Imagine a murderer walking down the road beside you and you don’t even know it. The average person will walk by a murderer and not even know it 36 times in their lifetime (Qin). Serial is a 12 episode podcast given by Sarah Koenig. Sarahs purpose is to give evidence to prove Adnan Syed innocent in the murder of Hae Min Lee. Hae was one of the people murdered in 1999. 14,196 people are murdered each year in the United States alone. Adnan Syed is the murder and currently serving his time in jail, for life. Adnan is the killer of Hae Min Lee because he really had the motive to do so. Hae and Adnan had just recently broken up causing Adnan to become upset. According to Aisha Pittman Hae’s friend, “he’s like, ‘Well I Just wanted to know where you were.’ And it’s like, ‘I told you Jay had some big inconsistencies in the stories of what happened that day. (The Alibi) Also just the fact that Adnan agreed to do the whole Serial season with Sarah. An innocent man would not be able to do that without spilling some kind of information. Adnan had more things making him more suspicious of being the murderer. The main thing that points fingers at Adnan is the Nisha call. (“Route Talk”) There was a call from Adnan's phone the day of the murder to Nisha while Adnan said he was at track practice. He told the court Jay had his phone during that time, but Jay and Nisha did not know each other, so why would they talk to each other for two minutes and 22 seconds (Koenig, “The Case Against Adnan Syed”)? In conclusion there is enough evidence in the Serial Podcast and other information available to say the Adnan Syed is the killer of Hae Min Lee in 1999. Adnan had more reasoning than anyone else to commit this murder. Adnan's family conflicts built up anger inside him causing his emotions to erupt and murder Hae. Lastly the phone log and where each call pinged the towers, giving an idea where Adnan was
When Hae Min Lee disappeared on January 13, 1999, all of her friends (including the subsequently charged killer, Adnan Syed) thought that she moved to California. Hae’s body turned up a few weeks later on February 9, and the police later charged Adnan Syed, her ex-boyfriend with her murder. Jay Wilds, an alleged accomplice to the crime, confessed to the police that he knew that Adnan killed Hae and Adnan tasked him with burying her. The state later used Jay’s testimony as the foundation for their case, even though it contradicted some of the state’s own physical evidence. While Jay’s eyewitness testimony does identify Adnan Syed as Hae Lee’s murderer, it is self-serving and inconsistent, with no physical evidence to corroborate it. Therefore,
Can you imagine being convicted of first degree murder at only 17 years of age? Adnan Syed couldn't believe it either. In fact he was mortified when they charged him of brutally suffocating, his ex-girlfriend Hea Min Lee, to death. Adnan Syed was a pawn that the Baltimore detectives played with, a mere dupe to cast off as the true killer. Syed is like many Americans, he was never granted a fair trial. There is some actors that make Syed guilty, but perhaps it was just pure coincidence that got Adan wrapped up in this whole mess. One simply can't overlook the major factors that make him innocent enough to grant him a second trial. Adan has spent half of his life in prison, due to a wrongful conviction that happened many
Murder Could you believe or even imagine a charming, handsome and popular high school boy killing his ex-girl-friend? This is the case involving Adnan Syed in the murder of Hae Min Lee in 1999. "On January 13, 1999, a girl named Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland, disappeared. A month later, her body turned up in a city park.
There is no qualified proof that proves that Adnan killed hae. There is no DNA taste made in the rope and a bottle found near the
Would you lie to them if you actually did it? This is a story of a teenager who was in a similar situation. His name is Adnan Syed. He was convicted of killing Hae Min Lee, his ex-girlfriend, in Maryland in 1999. 15 years later Sarah Koenig started a podcast, Serial.
Sarah Koenig reveals a bias towards Syed’s innocence. Specifically at the center of this podcast, she uses observes, “that he has giant brown eyes like a dairy cow. That's what prompts my most idiotic lines of inquiry. Could someone who looks like that really strangle his girlfriend? Idiotic, I know.” Claim of fact: Good looking people can not be murderers. Because of this, it adds in as an opinion to Syed's innocence to help the audience what she sees.
we do not know who the murderer is and what motive they have to murder
Sitting in a courtroom for a crime you didn’t commit, the future of your life depends on the jury and BOOM! You are in prison for the rest of your life and only 17 years old. On January 13, 1999, a senior of Woodland High School, Hae Min Lee was murdered by manual strangulation and later that year her ex boyfriend was convicted for first degree murder. He was convicted for a crime he did not commit. In the podcast “Serial”, explains this murder case with interviews, recordings from the trials, evidence, and even Adnan's perspective of everything based on this murder. In the podcast you never find out if Adnan is guilty or not but with all the evidence against him doesn't prove he killed Hae. Adnan Syed is not guilty.
Serial Killing is the illegal killing of one person by another and killings are committed for pleasure, control, mental problems, or for revenge. It is very astonishing that people will kill others for fun or because they feel isolated from society. With the existence of serial killers, there will be many more reasons why they kill and it will always surprise society for the reasons serial killers commit crimes. Society will also not be expected to know or understand when and why these crimes are being committed. The only people who will truly understand why crimes are committed are those who commit them.
The police were on a search for Tony Lee who was accused of murder in the death of Linda Ammidown.
Serial killing is rampant in the U.S. According to estimates in a recent study conducted by the FBI, there have been about 400 serial killers in the U.S. in the last century, with the total number of murder victims ranging from 2,525 to 3,860 . Various experts in the field have suggested that there may be anywhere from 50 to as many as 300 serial killers active at the same time, although there is no clear evidence supporting this . Certainly, an estimate of 300 active serial killers seems at odds with the FBI’s estimate of 400 over the entire previous century. But an estimated 80% of the serial killers in the past century have emerged since 1950. For whatever reason, serial killing is clearly on the rise, with the term itself coined only since the mid-1970’s, so perhaps 300 active serial killers at one time could be unfortunately possible. The number of serial killing in the U.S. is staggering.
Levin points out that all told about 500 people die a year at the hand of a serial killer. This is quite small compared to the 23, 000 single victim homicides a year (Douglas, p. 137). These 500 victims don't seem to be a lot but to those 500 victims families they are 500 murders to many.
Serial murder as defined by the FBI is, “[t]he unlawful killing of two or more victims by the same offender(s), in separate events" (Morton Robert J. Ed, & Hilts., Ed, 2005, p. 9). Numerous people disagree with the definition, this researcher included, since it lacks the cool- down period after they murder, which various people feel stands necessary for serial killer status. Serial killers remain a rare phenomenon. The FBI states, serial murder accounts for less than one percent of killings per year (Morton Robert J. Ed, & Hilts., Ed, 2005, p. 2). Nevertheless, throughout the years, countless people have researched serial killers since they commit such heinous crimes. Criminologists and researchers have been attempting to identify various
Serial killers have been a major problem in the United States for a long time. We don’t know why they kill human beings, but many people are trying to figure out why. A serial killer is a person that has murdered three or more people over a period of a month. There is also a period of time between the murders know as the “cooling off period”. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, there have been approximately four hundred serial killers in the United States within the past century. The number of these murderers have increased over the past thirty years, with around eighty percent of them emerging since 1950.
To give some insight into the scale of the problem posed by the serial killer, in the United States can be gained from examining the statistics for just one year. In 1989 (the last year for which detailed figures are available) there were 21,500 recorded homicides, of which some 5,000 are unsolved. Unofficial sources believe that as many as a hundred serial killers may be at large at any given time. Add to this the number of known victims of serial killers, then between 3,500 and 5,000 people are killed by serial murderers every year. (Lane and Gregg 3)