Sarah Koenig

And again, most of the people he's evaluating are pretty ordinary.

In other words, murder isn't usually, strictly speaking, a planned event.

A lot of people who know Adnan, they can't get their heads around the idea that Adnan planned to kill Hay.

I hear it all the time.

Here's his old Woodlawn classmate, Peter Billingsley.

No, that doesn't fit at all.

But I don't, yeah, I know it doesn't fit.

Not one bit with the person I knew.

That's Jane Efron, who taught Hay and Adnan English at Woodlawn.

Her father was a cop.

I asked Ewing, can an otherwise seemingly normal kid up and do something like this?

Plan something like this?

Or even do it impulsively?

Is snapping a thing?

Because people say that all the time also, like, maybe you snapped or maybe, you know, you snapped.

So that was news to me, that there's this sort of liminal phase, a simmering contemplation.

What if I killed this person?

And that can take the place of actual cognizant planning, but end up in the same result.

The other thing I've considered in my more reachy moments is whether Adnan did it but doesn't know he did it.

I'm not the only person who's entertained that one.