Before someone, or several people, attack this post, please be advised that I won’t be baited into responding. At the end of the day, this just isn’t that important to me, certainly not important enough to compromise my serenity over. I thought Serial was an absorbing (albeit shamelessly biased, despite Sarah Koenig’s claims to the contrary) podcast. I listened to it, and I even re-listened to it. For what it’s worth, I do think Adnan Syed is guilty, but I don’t expect that opinion to weigh heavily on anyone, least of all Adnan Syed.
However, I am a huge fan of websleuths and, as I listened to Serial, I couldn’t help but wonder what the members thought of the podcast. I’ve read several pages of the thread, but I lack the commitment to read all 36 (at the time of this entry). During my second listening of Serial, something caught my attention and I was curious if it has been mentioned in this forum. In Episode 5 (“Route Talk”, Koenig is reading from the letter to her from Syed in which he challenges her to try to make it to the Best Buy from school by 2:36, which is when the police assert that he called Jay to come pick him up after the murder of Hae Min Lee. In his own words, in this letter, he asks how he was supposed to get from the school to the “lobby of the Best Buy” in order to make the call. I thought this was strange, because neither the police, nor Jay, nor anyone else has mentioned that the phone was in the lobby. At trial, the pay phone was always described as being outside. When making a sketch for the police, Jay drew the payphone outside of Best Buy on the sidewalk in front. As listeners know, much was made of this phone at the Best Buy. No one interviewed remembered a pay phone being outside of Best Buy and no pictures or building plans were produced that showed the pay phone outside. However, in the last episode, Koenig has an update concerning the phone at the Best Buy. Blueprints for the store showed that there was a pay phone……in the lobby. It just seems strange to me that Adnan would have known this when no one else was aware that the phone was in the lobby. In fact, it was an almost stipulated fact that the pay phone, if it even existed, was in front of the Best Buy. I can’t help but wonder if it was a case of Adnan inadvertently providing one too many details.
Like others, I have doubts that the actual call to Jay occurred at 2:36 pm. My only point is that it seems odd to me that Adnan knew the location of the mysterious Best Buy payphone
However, I am a huge fan of websleuths and, as I listened to Serial, I couldn’t help but wonder what the members thought of the podcast. I’ve read several pages of the thread, but I lack the commitment to read all 36 (at the time of this entry). During my second listening of Serial, something caught my attention and I was curious if it has been mentioned in this forum. In Episode 5 (“Route Talk”, Koenig is reading from the letter to her from Syed in which he challenges her to try to make it to the Best Buy from school by 2:36, which is when the police assert that he called Jay to come pick him up after the murder of Hae Min Lee. In his own words, in this letter, he asks how he was supposed to get from the school to the “lobby of the Best Buy” in order to make the call. I thought this was strange, because neither the police, nor Jay, nor anyone else has mentioned that the phone was in the lobby. At trial, the pay phone was always described as being outside. When making a sketch for the police, Jay drew the payphone outside of Best Buy on the sidewalk in front. As listeners know, much was made of this phone at the Best Buy. No one interviewed remembered a pay phone being outside of Best Buy and no pictures or building plans were produced that showed the pay phone outside. However, in the last episode, Koenig has an update concerning the phone at the Best Buy. Blueprints for the store showed that there was a pay phone……in the lobby. It just seems strange to me that Adnan would have known this when no one else was aware that the phone was in the lobby. In fact, it was an almost stipulated fact that the pay phone, if it even existed, was in front of the Best Buy. I can’t help but wonder if it was a case of Adnan inadvertently providing one too many details.
Like others, I have doubts that the actual call to Jay occurred at 2:36 pm. My only point is that it seems odd to me that Adnan knew the location of the mysterious Best Buy payphone