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Serial

The Opposite of the Prosecution

Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.581.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Adnan told Sarah about a case in Virginia that had striking similarities to his own: one key witness, incriminating cell phone records, young people, drugs - and a defendant who has always maintained his innocence. Sarah called up one of the defense attorneys on that case to see if she could offer any insight into Adnan’s case, and got much more than she bargained for.

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0:00.0

To be honest if you it kind of 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 or not

0:09.7

Previously on serial did anybody else you used to find yeah and previously on

0:15.0

I remember he was talking to a girl.

0:18.0

He put me on the phone with her for like three minutes.

0:20.0

I said hello to her.

0:21.0

I just remember he had told my daughter he had seen the body of a girl in the

0:28.4

back of the trunk of some vehicle. I think the guy's name was maybe Adnan.

0:34.0

This is a global tell link prepaid call from

0:41.0

Adnan Say it. An inmate. prepaid call from I'm not say it

0:44.0

an inmate at from Maryland Correctional

0:46.0

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

1:08.6

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.

1:18.0

Anyway, we've been talking about the cell records and how they were used in Adnan's case, and Anan said that in this other case of Justin

1:24.8

Wolf, cell records had also been used against him, but then Justin Wolf's conviction

1:29.8

was overturned in part because of the cell records. So I looked at this case of Justin

1:35.5

Wolf just to see and on paper I have to say it's sort of uncanny how many

1:39.7

similarities there are with the Nans case. All young people, first of all.

1:44.0

Justin Wolf was a suburban kid, 18, football player.

1:48.0

People thought of him as a good kid, though he was selling pot and hanging around with some tougher types.

1:52.0

This next part is different, obviously. He was

1:55.2

convicted in the 2001 murder of a drug dealer who was shot nine times. Justin Wolf was not the shooter.

2:02.4

The shooter was a slightly older friend of Wolf's named Owen Barber, who got a deal in exchange for testifying against Justin Wolf.

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