Life Plus 30: Murder, Lies, & The Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction
“Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.” ― John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi The facts of Adnan’s case will unravel over the next few months with the new show from This American Life called...
View ArticleSerial Episodes 1 & 2: The Alibi Mystery and Dating on the DL
"Dating" among Muslims and Southasians is tricky. So tricky that most people aren't even comfortable calling it dating. Among the euphemisms used for dating are: seeing someone, talking to someone,...
View ArticleSerial Episodes 3 & 4: What Tangled Webs
My theory is that Mr. S wasn't connected to Hae's death but heard something from someone about her being buried there, in that exact spot. I'm not saying its weird for a streaker to be so concerned...
View ArticleSerial Episode 5: Lets Talk About Cells, Baby
Now, according to Serial's investigation and plotting the cell towers for the rest of the day, until about 6pm, Jay's testimony does not match the cell towers, as I mentioned earlier. From around 1pm...
View ArticleLet’s Give Them Something To Talk About
I realized that while I and others close to Adnan were mired in the minutiae of both the case and show, we were part of that case and show for the public. Our interactions online were being discussed,...
View ArticleSerial Episode 6: The Worst of It
You may think that today was a particularly bad day for those of us on #TeamAdnan. You would be wrong.
View ArticleSerial Episode 7: In Which I Exhale
The wind is fickle and so are people. In the past few weeks the tenor of conversations shifted so significantly against Adnan, it was demoralizing. I wanted to stop reading the Reddit threads positing...
View ArticleSerial Episode 8: Confirmation Bias FTW
For now my takeaway from this episode is this - its not just cops who work with a confirmation bias. It's all of us. And the only way to overcome that bias is to get as thorough an investigation...
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