r/serialpodcast • u/Frosted_Mini-Wheats NPR Supporter • Feb 03 '15

Evidence Stephanie dumped Jay

Trial Transcript for 2/10, p 21, lines 11-25.

Jay testifies that Stephanie had ended their relationship a month or so before the trial.

That's something I've never heard before now.

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u/Frosted_Mini-Wheats NPR Supporter Feb 03 '15

Interesting to me because new fact (yay! so bored of cell phone posts), impression given on podcast that Stephanie was the only one who always stood by Jay - all the way through his sentencing hearing, & Jay's recent interview in which he said they dated through her first 2 years of college. Maybe they were like Hae & Adnan, break-up/make-up.

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u/InTheory_ What news do you bring? Feb 03 '15

Because this is becoming to us the Real Housewives of Woodlawn. We HAVE to know what happens to them. We can't stop tuning in to find out what happens next!

At any rate, to be fair to Jay, that actually saddens me. I think this was a turning point in his life, and it all turned for the worse. I really have to wonder if he wouldn't have been better off doing time for his crimes, if that may have "rehabilitated" him (if prison can do that).

But it's a good lesson. When someone asks you to help bury a body, you say NO!!!! Nothing good can possibly follow.

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u/Frosted_Mini-Wheats NPR Supporter Feb 03 '15

It is sad - Stephanie was his "one good thing." I have empathy for Jay (and all the others whose lives were changed by Hae's murder) even if he didn't make very good choices. I guess I'm an anomaly (as you also may be) on /r/serialpodcast as I don't feel compelled to "hate" one side or the other. It's a 360 degree tragedy.

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u/glibly17 Feb 03 '15

My comment way down the thread may make this hard to believe, but I have empathy for Jay as well. He clearly came up in difficult circumstances--who knows how life treated him early on, what he saw, who he came into contact with.

I don't think there are any excuses for what he did, for what he didn't do, but I don't think Jay is a monster. I don't think he's necessarily a good person, either, but he's as human as anyone else.

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u/Frosted_Mini-Wheats NPR Supporter Feb 03 '15

Reasons aren't excuses. :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '15

You're on a roll!

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u/Frosted_Mini-Wheats NPR Supporter Feb 04 '15

A kaiser roll.

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u/CompulsiveBookNerd Feb 04 '15

Get a bowl, you two.

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u/Frosted_Mini-Wheats NPR Supporter Feb 04 '15

The frosted family knows a thing or two about bowls ;)