Throughout the entire Serial podcast, I have believed Adnan Syed to be innocent. With people who back up his stories, with an unreliable witness testifying against him and changing his story drastically every time it’s told, and with nobody actually witnessing him commit the murder, it would be kind of hard to actually begin to think Syed was the one who killed Hae.
Asia McClain stood by Adnan. In the beginning, she went out of her way to try and help his case, trying to track down surveillance footage and giving him an alibi. Unfortunately she retracted this statement when it was most needed, but she still stands by it many years later.
Asia’s first letter to Adnan; taken from the Serial website, https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/maps
16 years later, Asia still believes Adnan is innocent
The case against Adnan also has little to no value considering the prosecutions star witnesses is quite possibly one of the worst one could come across. He willingly lies to police, tells them he’d gladly lie again to avoid being punished, and CLEARLY has motive to put Adnan away. Let’s not forget the fact that he was scared there might have been security cameras where the murder took place! You’d think that might’ve tipped off detectives that he possibly may have had more to do with it?
https://viewfromll2.com/2014/11/26/serial-why-jays-testimony-is-not-credible-evidence-of-adnans-guilt/
Despite all the evidence being circumstantial, and having literally NOTHING concrete against him, Adnan was still convicted of the murder. There wasn’t even a fingerprint or footprint or hair fiber or literally anything to tie him to Hae’s death. Nobody saw him anywhere near the crime scene (ignoring Jay’s testimony because it cannot honestly be called true when he lied so many times), and there was definitely not a soul who saw him commit the murder. This is why I firmly believe Syed has nothing to do with Hae’s death.
I chose to use a blog post as my medium as I am much more skilled with writing than I am with speaking or creating any sort of audio or visual text, which therefore helped me get my point across much easier.
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