In the next few episodes of Serial that I listened to, Sarah Koenig goes into in depth detail all about how the state made a case against Adnan, and which pieces of evidence they used to cause Adnan to come across as guilty of being Hae Min Lee\u2019s murderer. Sarah also inserts some of her own insight, claiming that while she sees a lot of problems with the state\u2019s case, she also sees a lot of problems in Adnan\u2019s story, which causes her to go in circles as to who is right and who is wrong, who is guilty and who is innocent. Much like the beginning of all of the previous Serial episodes that I have listened to, Sarah starts the podcast off with an introduction and a \u201cPreviously on Serial\u2026\u201d segment that provides snippets of conversation or analysis from previous episodes that will be important to or discussed further in the current episode.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As with previous episodes that I have listend to, Sarah uses documents, personal interviews, recorded interviews, phone interviews, and her own individual analysis as her sources and pieces of evidence to take apart and put back together the events of Hae\u2019s murder. Using these sources, Sarah reconstructs the state\u2019s case against Adnan to help us better understand the guilty murder charge. She talks in depth about the fingerprints the cops found in Hae\u2019s car, Adnan\u2019s strange behavior the night of the crime, Adnan\u2019s cell phone records the night of the crime, and a stray police record; all of which provide evidence against Adnan, but can also be twisted in a way that would provide evidence for Adnan. Then, Sarah talks about what she refers to as the \u201csmoking bullet\u201d of Adnan\u2019s case: a call to a girl that Adnan had been talking to. Why this was a bad thing for Adnan? There isn\u2019t any real answer Adnan can give to this phone call, so the prosecutors are able to twist it in such a way that implicates Adnan. Along with this call and the shifty or completely dodged answers Adnan gives Sarah, it is easy to see why the jury and the judge decided that Adnan was guilty of murdering Hae Min Lee.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The podcast episodes remain similar in structure, as they all start with a segment that emphasizes important details from previous episodes, and they end with a small teaser and hook as to what the next week\u2019s episode is going to discuss and analyze about Adnan and the case of Hae\u2019s Min Lee\u2019s murder. The podcast uses the same music in their intro and outro, and also uses music to transition between questions or different segments of the episode, or to indicate when an important piece of information is about to be revealed. The music also tends to indicate the mood of the new tidbit of information. Sarah continues to use recordings of her own analysis and reasoning, and also includes several recordings and snippets of phone interviews or police interviews throughout the course of the episodes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Word Count: 504<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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