Serial Podcast Case Study

Adnan Syed, senior at Woodlawn High School, was accused of the murder of his ex girlfriend Hae Min Lee and has been locked up for about 16 years now. Picture this, it’s the beginning of second semester, Adnan’s senior year, and his girlfriend has gone missing a month after their breakup. Who’s to blame? The only reasonable suspect would be the “jealous” Muslim ex boyfriend that was upset about her new boyfriend, or perhaps just simply wanted revenge on her for breaking up with him, or was just a psychopath all along. Having jealousy, wanting revenge, being a psychopath or just having extremely bad luck, whatever it was, caused him to get put behind bars for a crime that he is not guilty of.

Serial murders are not just part of the United States they also happen globally. There are many investigative tools that are used when working a serial murder case and we will discuss some of those. We will also discuss the problems with the media when it comes to serial murders. We will also talk about how the criticism of the public and media can affect serial murder cases.

The criminal justice system is meant to protect the innocent, and punish those who are guilty of a crime. However, no system is perfect, and as a result, sometimes the innocent become victims of the system that was meant to protect them. How exactly do these innocent people become victims of the system? Sometimes the person gets framed, and the crime scene is staged to point a finger at them. Sometimes, there is no strong physical evidence against them, yet circumstantial evidence is used by the crown to put them away. This happened to a 17 year old boy named Adnan Syed in Baltimore, Maryland, who was imprisoned for life, for the alleged murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Lee. Throughout the Serial podcast, Sarah Koenig is able to critically analyze information which proves Adnan’s innocence. Firstly, Asia’s letters gave Adnan an alibi for the time of the murder. Secondly, Adnan’s innocence can be demonstrated through the lack of any strong evidence and the prosecution’s use of circumstantial evidence which can be disproved. Thirdly, Jay’s constantly changing testimony is not credible evidence of Adnan’s guilt, making him innocent.

Adnan Syed, a senior in Woodlawn High School, was convicted and charged with the first-degree murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999. Not only is Adnan’s alibi inconclusive, but he also fails to recall any specific details or occurrences of January 13th-the date Hae Min Lee disappeared. His acquaintance, Jay Wilds, has served as the State’s key witness. Despite having already served seventeen years in prison, Adnan did not murder Hae Min Lee. His innocence simply has not been captured due to missing perspectives, inconsistencies in Jay’s story, and biases in the law enforcement.

Of the 93% of women that were murdered by men that they knew, 63% were an intimate acquaintance (Wyman). Throughout the podcast called “Serial”, producer Sarah Koenig gives her take on the murder of Hae Min Lee. She was murdered on January 13, 1999 in Baltimore, Maryland. Adnan Syed was convicted of murder and is currently serving a life sentence. Now, Adnan is receiving a retrial. Jay, an acquaintance of Adnan’s, testifies that Adnan is guilty allowing him to not receive a sentence. Jay’s knowledge of the location of Hae’s car is further supported by Adnan’s lack of recognition of events on the day Hae was murdered, which shows Adnan killed Hae

We don’t see much of Jay, rather, we hear quite a lot. What we are hearing from Jay

There you are one day, relaxing with your friends, watching tv, and gossiping. The main talk seems to be about different TV shows that your friends find extremely interesting. They never miss an episode or season of their favorite shows. One particular friend catches your attention when she mentions Serial Podcast. The way she goes about explaining what it’s about makes you even more interested, but she then cuts it short and tells you she doesn't want to spill the beans, “Go find out for yourself.” So, there I am sitting, thinking about Serial Podcast wanting to find out more about it. I decide to go on google and type in “about Serial Podcast” and several different webpages appear. I proceeded by picking the first two results that appeared on the second page when I entered “about Serial Podcast”.

It is said that school ended at 2:15pm and that Hae was dead and in the trunk of her own car and at Best Buy by 2:36pm. Sarah and her producer rerouted the path from the school to Best Buy and said that it would be impossible to get from the school to Best Buy in twenty-one minutes (Ep. 5). There is a lot of traffic that time of day and the drive time is 18 minutes, only leaving 3 minutes to kill and hide the body. That means that 2 minutes of that time would be manual strangulation. It takes more than one minute to hide a body, therefore Adnan could not have committed the murder. A final piece of evidence in Adnan’s favor is that one of Hae’s friends remembers having a conversation with her at 2:36, and another friend remembers seeing Hae in the gym at 3:00 pm (Ep. 9). If these people saw and talked to Hae at these times, then it is impossible to Hae to have been dead, in the trunk of her car, at Best Buy, at 2:36 pm. The timeline does not add up, if this is the

As humans, we believe in myths that the police, or anyone working for the justice system, will say the truth. This is a given, since they work for the justice system. Nevertheless, the Serial podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig questions this criminal justice system people whole heartedly trust. Serial is about a 1999 case where a Muslim teenage boy, Adnan Syed, is convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee – 17-year-old Korean teenager. I have listened to the Serial podcast and took a significant amount of interest toward it. However, when I continued to listen to the podcast, I could clearly see that throughout Adnan’s trial and the investigation process, there were many flaws in the justice system. This has confirmed the criminal justice system to be flawed and ineffective, which is seen through the defense, investigation team, as well as the prosecution.

In Laura Marsha’s blog “ Murder, They Wrote”, she enlarges upon the new trend of television shows and podcasts that allow inquisitive audiences to attentively examine and make judgements on real-life or life-like murder cases. In her writing, Marsh reviews multiple murder related series and

The widely popular podcast, Stuff You Should Know, often abbreviated as SYSK, is a free, award winning podcast and video series published by the How Stuff Works website. The podcast has been a hit ever since its release and has been constantly ranking amongst the top of all podcast rankings. The premise of the podcast is essentially to inform the listeners about the further nuanced details about activities many people engage in on a daily basis. The podcast airs every Tuesday and Thursday, educating their listeners on a wide variety of topics with comedic value that helps to engage and enhance the audience 's experience while listening to the podcast. In terms of its history, the podcast was launched on April 17th, 2009, and since its

For this weeks discussion and the remainder of the class, I will talking about the promotional podcast service that I am currently in the start up stages of making. This business is know as DJ Jekyll and Mz. Hyde Promotional Podcast, and is located in upstate New York. I and my business partner, DJ Jekyll, wanted to provide a informative service for other like minded individuals and those simply into music and the entertainment seen. As a young start up business it currently is just the two of us, offering promotional services for local bands and artists (actually live in person promoting and distributing), up to date happenings of local and regional events/concerts, new music release information, and entertainment industry news. All in a fun interactive and engaging streaming podcast.

The podcast is named, Danger Ahead because it is meant say that life itself is a risk and you cannot avoid risk taking, because a risk a lot of the time means a result in death and to live, results in death. The theme of the podcast,Danger Ahead, to take more risks , the podcast begins with a excited intense tone which is achieved through a loud screaming audio, which is complemented by intense guitars. In addition the podcast begins with two brief clips from interviews that will later appear in the podcast, this is done to create the flashforward plot line which is used to create as much thrill as possible. Afterwards the introduction begins with a cut of the music and dull voiced explanation of the narrator's lack of courage, this is done

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The podcast is an example of mobile learning (m-learning). The online encyclopedia «Britannica» describes mobile learning as one of the types of e-learning in which the student is not tied to a single fixed location; if desired, it can take advantage of educational materials is the usual educational space (the audience), and without using a computer (Berg, 2014). The issue of podcast usage in education is approached from the two controversial points of view.