Sarah Koenig

They didn't see how it was connected to the crime.

And also, some people told me they'd shoplifted before.

They'd broken the rules.

So people in glass houses, man.

And in the end, these guys all said what most of Adnan's old friends say.

He didn't have it in him to kill someone.

It wasn't in his DNA.

To me, this question is the hard center of Adnan's case.

Can you tell, really?

Can you tell if someone has a crime like this in him?

I think most of us think if we know someone well, we can tell.

We act as detectives all the time, gathering evidence.

Certain scenes we remember, or the look on someone's face, or that thing he said when he got mad.

And then we act as a judge of character.

This is just a human thing.

But of course it's slippery because it's so subjective.

One person's evidence of good character is another person's evidence of questionable character.

Case in point, I heard from many people that Adnan was the opposite of violent, that he was someone who would take the heat out of tense situations.

This is Atif Iqbal, who knew Adnan from the mosque.

That's his real name and his real voice.