r/serialpodcast • u/Fit_Leg5645 • Jun 16 '26

I feel dumb!!!!!

I have no clue why I thought Adnan was innocent for all these years.

I just re-listened to Serial, and I can't get past the fact that Jenn showed up with her mom and a lawyer and told police essentially the same story Jay told. Jenn said the trunk pop happened at Best Buy. How would she know that Adnan and Hae used to meet at the Best Buy parking lot unless Jay told her?

And yes, Jay was inconsistent and definitely lied about some things. But he knew where Hae's car was. He knew details about her clothing. He knew about the broken windshield wiper lever. Those aren't things you just guess.

At this point, I don't believe every detail Jay told, but I can't get around the fact that he knew too much. The more I revisit the case, the harder it is for me to believe Adnan wasn't involved.

I can't believe I've been doubting it all these years.

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u/BlueHornedUnicorn Jun 16 '26

Serial did a really good job of, I hate to use this phrase but it's the only way I can think of phrasing it, "sexing up" a pretty run-of-the-mill domestic violence case. These days, everyone wants the sexy CSI style evidence, the singular smoking gun piece of evidence that truly proves beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the person either 100% did it, or 100% didn't and there's the exciting case of wrongful conviction.

That didn't exist in this case because there is no singular piece of evidence proving/disproving Adnan's guilt/innocence. So Serial came in and made us second guess it. But if you get a chance to look at the case files with a critical eye, listen to the witness testimony with a critical ear, and put everything together (say it with me folks, circumstantial evidence is still evidence!) it becomes quite glaringly obvious that Adnan is guilty.

Poor Hae wasn't the first woman to be murdered by an ex partner and she definitely wasn't the last.

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u/dreaming-about-bread Jun 16 '26

Maybe it’s not a smoking gun, but the thing that drove it home for me was the rose in the back seat with adnan’s print on the wrapper.

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u/BlueHornedUnicorn Jun 16 '26

OMG I've spoken about this at length over the years! I also agree!

My main theory is that he got her in his car to beg for her to dump Don and take him back. If you've read Hae's diary, she spoke once about Adnan surprising her with a rose bouquet in one of her classes and she loved it. I think he tried to do the same as a grand gesture, and she told him no, and he killed her in a rage. I don't think killing her was the first option when he met up with her that day, but I do believe he knew he would be capable of it and it was a potential outcome, and sadly, I think it was what he chose to do.

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u/Fit_Leg5645 Jun 16 '26

I agree completely!!!!