I listened to the first episode of Serial, called “The Alibi”. I was excited in the beginning because I love murders and mysteries; I had read them since elementary school. Starting in about second or third grade I started with Encyclopedia Brown, and progressed on from there. Therefore, I went into this with high expectations. If I am being honest, it was dreadful. I am excited by the mystery and thrill of murders and investigations, but the politics of this story drive me up a wall. The game of “he said, she said” annoys me to the very core. You either remember or you don’t, and the farther from the time of the crime, the worse the recollection is. This is the storyline of “The Alibi”: a high-school girl, Hae Min Lee, is murdered and the police later arrest her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed. He has a shotty recollection of the night, and is basically convicted on the case of one “witness” testimony from a teen named Jay. Family and friends of Adnan blame the defense lawyer and claim that she intentionally lost the case in the interest of getting more money for the appeals. The defense claims to have a witness that could exonerate Adnan, but now 15 years later, the case is too far gone. In essence, the episode ends in a “cliff-hanger”, for the story continues throughout other episodes. This was the cherry on top of the dread for me- I would have to continue through this ping-pong of politics to find out the final answer. However it ends, I hope the correct person is convicted, for I will not be pursuing the matter past the end of this paragraph.
https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/1/the-alibi
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