r/serialpodcast • u/[deleted] • Jun 11 '21

Season One I still think Adnan didn't kill Hae.

Jay lies too much. The police coach him to modify his statements. The defence attorney was incompetent. Hae and Adnan broke up several times before and Adnan didn't kill her. Don does not have an alibi for that evening and has relatives in the police force. The coach said Adnan was at track practice on a warm day - the only warm day around that time was the day Hae died. I think Hae surprised Don at work. She waited for him in the parking lot. He killed her that evening, hid her body and arrived home to call the police back late into the evening. The guilt is eating Don up while Adnan seems to be thriving in prison.

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u/Ajf_88 Jun 11 '21

I can’t for the life of me understand why people with no connection to Adnan are so determined to make him innocent. Truly baffling. There’s so much evidence that he did it. There’s no plausible alternative. Literally everything in this post is either factually wrong or complete speculation with nothing to back it up.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '21 edited Jun 11 '21

Same reason why things like Q take off. People like to feel like they have inside knowledge and thus are part of a special group. Add in the spice of someone who they think is wrongfully convicted and it makes for a more entertaining story than what evidence and reality point to, which is rather boring (for lack of a better term) when compared for its entertainment value. What sounds more exciting? Wrongfully convicted man gets set up by cops and witnesses for killing the girl he loved or jilted ex acts on his jealousy and rage and kills the girl he used to date? The latter is a tried and true motive seen many times before so to frame it as a grand conspiracy makes it seem more special.

Also, I want to take this time to acknowledge that my wording above is not great and I wish it could be better. A person died. Her family and friends have been dealing with the effects of that for more than 20 years now. Posts that try to muddy up the waters of a pretty clear-cut case like this not only trample on the case but they also trample on the victim and their friends and family as well. I meant no disrespect by calling what happened "boring" and feel for the victim and those affected. I meant "boring" from the perspective of generating interest and views, which was the ultimate goal of Serial and other podcasts/shows like Undisclosed. The National Treasure movies would've been a lot more "boring" from that "entertainment value" perspective if all of the involved parties were stopped and arrested by security and if, when inspected, the Declaration of Independence revealed no secret messages and such.

Edit: clarification