Koenig is also investigating the case and reveals her findings to the listeners as they happen.īy the time the twelfth and final episode of Season 1 was released on December 19, Serial had become the fastest podcast to hit 5 million downloads, and was ranked in Apple's top 10 podcasts list globally. Woven throughout Koenig's narration are recorded interviews with people who knew Hae and Adnan, recordings from the trial, police recordings from interviews, as well as phone interviews with Adnan himself, calling from the maximum-security prison he's spent most his adult life in. In each episode host Sarah Koenig focuses on various aspects of the case, such as the prosecution's timeline of the alleged murder or the suspicious circumstances in which Hae Min's body was found. Adnan has always maintained his innocence and his family insists he was wrongfully convicted, based on a poor legal defense from his lawyer and a relatively flimsy prosecution: there was no direct evidence tying him to the murder, and he was largely convicted on the testimony of a single witness. The first season began on October 3, 2014, focusing on the Real Life case of a man named Adnan Syed who was accused and convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee in January 1999. As the name would suggest, the show slowly explores the details of a story week by week, in a serial format, gradually unraveling the details of the case. Serial is a weekly Documentary-style podcast focusing on non-fiction stories, hosted by Sarah Koenig.
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