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by zug_zug·1y ago·view on hn ↗
This is the guy from serial. I vividly remember listening to this whole podcast as an amateur reporter retold the whole story, only to be shocked and horrified that I had wasted my time because he was obviously involved and almost certainly guilty.

Adnan knew exactly where the body was buried, but for hours this podcast investigated the tiniest of minuteua (who placed a call from outside a grocery store at what hour? How many times had the cellphone pinged at that location? Was his lawyer too old?) all while suggesting his friend "Jay" may have been involved [even though Adnan was adamant he wasn't].

To me it was a fascinating story about how somebody can fall for a conman/murderer's story despite really obvious evidence after an unreasonable amount of personal contact (I think she said she talked to Adnan every day for hours a day).

Not that justice is always served by our criminal court system; it certainly has many flaws and failures. But all the more reason to be ashamed about drawing our attention to one of the cases that's pretty open-and-shut.