'Serial' podcast: real-life-murder-mystery **With Spoilers**
Discussion
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Been listening to the first few episodes of the podcast 'Serial' this week and have to say i am massively hooked already.
http://serialpodcast.org
A journalist named Sarah Koenig has re-investigated the murder in Baltimore of a teenager in 1999. Her boyfriend was convicted of strangling her in an open-and-shut case and is serving life imprisonment. Each episode re-examines an aspect of the case, but its obvious from the first episode that many aspects of the case are very strange.
I can't say much without spoilers, but many of the witnesses contradicted themselves, motives and alibis were not properly investigated, the defense lawyer seems to have been criminally incompetent and key evidence was never even checked by police.
The real genius of the way this is all presented is that it plays out more like a drama with cliffhangers, with Koenig narrating and recorded conversations with the cast of characters (including crucially phone calls with the man convicted from prison), plus court and police interview tapes from 1999.
Episode 3 about 'Mr S in the Park' (major WTF! moment) had me riveted in the car this morning.
Highly recommended!
Been listening to the first few episodes of the podcast 'Serial' this week and have to say i am massively hooked already.
http://serialpodcast.org
A journalist named Sarah Koenig has re-investigated the murder in Baltimore of a teenager in 1999. Her boyfriend was convicted of strangling her in an open-and-shut case and is serving life imprisonment. Each episode re-examines an aspect of the case, but its obvious from the first episode that many aspects of the case are very strange.
I can't say much without spoilers, but many of the witnesses contradicted themselves, motives and alibis were not properly investigated, the defense lawyer seems to have been criminally incompetent and key evidence was never even checked by police.
The real genius of the way this is all presented is that it plays out more like a drama with cliffhangers, with Koenig narrating and recorded conversations with the cast of characters (including crucially phone calls with the man convicted from prison), plus court and police interview tapes from 1999.
Episode 3 about 'Mr S in the Park' (major WTF! moment) had me riveted in the car this morning.
Highly recommended!
Well i'm fully up to date with Episode 8 having been released yesterday. Anyone else?
Its definitely 'gone viral' this week with a lot of the papers writing about it.
Absolutely fascinating stuff...but hard to discuss it without spoilers!
Been having some fairly lively discussions on the social medias about whether there could be a hitherto unknown '3rd man' that they're saving for some massive reveal towards the end....or, well, Don anybody?
Its definitely 'gone viral' this week with a lot of the papers writing about it.
Absolutely fascinating stuff...but hard to discuss it without spoilers!
Been having some fairly lively discussions on the social medias about whether there could be a hitherto unknown '3rd man' that they're saving for some massive reveal towards the end....or, well, Don anybody?
Richyvrlimited said:
Some pretty interesting twists & new facts in the final episode.
Yeah, i felt Sarah K. wound it up as best she could whilst realising that it was never going to have the denouement, twist or closure people expect from fiction. So many questions left hanging though!!! For example:Don had never heard of Jay in 15 years before the podcast? A major suspect and then key witness in your girlfriend's murder? WTF?
The note that was in Hae's car to Don saying "sorry i couldn't stay" but nobody can work out where she was planning to leave it for him?
Why did the podcast never mention the fact until Episode 12 that Hae was interviewed on TV the day she disappeared? Bit coincidental that her 15mins of fame marked the end of her life, no??
All the stuff around Jay being scared of either Adnan (a clean-cut 17 y.o. high school student) or some unspecified other player(s)?
Why to this day Adnan cannot offer any alternative theory or blame Jay, even though he protests his innocence and Jay (according to official police position at least) knew where Hae's car was?
Why the shady/aggressive behaviour from the police (3hrs interview with Jay not recorded) and the state prosecutor (helped Jay get a lawyer and pressured Don to paint Adnan as sinister) ?
The anonymous call to police that Hae's body was in Leakin Park?
How did Mr. S know where Hae's body was?
Why was the forensic evidence never tested for DNA?
+ 100 others.
I guess real life & death just doesn't have neat endings
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