Adnan Syed Murder Case podcast is the no.1 podcast in UK, US and Australia. It has reached 5 million downloads, 1.2 million streams in iTunes and draws roughly 850,000 listeners per episode.
Why it is so controversial that it became a phenomenal podcast in history?
"Serial" focuses on Adnan Syed murder case and is a spin-off made by the producers of the infamous "This American Life."
Everyone has been talking about the podcast, a real life investigation on the murder of young high-school student, Hae Min Lee in Baltimore in the year 1999. Her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus 30 years. But the conflict remains unresolved as Syed had pleaded innocence ever since his conviction.
Millions of listeners had been hooked weekly as the episode reveals the happenings on the Adnan Syed murder case. Syed was convicted without evidence but was just sentenced to jail through the testimonies provided by Syed friend and classmate, Jay Wilds.
Did Adnan Syed murder his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee? This is the question that has been lingering on in each episode in the Adnan Syed murder case podcast. The timeline of the event in the Serial podcast reveals:
Jan. 13, 1999: Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School, Baltimore disappeared.
Feb. 9, 1999: A man who stopped his car for emergency bathroom break discovered Hae Min Lee's body in a shallow grave in Baltimore's Leakin Park.
Feb. 12, 1999: Police received anonymous call to inspect on Adnan Syed as a suspect.
Feb.18, 1999: Police tracked Syed's cell phone records and found out that he called Pusateri six times
Feb. 2, 1999: Jennifer Pusateri reports to the police that Jay Wilds confessed to her that Syed killed Hae Min Lee.
Feb.28, 1999: Adnan Syed is captured hours after Wilds showed Hae Min Lee's car to the investigators.
Sept.7, 1999: Wilds pleaded guilty to accessory to the crime.
Dec.15, 1999: Adnan Syed's first trial is announced a mistrial.
Feb. 25, 2000: Adnan Syed is charged of first degree murder.
June 6, 2000: Adnan Syed served his conviction of life plus 30 years sentence.
2003: The Adnan Syed murder case was reviewed but he remained convicted.
2012: Second review of the Adnan Syed murder case but still there was no positive evaluation for Adnan Syed.
Oct. 3, 2014: First episode of Serial was heard in the podcast.
What made people hooked into the podcast is that people became amateur investigators in resolving the Adnan Syed murder case that happened 15 years earlier. Adnan, who was only 17 that time, is a promising high school football player, outstanding student and was picked as the "Homecoming King" of Woodlawn High School.
Could Adnan Syed kill Hae Min Lee, an ex-girlfriend and classmate at Woodlawn over a new man? Parents of Syed and Lee were all shocked as they only knew their relationship at the most unexpected time.
AdnanSyed is a Pakistani while Hae Min Lee is from Korea. Both their parents reportedly disapproved of their relationship.
Today, the Adnan Syed murder case podcast has given Syed's family a new hope to finally set their son free. Have you checked the Serial, Adnan murder case podcast?
