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Serial

To Be Suspected

Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.581.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2014

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

New information is coming in about what maybe didn’t happen on January 13, 1999. And while Adnan’s memory of that day is foggy at best, he does remember what happened next: being questioned, being arrested and, a little more than a year later, being sentenced to life in prison.

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0:00.0

Previously on cereal.

0:02.0

Why would you admit to doing something that drastic if you hadn't done it?

0:06.0

The mechanics, the documentation, the steps that they took, they look good.

0:10.0

Why would you not get up there and defend yourself? You know, it's your face to face. He's right there. He's a person.

0:18.0

And so, you know, it sounds believable.

0:25.0

This is a global tell link prepaid call from

0:32.0

I'm not saying. pre-paid call from An inmate act from Maryland Correctional Facility.

0:37.0

From this American Life.

0:48.0

From this American life in W.B.E.Z Chicago, it's serial. One story told week by week. I'm Sarah Kaneig. Before we get to today's episode where I'm going to let Adnan talk for a while, I want to run by you some new information I've learned in the past week. Three things I've learned. First, remember Laura, the former Laura Estrada Sandoval, the one who

1:05.1

asked, well then who the fuck did it in the last episode? She was friends with

1:08.8

Stephanie and with Jay and with Adon. I was talking to Laura on the phone the

1:12.4

other day and she mentioned something about Best Buy and so I asked

1:15.9

her if I could start taping. Tell me again what you just told me?

1:20.8

There's no there was never any phones at Best Buy. There were never any phones around the Best Buy.

1:26.0

No pay phone, no, no phone booth.

1:28.0

No. No. No. There's like blank. There's no phones there.

1:35.0

The pay phone in question is important because Jay tells the detectives that Adon called him on January 13, 1999 and told Jay he'd killed Hay.

1:44.1

Quote, come and get me, I'm at Best Buy.

1:46.8

When Jay gets there, he says he sees a nun standing by the phone booth,

1:49.9

wearing red gloves.

1:52.0

He draws a map for the cops, showing the location of the phone booth and if

1:55.4

you're facing the front doors of the store his drawing shows the booth on the left outside

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