Like most people in 2014, I got sucked into the Serial Podcast. If you weren’t in on the wave of publicity the podcast received, the first season of the Serial Podcast told the true crime story of the murder of Hae Min Lee in 1999. The police focused their investigation on Adnan Syed, Hae’s ex-boyfriend. With faulty testimony and some suspect accounts of what happened, the state found Adnan guilty. He has spent the last 23 years in prison.
Adnan Syed Update
Since his conviction and the podcast’s popularity, things have moved in the case. There have been multiple requests for appeals for a new trial or his release, but despite winning some of the appeals, the appeals would ultimately hit a roadblock. The case even went to the Supreme Court, but the court wouldn’t hear the case.
But yesterday, September 19, 2022, things changed. A judge overturned Adnan Syed’s murder conviction and ordered him released from prison. The irony here is that the prosecution actually asked the court to vacate the conviction. The pressure on the state to reexamine the case caused them to retest DNA and look at other evidence. The current prosecutors found that the previous counsel withheld evidence and TWO other suspects. The judge didn’t hesitate to order Adnan Syed to be released.
Future
I would be interested to see if the Podcast follows along with the newer updates. Today, we got an update that discusses the newest information and how the Justice System broke down for Adnan. At the time, the police questioned a teenager with suspect interrogation techniques that have since been proven fallible, evidence that always felt, and a few other things.
I hope that Syed gets to have peace if he wasn’t the killer. One thing that true crime seems to always do is leave doubt in people’s minds. I hope the true killer is brought to justice for that family.
I would also like to see what happens to Syed as a free man after most of his life got taken away.
Season 1 of the Serial Podcast is great listening if you haven’t heard it before.
Have you listened to the Serial podcast? What do you think of the newest Adnan Syed case?