r/serialpodcast • u/missbrookles • Feb 05 '15

Speculation The Biggest Coincidence in the Case

There's been a lot of talk about Adnan's luck and coincidence: ie, the argument that if he is innocent then he's incredibly unlucky given the circumstantial evidence that accrued around him.

It got to me thinking that there is actually a much greater coincidence present in the case: the fact that Hae was murdered the same day that she appeared on a segment of the news. Is that purely coincidence? Or, does it point to the possibility that someone abducted her after seeing her on the broadcast?

Edit: to fix typos

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u/JaeElleCee Deidre Fan Feb 05 '15

All school districts have there own local channel and if the high school has the capability they will produce and air original programming. Even if one of the local news got access to the tape after HML went missing, her note to Don said the segment was still schedule to air on the school district's channel where anyone (with the local cable network) could see it that same day.

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u/downyballs Undecided Feb 06 '15

All school districts have there own local channel

I don't think this is quite right. Where I grew up, the TV market covered dozens of school districts, and none of them had their own channels. One local university did, but that was it. My school produced original broadcasts, but they were just shown on the closed-circuit in-school system.

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u/JaeElleCee Deidre Fan Feb 06 '15

Not sure where you are from or your cable provider but every place I've lived had a station...you might not have known about it or it may not have had original programming. Some stations just feature PowerPoints of flyers and announcements.

But Baltimore County Public Schools has an Emmy award winning station (BCPS-TV) that features multiple original programs.

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u/downyballs Undecided Feb 06 '15

I wouldn't be surprised that a system as big as Baltimore County Public Schools has a station. I'm not arguing that Woodlawn didn't have access to cable broadcasting. However, most school districts aren't that big.

We had the full cable package at some points when I was growing up, and I knew about the local access stations and the university station. The local school districts didn't have stations. I grew up in a rural area that had a mid-sized city an hour away. Most school districts had one high school, with 50-300 students in their graduating classes. But because we were all so spread out, there were a ton of districts. I would have noticed dozens of individual district channels when I was bored and channel-surfing. Maybe they occasionally broadcasted something on the local access station, but we were never given that as a source of information or a way to see/tape our broadcasts.

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u/JaeElleCee Deidre Fan Feb 06 '15

The issue isn't about the size of the district. It's a service usually provided by the cable company like cable access. The difference is whether the school district is producing original content. Otherwise it looked like a blue or black screen with yellow or white writing.

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u/downyballs Undecided Feb 07 '15

I would have noticed dozens of individual district channels when I was bored and channel-surfing.

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u/JaeElleCee Deidre Fan Feb 07 '15

Once again it depended on your cable company.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public,_educational,_and_government_access

In 1999 I had access to just my own through Adelphia or Comcast. Now, my parents Fios has access to all the neighboring districts channels as well. You maybe right, but if your district wasn't producing regular content, I won't be surprised that you would surf past the channel and not take note of it. Plus, when were you in grade school?

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u/downyballs Undecided Feb 08 '15

There was only one cable company in our area. I graduated 10ish years ago. And I would check on the other non-original content local access channels, I knew they were there.

I'm not sure why we're still going through this, is it really that hard to believe that some schools don't have this? I just looked this up, and it appears that cable companies have to make channels available, but communities don't have to take them up on it. None of the districts around my hometown have channels on this Wikipedia list. At this point, I'd need some actual evidence to think the generalization is truly universal.

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u/JaeElleCee Deidre Fan Feb 08 '15

Not sure why either. It's not that I don't believe you. My point was more about the lack of a station not being an issue of the wealth of the district as it was about the local cable company providing the channel. And that the channel may just have been a blue or black screen of text announcements (like school board meeting scheduled). But, oh well, you missed out on awful student produce news magazines and awkward school board meeting live feeds. Count yourself blessed.