The podcast was incredibly popular, and has been downloaded more than 5 million times on iTunes with an average of 1.5 million listeners per episode. Syed’s case was documented in the popular NPR podcast, where reporter Sarah Koenig reexamined the evidence and conducted new interviews with witnesses.
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Since then he’s been serving a life sentence, but his defense team has argued that he had ineffective counsel in the original trial 16 years ago. Envisioned as a stream valley park to protect Baltimore’s watersheds like the Gwynns Falls from overdevelopment and to preserve their natural habitats, Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park today offers a rare opportunity for the public to explore a diverse natural environment. Syed was convicted in 2000 of killing Lee, who was his high school girlfriend. The contiguous 1,200 acres of Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park constitute the largest woodland park in an East Coast city. There is no solid evidence as to who did it, but the finger is pointed at another senior at Woodlawn High School, Adnan Syed.
Syed’s defense team hopes that these court proceedings will eventually result in a new trial, where they’ll have another chance to argue his innocence. It was January 13th, 1999, when Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School, disappeared after school, and was later found, February 9th, 1999, dead and buried in Leakin Park. McClain has signed two affidavits saying she saw Syed at the Woodlawn Public Library at the time of the murder of fellow classmate Hae Min Lee in January 1999, but Syed’s original attorney never called McClain to testify. The Maryland Court of Special Appeals remanded Syed’s case to a circuit court in order to hear testimony from a potential alibi witness, Asia McClain. Last month, Syed found out he’ll have another day in court. For instance, why did he walk so far into the woods - 127 feet - to relieve himself And that’s just the start.
His odd recounting of the discovery makes Detectives Ritz and MacGillivary suspicious. At the heart of the story is Adnan Syed, convicted in 1999 of killing his high school girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. A man on his lunch break pulls off a road to pee, and stumbles on her body in a city forest. It’s a true crime story that captivated a nation, and even though its final episode aired in December, season one of the podcast “Serial” continues to make news.
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