoot myself. If I hear someone else say, I don't think you did it because you're a nice guy.

Previously on Cereal.

Did anybody else use the phone?

Yeah, and I remember he was talking to a girl. He put me on a phone with her for like three minutes. That's that hello to her.

I just remember he had told my daughter he had seen the body of a girl in the back of the trunk of some vehicle.

I think the guy seen was maybe Adnan?

Look at that. Global talent. Playpeg calls from...

Adnan, say it.

And in May, then, from Maryland, the collection of the movie, it's gonna be the movie.

From this American life in WB Easy Chicago, it's Cereal. One story told week by week. I'm Sarah Canig.

I heard about this other case of a kid named Justin Wolf. Actually, Adnan mentioned the case to me kind of in passing. I can't remember how he heard about it. He reads a lot of different stuff in prison.

Anyway, we've been talking about the cell records and how they were used in a non-case. And a non-said that in this other case of Justin Wolf, cell records had also been used against him.

But then, Justin Wolf's conviction was overturned, in part because of the cell records.

So, I looked up this case of Justin Wolf just to see. And on paper, I have to say it's sort of uncanny how many similarities there are with Adnan's case. All young people, first of all.

Justin Wolf was a suburban kid, 18 football player. People thought of him as a good kid, though he was selling pot and hanging around with some tougher types.

This next part is different, obviously. He was convicted in the 2001 murder of a drug dealer who was shot nine times.

Justin Wolf was not the shooter. The shooter was a slightly older friend of Wolf's named Owen Barber, who got a deal in exchange for testifying against Justin Wolf.

Owen Barber told the cops that Justin Wolf had hired him to kill the drug dealer. Wolf was sentenced to death in Virginia.

Wolf's trial attorney later gave up his law license after the bar had initiated disciplinary charges against him for, this is the technical term, being a crappy lawyer.

Oh, and there was a witness who was never heard from. Other than that, totally different case.

Anyhow, eventually Owen Barber recanted. He said Justin Wolf had nothing to do with the murder. He'd only implicated Wolf to avoid a death sentence for himself.

So, I read all about this and thought, let me talk to the lawyer who helped figure out the flaws in the state's case against Justin Wolf.

...