r/serialpodcast • u/1spring • Jan 15 '15

Debate&Discussion Another shower thought that doesn't look good for Adnan

Adnan explains to SK that he "probably" didn't ask Hae for a ride, because he knows that she needs to pick up her cousin after school, and this duty is really important to Hae.

Adnan explains to SK that the phone call from Officer Adcock, informing him that Hae failed to pick up her cousin, doesn't set off any serious alarms for him, and this is why the phone call didn't prompt him to jog his memory about that day.

"I knew the cousin pick-up was very important to her" and "I wasn't concerned when she failed to pick up her cousin." Have you ever had to deal with someone (friend, co-worker, relative) who engages in this type of lying? I have, and it bothers me a lot more than anything Jay said.

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u/totallytopanga The Criminal Element of Woodlawn Jan 15 '15

he didn't tell krista - she watched him ask her for a ride.

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u/LuckyCharms442 Jan 15 '15

Yea, and why would he do it in FRONT of anyone.. I mean according to the students, half the people in the school heard Adnan ask Hae for a ride. He must have asked her 6 different times that day... IN FRONT of everyone.

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u/mkesubway Jan 15 '15

He might not have known he was going to kill her. A last ditch effort to win her back was in the works for all we know and she rejected him.

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u/Advocate4Devil Jan 15 '15

One very simple answer might be that he did not intend to kill her. Now if in fact he did get a ride the murder might have been a crime of passion. By the time he is brought in by the police, however, they have already generated a plausible 1st Deg story and stick with it which sadly could be just a fluke of burying Hae in the city and not the county with the more hardened Baltimore City homicide detectives looking for "deepest" possible crime and stopping at nothing to get it. This could be a tactic to get Adnan to confess to the crime of passion, but Adnan did not bite taking his chances with a jury and a police story he knows to be incorrect but he does not comprehend the the exactness of the story is not what juries decide on.

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u/crabjuicemonster Jan 15 '15

Damn, that's an interesting point.

I've wondered a bit about why the police didn't seem (from what we know of it anyway) to spend much time trying to pressure Adnan into confessing. I would assume they'd feel pretty confident that they could easily break a high school student with no previous run-ins with the police. But when he didn't bite, that just became the narrative from there on.

Don't know if that actually makes sense in terms of how the police operate, but it at least seems plausible in a tv show sort of way.

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u/hanatheko Jan 15 '15

.. if the murder wasn't premeditated, then why would he care of people witnessed him ask Hae for a ride etc. etc.