Sarah Koenig

What does it have to do with the case he wanted to know?

He's never claimed that he's innocent of killing Hay because he's a perfect or even a good person, he said.

So why talk about this?

And why the double standard?

Why wasn't I going into everyone else's closet and pulling out skeletons that made them look bad?

Why do I protect other people and call him out on everything?

He's endured other stuff in my reporting that he didn't think was fair to him.

But now he was sticking up for himself, he said.

He seemed pissed and hurt, and I understood it.

If you don't want to talk about this, that's your prerogative.

I'm not going to force you to talk about it.

A couple of days and phone calls later, all was calm, and he told me his stealing story.

It was during the summer, maybe the summer before eighth grade, he said.

But it's just, you know, I mean... What made you realize, what made you stop, and what made you realize it was wrong?

Anand says he was caught red-handed by Shamim, his mother.

He says she found some money in his pants pocket and asked him where it came from, and the truth came out.

He says she was horrified.

It was the classic, I'm not angry, I'm disappointed.

More disappointed than she'd ever been in him, he says.

A nun says back then he didn't think he was hurting anyone.