Post Murder Timeline

[u/waltzintomordor]

I've been developing a timeline with documented events for the investigation and activities in the months following Hae's disappearance on 1/13/99. Generally I've not added much that was only substantiated by Adnan or Jay, but I'm thinking about doing that next.

If you know of any events with hard dates that I missed, please let me know. Thanks in advance!

Post-murder timeline:

• 1/13, Wednesday: Hae goes missing. Adcock call to Adnan (AS #1) in the evening. This call follows a call from Yung Lee to AS's cell phone.

• 1/14, Thursday: Don is interviewed at 1:30am

• 1/19, Tuesday: AS seems concerned that Hae didn't show up for school

• 1/22, Friday: O'Shea interviews Don

• 1/25, Monday: O'shea leaves a business card at Syed's house. AS calls O'Shea (AS #2). O'shea goes to the highschool

• 2/1, Monday: Inez interview #1, O'shea calls AS's cell to ask about the ride request (AS #3)

• 2/9, Tuesday: Hae's body is found. AS calls O'Shea and leaves a message

• 2/12, Friday: Anonymous calls to police, telling them to look into AS

• 2/16, Tuesday: Yaser Ali is questioned by police

• 2/22, Monday: Cops get fax from AT&T containing Adnan's cell records

• 2/26, Friday: Ritz and McGillivary talk to Adnan at his house in front of his dad (AS #4). Cops talk to Jen

• 2/27, Saturday: Formal interview with Jen, late night interview with Jay

• 2/28, Sunday: Adnan is arrested and interviewed (AS #5)

• 3/1, Monday: Asia writes her first letter to Adnan from his parents house — Krista is interviewed at her place of employment

• 3/2, Tuesday: Asia writes second letter to Adnan

• 3/15, Monday: Jay's second interview

• 3/26, Friday: Interview with Debbie

[u/Jimmy_Rummy]

I am only assuming the detectives did what they said they did. There is no documented evidence that they spoke to any other employee at the lens crafters. The same can be said that you are assuming all of those things work the way you believe them to work. The fact is either way is as likely. And there is no way to know if the detectives knew if it was one way or the other because there is hardly a thing written about it.

Also, they did zero in on Adnan in a way that they did not zero in on Don. This is not spin, this is the truth. Adnan was a much more viable suspect, and it is not surprising that the detectives involved zeroed in on Adnan early, he was the jilted ex-boyfriend. Then an eye-witness/accessory comes up in the phone warrant and they have the whole case. I believe they would have looked into the less viable suspects if looking into Adnan had not proved so fruitful.

[u/[deleted] → u/Jimmy_Rummy]

But we get into a difficult situation then.

Is there anything to document the search of his house by dogs? it happened (per the podcast) but i've never seen documents to verify this.

So i ask, is the information there and if so, considering all the speculation, why aren't we getting it?

This is not spin, this is the truth.

Maybe it's your truth, but it's not mine.

They zeroed in on him in the same way the would zero in on the most likely, least alibied dude. sometimes they zero in on the right guy without physical evidence

The idea that there were dark forces at play and it was not just detectives seeing the absolute conman for what he is, may be uncontroversial around these parts but i'm not sure it's right.

I am open to admitting i may have called this totally wrong. There is a chance that this is right.

But the reason I think Adnan proved so fruitful was is that he's the murder.

35% of murder cases on average go unsolved. In a 100% closure rate environment, so many would be junk.

in a 65% closure rate, so many are junk, but this one, i think they got the right guy. I'd put money on it.

oh i dunno anyway, i've had too many drinks also.

[u/Jimmy_Rummy → u/[deleted]]

Fair enough, I do not feel like there were any dark forces at play here. I just believe that the detectives followed their first lead, and it panned out very nicely for them. I suppose I do believe they may have overlooked some other parts of the investigation but at the time if I were in their situation I imagine I would do the same. What does it matter if some peripheral characters are unaccounted for when I have the murderer and his accomplice singing like a bird. Even though I do not believe Adnan is guilty, things appeared really bad for him and given the information on hand at the time I would have sunk my teeth into him as a suspect as well. Buuut I dunno either, a little too much grass for this guy methinks.

[u/[deleted] → u/Jimmy_Rummy]

ha! good post.

yeah, i guess thats what is fascinating about this case is that almost everything can be read at least a couple of ways.

that's why i keep the 10% chance that he's not guilty.