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Directions: On February 28, 1999, Adnan was arrested for the death…
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On February 28, 1999, Adnan was arrested for the death of Hae Min Lee.
Once detectives zero in on their main suspect, they tend only to focus on the evidence that supports the narrative of guilt and disregard the rest.
Now that you have listened to episode 6, build the case of guilt against Adnan on the crime board on the next slide.
Your board should be a collage of real images, primary documents, witnesses, and evidence from episode 6 that would support the story of Adnan’s guilt.
After you finish, think about the claims, counterclaims, and rebuttals in this case to give a more balanced account.
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https://serialpodcast.org/posts/2015/10/waranowitz-he-speaks
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https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/6/the-case-against-adnan-syed
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Episode 6: The Case Against Adnan Syed -Mail Chimp AdIra Glass Previously, on Serial… Adnan So, it’s just, it’s a really tight, really window of time I mean, for this to have taken place, right? Dana Chivvis Alright, ready? Sarah Koenig Yup. Dana Chivvis Mmmkay, so I started it at – it’s 2:51 and we’re making a right out of the Best Buy parking lot. Sarah Koenig Isn’t that sort of tantamount to saying ‘I think Jay’s telling the truth?’ Dana Chivvis I’m saying I think the cell phone was in Leakin Park. Automated voice This is a Global-Tel link prepaid call from Adnan Syed an inmate at a Maryland Correctional facility… 127 Visit the Undisclosed Wiki for more original documents from the Lee/Syed case https://www.adnansyedwiki.com/ Sarah Koenig From This American Life and WBEZ Chicago it’s Serial. One story told week by week. I’m Sarah Koenig. The most incriminating piece of physical evidence against Adnan Syed was a fingerprint, or rather, a palm print. On a map. It was one of those big map books you buy at a gas station, police found it in the backseat of Hae’s car. On the back cover was a partial print of Adnan’s left palm. One page was ripped out from the map. At trial they pointed out that it was the page that showed Leakin Park. The defense argued, ‘well, you can’t put a timestamp on fingerprints, they could’ve been six week-old fingerprints or six month-old fingerprints, there’s no way to tell.’ And Adnan had ridden in and driven Hae’s car many times, all their friends said so. The ripped out page showed a whole lot more than just Leakin Park. In fact, it showed their whole neighborhood, the school, the malls, probably ninety percent of where they most often drove. And that page didn’t have Adnan’s prints on it. His palm print was only on the back cover of the book. Plus, thirteen other, unidentified prints turned up on and in the map book. None of them matched Adnan, or Jay. So, the prints weren’t exactly conclusive. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been holding up bits of evidence here and there that look bad for Adnan. Today, I’m just going to lay out the rest. Everything else that a person could reasonably add to the ‘Adnan is guilty’ side of the scale. Everything that the state had that I know about. Some of these I have mentioned before but, let’s just hang them all up, side-by-side, and see what they look like. First off, there’s a question of whether Adnan asked Hae for a ride that day after school. Was he looking for an excuse to get in her car, so he could kill her. Office Adcock testified that the day she disappeared, Adnan told him he’d asked her for a ride. Adnan then later told a different cop he didn’t ask for a ride. Then, you know how Adnan says he can’t remember much at all about the day Hae went missing? How it was just a normal day to him, nothing much stands out? I’ve wondered about that. The normalness of the day, because, wouldn’t the call from Officer Adcock asking, whether he’s seen Hae just in and of itself, wouldn’t that call make it a not normal day? Sarah Koenig Something pretty unusual did happen to you that day. Which was… Adnan Syed Oh like the police, the police call… Sarah Koenig Episode 6: The Case Against Adnan Syed 128 Visit the Undisclosed Wiki for more original documents from the Lee/Syed case https://www.adnansyedwiki.com/ The police call! [Calling to] say, “do you know where Hae Lee is?”, right? Adnan Syed Oh no, uh, I do remember that phone call and I do remember being high at the time because the craziest thing is to be high and have the police call your phone. I’ll never forget that. Sarah Koenig I guess that’s the only thing about the day that seems weird to me that you wouldn’t then, that the day wouldn’t then come into focus for you because you’d gotten this call from the cops and you know, you, you were high, you were young, you know, it’s a – it’s a scary call to get or just a just a jarring call to get. Adnan Syed At, I mean, at the time, the only thing I really associated with that call was that man uh, you know Hae’s gonna be in a lot of trouble when she gets home. If the police are at her house, you know, if her mother, actually, you know for, for whatever reason, if she didn’t, you know she didn’t go home or she went somewhere else. In no way did I associate this call with being, you know, umm the beginning of you know, of this whole horrible thing. It’s not, in no way is this like you know foreshadowing, I don’t know if that’s the right word, what’s, what’s we know, what’s to come. Sarah Koenig Mmm-hmm. Adnan Syed So, to me, all this call was, Hae’s going to get in a lot you trouble, you know, her mother is going to be pissed when she comes home, right. Sarah Koenig To be fair to Adnan, if this really was his reaction, then he wasn’t the only one. The seriousness of Hae’s disappearance didn’t start sinking in with her friends for a while. School was cancelled on January 14th and 15th because of the ice storm, then the weekend came.Then Monday was Martin Luther King Day, so the kids didn’t all reconvene at school until the following Tuesday. All of Hae’s friends I spoke to said they initially thought Hae had either run off someplace with her new boyfriend Don or, this was another rumor that a lot of people talked about at the time, that she’d run off to Episode 6: The Case Against Adnan Syed 129 Visit the Undisclosed Wiki for more original documents from the Lee/Syed case https://www.adnansyedwiki.com/ California. Friends said she talked about that sometimes, that her dad, or maybe it was her step dad, was in California, and she wanted to go there. They told the cops the same thing. Next, the night before Hae disappeared, Adnan called her house three times. Seems like the only time they actually spoke was the third call, at 12:35am. That’s when Adnan says he was probably calling to give her his new cell phone number, and she does write it in her diary. Here’s something that makes me pause though. If you look at his cell records from that day forward, neither Hae’s home number nor her pager shows up again, which suggests he never tried to contact her after she went missing. They were supposedly such good friends. Hae’s friend Aisha said that she was paging her like crazy. Did you ever try to page her and just be like, you know, see if you could find her, raise her, see if you could get a response from her? Adnan Syed Well, I know that we would always, I-I can’t remember if I did page her or not but, we would always talk about it at school. I would always like get my information first hand from like Aisha who would usually be in contact with obvi-, if I can remember she was like in contact with Hae’s family. So it was kind of like I would always, if not Aisha or Krista or or or it I mean it wasn’t like I was just sittin’ around, like not even thinking about her. You know, not paging her or whatever, but I used to always get my information from them first hand, you know, it-it’s not it- I don’t remember if I ever paged her or not. Sarah Koenig You know, it just seems that, I know Krista was trying to page her, I know Aisha was trying to page her, during this time to just be like ‘where are you, where are you, where are you?’ And I was wondering if you had- were in the group of like ‘where are you?’ Adnan Syed (long pause) What, are you asking me a question? Sarah Koenig I don’t know. I’m just explaining why I’m asking, I’m explaining why I’m asking the question, is that it seems like your relationship you had with her, you would have been one of those people saying, ‘hey, hey, hey like give a holler, where are you okay, we’re all worried about you.’ Episode 6: The Case Against Adnan Syed 130 Visit the Undisclosed Wiki for more original documents from the Lee/Syed case https://www.adnansyedwiki.com/ Adnan Syed No! It does not mean I’m not right alongside with them. It’s not like they’re in a hole, I mean, we’re all seeing each other everyday, we’re talking about it. It’s not like you know, it’s not like I’m just sitting there like whenever Hae comes up in a conversation I’m leaving, going to another side of the classroom or something like that. I mean, I’m just as involved as they are, yeah so, I mean, I don’t, you know. Sarah Koenig Then, there are some stray things. That, eh, I don’t know what they mean. Or if they mean much of anything. But I’m going to tell you about them in case. A note came up at trial. After Hae and Adnan broke up, in early November, Hae had written Adnan a frustrated letter… “I’m really getting annoyed that this situation is going the way it is” she wrote, “you know, people break up all the time. Your life is not going to end. You’ll move on and I’ll move on. But apparently you don’t respect me enough to accept my decision.” End quote. Aisha Pittman read this note at trial, Hae was her best friend. Adnan had shown Aisha the letter, apparently in health class. And they had written notes to each other on the back. Aisha in pencil, Adnan in pen. They were joking, making fun of Hae, making fun of themselves, it’s all just silliness. But then, at the top of the page it says, “I’m going to kill.” In pen. I talked to Aisha about it. Sarah Koenig And, I mean, did you take any of that as, as um, menacing or anything? Or was it just like part of the joking of the note? The note just seems like you guys are just messing around. Aisha Pittman So that wasn’t on the note when I was writing with it. So for, to see it later, it was one of those things where it’s like, that’s weird to see that but, I don’t know when that would have been written or what the– Sarah Koenig Oh, that wasn’t part of the conversation. Aisha Pittman –no, cause I remember, like, once you showed– read through it, it’s like on it, it was our conversation on letterhead, and then at the top of it was kind of out of context? Episode 6: The Case Against Adnan Syed 131 Visit the Undisclosed Wiki for more original documents from the Lee/Syed case https://www.adnansyedwiki.com/ Sarah Koenig Okay. Did you take it to mean anything? I mean, did you take it to be meaningful, I guess. Aisha Pittman I don’t– no, because when I am first seeing that part of it, it was sitting in court having to read the rest of the letter. Sarah Koenig Police had found the note when they searched Adnan’s house. But, who knows about that one, right? Seems like a detail you’d find in a cheesey detective novel. The other one I’m not sure about it is this kind of stray report in the police file. A guy named Dave had called the cops and said, “My daughter just heard something about a dead body.” Dave told the cops, “It was the neighbor boy who mentioned it.” Dave names the neighbor boy but, I’m just going to call him The Neighbor Boy. Here’s Dave… Dave I just remember he had told my daughter he had seen uh a the body of a girl in the back of some– in the trunk of some vehicle. And, it seemed to me that it was he said it was like and oriental girl or something but that’s that’s all I remember. Yeah, that’s all I know about it, yeah. Sarah Koenig Did he tell it to you, or just to your daughter? Dave To my daughter, he didn’t tell it to me. Sarah Koenig Dave gave me his daughter’s number, I went to see her right away. Her name is Laura, here’s what she remembered about what The Neighbor Boy told her that day. Laura He was, he was, with a friend and the friend said something like, ‘look what I have’ and he popped the trunk and that’s what he saw. Episode 6: The Case Against Adnan Syed 132 Visit the Undisclosed Wiki for more original documents from the Lee/Syed case https://www.adnansyedwiki.com/ Sarah Koenig Did he seem upset or..? Laura He seemed disturbed. More like a ‘wow, I can’t believe what I just saw.’ Kinda almost like he was maybe getting something off his chest, that type of thing. Sarah Koenig I asked Laura, did The Neighbor Boy tell you the name of this friend that showed him the body? Laura I think the guy’s name was maybe Adnan? Sarah Koenig Really? Laura Mm-hmm Sarah Koenig Hm. So this guy said, ‘my friend Adnan showed me the body of a girl in the back of a car?’ Laura Umm-hmm. Yes. Sarah Koenig Do you think he was telling the truth? Laura Yes. Episode 6: The Case Against Adnan Syed 133 Visit the Undisclosed Wiki for more original documents from the Lee/Syed case https://www.adnansyedwiki.com/ Sarah Koenig Laura didn’t go to Woodlawn. She didn’t know Adnan, she’d known The Neighbor Boy since they were little, they were friendly. Laura said she never spoke to police about this, they never questioned her. So this sounds really really bad, right? That there was another witness, besides Jay, who saw Hae’s body, who saw Adnan with Hae’s body. That’s huge. But, I called The Neighbor Boy that same night, he is now somebody else’s neighbor and he’s a man. He was affable and patient and he wholly denied this episode. He was pretty convincing. He said quote, “the only dead body I’ve seen was on TV. God’s honest truth. Except for my great-grandmother. She died when I was like nine.” The Neighbor Man said that he wasn’t friends with Adnan. He was friends with Jay though, they smoked weed together. I suggested maybe Jay told him this story and he kind of appropriated it and told it to the neighbor girl to freak her out. And he said, no way quote, “I wouldn’t kid around about something like that.” The man told me the cops came to see him in ’99 and he told them the same thing, that he didn’t know anything and he wrote out a statement to the same effect to a private investigator who was working for the defense in Adnan’s case, I’ve read it. This is what’s weird. That original police report about Dave and his daughter Laura, it’s dated April 28th. By that time, Adnan had already been in jail for nearly two months. But Laura was under the impression that what happened to her neighbor had just happened. She told her dad right away, and he called the cops right away. And, I talked to friends of Jay’s who also knew The Neighbor Boy, and they said, “oh that guy?” They gave the impression The Neighbor Boy was a bit of a gossip. A guy untalented at keeping secrets. Which, could play either way I guess. But they meant it like, “nobody would tell him anything they wanted to stay quiet.” The Neighbor Boy never shows up at trial. He is never mentioned. So, I let it go. But, you know, it is weird. And if Laura’s story is true, then there’s another witness to this murder. It’s one of the things about this case that kind of bobs above the water for me, like a disturbing buoy. Then, there’s Cathy, that is not her real name, and we have changed her voice, but I’m calling her Cathy. I’ve mentioned her before. She saw Adnan and Jay, together, acting suspiciously, the word she uses is shady, at a critical time that evening of the 13th, the day Hae disappeared. If you go by Jay’s story, he brought Adnan to Cathy’s apartment after he picked Adnan up from track practice. So, after Hae had been killed, but before they went to bury her body. It was about six o’clock at night. And they all three, Adnan, Jay, and Cathy, acknowledge being together at the apartment, there’s no dispute about that. Cathy was a close friend of Jenn’s, they were sorority sisters. She knew Jay a little bit, but only through Jenn. She didn’t know Adnan at all. So, here was an acquaintance, Jay, and a stranger, who suddenly show up at her door. Cathy remembers that night pretty clearly, her boyfriend Jeff was there at the apartment too. Cathy (Voice Modulated) Episode 6: The Case Against Adnan Syed 134 Visit the Undisclosed Wiki for more original documents from the Lee/Syed case https://www.adnansyedwiki.com/ –and I was kinda surprised and a little confused because he didn’t call me unless he was with Jenn and nobody had called to say “hey are you guys home? Do you guys want to hang out?” Nothing like that. So it was a little strange that he would just pop up at the door. I remember him being like, “do you want to smoke? Do you wanna hang out?” And I remember being like, “well hang on a second,” and asking Jeff if he wanted to– “Jay’s at the door!” Jeff was like, “for what?” “Well he wants to hang out.” And Jeff was like, “that’s cool.” So Jay came in and he introduced his friend, I don’t think he introduced him by name, I think he was just like, “this is a friend of mine.” Sarah Koenig Cathy remembers Jay sat over by the table and Adnan settled on the floor on some big cushions that were there, and didn’t speak. Cathy I remember the guy wasn’t doing a whole lot of talking, he was just kinda like slumped over amidst all my cushions, and I thought it was really kinda strange, “who is this guy?” you know? Who is this guy? Sarah Koenig When I first heard about Cathy’s statement and her testimony, it didn’t seem like a big deal to me. This is a girl who says some kid she didn’t know who was high was acting strangely in her living room. I’ve been that girl for Christ sakes. Having to deal with some stoned friend of a friend on the living room floor. And I’ve probably been that weird guy on the floor at least once. But, listening to Cathy tell it, all these years later, the way it stuck with her, how she describes the whole night as just feeling wrong, that also made it stick with me. Cathy thought Jay was acting odd as well. She knew him as this super laid back stoner guy, like Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. But now he was being conspicuously chatty. Cathy “How was your day?” “What’s going on?” Kinda– dominated the conversation really. Sarah Koenig She says that while Jay and Adnan were there, Jenn called the apartment. Or maybe it was she that called Jenn, she can’t remember now. But she does remember talking to Jenn and saying, “Jay’s here with some kid who’s practically passed out on the cushions.” And Jenn thought that was curious, like, “what’s Jay doing there?” She told Cathy that Jay had been acting weird earlier in the day too. The story Cathy is telling is pretty close to what she told the cops during the investigation. Detective Episode 6: The Case Against Adnan Syed 135 Visit the Undisclosed Wiki for more original documents from the Lee/Syed case https://www.adnansyedwiki.com/ MacGillivary interviewed Cathy in March of ’99, after Adnan had been arrested. She told him back then, she remembered Adnan saying only one thing to the group: “how do I get rid of a high?” Cathy –and he asked “how do I get rid of a high? I have to meet someone or do something and it’s really important.” And I was like, “you just have to let it– just have to let it go.” Detective MacGillivary Do you have any idea where he was going to go? Who he was going to meet? Cathy No, he didn’t– I’m not clear whether I remembered him saying “I have to go talk to someone” or “I have to go meet someone” or “I have to go do something.” I’m not sure he– I remember him expressing it was really important what he had to go do. He didn’t specify what. Detective MacGillivary Okay. Sarah Koenig There are three incoming calls on the call log that ping towers near Cathy’s house. 6:07, 6:09, and 6:24 p.m. That’s the longest one, for a little more than four minutes. We don’t know for sure who they’re from, but Officer Adcock testifies that he calls around this time and he thinks the 6:24 call was probably him. And Hae’s brother, Young, also calls Adnan around this time, looking for his sister. We don’t know who the third call is from. Cathy definitely remembers Adnan getting one phone call while he was at her apartment. She says, they’re sitting around talking, when one of Cathy’s favorite shows is on the TV, Judge Judy. Cathy The phone rings and he hadn’t said anything the whole time he had been there, so when he answers the phone, and he’s saying “what am I going to do? What am I gonna say? They’re gonna come talk to me. What am I supposed to say?” And I remember him sounding very worried– concerned. This was– whatever was happening was not good on the other line. I remember being like, “wow, I wonder what he’s going–” eavesdropping basically! Wondering what was going on. Not too long after he hung up the phone, he left. Just bust out the door, left. Episode 6: The Case Against Adnan Syed 136 Visit the Undisclosed Wiki for more original documents from the Lee/Syed case https://www.adnansyedwiki.com/ Sarah Koenig Jay follows Adnan out, leaves his hat and smokes behind, Cathy says. They go downstairs and then, she says, they get in a car and just sit there in the car for a while. Cathy And so now they’re outside in a car and I remember going to the window, “what are they doing? Jeff, they’re in the car, they’re just sitting there. What the hell is going on?” Just finding the whole situation super odd, super strange. And Jeff, he just didn’t give a shit about anything. “Eh, it doesn’t matter, who cares? You know?” I just remember being like, “what is going on?” Sarah Koenig Was it–you’d never met the other guy before, Adnan, right? So you didn’t know what was normal behavior for him? Cathy –clearly it was not normal behavior for anybody. That was just– regardless of whether you know him or not. Clearly you could tell something was going on, something was going on [that] wasn’t good, and yeah, it was just strange behavior for anybody. I think that’s been the one thing I’ve always remembered. Like how he said it, how he looked, when he said it. He’s definitely panicked. He’s definitely worried and I could imagine if I was in a position that’s what I would’ve been saying on the phone to my best friend. You know, “my god, what am I gonna do? They’re gonna come talk to me. What am I supposed to say?” You know, trying to come up with some story quickly. Sarah Koenig Many hours later, at the end of the night, Jay came back to Cathy’s again, without Adnan, but this time Jenn was with him. Cathy I remember being like, “so, what the fuck?” And I remember kind of them both being like, “oh, it’s nothing.” You know, kinda smoothing it over I think a little bit. It was kinda like, “oh it’s no big deal,” that kinda thing, but you could definitely tell it was a big deal and whatever was going on was kind of a secret or– because Jenn and I were best friends, I mean we talked Episode 6: The Case Against Adnan Syed 137 Visit the Undisclosed Wiki for more original documents from the Lee/Syed case https://www.adnansyedwiki.com/ about everything. We were– we didn’t do anything without talking about it. I knew what she was wearing in the morning. I knew where she was going at night. I knew who she talked to on the phone. So it was a little strange that when I said, “so what happened?” I didn’t get a full account. Sarah Koenig The next time I talked to Adnan, I told him how Cathy still remembered all this stuff, how shady the whole scene was for her. And he said that on a bunch of levels, what Cathy had to say didn’t hold much water with him. First of all, if someone had called him to warn him the police were about to call, why would he then answer the phone when the police called? Adnan Syed I mean, if I was expecting the police to call me I probably wouldn’t have answered my phone then. I could have just turned the phone off or something– Sarah Koenig That’s a good point. Adnan Syed –it’s common sense that, that if we’re going with this scenario that if I’m trying to avoid the police, then I wouldn’t pick up the phone and engage them in a conversation. Sarah Koenig Well, but there’s also the other thing where you’re just like acting normal, everything is nor– “Sure! Hi! Yeah, yeah I don’t know. I saw her after school. I dunno.” You know? Where you try to just play it cool. (long pause) Adnan Syed But then it still leaves us with the third person. This third individual– Sarah Koenig Right. Episode 6: The Case Against Adnan Syed 138 Visit the Undisclosed Wiki for more original documents from the Lee/Syed case https://www.adnansyedwiki.com/ Adnan Syed –I mean this would seem to make more sense to have this conversation with Jay, but she clearly says, from what you just said, that I was not talking to Jay, I was talking to someone on the phone. Sarah Koenig Right. Right. Her story would imply a third man, a co-conspirator. Someone Adnan would be on the phone with who clearly knew about the murder. So, who would this third caller be? Adnan Syed So now who was this third person on the phone? So, at some point, her memory either benefits me or it doesn’t benefit me. Sarah Koenig I mean it’s-, that’s a hard one. Her testimony does not look good for you, you know. Because she’s not really connected to Jay, she’s not connected to you, you know she’s a little bit more objective I would say, and she really thought you were acting, very strangely. You know. So it didn’t– it’s not good for you, what she has to say. (clears throat) Adnan Syed I mean- I mean, to be honest with you I’m listening to you but I kinda think that, it’s not good for me if a person believes the narrative of what Jay is saying. But, if you don’t believe the narrative of what Jay is saying, or if a person questions it, what does she say specifically that links me to Hae’s murder? You know, she didn’t say, she didn’t say that she saw me with any type of equipment or materials or dirty clothes or disheveled or anything like that. Her– Sarah Koenig Well… Adnan Syed I mean, from what I gathered– Sarah Koenig Episode 6: The Case Against Adnan Syed 139 Visit the Undisclosed Wiki for more original documents from the Lee/Syed case https://www.adnansyedwiki.com/ I don’t know… Adnan Syed I mean, certainly you know, there are some things I’mma yield, but I’m definitely not going to yield that, you know, if something that I feel really- all this is in the context of her believing, “okay, well maybe he did this or he’s charged with this then you know what now all this stuff uh makes sense or whatever. Which in and of itself may not have been that strange had I never been charged with this. Like I seriously doubt she would have gave this a second thought had I never been charged with Hae’s murder. Sarah Koenig Maybe, maybe not. There’s a second person who puts Jay and Adnan together that night, and that’s Jenn. You know how last episode we talked about those two incoming Leakin Park calls on the call log? At 7:09 and 7:16? When Jay says that they were burying Hae? The ones where we think the cell phone really was in Leakin Park? Well, Jenn has a cameo in that scene, Jenn says she was one of those incoming calls. She says she called the cell phone around that time looking for Jay, but that Adnan picked up, he didn’t identify himself, but she assumed it was Adnan. Here’s from her police interview– Jenn Pusateri When I called them, um, Adnan answered the phone and said “Jay will call you back when you’re re–” when he’s ready for you to come and get him, or for you to come and meet him, or whatever. “Jay will call you when he’s ready.” And um, so that’s all like, he was very quick and very “bye” you know. Sarah Koenig If Jenn’s story is true, it does look an awful lot like Adnan was in Leakin Park that night, busy not handing the phone over to Jay. The second time Jenn puts them together that night is pretty soon after that, when she picks Jay up some time after eight o’clock. So, in Jay’s timeline, after they’ve already buried Hae. She says she’d arranged to meet him in the parking lot of Westview Mall, she says she saw them arrive in Adnan’s car. Jenn Pusateri Episode 6: The Case Against Adnan Syed 140 Visit the Undisclosed Wiki for more original documents from the Lee/Syed case https://www.adnansyedwiki.com/ And umm, Adnan said hi to me, he said ‘hey, what’s up girl?’ And I was like ‘hey, what’s up?’ And then we left the parking lot and that’s when Jay told me– Detective With the exchange of words between you and Adnan, ‘hey, what’s up girl?’ How would you describe his mood at that time? Jenn Pusateri He seemed just like he normally seems. Sarah Koenig On the Adnan side, that detail has always stuck with me too. That Jenn says Adnan seemed so normal. She says neither his nor Jay’s clothes seemed mussed or dirty. Adnan doesn’t remember seeing Jenn at Westview Mall or, where he dropped off Jay that night. And Jay doesn’t say he met Jenn at Westview Mall either. Matter of fact, Jay says, consistently, that Adnan dropped him off at home and then Jenn showed up at his house to get him. Jay stuck to that, even at trial, when it contradicted Jenn’s story. The thing about Jenn and Cathy though, is that even though they don’t look great for Adnan, they don’t actually contradict Adnan’s own account of that evening. Which, I think, is why he kind of shrugs them off. And why I’m sometimes tempted to shrug them off. Because Adnan has always admitted he was hanging out with Jay that night. So, so what if a couple of people saw them together? What does that prove? But, now we come to the big one, the one nobody can shrug off. This call, well, this is a bad metaphor but out of all the calls on the log, this is the one that I think of as the ‘smoking gun’ call. It’s the Nisha call. Think of it as a title, capitalized, The Nisha Call. Between noon and five pm that day, there are seven outgoing calls on the log, six of them are to people Jay knows, the seventh is to Nisha, someone only Adnan knew. Adnan’s story is that he and his cell phone were separated that day, from lunchtime all the way until after track at around five something. But The Nisha Call happens at 3:32pm. Smack in the middle of the afternoon. The prosecution makes much of this call at closing, and I can see why. In Jay’s second taped statement, granted, it’s the one where detectives are showing him the call records, Detective MacGillivary is asking Jay about all those afternoon calls on the log between three and four o’clock. Again, Jay says this is when they were driving all around Forest Park and Edmondson Avenue looking for weed. Detective MacGillivary Episode 6: The Case Against Adnan Syed 141 Visit the Undisclosed Wiki for more original documents from the Lee/Syed case https://www.adnansyedwiki.com/ Did anybody else use the phone? Jay Yeah. Umm, Adnan, I can’t remember whether he received a call or placed a call, but I remember he was talking to a girl umm, I can’t remember her name. He put me on the phone with her for like three minutes, I said hello to her. Detective MacGillivary Where did she -uh- live? Jay Uhh, Silver Spring. Detective MacGillivary Do you recall her name? Jay No. I don’t. Detective MacGillivary Do you have any idea why Adnan would call, this individual, in Silver Spring, after he had just– Jay No– Detective MacGillivary –strangled his girlfriend? Jay I don’t. And… uh I have no idea why he would call and their conversation didn’t pertain to anything that he had just done. Episode 6: The Case Against Adnan Syed 142 Visit the Undisclosed Wiki for more original documents from the Lee/Syed case https://www.adnansyedwiki.com/ Sarah Koenig The cops went and talked to Nisha, she was a high school student. And she told them, ‘yeah, there was a time when I spoke to Adnan on his cell, and he put his friend Jay on the phone.’ Nisha testified at both trials. For a smoking gun, she is very cute, she looks like a chipmunk. Prosecutor Kevin Urick Good afternoon. Nisha Good afternoon to you too, sir. Prosecutor Kevin Urick Thank you. Do you know the defendant? Nisha Yes I do. Sarah Koenig This is from trial
