“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win”(King, Stephen). On February 9th, 1999, the body of 19 year old Hae Min Lee was found in Leakin Park, Baltimore, Maryland. Adnan Syed, her ex boyfriend, is accused of strangling Hae Lee at a local Best Buy. Although the defense believes Jay, accessor to the crime, is not credible due to the constant change in story, the truth is, if he was guilty why would he willingly confess to the crime. Adnan Syed is rightfully convicted for the murder of his girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, because of the inconsistent evidence. One reason Adnan is guilty is because the cell phone records corroborates with where the body was found. In her podcast Serial, Sarah Koenig states,“Dana sent this gripping testimony to two different engineering professors, one at …show more content…
Imagine someone you like or even love are leading you on while they're with someone else, jealousy and rage start forming into hatred. Adnan’s jealousy may have drove him over the edge leading him to kill Hae. Even though he doesn’t seem like the jealous type, many of Hae’s close friends have seen Adnan being possessive towards Hae. He had a motive for killing her after she broke his heart, he wanted to break hers. One more reason why Adnan is guilty is because he’s a natural born liar. As claimed by Sarah Koenig, “He saw his parents standing at the window of the homecoming dance. He saw his mother raise her voice at Hae Lee in front of his classmates. ‘Look what you’re doing to our family!’ He saw the pain in his mother’s face because she knew they were together. And he saw himself, in the end, standing there with nothing to show for it, but a guilty conscience and a pack of lies in which he cloaked himself.”(“The Breakup.” Pg. 6). Adnan lied about everything, his relationships, his drinking, his smoking, even about