Not to mention he is the only person to admit to burying Hae.After spending hours and hours over on Jackie Kashians entertaining The Dork Forest, I decided to branch out.About a year ago, in fact, the very night before I moved to Delware, Id listened to an interview on Geeks Guide To The Galaxy with Cecil Palmer, who serves as the central narrator of the radio play style podcast Welcome to Night Vale.
I started listening, but I was a little aggravated by the format, I was hoping for something closer to an actual radio play, whereas Welcome to Night Vale is mostly told via a single character speaking through the towns radio news broadcast. Occasionally there are other characters speaking, and it seems like most often they happen during the live episodes, but for the most part its just Cecil speaking, and there isnt really a concrete narrative, mostly just endless descriptions of the town in Lovecraftian detail. Its actually really cool, I dont mean to sound down on it, but I was getting frustrated because I wanted something with a genuine narrative. I knew absolutely nothing about Serial other than that it was an incredibly popular podcast. I had no idea what the show was about, and I actually assumed it was something more like Welcome To Night Vale of Thrilling Adventure Hour, so when I started the show I assumed it was fictional. It turned out to be entirely non-fiction, and is the story of the murder of a teenage girl in 1999, and one reporters efforts to truly understand everything that happened, and whether or not the man convicted of her murder was truly guilty. The following paragraphs are adapted from some comments I made in a Facebook discussion about the show. He was, in any version of events, the one helping to put her body in the ground. Then, you add in the fact that he cannot keep his story straight, even after all this time. Even after Serial he came forward with yet ANOTHER version of events. That whole incident where he wanted to stab his friend just for fun, that doesnt seem like just random playing around to me. His answers to the questions change so constantly that no one actually knows what his story is, there are five versions and counting. When Sarah spoke to him, he seemed defeated, exhausted, destroyed. I know nothing about law but that was clearly a conflict of interest on some level and i dont understand how the case wasnt thrown out on that alone. With the Nisha call, it seems to me that Jay could have called her by accident, freaked out and then pretended to be Adnan, Jay on the phone, and then spoken as himself for the rest of the call. Then you have Jays incredible paranoia in the porn store after the murder happened, thinking people were out to get him. Who was he afraid of The state seemed to be creepily involved with him in a variety of ways. The investigators were given incredibly inaccurate information about Muslim culture and the prosecution used both the ignorance and prejudice against Muslim culture to paint a picture of Adnan as an angry Muslim killing the woman who slighted him in some kind of archaic honor killing. Sure, Asia seems to be a little shady, and the fact that she refused to come forward until the podcast became incredibly popular and then wrote an entire book about the case makes her seem like a fame-seeker who just wants to milk some money and popularity out of the resurgence of interest in Adnans case. And sure, Adnan cant say anything incredibly convincing about what he was doing the day of the murder. Somehow he was the prosecutions star witness, when he is the fulcrum on which the entire case turns and he cant be counted on to keep a single detail straight.
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