Serial Podcast
Many of you have told me about the Serial podcast and how riveting it is, and that you’d like my opinion. I typically don’t look at older cases unless I can hear the suspect speak prior to or during trial. The reason is once someone has been convicted of a crime, the pressure on them diminishes and the clues to deception will also diminish or completely cease.
I have had a busy month and I haven’t had time to even open the podcast so I have a few questions.
Does the podcast have interviews from prior to or during the trial of the key people? That is most essential for me.
If there are, please point me to the podcasts that contain these interviews (with time markers please) and I will see if I can fit it into my schedule.
I am not one who likes to listen to others tell the story because their bias and opinions can skew the truth. I rely 100% on the actual people who are being looked at to the get the truth. They are most reliable source we have.
OK, so after reading about the “Serial” here, I started listening to it. The whole podcast of 12 episodes covers just this one case. I’m about a third into it. There are plenty of interviews, including some police interrogations from the time it happened, but they are interspersed throughout the series, and not readily found.
The case is very interesting, and so is the podcast. My only complaint is that I wish it were organized differently and more transparently, but I guess it would then lose on its literary / story-telling value.
The podcast totals about 9 hours. Eyes, if you listen to podcasts on one of your many travels, it’s certainly worth a listen.
PS: the podcast has a website with all of the episodes and many written documents: http://serialpodcast.org/ , but the good stuff Eyes is searching for is only found within the episodes, as far as I can tell
Eyes,
Please do something on Serial! I think what you’re looking for are in the episodes. You can also find supplemental materials. Just ask! To save you time, here are links to the transcripts for episodes 1 through 8: http://genius.com/Serial-podcast-episode-1-the-alibi-annotated
Here is a transcript for episode 9: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xdT-NIz4B_wc4_80f652YxP6LOpXGeWmzYrErJvotLA/edit?usp=sharing
I can’t find transcripts for 10 through 12 (the final episode). I don’t mean to get fan-boy on you, but I think I speak for a lot of people when I say please weigh in.
Thanks, Brendan
Oh, and there is a lot of background info (including trial transcripts) at http://www.splitthemoon.com/ and http://www.patheos.com/blogs/splitthemoon
Serial is a piece of seriously addictive radio journalism! The investigation was exhaustive and the presentation superbly unbiased. After each episode I would say to myself, “What would Eyes be telling us about this?” There are a TON of interviews and jailhouse interviews from the two main “players”. I am DYING to know who you think is telling the truth because one of them is lying. I think I know but…but but….there are so many twists and turns. PS My house has never been cleaner. PPS I think you could get a feel from Adnan (the convicted) from the first episode as he speaks from jail.
And now a brand new interview with the state’s star witness is released. Eyes, this story has legs that just won’t give up. I think it’s worth your time, as it will probably drive a nice amount of traffic to your site.
Several people have sent me links to interviews, but most were done after conviction and they have no value to me. I only want to hear from Adnan, and no one else. And I need to know the interviews were pre-trial or during trial. Afterwards there is no stress on Adnan for clues to leak as he is paying for the crime. Hence, why I am not able to comment.
Unfortunately the entire podcast has no pre-trial recordings of Adnan, and I understand that none exist. :·(
Does this mean we are forever out of luck on your opinion on this case? Could we entice you with pre-trial interviews of Jay, the star witness?
Jay can have biases so I would not be able to make a decision upon him about someone else (Adnan). Yes, it looks like I won’t be able to give you an opinion unless you can get video or audio of him pre-trial or during trial. So sorry.
No stress? I’d presume that Adnan Syed is heavily invested in maintaining an appearance of innocence for personal reasons as well as in hopes of appeals.
There is a petition on change.org calling for a free trial for Adnan. So far, 28,793 people have signed. I haven’t heard any of the podcasts. The petition states that Jay changed several details of his testimony, pretty key details. If that’s true, Jay at the very least, lied recently, or lied during trial.