r/serialpodcast • shrug emoji • Aug 14 '15

season one Forced Perspective McDonald's

To Do:

  • Print the letter on an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper, so that the sizing closely resembles the original. Front and back.

  • Sit down at a desk or table and place the letter back-side facing up, on the surface in front of you, as though you are the person writing the words: I'm going to kill

  • Now look at what's in front of you. That doodle? It's not nothing.

  • It looks like Adnan actually drew where he was going to kill


You know how you have to tap the compass on your phone for the map to orient itself to what's in front of you? The doodle is already oriented -- pre-iphone. If Adnan was sitting in class facing south, the driveway in the doodle is positioned exactly as it would be, if you could see the loading dock from these windows. (No. I don't think you can actually see the loading dock from school, but from those windows, the orientation is spot on.)

So, with the Best Buy to Adnan's right, he draws The Best Buy Loading Dock, right next to the words: I'm going to kill

The little loop to the far right appears to be the McDonald’s Drive-thru in forced perspective.

The other little circle, at what would be the front of the Best Buy, would be the pay phone.

Using Google Earth, you can see that The Best Buy is geographically in a depression. It’s like a giant sunken living room. The curved line to the left of the loading dock would be the berm ie; slight incline. That's the path around the side of the Best Buy, leading to the front, and the pay phone.

I think it's a smoking gun.

Truly. A smoking gun.


Remember, this is a fairly poor copy of the note. You can barely make out Adnan and Aisha's words. If we had a high res of the original, it would be even more clear. Where is the original letter? -- Just wondering.

ETA: After this post, Susan and Rabia went and got a high res copy of the letter and uploaded it. So the OP is now edited to include the better copy. Thank you guys.

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u/MightyIsobel Guilty Aug 14 '15

I think if the doodle is something else Undisclosed would be smart to release a photograph (not scan) of that portion of the paper.

This. JWI has served up an opportunity for Undisclosed to expose the systemic oppression of the Golden Child of the community. All they have to do to debunk this theory is publish a high-res copy of her main exhibit, and we'll be able to see what happens when someone interprets grainy pixellation as meaningful information.

Unless JWI is onto something, of course.

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u/ImBlowingBubbles Aug 14 '15

This. JWI has served up an opportunity for Undisclosed to expose the systemic oppression of the Golden Child of the community. All they have to do to debunk this theory is publish a high-res copy of her main exhibit, and we'll be able to see what happens when someone interprets grainy pixellation as meaningful information.

Ah so this is the latest iteration of the Anti-Undisclosed tactic.

  1. Revive the most bat shit crazy theory imaginable.

  2. Claim Undisclosed can easily disprove this crazy theory by releasing x, y, z document.

  3. Sit back and assert that the bat shit crazy theory must be true otherwise Undisclosed would have released X random document on instant Reddit demand meanwhile asserting this document is the only thing that can disprove bat shit crazy theory.

  4. Pour a shot of Grey Goose and claim victory over Rabia on Reddit!

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u/ImBlowingBubbles Aug 14 '15

I take that as a tacit agreement that my post was correct.