Why Is Hae Min Lee Murder

Hae Min Lee was murdered on January 13th, 1999. Her body was found in Leakin Park, MD and it was concluded to be a homicide. Adnan Syed was Hae’s boyfriend and seems to be blameless yet defensive as there is no physical evidence connecting him to her murder, meanwhile Jay has other motive to bring Adnan into the case.
Adnan and Hae dated for a while during school and Hae wrote that it was true love until Don came into the picture. Even though the two split they were still friends so everyone thought. Hae wrote many heartfelt things about Adnan in her diary even after they broke up no one said that Adnan was obsessive or mad about it. So there was no real way to tie Adnan into killing Hae until the police checked Adnan’s phone record. Where …show more content…
He said, “Ok. I’d left out, went shopping with a friend of mine, an ex-friend of mine, Adnan. We had a conversation. During the conversation he stated that he was going to kill that bitch, referring to Hae Lee. I took it with context. It didn’t stand out in my head any.” (Koenig Episode 1) Jay brought Adnan into the murder by accusing him of saying he is going to kill Hae Lee, so they investigated further. Jay also told the detective that he dropped Adnan off for class and they met up after at Jen’s …show more content…
Come get me. I’m at Best Buy.” ( Koenig Episode 1) After Jay met up with Adnan at Best Buy Adnan showed Jay Hae’s body laying in the trunk. Adnan tells him that he needs to go to track practice to make an appearance so that he doesn’t look suspicious and then later meet up to barry the body. Later on Jay then changes his story and then when the police say something to him about it he says, “Like I said, he knows I sold drugs, I mean...that was, I mean, that’s...he could get me locked up for that, I mean. I’m sure if I ratted him out for killing Hae, then he wouldn’t hesitate to turn me over for selling drugs.” (Koenig Episode 4) Jay came clean about dealing drugs to the detective and Jay doesn’t really have anything else in Adnan but his word. Adnan was a outstanding student in school, he was Prom prince his junior year, he was involved in sports, and he was very serious about his religion. There was no behavioral evidence that made anyone think that Adnan Syed would murder anyone let alone Hae Lee. In Hae’s car where Adnan supposedly had Hae’s body and that Jay supposedly witness Adnan barry her