Serial: Season One
The high school scene, the shifting statements to police, the prejudices, the sketchy alibis, the scant forensic evidence — all of it leads back to the most basic questions: How can you know a person’s character? How can you tell what they’re capable of? …
Episode 01: The Alibi - Serial Season 4
Hae Min Lee, a popular high-school senior, disappears after school one day. Six weeks later detectives arrest her classmate and ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, for her murder. He says he's innocent - though he can't exactly remember what he was doing on …
About Season One - Serial
About Season One. A high-school senior named Hae Min Lee disappeared one day after school in 1999, in Baltimore County, Maryland. A month later, her body was found in a city park. She'd been strangled.
Episode 12: What We Know - Serial
On January 13, 1999, Adnan Syed was a hurt and vengeful ex-boyfriend who carried out a premeditated murder. Or he was a bewildered bystander, framed for a crime he could never have committed. After 15 months of reporting, we take out everything we’ve got - interviews and documents and police reports - we shake it all out, and we see what sticks.
Episode 03: Leakin Park - Serial
A timeline of the case, from January 13, 1999 when Hae disappeared, to June 6, 2000 when Adnan was sentenced. This is a map of the key locations in the story and the cell towers that were triggered by Adnan's cell phone on January 13, 1999.
About - Serial
Serial is a podcast from the creators of This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial tells one story — a true story — over the course of a season. Serial has won every major award for broadcasting, including the duPont-Columbia, Scripps Howard, Edward R. Murrow, and the first-ever Peabody awarded to a podcast.
Episode 04: Inconsistencies - Serial
They find Jay at work late one night and bring him down to Homicide. At first, he insists he doesn’t know anything about the murder. But eventually he comes clean. He tells them what happened on January 13th. A few weeks later, he’s back at Homicide and his story has changed.
Episode 01: A Bar Fight Walks into the Justice Center - Serial
A Bar Fight Walks into the Justice Center. A young woman at a bar is slapped on the butt. So why’s she the one in jail?
Episode 09: To Be Suspected - Serial
New information is coming in about what maybe didn’t happen on January 13, 1999. And while Adnan’s memory of that day is foggy at best, he does remember what happened next: being questioned, being arrested and, a little more than a year later, being sentenced to life in prison.
Season Three - Serial
Play Season Three: Episode 01: A Bar Fight Walks into the Justice Center.