Why I Think Adnan Shouldn’t Be In Jail
I’m going to be as brief (edit: jk this is super long) as possible because I could write 100k words on this (edit: I kinda did) and I know modern-day attention span is about as long as a Vine video. Also I’m really writing this because people ask me on twitter how I could POSSIBLY think Adnan is innocent so I just want to have a post to send them and not type it out on twitter every time. So, like I said, effort on keeping it brief. (edit: ok this did not come out brief at all but it’s the best I could do. You don’t have to read it, it’s a free country)
If you think Adnan is guilty it is probably because of one or a combination of these ideas:
1) He was convicted. We don’t have all the evidence. We didn’t hear it like the jury did. They convicted, so he probably did it.
2) He didn’t have an alibi. He went back and forth on whether he was at the library, he said he couldn’t remember a day his ex-gf went missing. That’s all shady.
3) Jay said he did it. Why would Jay say Adnan did it and that he helped him if he didn’t do it?
4) Every other suspect had an alibi that checked out. Her boyfriend at the time, Don, should not even be investigated because he had a great alibi.
5) There was no physical evidence that pointed to anyone else. Something else would have come up, like finger prints or DNA and that didn’t come up so it was probably Adnan.
6) The cell phone records put him in places that supports the case against him. 7pm in Leakin Park, we should probably just kill Adnan now.
There are probably a few others. But like I said, brevity.
1) He was convicted- You’d be surprised how many people are falsely imprisoned. It’s a lot. Still, if you add in the factor that his lead attorney was dying while defending him and failed to call the 1 witness that could establish an alibi (Asia McClane) I don’t think it’s crazy to say that maybe this case was botched.
2) He didn’t have an alibi
He did. The track coach says he doesn’t have an attendance sheet but he does remember him being at practice the day they practiced outside. The only day it was warm enough to practice outside was the day Hae went missing. Also, Asia wasn’t called and the prosecution went out of their way to convince her she should not get involved when she really should have been involved.
3) Jay said he did it
OK so I know every knows that Jay has changed his story a trillion times. To me, I genuinely think his whole testimony should be thrown out and then there would literally be NO EVIDENCE whatsoever linking Adnan to the crime. BUT I understand that people think it is too far fetched that Jay invented this crime entirely. THEORY: There was a CrimeStoppers anonymous tip that was called in that the police never disclosed. The tip you heard about on Serial was NOT this tip. This tip came earlier and it was paid out on for $3000. I think Jay called this tip in. I think Jay heard about where the body was because he is a drug dealer and drug dealers sometimes end up hearing these things. Once he tried to cash in on it, the police say well if you know where the body is, you were probably involved in the murder. From there, the only way out of getting blamed for the murder is to give the cops the story they want. You can literally hear the police prompting him to lie on the recording.
4) Everyone else had an alibi
Super brief: no.
Little bit longer: Don, the other guy and actual boyfriend of Hae at the time said he was at work when she went missing. Oh wow, look at that, he didn’t show up at his regular store that day. Oh but he went to a DIFFERENT store? How do we know? His time card. Oh but his time card didn’t have his employee ID number? It had some other random number that was never associated with him before except that specific week? And his mom was the General Manager of that store with the power to alter time cards? And the only person to actually say they saw him at work was his step-mom? Ohhhhh ok! Checks out perfectly! If Adnan tried to tell this story he would have been skinned alive on the spot. No trial. Just public execution. But for Don it holds up completely. OK great.
5) No physical evidence points to anyone else
No physical evidence points to anyone! Not Adnan, not Jay, not Don. How can this be? How is there zero DNA or fingerprints or anything involved in a murder case? They didn’t test ANYTHING??? There were unidentified finger prints in Hae’s car and everyone is just like, yeah we are cool it was still Adnan. Look, they didn’t test shit because they know it could come up as NOT Adnan and that would cast doubt on their case. They pinned the whole thing on people believing Jay and amazingly, they did. Also, lividity (where the blood settled in the body) shows that she was lying flat on her stomach for at least 12 hours. NOT balled up in the trunk and definitely not buried on her side like Jay says.
6) the cell phone records put him in places that supports the case against him
Look, the cell phone pings only matter if you believe Jay. The pings say the phone was at Leakin Park at 7pm and that is when Jay says they buried the body. OH WAIT NO HE DOESN’T JAY NOW SAYS THEY BURIED HER AT MIDNIGHT. Like, cmon. The cell phone was in and around the county of Baltimore at the time a girl went missing in Baltimore. That is the only thing we can be sure of. Jay was prompted to lie in a way that fit the pings. The police even have him change his story from being at McDonalds to being at Cathy’s when they realize they misread a ping that they originally thought put him closer to McDonalds.
So like I said, these are just the reasons I can’t understand why anyone is SO sure Adnan did it. I get that it doesn’t 1000% mean he didn’t do it. But I think there is no real case against him. If you just have a gut feeling that he probably did it, that’s fine, but none of the reasons above support that feeling.
If you read this and still want to tell me I’m dumb and support a murderer, that’s cool I’m here @BrendanClancy