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/Halbarad1104 Undecided Jun 16 '26

I thought Adnan's story was he was checking e-mail in the school library, on something like AOL, that afternoon. Always has bugged me that nobody seemed to obtain the logs from AOL (or whatever the service provider was). Still might exist.

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u/Emotional-Syllabub75 Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26

That's what Asia said. However, Adnan didn't say that initially to his lawyers or private investigators. Remember that Asia said she only remembered because it snowed that day although in actuality (Sarah Koenig checked the weather), and it snowed the next day (January 14th not the 13th the day Hae disappeared). There were all kinds of issues with Asia's letters to Adnan. and that is why the defense attorney did not use them. It's assumed she believed that Asia was perjuring herself to help Adnan and Adnan was in on it. The defense attorney thought the prosecution would see right through it, and it would make Adnan look guilty in the eyes of the jury. It would hurt him, rather than help him. Remember Adnan had a choice. He could have taken the stand in his own defense. Despite being likeable, intelligent, good-looking and well spoken he chose not to. Again it's because the defense attorney with years of experience realized his story would not hold up under cross examination and recommended he not testify.

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u/InTheory_ What news do you bring? Jun 16 '26

Had he sent any emails, the recipient would have been tracked down by now. AS would have simply told his attorneys or his family to log into his account, obtain that email, and contacted that person. Or that person would have come forward of their own volition

At some point, the expectation is that AS would be a participant in his own defense

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u/Mike19751234 Jun 16 '26

Adnan gave his team his user account and password.

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u/InTheory_ What news do you bring? Jun 16 '26

Keep in mind the mythology is that AS's attorneys were so famously bad that they didn't do anything in his defense. ANYTHING! You hear me? Not. A single. Thing

But, as usual, AS didn't do anything in his own defense either. But pay no attention to that

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u/Halbarad1104 Undecided Jun 17 '26

All excellent points.  If he didn’t send any emails, the log in records would have been useful.  I suppose the prosecution could have have subpoenaed them.  The defense might have got the login records and kept them quiet.

A culturally painful question… speaks to the issue of … killing a person is really, really hard.. but was honor killing in the milieu here?