Thread by @rabiasquared

19 years ago to day Hae Min Lee left Woodlawn high school and disappeared. Nearly a month later her body was found in Leakin park in Baltimore city. 3 years ago #Serial brought the story to the world. But there is much more to the story than Serial. Thread: 1/

Adnan Syed, 17, her ex, was arrested and convicted Of her murder. We have been fighting for 19 years to prove his innocence. Last year his conviction was thrown out but the state filed an appeal and we are now waiting for that appeal to be decided. Burn in hell @thiru4baltimore

Also last year I wrote a critically acclaimed, New York Times best selling book with contributions from Adnan. In this thread I will refer to portions of the book to talk about the things that were not covered by #Serial.

The book opens with the moment of Adnan's conviction and then goes day by day through the police investigation since Hae disappeared.

It includes the letters Adnan wrote to Sarah Koenig and new contributions by him.

I also began every chapter with scripture or some kind of tradition from the Islamic faith in order for people to better understand our community and our world view

Let's start w the oddities in that #Serial never discussed. First, these alerts. Hae's car plates were run 6 times. No idea why they were run weeks after she disappeared. Did officers spot her car & run them? If so, bc of an admin glitch wouldnt have shown missing persons report.

Her body was found in an unlikely manner by a man who failed the first polygraph and was given a second one with completely different questions that he passed. The police never contacted him again or took DNA or hair samples from him.

In Serial they reported the state's narrative alleging Adnan had murdered Hae in the front seat of her car and then moved her body to the trunk. But police files show they thought she had gone to a motel after school. Why? Bc she had in the past and also...

Bc her friend Debbie told them that she was supposed to go see her new boyfriend Don after school that day. She had met w Adnan at a motel before so she may have met Don at one too. No further info on this lead though. By the time of the trial Debbie no longer mentioned Don.

And she was not the only witness who changed her testimony by the time of the trial. All of the witnesses the state put on change their statements in a way that helped the state's case.

Anyway, the state's narrative didnt make sense for a couple of reasons. First, how stuff was found in her car. Second, the autopsy completely contradicted the timeline. Hae could not have been buried a few hours after disappearing. Serial never talked about the autopsy.

Then there is of the glaring lie that the state's witness Jay told the police everything they needed to know the 1st time they met. In fact he had a meeting with them for weeks. Yes the serial team had these documents and did not report this.

Another very important open lead is the crimestoppers reward. The state lied. They did not tell the defense that someone got an actual cash reward that was handed to them by a detective on the case. Jay all but admitted to @BobRuffTruth that he got the reward.

is also the person who discovered that her boyfriend Don had falsified his time sheets for the period in which she had disappeared and been killed. Don was also the root of the rumor that maybe she had gone to California.

Don's manager had confirmed to the cops he was at work that day. But his manager was his mom. And Jay's attorney from that time told me in an email that the prosecutor had threatened him, a black kid, with prosecuting him in Balt county, a white county & with the death penalty