Sarah Koenig

The next day, Jen says she drove Jay to the F&M store, the same one where he worked, so that he could throw out the clothes and boots he was wearing the previous night.

He pitched them into a dumpster behind the store.

One of the cops points out, for a guy who's telling you he didn't kill anyone and didn't help dispose of a body, he sure is taking a lot of precautions.

He clarifies, Jay wasn't along when the body was buried.

Finally, the cop asks, were Adnan and Jay best friends?

And Jen says, oh no, more like casual acquaintances.

Once the detectives talk to Jen, everything happens very fast.

That same night, the detectives go get Jay at the video store where he works.

It's actually a porn video store, which, come trial, Adnan's attorney will stress with relish at every opportunity.

Anyway, the cops bring him down to homicide.

By the time they turn on the tape recorder, it's 1.30 in the morning on February 28th.

So they get Jay in the interview room, and initially he pulls a Jen.

He tells them nothing, more or less.

Says he'd walked to the mall that day, gotten his girlfriend a bracelet for her birthday, hung around with Jen's younger brother, talked to Adnan sometime in the afternoon.

And then after two pages of notes like that, it says...

At least, that's what I think it says.

The detective's handwriting is messy, so maybe it says, In any case, around 20 minutes later, they start taping.

And Jay tells them a whole different story.

One that more or less matches Jen's.

Except for one major difference, one major piece of information about this crime that the cops are still missing.