One witness, Jay Wilds, claimed he helped Syed transport and bury Lee's body. The problem with Syed as the culprit is a handful of inconsistencies in both the investigator's report and in Wilds's. Mar 27, 2019 - Adnan Syed was convicted of the murder of Hae Min Lee in 2000. The victim was Hae Min Lee, whose body was found partially buried in.
Much like Serial, HBO’s The Case Against Adnan Syed ended without a real conclusion. Syed is still in jail for the murder of Hae Min Lee after the Maryland Court of Appeals denied him a new trial on March 8, 2019, just two days before the four-part documentary debuted. Still, the final episode, “Time Is the Killer,” contained multiple revelations and allegations that point toward Syed’s innocence and, like the podcast, raise even more questions about how the case was handled.
There’s a new story by Jay Wilds, the prosecution’s star witness, that changes his testimony yet again and accuses the police of fabricating his story; information about Lee’s autopsy that changes the timeline of her death; the lack of Syed’s DNA at the crime scene (that part was already spoiled days before this episode’s airing — more on that later); and some thin but intriguing evidence pointing to two other potential killers that could, at the least, be grounds for reasonable doubt.
And that’s only part of it. Even though it’s not a spoiler that Syed is currently in prison with no tangible route to freedom in sight, the episode also reveals the background legal maneuvers that kept him there and how he had the option to agree to a plea deal, all while not knowing that his mother was battling a life-threatening illness.
To help you make sense of all the twists and turns in the finale of The Case Against Adnan Syed,we’ve compiled the biggest takeaways from the episode. Naturally, spoilers abound.
Syed’s mother has Leukemia
Footage from 2017 shows Shamim Syed revealing to family friend and attorney Rabia Chaudry, Adnan’s most prominent advocate, that she has leukemia. Doctors had just caught it at stage one of the disease, and she insists that nobody tell Adnan. The next scene shows her traveling to visit Adnan in prison, while he, in a voice-over, compares getting a new trial to getting “approved for chemotherapy” for a terminal illness. He says he knows five people who’ve gotten new trials only to be convicted again, and he wonders at what point he’ll be like a cancer patient and just accept that it’s all over.
Syed turned down a plea deal
There’s a lot of behind-the-scenes footage of Syed’s lawyers going over their appeals and battles against Thiru Vignarajah, a former prosecutor who somehow was still able to try the case as a private citizen while running for Baltimore City state’s attorney. Over the years, the state of Maryland informally floated potential ways for Syed to get out of prison, then finally settled on an offer in 2018: If Syed pleaded guilty, he’d serve an additional four years behind bars and then be released.
Syed’s lawyer, C. Justin Brown, speculated that the extra four years would mean Syed is freed after the attorney general goes through another election, as well as the fact that Lee’s family is still pushing for Syed to remain in jail forever. Syed pondered it, weighing the pros and cons of guaranteed freedom versus admitting to a crime he swears he didn’t commit and that he lied to everyone, including his family and Serial host Sarah Koenig.
The epilogue of the episode says that Syed declined the deal in November 2018, before his mother told him about her cancer. Following the episode, Chaudry tweeted, “The State offered Adnan a plea. But he refused to plead guilty. He couldn’t lie and say he committed a crime he didn’t. Does he regret not taking the plea now that Court of Appeals ruled against him? No. He told me to tell everyone he doesn’t regret it.”
Jay Wilds has a new story, again
Jay Wilds has changed his story about what happened the day of Lee’s murder multiple times at this point, from his first taped confessions to his trial testimony to a post-Serial interview with the Intercept. Director Amy Berg repeatedly tried to get Wilds to appear in the documentary to no avail, but he finally gave a new statement to her in January 2019.
This time, Wilds says that Syed showed him Lee’s body when they were at Wilds’s house, not in the Best Buy parking lot as he testified in the trial — that part was made up by the detectives. Wilds’s new story is that Syed, knowing Wilds was “the criminal element of Woodlawn,” asked him to procure ten pounds of marijuana and, after Wilds got it, used the drugs as blackmail to force Wilds to help dispose of Lee’s corpse. It’s unclear whether any law enforcement officials were made aware of this new story for the documentary, but it further muddies the credibility of the state’s star witness.
Lee’s body was buried much later than alleged
The prosecution’s timeline of the murder says that Lee’s body was buried in Leakin Park around 7:30 p.m., five hours after Syed strangled her to death. In the episode, private investigators hired by the defense speak with a forensic pathologist and former medical examiner who goes over the autopsy photos and report and comes up with a new timeline — Lee’s body wasn’t buried until between 10:30 p.m. and 2:30 a.m.
In one autopsy photo, which is shown onscreen, Lee’s body shows evidence of lividity, the postmortem pooling of blood inside a corpse, surrounding a double-diamond-shaped mark on her shoulder. The pathologist says the only way that mark would have appeared is if Lee’s corpse was lying face down on an object with that specific shape for at least 8 to 12 hours. No object like that was found at the crime scene. If true, that means there’s no way Lee was killed in the afternoon and buried in the park so soon, refuting Wilds’s testimony and the prosecution’s case, further raising questions of where Lee was killed and where her body was kept before ending up in the woods.
There were also no bruises, marks, broken fingernails, or signs of any struggle on the body, leading the pathologist to conclude that the murder did not happen in the close quarters of Lee’s car, as the prosecution alleged. All of this together doesn’t prove Syed’s innocence, but it casts doubt on the alleged version of how the crime played out from start to finish.
There’s plenty of mysterious physical evidence (or a lack thereof)
The big reveal of the final episode got scooped by the Baltimore Sun last Thursday when the paper, after filing a public records act, revealed that Syed’s DNA was not found under Lee’s fingernails, on her body, or on other pieces of evidence collected at the crime scene. During Syed’s trial, neither the prosecution nor the defense requested that this be tested, likely because both sides feared that it would either exonerate or incriminate him. After Serial, the prosecution still declined to test it — Vignarajah allegedly said it was the defense’s responsibility to make the testing happen, so it wasn’t until the new defense team got it done in 2018 that anyone learned the results. This alone doesn’t exonerate Syed, but does show that the prosecution didn’t have any physical evidence tying him to the murder.
What the test did show was that there was DNA of an unidentified female on two wires that were found near Lee’s body. This DNA profile was not matched to any of the investigators or anyone whose DNA is in law enforcement databases. There was also a fingerprint, maybe two, on the rearview mirror of Lee’s car that also didn’t belong to Syed or the police, but was also never matched to anyone.
Syed’s lawyer Susan Simpson told the Crime Writers On podcast that the Baltimore Sun only learned about the DNA test recently, filing its public information request for it last Tuesday and getting the information in time to publish its article on Thursday. She says it’s a suspiciously quick amount of time for the attorney general’s office to respond to such a request — usually, it would take a month or two, suggesting that the state wanted this information out there before the episode aired to diminish the documentary’s overall impact on public opinion about the case.
Don and “Mr. S” should be considered suspects
There’s been much speculation about Don Clinedinst, Lee’s older boyfriend and co-worker at LensCrafters, and Alonzo Sellers, the man who discovered Lee’s body in Leakin Park and was known as “Mr. S” in Serial because he hadn’t been publicly named when the podcast aired.
First, Clinedinst was cleared by police because he had an alibi — working a shift at LensCrafters. The defense investigators point out that his alibi is thin because it comes from the manager of the store, who happens to be Clinedinst’s mother, and a digital time card, which either one of them allegedly could have manipulated after the fact. Another employee at the store recounts how Clinedinst, when telling his co-workers about Lee’s disappearance, had scratch marks and bandages on his forearms. Clinedinst said those injuries happened when he was doing work on his car, and detectives never questioned him in person about the case until three weeks after Lee went missing, so the speculation is that the wounds were healed or concealed by then.
As for Sellers, the suspicion surrounding him has centered on his previous conviction of indecent exposure and the oddness of the claim that he just happened to need to urinate in the spot where he found Lee’s body. It was very far into the woods from the road, and crime scene photos show that Lee’s body was barely visible in the leaf-strewn area, even up close. The new theories linking him to the murder are that the diamond-shaped mark left on Lee’s body might have come from her body being pressed down on equipment used in concrete construction work, which Sellers had previously done for a living. Also, he lived within five minutes’ walking distance of Woodlawn High School, so there’s a chance he might have seen her before. It’s all very thin, but once again, it could have been used as reasonable doubt at Syed’s trial.
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According to the documentary, neither man’s DNA or prints were compared to what was found at the scene or in the car. Of course, no male DNA was found at the scene, and if either man was involved, how does Wilds fit into that narrative, especially given that other people claim he told them about the murder soon after it happened?
Lee’s car was likely moved well after her death
In an earlier episode of the documentary, Syed’s investigators go over the discovery of Lee’s car in a Baltimore lot. Wilds’s story is that he and Syed abandoned the car there where nobody would look for it, but residents say there’s no way a car would’ve lasted there for over six weeks without being towed or vandalized.
The other revelation is about the grass underneath the car, as it’s seen in police photos. A scientist attempted to grow and simulate the decaying of that same type of grass as it would have happened under the car in that time frame, but couldn’t make any conclusions based on that. However, he does point out that there are blades of grass on the car’s wheels and that — given the precipitation, freezing, and thawing that happened between the murder and the discovery — it’s likely that the car was only there for a week at the most. If true, it leads to the questions of who drove it there and why Wilds would lie about that.
Born | October 15, 1980[1] |
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Disappeared | January 13, 1999 (aged 18) |
Died | |
Cause of death | Manual strangulation |
Body discovered | February 9, 1999 in Leakin Park |
Occupation | High school student |
Known for | Murder victim Subject of Serial |
Hae Min Lee (Korean: 이해민; October 15, 1980 – c. January 13, 1999) was a Korean-American high school senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States, who disappeared on January 13, 1999. Her body was found four weeks later in Leakin Park, the victim of murder by manual strangulation. Adnan Syed, her ex-boyfriend, was convicted in February 2000 of first-degree murder and given a life sentence plus 30 years. Syed has insisted for two decades that he is innocent.[2][3][4]
Lee's murder initially only generated local interest until it became the subject of the first season of the podcastSerial in 2014, which brought international attention to the crime and to Syed's trial by bringing the conviction into question.[5] In July 2016, Judge Martin P. Welch vacated Syed's conviction and ordered a new trial.[6] On March 29, 2018, Maryland Court of Special Appeals upheld the decision to grant Syed a new trial.[7] This decision was overturned by the Maryland Court of Appeals on March 8, 2019 and Syed remains in prison serving his original sentence. [8]
- 2Homicide Investigation
- 2.1Jay Wilds
- 4Aftermath
Background and Disappearance
Hae Min Lee was born in South Korea in 1980 and emigrated with her mother Youn Kim and her brother Young Lee to the United States in 1992 to live with her grandparents.[9] Lee attended the magnet program at Woodlawn High School near Baltimore, Maryland.[10] She was an athlete who played lacrosse and field hockey.[11]
Lee disappeared on January 13, 1999. Her family reported her missing after she failed to pick up her younger cousin from daycare around 3:15 p.m. Lee had attended Woodlawn High School that day and had been seen by several people leaving the campus at the end of the school day.
The names of the parties involved in this investigation have been revealed to the public in the documentary The Case Against Adnan Syed.[12]
Baltimore police began investigating as a missing persons' case immediately.[13] On the day of her disappearance, officers called various friends of Lee to try to find her.[13] They reached Syed early around 6:30 that evening; he said the last time he saw her was around the time classes ended at school. They were unable to reach her boyfriend, whom the podcasts call 'Don', until 1:30am that evening. Don said he hadn't seen her that day. On February 6th there was a dog led search around Woodlawn High School.[13][14]
Homicide Investigation
On February 9, Lee's partially buried body was discovered by a passerby in Leakin Park in Baltimore.[15] Police attention became focused on the person who reported finding the body.[13]
On February 12, 1999 the Baltimore City Police Homicide Division received an anonymous phone call suggesting that the investigators should focus on Lee's ex-boyfriend and classmate, Adnan Syed. On February 16, Baltimore Police applied for cellular phone records for a phone belonging to Syed.[16]
Physical evidence collected in 1999 was not tested for DNA during the initial trial process.[17]
Syed was arrested on February 28, 1999, and charged with first-degree murder.[18]
Jay Wilds
Jay Wilds was the State's key witness at trial. It is undisputed that he had Syed's cell phone on the day of the murder. He initially denied any knowledge of the crime. He eventually told police that Syed had shown him Lee's body in the parking lot of a Best Buy and that he and Syed buried the body in Leakin' Park at around 7pm that evening. Wilds' testimony was crucial to the prosecution's case.[19][20]
Evidence Wilds was coached by the police
Wilds frequently seemed to lose his way during one recorded interview, only to be rescued by knocking or tapping sounds. After the sounds were heard, Wilds would remember what had happened. According to Wilds, Syed committed the murder. According to the Undisclosed podcast and the HBO documentary 'The Case Against Adnan Syed', the tapping was evidence that the police were feeding Wilds with his story. As further evidence, the podcast notes that at one point in the interview, Wilds says 'top spots', which has no apparent relevance to the case. However, the point Jay makes after saying that appears at the top of page 2 of a police document entitled 'Jay's Chronology'. In a 2019 statement, Wilds also said he had been coached.[19][21][22][16][23][24][25][26]
Jay Wilds would eventually go on to make multiple recorded statements to police and at trial. He also gave an interview with The Intercept in 2014. His accounts are inconsistent. In the 2014 interview, he said that the burial happened at midnight and that he never saw the body at Best Buy.[17][27][28][29]
Trials and Appeals
Syed's family hired defense attorney Cristina Gutierrez to represent him. During Syed's first trial, jurors accidentally overheard a sidebar dispute between Gutierrez and the presiding judge in which the judge referred to Gutierrez as a 'liar'.[30] After learning that the jury had heard his characterization, the judge declared a mistrial. A second trial lasted six weeks and Syed was found guilty of first degree murder, kidnapping, false imprisonment, and robbery on February 25, 2000.[31] Syed was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years.[32]
Adnan Syed made a direct appeal in 2003 which was unsuccessful. [citation needed[ He later made an appeal for post conviction relief in 2010 based on ineffective assistance of counsel in that Gutierrez did not investigate an alibi witness, Asia McClain who maintained she was talking with Syed in the library at the exact time that prosecutors said Syed attacked Lee in a Best Buy parking lot several miles away.[33][34] 'The judge had ruled that Gutierrez’s decision not to call McClain as a witness was part of her defense strategy rather than an act of incompetence. The judge said the letters McClain sent Syed in jail were weak and possibly damaging evidence for the defense, since they did not state the time she saw him at the library and contradicted Syed’s own account from that day.'[34] This appeal was initially denied in 2014.[34]
On February 6, 2015, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals approved Syed's application for permission to appeal for a potential hearing on the admissibility of the alibi testimony of Asia McClain.[35] On May 18, 2015, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals remanded the case to the Circuit Court for Baltimore City [33] Syed's appeals lawyer, C. Justin Brown filed a motion in court on August 24th, 2015 pertaining to the cellular phone evidence, saying that a newly recovered document showed that the cell tower evidence used by prosecutors was misleading and should never have been admitted at trial.[36]
On November 6, 2015, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Martin Welch ordered that Syed's post-conviction relief proceedings, to determine his eligibility for a new trial, would be re-opened, 'in the interests of justice for all parties.'[37] The post-conviction relief hearing, originally scheduled to last two days, lasted five days from February 3-9, 2016.[38] The hearing was attended by people from across the United States, including Sarah Koenig. Asia McClain testified that she talked to Syed at the library on January 13, 1999.[39]On June 30, 2016, Judge Welch granted Syed's request for a new trial, ruling that Gutierrez 'rendered ineffective assistance when she failed to cross-examine the state's expert regarding the reliability of cell tower location evidence,' vacating Syed's conviction.[40] Judge Welch denied Syed's defense team's motion for bail for Syed in the interim.[41]
On March 29, 2018, Maryland's Court of Special Appeals, the second-highest court in the state, ruled that Syed deserved a new trial. The Court of Special Appeals' opinion explained that Syed's counsel failed to contact a potential alibi witness, Asia McClain, who could 'have raised a reasonable doubt in the mind of at least one juror.'[42]
On March 8, 2019 the Maryland Court of Appeals, on a 4-3 vote, reversed the lower appellate court's ruling, effectively denying the new trial.[43] The Court of Appeals agreed that Syed's legal counsel was deficient in but ruled that it would have not been enough to have swayed the jury to change their decision because, the judges said, the evidence against him was strong. It “does little more than call into question the time that the state claimed Ms. Lee was killed and does nothing to rebut the evidence establishing Mr. Syed’s motive and opportunity to kill Ms. Lee.”[43] They also ruled that Syed’s right to reexamine claims about the cellphone tower evidence had been waived because the issue had not been raised as part of Syed's original petition.[43]
Aftermath
Serial Podcast
From October 3 to December 18, 2014, the murder of Hae Min Lee and the subsequent arrest and trial of Adnan Syed was the subject of the first season of the podcast Serial by the creators of This American Life and hosted by Sarah Koenig.[44] The podcast episodes generated international interest in the trial and were downloaded more than 100 million times by June 2016.[6]
DNA Testing
After the podcast, Serial, had ended in 2014, there were discussions about DNA testing the physical evidence collected in 1999[45] Documents obtained by The Baltimore Sun in early 2019 show that Maryland prosecutors tested multiple items tied to the murder in mid-2018, including the victim and her car, but none tested positive for Syed's DNA.[46]
Followup
In 2015, attorneys Rabia Chaudry, Susan Simpson, and Collin Miller began producing a podcast called Undisclosed: The State vs. Adnan Syed. Chaudry says she is Syed's friend from childhood and strongly believes in his innocence, while Simpson and Miller became interested in the case from Serial. This podcast involved a detailed examination of the State of Maryland's case against Adnan Syed.[47][48]
Investigation Discovery aired a one-hour special called Adnan Syed: Innocent or Guilty? on June 14, 2016, based on a new analysis of evidence brought up in the podcasts.[49][50]
In 2016, there were two books published related to the case. Confessions of a Serial Alibi written by Asia McClain Chapman was released on June 7, 2016,[51] and Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial written by Rabia Chaudry was released on August 9, 2016.[52]
In May 2018, HBO announced it would produce a four-hour documentary based on the murder case called The Case Against Adnan Syed.[53] The first part of a four-part series was released on March 10, 2019.[54]
The HBO documentary revealed that Syed turned down a plea bargain in 2018 that would have him serve four more years and then be released and that subsequently, Syed's mother told him that she had leukemia.[55]
Lee's family remains convinced of Syed's guilt, saying that it is now 'more clear than ever' that he killed their daughter.[56]
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