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Serial

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Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.581.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2014

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

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. After 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Previously on cereal.

0:02.0

He left his cell phone and a car with me.

0:04.0

He told me he'd call me.

0:05.0

Okay, now at this point, you know why he's leaving the car with you?

0:09.0

Yes.

0:10.0

And why is that?

0:11.0

Because he said he was going to kill heading.

0:13.0

I definitely understand that someone could look at this and say, oh man, you know, he must be lying.

0:18.0

It's so coincidental.

0:19.0

He told me to speak with Jay and I was like okay because Jay wanted to say hi so I said

0:23.8

hi to Jay and that's all I can really recall. The uselessness of what we're

0:29.2

trying to do by recreating something that doesn't fit. It's like trying to plot the coordinates of

0:36.2

someone's dream or something. You know, perhaps I'll never be able to explain it and it is

0:42.1

what it is if someone believes me or not you know I have no

0:44.2

control over it.

0:47.0

This is a global tell link prepaid call from a an inmate at a Maryland correctional facility.

0:57.0

Its call will be recorded and monitored

1:00.0

from this American Life in W be easy Chicago it's serial one story told week by

1:07.5

week and this episode 12 is the final week final episode of season one of this podcast. It's been a year since I

1:15.0

first contacted at NAN and I'm still talking to him regularly. I'm still

1:19.0

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

1:26.8

I still want to know what you were doing that afternoon

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