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Serial

The Case Against Adnan Syed

Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.581.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The physical evidence against Adnan Syed was scant - a few underwhelming fingerprints. So aside from cell records, what did the prosecutors bring to the jury, to shore up Jay's testimony? Sarah weighs all the other circumstantial evidence they had against Adnan, including curious behavior, a disconcerting note, and an unexplained mid-afternoon phone call.

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0:00.0

Previously on cereal.

0:02.0

So it's just a really tight, really window of time, I mean, for this that's taking place, right?

0:07.0

All right, ready?

0:08.0

Yep.

0:09.0

Okay.

0:10.0

So I started it, it's 2.51 and we're making a right out of the best by parking lot.

0:15.0

Isn't that sort of tantamount to saying, I think Jay's telling the truth?

0:21.0

I'm saying I think the cell phone was in Lincoln Park.

0:24.0

This is a global tell link,

0:30.0

pre-paid call from...

0:32.0

A non-say it. link prepaid call from from an inmate act from Maryland Correctional Facility.

0:42.0

From this American Life in W.V.E.Z Chicago, it's serial. One story told week by week.

0:47.0

I'm Sarah Kaneg.

0:51.0

The most incriminating piece of physical evidence against Adnan Sayed was a fingerprint, or rather a palm print, on a map.

0:58.0

It was one of those big map books you buy at a gas station.

1:01.0

Police found it in the backseat of Hayes car. On the back cover was a partial

1:06.0

print of a non's left palm. One page was ripped out from the map. A trial, they pointed out that it was

1:12.2

the page that showed Leekin Park.

1:15.2

The defense argued, well, you can't put a time stamp on fingerprints.

1:19.4

They could have been six week old fingerprints or six-old fingerprints. There's no way to tell.

1:23.7

And Anan had ridden in and driven Hayes car many times, all their friends said so.

1:29.2

The ripped-out page showed a whole lot more than just Leekin Park. In fact, it showed their whole neighborhood,

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