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Sarah Konig's Murder Theory

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In a board game, a player can go forward two steps yet find themselves going back three steps. This is what Sarah Koenig has to deal with, in the podcast, Serial that she produces. Every time that she gets a lead there’s always something that does not fit, pushing her back to the beginning. Sarah is trying to discover what really happened with the murder of Hae; however, there is an abundance of theories of what people think happened. The main one being that Adnan killed Hae, and this is what the court’s final theory was. That is not true since, Jay killed Hae Min Lee and Adnan was an accomplice on January 13th, 1999. No one can truly be trusted on Serial because of that it makes it harder to see who would be the most untrustworthy. However, …show more content…

Adnan and Sarah are talking about the night of Hae’s murder and Adnan tells Sarah that “... the craziest thing is to be high and have a police call your phone.I’ll never forget”(67). Adnan clearly states many times before this that he does not remember the day that Hae was killed and that it was just a normal day. Later on, he then stated how he can never forget how the cops called him, but then all the other times he said he cannot remember anything unusual about that day. Adnan had lied because he does remember that day since he clearly said that he can never forget that phone call. Another time is when Adnan told Officer Adcock that he asked Hae for a ride, but later on he told a different cop that he did not ask her for a ride. This is crucial since that was the 21 minutes that Hae was strangled in. Not only is he untrustworthy but so is Jay. During one interview they are discussing the location of the body and Sarah states, “Jay is saying I figured there were security cameras at Best Buy so that’s why I lied-because I didn’t want to be associated with it”(30). Being shown a dead body somewhere is unforgettable. Jay had known the truth about being shown the body at Best Buy, yet he still decided to lie even though that only …show more content…

However, there is someone else who should be serving more time, Jay. Jay tells the police that he was associated with the murder except that he was doing it unwillingly. When interviewing Jay about the burial of Hae the detective said, “‘You helped him dig the hole,’ Jay says, ‘Yes’’’(8). In this, Jay admits that he helped Jay bury the body. Then, why is Adnan the only one serving time? The police did not put him in jail because Jay helped provide information. Before this, Jay knew that he was going to be let off the hook as long as he helped the police, and this was all part of his plan. Not only did Jay help bury the body, but as mentioned before, Jay brutally strangled a girl to her death. Yet, he is out testifying against someone who not only did not commit the crime but he was supposed to work together with. Adnan was so furious about this that at court this was said by the judge, “I was just informed by my Sheriff that the Defendant made a comment to the witness approached the stand indicating that he was pathetic”(45). Adnan was so filled with anger about Jay was supposed to be his partner, and how on top of that he did not even kill Hae. Adnan shows his true colors here. Even though Jay murdered Hae, Adnan was the one to come up with the idea and plan to kill her. Just because he did not kill Hae that should not mean that he should be walking free. They should serve around equal

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