Sarah Koenig

I have a struggle with Jay.

He's the biggest mystery of this whole case for me.

The cops interview him at least four times that I know about.

Two of those are on tape.

And Jay also tells this story at trial, not once but twice, because the first proceeding ended in a mistrial.

So at least, say, six times he's told what happened, and each time some details shift.

Some of these discrepancies seem small to me and understandable, but some are significant and confounding.

And that distance between where a certain detail starts and where it ends up, how far it slides, and why it slides, I've spent untold hours trying to measure that distance, trying to weigh it, for clues as to what might actually be true."

For example, this is from taped interview number one.

The cops are asking about what he and Anand did that morning of the 13th.

Now, here's taped interview number two from March 15th, two weeks later.

That's a different mall, Security Square Mall, a couple miles away.

I put this one in the category of probably not a big deal, right?

Maybe Jay misspoke when he said Westview initially.

There are a bunch of little things like this.

For example, when they're driving around that afternoon after they've ditched Hay's car at the I-70 park and ride.

At the first trial, Jay says they both got high in Adnan's car.

At the second trial, he says only he smoked.

Adnan didn't want to.

Then there are more significant changes.