0:00 a more serious crime than murder we could probably say safely he may have not had anything to do with her murder yeah very badly [Music] and today's special episode oh you put some ████ in her hair looks nice let's put some s█████ here that's a great way to compliment a guy whoa do you guys remember this theme song what's this song oh oh yeah that sounds good any of you guys listen to cereal oh I can't play too much cut it before we get blocked I listened to the whole thing on a road trip and it was ████ sick it's dope isn't it there's part two too right the lady that does it Sarah Koenig or whatever and she's legit her voice is very good for that for that so today we are talking about the main main story that cereal blew up with it's called uh
0:51 well it's called cereal but the guy is a non-side there's very very recent news that has just come out after this very very huge and iconic story he did it he didn't do it no all it is is that he has been released from prison can you give the summary on what's going on so it's a summary there's a a Korean chick that disappeared and got murdered he's the number one sister in high school they were boyfriend girlfriend and then but we don't know what the actual evidence is and he's been locked up the whole time I'll give everybody about two and a half minutes of real real explanation real quick okay this chick's name is Heyman Lee she was last seen at about 3 P.M on January 13th 1999 her family reported the 18 year old high school student missing after she failed to pick up her niece Lee's body was found partially buried four weeks later in Lincoln Park West Baltimore she had been strangled police arrested Syed Lee's
1:44 ex-boyfriend on March 1st the pair both attended Woodlawn High School and had dated previous year okay according to court records Lee had ended the relationship in December that year Syed was 17 when he was arrested but was charged as an adult with first degree murder prosecutor said Syed had killed Lee after becoming upset when she started dating someone else so I had pled not guilty and his first trial ended in a mistrial but in February 2000 he was convicted of first degree murder and kidnapping and sentenced to life plus 30 years in prison wow he has always maintained his innocence and 14 years later the podcast serial brought renewed focus on Lee's murder the case against Syed was largely based on the story of one witness adnan's friend Jay who testified that he helped that non-berry Hayes body what the oh but Anand had always maintained he had nothing to do with his death some people believe he's telling the truth many
2:35 others don't across 12 episodes of cereal the presenter and journalist behind the podcast Sarah Koenig a former reporter for the Baltimore Sun who also worked on the podcast This American Life trawled through thousands of documents and talked to everyone she could find who knew Syed and Lee at the same time at the time of Lee's dead Koenig found that there was scant forensic evidence linking Syed to Lee's murder and that Witnesses had changed their statements to the police whoa questions were also raised about the competence of saya's lawyer and the veracity of the evidence provided by Jay Wiles the prosecution's key witness according to Wild's testimony Syed told him he had killed Lee and asked Wiles to help bury the body but wild story changed across his interviews with police and his timeline did not match call logs and cell phone tower pings so wild as they're saying is the killer a part of a witness to the prosecution he's the one that's saying I
3:25 helped bury the body he was the weed dealer yeah that was like their connection ████ in jail no I don't think so the ████ I think he I think uh because he gave up evidence and stuff like that he was able to so he was never in jail no no I believe wild oh that's interesting soccer the podcast did not come to a firm conclusion as society's innocence or guilt but Koenig felt there was not enough evidence to have him convicted yeah for life too exactly so there wasn't so much of a firm conclusion for the podcast however uh what is it 23 years later where are we at right now what's the motive maybe years later 23 years later he's now 41 years old uh and Baltimore judge Melissa uh Finn ruled on this past Monday September 19th to release the now 41 year old after prosecutors filed a motion to have his sentence vacated wow so basically what
4:16 had happened this is a lot of information but just want to get it out he spent 23 years in jail on non-like conclusive evidence which is nuts what so the the crazy part of what brings him out today is not that they're sure whether or not he did or did not commit it but rather it's because uh in making the decision to release side from prison uh they relied on the extensive review of the case by prosecutors in Maryland showing among other things that authorities knew of at least two alternative suspects besides Syed in the 99 murder of haymen lay the ex-girlfriend of his but the prosecutors kept information about alternative suspects from defense attorneys wow because they're like we want an open shut case so it's on a little bit of a mild mistrial basically basically yeah I wonder who the other suspects were so
5:07 now they now have 30 days to decide whether to proceed with a new trial or drop the charges against Syed who has long maintained his innocence wow that's ████ that's interesting that while they figure that out they're letting him free yeah because it's he hasn't technically truly been convicted of the crime because the evidence is still not strong enough do you guys think he did it well now I don't as guys that you guys have already known this story pretty well does the general population think that he really did it I think it's a big split because the podcast does a good job of like being neutral side yeah playing both sides of the story because one of the main things that everybody was like this is kind of weird was obviously he was the ex-boyfriend right he's always the suspect and then they would ask him like what'd you do today and he goes I don't remember like the day that she was gone he kept saying like I don't know what I did he doesn't have like a ████ uh a
5:59 payment stub if anything you like nothing what would be the motive because he was she was dating somebody else but I think after you listen to it I remember feeling like I don't think he did it or it was more of like I don't think there's enough evidence to say that he committed this crime with with without a doubt but then when you hear that there was two other suspects that they didn't really vet out because they really want to get this kid for whatever reason because that's the easy one to do yeah then it's the eyebrow raise and then you're like dude they they could have potentially ████ up this dude's whole life just because they weren't doing their due diligence right and you hear it probably all the time so it's kind of interesting but what'd you think after you what about what about the guy that told him I helped them bury her well maybe he lied or something that that's what they kind of play him as like they kind of hype them up as like uh some dude that was not really
6:49 trustworthy kind of all over the place because they they get like character testimony from other friends and yeah people that knew them and they were all like yeah he was kind of a weird dude like I don't really know what his deal was he was kind of quiet he was like really mysterious so no one really knew what his true motives were isn't it messed up that like sometimes you could do you could definitely do something and then if you just have not have enough evidence you go free but sometimes you did do something and then if they can't convict you that sucks both ways yeah there's uh that one HBO show that's kind of similar to this the night a night of yeah where it kind of like it's kind of crazy seeing the a visual aspect of it where you're like sometimes you just do have a crazy night and I think the main part of the podcast I think in the beginning they were really like trying to uh pressure the dude like what do you mean you don't
7:39 know what happened it just sounds guilty but then if you actually like go through someone's life like sometimes there are days you're just completely blurry like dude what did I do that day you know I don't even know sometimes what happened yesterday yeah the only way I know what I did is if I look at my credit statement and go oh I bought ████ Ono Hawaiian Barbecue and that's all I know that was some real good copies and then I removed the Taste and to confirm uh Wilds pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to first degree murder but got no prison time after testifying against Syed see so that's that's you gotta raise an eye yeah I understand that so you're saying you helped kill somebody and like bury a body but then nothing happens because you're you're testifying against this guy and that's supposed to be a non's buddy he was the weed dealer I believe
8:29 the ████ he's ████ so he's got more ties to criminal activity than they need to ████ kill that ████ for ratting a more serious crime than murder that ████ man ████ a ratan what makes this case also so uh obviously it's complicated it's very torn between what people believe but I think the fact that people even have a belief Factor is a first of its kind cereal was the first of its kind for like the True Crime it's so good dude right it got like 68 million plus downloads it was the first time that like a podcast would blow to that type of proportion and it was about like something that was considered uh not an ongoing case but like it was a real life thing it's not like some dead person's story it was like this guy's sitting in jail and still continuing built this entire like public this new genre category of both entertainment and
9:19 weirdness because you're almost capitalizing off of like victims in or potential victims that are incarcerated but you know it was just a huge thing that the world just really got behind it but brought Mass attention so many eyes so many people are now scrutinizing the judicial system it was kind of a first of its kind of it was like a case study I heard that like families of the people in these podcasts really don't like it because it makes them have to relive yeah oh the Lee family has expressed somebody said that this is uh and then people are all weighing in on the murder of their loved one that's pretty ████ hard you know what on a positive though can we just celebrate the racial interracial relationship yeah you're right that's pretty cool yeah back in 1999 yeah that's that that's really hard back then yeah he was Muslim and she was Korean right yeah if you take the potential murder part out I think there's huge celebrations there yeah
10:09 yeah but we could we could probably say safely he may have not had anything to do with her murder yeah this is gonna age very badly do we feel comfortable in saying that we could say may feel comfortable I don't know as soon as I said it I was like oh I'm ready to stand this guy all right about it that is also a thing though to like maintain your innocence when you've already been cartoon for 23 years and you have life plus 30. it's not like you have the chance of parole in your head yeah you know what I mean you don't know you know within that first 14 years before the serial podcast came out you don't know that there's an end to this you're just convicted yet you maintain innocence through that entirety it sucks that we do know that detectives for the most part do go with the most efficient conviction they can get yeah they're just trying to add another score to their ████ but then also it also sucks that an ex-boyfriend killing an
11:01 ex-girlfriend because she's dating someone else is super common too most murders that's kind of all those things happen because of close people Crime of Passion yeah did anyone ask if uh since she's a Korean chick she might have deserved what happened if anyone ask that just wondering just because you know Korean chicks are kind of drama you know what I mean I don't know Jesus your honor I want you to check out exhibit a she's Korean if you ever Korean chick edit you know what I'm saying um that's how the jury got deadlocked jury's like oh my God I remember this Korean girl I dated in college whoa I had like two Korean girlfriends so I understand what what you're a great case was it difficult what happened I know I know I know what anan's going through [Laughter] why was it difficult why was it difficult yeah talk about it oh they're
11:51 just it's just they're passionate people they're just so cinematic you know cinematic and this ratio of ████ whites everything's a one shot 24 frames per second they're passionate people yeah talk some ████ back to this dude what do you think what do you think your honor I think he's completely wrong I think humans are human you have a different experience I think humans are here safe road um I just tried to take the same Pro Bart I apologize I know I should have just ended it but Anthony you had a Korean ex-girlfriend didn't you yeah that's the end of the video oh look it's 12 minutes
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