In the next few episodes of Serial, Sarah Koenig takes her audience along for the continued investigation of Hae Min Lee\u2019s murder. The episodes pick up directly after the previous episode, and each individual episode discusses a new facet of the investigation and murder. At the beginning of a new episode, Sarah starts off with a \u201cpreviously on\u2026\u201d to remind the listener\u2019s of what was discussed and analyzed in previous episodes and bring to light any previous details that might be important to the upcoming episode.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the few episodes I listened to, Sarah continues to conduct her own investigation of Hae Min Lee\u2019s murder and whether or not Adnan Syed was in fact the person who committed the crime. A previously mentioned friend of Adnan\u2019s, Jay, presents some issues that Sarah tackles in one of the episodes. It is clear from all of the case notes and evidence that Jay provides copious amounts of inconsistency to the case. In his statements and interrogations to the police, Jay at first tries to claim he doesn\u2019t know anything, but then \u201ccomes clean\u201d and proceeds to continuously change the locations of important events in his stories. Each time Jay tells the story (he was interviewed four times and told the story twice at trial), some details shift. Some are big, like the differences in his grave digging stories, while others aren\u2019t as big. The biggest discrepancy, however, was the differences in where Adnan showed Hae\u2019s body to Jay. In the case of some of the smaller details, it is easy to see where Jay could have mixed up and said different things. But, the location of the place you are shown a dead body? How do you forget that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To further her investigation, Sarah Koenig takes a detective along with her as they try to follow the timeline Adnan would have had to follow the day he killed Hae. He only had 21 minutes, and Adnan claimed that with all that was going on at that time of day, committing murder in that timeframe would habe been \u201cimpossible.\u201d From his school, Adnan would have had to have made it to Best Buy (which is where Jay claims Adnan showed him the body) in 21 minutes. Despite all of the variables included in an after school window, Sarah and the detective make it to Best Buy in 18 minutes. But, that only leaves Adnan three minutes to kill Hae, move her to the trunk, and call Jay to come pick him up. Sarah and the detective manage to time it to 22 minutes and two seconds, so they decide that Adnan could have done it, but it seems a little far-fetched since there could be no room at all for any error or pause. The timeline has lots of problems, and Jay\u2019s story, although it consistently shifts, lines up with the timeline, which was enough evidence to make Adnan the prime suspect.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As for the episode structure itself, I have noticed that the episodes always start with a \u201cpreviously on\u2026\u201d section and end with a hook or lead into the next episode. The same music is always used for the introduction, but isn\u2019t always used throughout the episode. Music is really only used when in between points or questions, or to indicate a big point or mood change. Also, the recordings used aren\u2019t always just Sarah sitting at a desk or in a booth speaking into a microphone. The last few episodes, recordings of Sarah in a car or talking to other people (detectives, police officers, friends of Adnan, Adnan) were included, and snippets of Jay\u2019s interrogations were integrated into the episodes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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