Physical evidence gathered in 1999 was never tested for Syed’s DNA. Another employee at the store recounts how Clinedinst, when telling his co-workers about Lee’s disappearance, had scratch marks and bandages on his forearms. [Maryland’s highest court said there would be no retrial for Adnan Syed. We counted three “titty meat” references. Among them, an anonymous call was made to police to investigate Syed as a suspect, just three days after the body was found; and police subpoenaed Syed’s mobile phone records leading them to his friend, Jay Wilds. Twenty years after Lee’s murder, Syed maintains he is innocent although as Serial explores, he had been hazy on the events of that fateful January afternoon in 1999. An episode that feels like a tipping point delivers the first high-level casualty of the Fadda-Cannon conflict. Syed’s lawyer, C. Justin Brown, speculated that the extra four years would mean Syed is freed after the attorney general goes through another election, as well as the fact that Lee’s family is still pushing for Syed to remain in jail forever. Lee went on her first date with new boyfriend Don Clinedinst on 1 January 1999. Before you jump headlong into the series, here’s a refresher on the major events of the case so far. By March 2018, “Serial” had been downloaded more than 175 million times. Source: SBS. I've tried to link this to sources so you can dig a bit deeper and call me out if I'm talking nonsense. The pathologist says the only way that mark would have appeared is if Lee’s corpse was lying face down on an object with that specific shape for at least 8 to 12 hours. Already a subscriber? Her family reported her missing when she failed to pick up her cousin. Did the police coach Wilds’ testimony? Downloaded more than 100 million times, the series helped to bring podcasting into the mainstream and, along with TV series like “The Jinx” and “Making a Murderer,” kick-started a wave of serialized true-crime whodunits that shows no signs of ebbing. Family, magic, and sacrifice are redefined in a packed, fitfully brilliant final hour. To help you make sense of all the twists and turns in the finale of The Case Against Adnan Syed, we’ve compiled the biggest takeaways from the episode. They eventually abandoned Lee’s car in a residential lot, he said. Who exactly had Syed’s mobile phone on the day of the murder? Syed pleaded not guilty and was convicted in 2000 of first-degree murder and kidnapping. If true, it would match Syed’s version of events. However, Serial fans are finding a lot of repetition in the show, with new updates few and far between. You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. © 2020 Vox Media, LLC. Wilds said he helped Syed bury the body. “Serial” raised doubt about his guilt for many listeners. Based on the evidence presented at the hearing, Judge Martin P. Welch stated that Gutierrez had “rendered ineffective assistance” to Syed by failing to cross-examine the State’s expert on the reliability of the phone tower location evidence, and criticised her for not pursuing Chapman to be a part of Syed’s defence. Gutierrez’s request for a mistrial was granted. Source: SBS. The prosecution’s timeline of the murder says that Lee’s body was buried in Leakin Park around 7:30 p.m., five hours after Syed strangled her to death. In one autopsy photo, which is shown onscreen, Lee’s body shows evidence of lividity, the postmortem pooling of blood inside a corpse, surrounding a double-diamond-shaped mark on her shoulder.