Serial S01 - Ep. 9: To Be Suspected
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What new information was revealed about the January 13, 1999 case?
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Previously on Serial.
Why would you admit to doing something that drastic if you hadn't done it?
The mechanics, the documentation, the steps that they took, they look good.
Why would you not get up there and defend yourself?
You know, it's your face-to-face. He's right there. He's a person. And so, you know, it sounds believable. This is a Global Cell Link prepaid call from... An inmate at a Maryland correctional facility.
From This American Life in WBEZ Chicago, it's Serial. One story told week by week. I'm Sarah Koenig. Before we get to today's episode, where I'm going to let Adnan talk for a while, I want to run by you some new information I've learned in the past week. Three things I've learned. First, remember Laura, the former Laura Estrada Sandoval, the one who asked, well, then who the fuck did it in the last episode? She was friends with Stephanie and with Jane, with Adnan. I was talking to Laura on the phone the other day, and she mentioned something about Best Buy. And so I asked her if I could start taping. Tell me, tell me again what you just told me.
There was never any phones at Best Buy. There were never any phones around the Best Buy.
No payphone, no phone booth.
No. No. It was like blank. There's no phones there.
The payphone in question is important because Jay tells the detectives that Adnan called him on January 13, 1999, and told Jay he'd killed Hay. Quote, When Jay gets there, he says he sees Adnan standing by the phone booth wearing red gloves. He draws a map for the cops, showing the location of the phone booth. And if you're facing the front doors of the store, his drawing shows the booth on the left, outside on the sidewalk. We did a lot of research on this. where it was, whether it was, and we could not account for this phone booth. Laura said that's because it never was. She said the only conceivable place for a phone at the Best Buy would have been inside in the foyer part of the store, but there was no phone there either.
Laura says she knows this because she used to go to that Best Buy a lot, from the time it opened through 98 into 99, with her family and without her family.
And I used to... you know, I don't know, a steel CD from there all the time. So I was pretty aware of like what was around.
You're saying you would shoplift CDs? Yeah. Sorry. I don't have the CDs. So you're saying you would have noticed a thing like that because you were kind of aware.
Yeah, because you're kind of like paying attention. Like you go in and like you kind of are more aware of your surroundings than just walking into the store. You know, at the time, I remember looking up in the ceiling and seeing if there was any eyes in the skies, any cameras, you know. And, you know, there's a whole method. But you're very, you're very aware of like entering and who was like, who was there at the entrance and when you're leaving, you know, because you're like, you're freaking stealing. And man, there's no phones there.
Laura and I hypothesized why, if there really wasn't a phone booth, how could the cops have missed a detail like that? Wouldn't they have noted it?
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