His ability to accept and understand his fate despite his perceived innocence is a marker to me of a rational and sound mind which compel me to trust him. Adnan also talks about his understanding of the legal system and is accepting of his sentence. He doesn’t sound angry, nervous, or bitter, which are traits I would equate with untrustworthiness. When I listen to the snippets of conversation between Adnan and Sarah discussing the murder, his voice is consistently calm and confident. When examining Adnan’s character, my first instinct is to look for clues that indicate the level of trust I can have in his testimony. After listening to five episodes of the podcast, I believe Adnan does not possess the character I would associate with a murderer. Adnan’s character is examined because he is serving a life sentence in prison for murder, yet there are many people, including Adnan himself, that insist he is innocent. The narrator of the podcast and its creator is journalist and radio show producer Sarah Koenig, who gives an account of the details of Adnan’s case as she uncovers them in real time each week. The interview comes after writer Kelly Oxford tweeted a Facebook post, apparently from Wilds, in which he stated he was willing to participate in one interview.The main character in the Serial podcast is Adnan Syed who has served 16 years of a life sentence in the state of Maryland for murdering his ex-girlfriend back in 1999. Getting them in trouble for anything that they knew or that I had told them - I couldn’t have that.” People had lives and were trying to get into college and stuff like that. No - until they told me they weren’t trying to prosecute me for selling weed, or trying to get any of my friends in trouble. “They had to chase me around before they could corner me to talk to me, and there came a point where I was just sick of talking to them,” he said. He also spoke about why he cooperated with the police after initially refusing to, saying that he was worried about criminal consequences for selling marijuana, and that he was concerned because Baltimore was notorious as a place where people who informed could be subject to retribution. I was also around a bunch of people earlier the day, and I didn’t want them to get fucked up with homicide.” “I was also running operations from my grandmother’s house. “At the time I was convinced that I would be going to jail for a long time if he turned me in for drug dealing, especially to high school kids,” he said.
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In the interview – the first of a multi-part series – Wilds talks about the first time he met Syed, and why he agreed to help him bury Lee’s body.
I remember the highway traffic to my right, and I remember standing there on the curb.
I know it didn’t happen anywhere other than my grandmother’s house.
“I believe I told them it was in front of ‘Cathy’s house, but it was in front of my grandmother’s house. “I didn’t tell the cops it was in front of my house because I didn’t want to involve my grandmother,” he said. But when asked about it by The Intercept, he said he first saw it in front of his grandmother’s house. On taped interviews with police used in the podcast he stated that he first saw the body in the car park of a Best Buy. Wilds, who was the prosecution’s main witness, has changed elements of his story – including where he first saw Lee’s body.