Hae Min Lee was a high-school senior in Baltimore, Maryland who disappeared on January 13, 1999. One month later, on February 9, 1999, her body was found in Leakin Park. She was a victim of murder by manual strangulation. Her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was convicted of first degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison. He has since been serving his sentence for more than thirty years. The case against Adnan was largely based on the story of one witness, his friend Jay who the police interviewed after talking to Jenn (another one of Adnan’s friends). Jay testified that he had helped Adnan to bury Hae's body. But Adnan has always maintained he had nothing to do with her death.

The Evidence:
As there was no physical evidence linking Adnan to Hae’s murder, the state built their case out of three main pieces of evidence: Jay’s testimony, Adnan’s cell phone records, and fact that Adnan had poor memory of what he was doing on the day of Hae’s disappearance and therefore had no alibi.

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While this is not evidence of guilt, it did hurt his defence as he wasn’t able to provide an alibi for what he was doing when the prosecution alleged that the murder occurred. Jay gave the police many inconsistent statements to the police, but the prosecution eventually settled on one which could be supported by the cell tower evidence. In this version, Adnan killed Hae in a Best Buy carpark just between 2:30-2:35pm. But Adnan did have an alibi: a classmate named Asia McClain. Adnan did not remember seeing or talking to Asia in the public library, but she did. She was never contacted by his attorney even though she sent Adnan two letters immediately after he was arrested saying that she, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend’s friend all remembered seeing him at 2:30 on that afternoon. Asia should have been contacted because her testimony could have undermined part of the prosecution’s