It’s not the life I planned or imagined, but I have a life.”Īdnan’s testimony of faith here resonates with me. By all means, I hope that some day he’ll discover the full revelation of God in Jesus Christ and convert to Christianity. He’s also well-served by his gift for making friends easily.Īdnan told Koenig, “I have a life. Adnan said that if he had been living the way he was supposed to back in 1999-like a “good Muslim,” he said-by which he meant making more responsible lifestyle choices, choosing better friends, and being truthful with his parents-he wouldn’t have put himself in the position of being suspected of the murder.Īnd while life behind bars isn’t Club Med by a long shot, Adnan is making the best of it. He knows it’s a rationalization of his situation, but it’s been the most helpful one.įinally, he says he’s got a clear conscience because he didn’t kill Hae, though once he did say to me, “I’m here because of my own stupid actions.” Now he can say that for nearly half his life, he’s lived like he’s supposed to. When he ended up in prison, he said he made a choice: to be a better Muslim. “Being religious helps,” which you hear all the time about people in prison, but I never thought about it too much before I got to know Adnan. “I refuse to be miserable,” he said to me. So what else would account for Adnan’s state of mind? Koenig continues: One possibility, of course, is that Adnan really did kill Hae, so on what basis would he feel indignant? While this seemed distinctly possible early on in the series, it now seems less likely with each passing episode.
To be clear: If Adnan is innocent, Jay lied, and those lies put Adnan in prison.Īgain: Why isn’t Adnan angrier about all this? Adnan’s equanimity has been startling, especially when Koenig talks to him about Jay, a former associate who was the state’s star witness against Adnan. Yes! This is a question I’ve had, too, as have-probably-most other listeners. I’m not talking about the courtroom kind I’m talking about the normal kind.”īut if he’s innocent, that raises a question that has nothing to do with what happened back in 1999. It’s a question that Koenig raised in last week’s episode: “Once, early on, I asked Adnan, ‘If you’re saying you’re innocent, why aren’t you bitter and angry? Why do you sound so calm?'” And as of the end of Episode 9, Koenig herself said, “I confess to having reasonable doubt about whether Adnan killed Hae. And I’m in good company: an “Innocence Project”-type law professor and her team of law students at the University of Virginia reviewed all documentary evidence from the trial and believe, to a person, that Adnan is innocent. Maybe I’m naive or gullible, but I think he’s innocent. Adnan appears on the show through taped phone conversations from prison.Įach week reporter Sarah Koenig, a veteran This American Life producer, unfolds the mystery of Adnan’s guilt or innocence by interviewing Adnan and as many key people associated with the case as possible. Adnan, a Pakistani-American and Muslim, is now 32. I can’t say what Serial will become during Season 2, but its first season is an engrossing true-crime drama about the murder of a high school student named Hae Min Lee near Baltimore in 1999, and her 17-year-old former boyfriend, Adnan Syed, who was convicted of the crime back then and is now serving a life sentence. Like 1.5 million other listeners, I’m hooked on a podcast called Serial, produced by the same people who bring us This American Life, the best thing on radio as far as I know. Reporter Sarah Koenig, producing a new episode of the “Serial” podcast.
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