Sarah Koenig

Crying.

Lots of people told the cops, and also told me, that Inan appeared to be in denial when they all first heard what had happened.

That he said things like, it's not her, they've got the wrong person, all Asian women look alike.

When Inan got arrested, Krista wrote down a chronology of everything she remembered from the previous six weeks.

Here's what she wrote about that night at Aisha's.

That's right.

Adnan called the Baltimore County Police Department to talk to Detective O'Shea.

To tell him they'd misidentified this girl, whoever she was.

That tidbit has always stayed with me.

Is that something a distraught teenager would do?

Or is that something a killer would do?

So many people back then, and now, have talked about Adnan's reaction to Hay's death.

That he was blank, or cried in heaving waves, or not at all, or that he seemed normal, or that he hid in the dark room in photography class, or stared at a picture of him and Hay in psychology class.

One teacher said he was tense and unresponsive when she gave him a hug, that a tick he had became more pronounced.

Another said he was so sad he was barely functioning.

The school nurse testified at Adnan's first trial that she thought he faked a catatonic state.

She wasn't allowed to testify in the second trial.

None of Adnan's friends saw anything strange in his behavior.

Besides, they said it was a strange time for everyone.

It was terrifying and sad.