The Tales Of Adnah
No one wants to be the victim of a crime, or to be accused of committing one. But boy do we love stories about people in those positions.
If the popularity of the true-crime genre is any indication, people are fascinated by investigations of murder cases that may have ended with wrongful convictions, like the Netflix documentary Making a Murderer. Gruesome ends for women. Potentially innocent young men imprisoned. The tales are riveting because they describe our worst nightmares and, worse yet, they happened to people in real life. And because we hope or believe the power of the media will shed light on the truth and serve justice.
The case against Adnah Syed is one of those stories. Syed’s trial was the subject of the immensely popular podcast Serial, which turned its viewers into armchair sleuths who tried to uncover the truth. Did he in 1999 kill Hae Min Lee, his ex-girlfriend, while the two were high school students in Baltimore County, Maryland?
If the popularity of the true-crime genre is any indication, people are fascinated by investigations of murder cases that may have ended with wrongful convictions, like the Netflix documentary Making a Murderer. Gruesome ends for women. Potentially innocent young men imprisoned. The tales are riveting because they describe our worst nightmares and, worse yet, they happened to people in real life. And because we hope or believe the power of the media will shed light on the truth and serve justice.
The case against Adnah Syed is one of those stories. Syed’s trial was the subject of the immensely popular podcast Serial, which turned its viewers into armchair sleuths who tried to uncover the truth. Did he in 1999 kill Hae Min Lee, his ex-girlfriend, while the two were high school students in Baltimore County, Maryland?
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