So it's a contest now? OUR TRUE CRIME STORY IS MORE AWESOMER!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
tbf it has always been a contest
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
I was never as heavily invested in this as (many) other people were. It was just something to listen to at work on Thursday mornings. I didn't feel cheated by the ending, because I think I knew all along that no important mysteries would be solved or nagging questions would get answered. It was just a bit of storytelling.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 December 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
would be curious to read some sort of smart analysis (sociology?) of these seemingly new internet-driven hype cycles around shows like this and True Detective.
― ryan, Thursday, 18 December 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
It ended the way most people thought it would, so I can't complain too much, but it's a little frustrating how early in the episode she says "of course I have an ending!" and then ends it with the same wishy-washiness that everybody was afraid of.
My big quibble is that she ended it with the big reveal of her own personal verdict, when A) there are other people closer to the story whose perspectives/experiences/verdicts/takeaways she could have closed with and B) she's made it clear the whole series what her verdict is. She doesn't know for sure.
― Evan R, Thursday, 18 December 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
The first episode ends with that hard-earned, tragic, too-late discovery. Now that's an ending. None of the other 11 episodes were able to close with a moment like that.
― Evan R, Thursday, 18 December 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
jesus, just been reading reddit and a lot of people there are really really dumb. like absurdly. really makes me appreciate the baseline of intelligence and goodwill here.
― Brio2, Thursday, 18 December 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link
Don't read reddit.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 December 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
it's actually making me crazy. it's so cynical and weird and crazy! have to stop.
― Brio2, Thursday, 18 December 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, December 18, 2014 6:49 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
#lifehack
― carl agatha, Thursday, 18 December 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
this was a much better finale than i was expecting - it got back to the more investigative stuff that was the most enthralling in those first few episodes.
i think the point the IP lawyer was making about serial killer theory/"big picture" is that they don't necessarily believe that Hae was killed by that ronald dude, but that they needed a reason to justify further DNA testing. i think adnan is innocent, but i'd believe his guilt over a random serial killer, bc of jay's involvement.
― just1n3, Thursday, 18 December 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
series would have been all killer no filler if they'd stuck to 10 shows (maybe slightly longer episodes) and jettisoned some of the stuck in the weeds stuff of 8-11
― Brio2, Thursday, 18 December 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
yeah i think "big picture" just meant let's see what the DNA yields and start all over againbut it did come off badly in the show
― Brio2, Thursday, 18 December 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
I find the possible serial killer angle v interesting
― cardamon, Friday, 19 December 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
And there are surely ways that killer could be connected to Jay - at least if you're regularly going to the strips to buy weed you're encountering criminals and a percentage of those are going to be violent
― cardamon, Friday, 19 December 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
Yes true lot of serial killer rapists buying weed.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 December 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
Not what I said
― cardamon, Friday, 19 December 2014 00:26 (nine years ago) link
Sorry serial killer rapists just happen to be hanging around near people buying weed. Percentages.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 December 2014 00:28 (nine years ago) link
Irritated we never found out anything about Patrick and Phil.
― Edward G. Craver (fake penthouse letters mcgee), Friday, 19 December 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link
Just saying it's plausible for one criminal - yeah, in this case a serial killing rapist like the cat the innocence project dug up – to be around other criminals, due to things like prison connections, having experience and looking for work, etc, etc.
If Jay and Adnaan then go to the strip to pick up weed - something that was implied when they tracked the cellphone's location towards the end of this last episode - that provides a possible point of contact
― cardamon, Friday, 19 December 2014 00:40 (nine years ago) link
I dunno, is that such a crazy picture of how things work in Baltimore, I mean am I missing the fixed, impermeable barrier that exists between people who deal weed and people who kill people
― cardamon, Friday, 19 December 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
slippery slopes
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 December 2014 01:21 (nine years ago) link
Now that this is over, I'd kind of like to see what stuff was left out for whatever reasons. Like, I had no idea that Adnan got married and divorced while in jail until today. Not that it has any bearing on the case, but was it left out of that Adnan-in-prison segment because it made him look bad (seduction and manipulation of women from within the walls of a prison,) or because it was too difficult to deal with for no lucrative reason?
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Friday, 19 December 2014 02:04 (nine years ago) link
i think the prospect of another person having done this and employed jay to help him is ridiculous but what cardamon is saying is not that dumb. the guy wasn't just a rapist, he was a serial burglar. burglars are everywhere and almost all burglars are drug users first. it wouldn't be so laughable to think he would come across someone like that somewhere. i mean he started work at a *porn store* just after this. i just don't believe he did cross paths with that person and then agree to bury a body for him.
― kola superdeep borehole (harbl), Friday, 19 December 2014 02:13 (nine years ago) link
i missed adnan married and divorced, where did that come from?
― kola superdeep borehole (harbl), Friday, 19 December 2014 02:15 (nine years ago) link
100% of all itinerant murderers buy porn on DVD
― Gland Of Horses (sic), Friday, 19 December 2014 02:16 (nine years ago) link
murderburglarers
― Gland Of Horses (sic), Friday, 19 December 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
lol
― cardamon, Thursday, December 18, 2014 7:26 PM (1 hour ago)
― kola superdeep borehole (harbl), Friday, 19 December 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
Adnan's best friend did an AMA
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Friday, 19 December 2014 02:21 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I don't actually know what the chain of events would be w/Jay and the third party, just there's a possible connection as opposed to no possible connection
― cardamon, Friday, 19 December 2014 02:22 (nine years ago) link
the scenario would basically be a serial killer/burglar asking Jay to find him a girl to kill (but not rape, even though that's his MO) and then to make sure to ask the girl's ex-boyfriend for use of his car and phone so that incriminating evidence could be manufactured for the future framing.
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Friday, 19 December 2014 02:25 (nine years ago) link
I was thinking more along the lines of Jay ending up knowing something about the murderer, and being so afraid of telling cops what he knows, that he comes up with a way to frame adnaan or something?
― cardamon, Friday, 19 December 2014 02:26 (nine years ago) link
even in that case it's weird that Jay would just happen to have Adnan's phone and car at around the time this other dude was killing Adnan's ex
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Friday, 19 December 2014 02:28 (nine years ago) link
Yeah
The extra difficulty for me, and I don't know if any other uk ilxors found this too, is working out what people's relationships are - like what specifically does 'high school friends' or 'dating' or 'hanging out' mean in Baltimore in 1999
Is Adnaan a close friend of Jay's or more like a contact etc
― cardamon, Friday, 19 December 2014 02:30 (nine years ago) link
dating means frenching, hot tubs
― kola superdeep borehole (harbl), Friday, 19 December 2014 02:32 (nine years ago) link
+get really lucky that adnan is completely unable to muster any type of alibi. xpost
― slam dunk, Friday, 19 December 2014 02:32 (nine years ago) link
Adnan is a very smart dude and his claim of not remembering or mentally 'bookmarking' the events of that day is hugely contradictory to his character. SK does well to highlight this, and it bears a lot of repeating imo.
Anyway it's a travesty that Adnan was convicted, most of us seem to agree.
― rip van wanko, Friday, 19 December 2014 02:33 (nine years ago) link
was about to make adnaan/ariane joke remembered that ariane is a real person out there in the world
― cardamon, Friday, 19 December 2014 02:33 (nine years ago) link
xpost I would agree that if a were a juror and the defense presented a year's worth of research dedicated to knocking holes into a case the prosecution seemingly spent a couple of weeks on, then, yeah, I probably would have ad reasonable doubt.
However, even without the benefit of a 12 part prosecution-biased investigative podcast I still believe that Adnan is guilty and am glad he was convicted.
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Friday, 19 December 2014 02:43 (nine years ago) link
i forgot about adnan saying "you're pathetic" to jay as he took the stand. that was really chilling and damning to me. feels like a mask slip.
― slam dunk, Friday, 19 December 2014 02:44 (nine years ago) link
am I crazy or was SK saying that this footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OQ6Vlv9h-U
was shot the day that Hae was murdered? Surprising that no one is speculating about some camera crew guy as the real killer
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Friday, 19 December 2014 02:56 (nine years ago) link
I think it shown that day, not shot that day.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 December 2014 02:58 (nine years ago) link
The reason I mentioned relationships is like, is their friendship such that, if Adnaan frames Jay or vice versa, that's going to be difficult, or are they dispensable to each other. In other words the depth of their friendship seems like it affects the likelihood that they would frame one another
― cardamon, Friday, 19 December 2014 02:58 (nine years ago) link
Another thing is - you know how if you're innocent, but you plead guilty, you get less prison time than if you plead innocent. And therefore, why would a guilty Adnaan maintain his innocence?
That's been bugging me, but then if you're Adnaan and the community is a big part of your life, once you've admitted guilt, your reputation in that community is shot and though you might get out of prison sooner, you've basically got no life?
― cardamon, Friday, 19 December 2014 03:02 (nine years ago) link
Adnan said he wanted a plea deal but his lawyer never pursued it
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Friday, 19 December 2014 03:04 (nine years ago) link
I'm still struggling with this venn diagram of burglars, porn stores, dudes who buy weed, serial murderers, honor student lacrosse players conveniently driving up while an accessory happens to have their boyfriend's car/phone.
If someone could even come up with a semi-reasonable fantasy for why Jay would either kill Hae or assist someone else in killing Hae and then blame Adnan I'd be willing to at least consider it, but until that occurs all these "well maybes" about "serial murderers" and "lost DNA" strike me as a bit ridiculous. It's the one thing Koenig doesn't even try to explain because there is really only one credible explanation....
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 December 2014 03:10 (nine years ago) link
Two possible explanations:
1) His family and friends would be hurt.
2) His community contributed a lot of money to him and would be betrayed.
Also I think it's highly unlikely that if Adnan confessed now it would benefit him much vis-a-vis parole (given that this is 1st degree). The window for him being able to reasonably plea to a lesser sentence ended up being pretty small.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 December 2014 03:13 (nine years ago) link
Dealers on the strip need friendly faces in high schools so they can sell weed to the wealthier but more timid suburban high school kids
Adnaan and Jay get enlisted in this
Something goes wrong
???
At trial they don't mention it because that would be snitching, they could get not just sent to prison but stabbed whilst there?
― cardamon, Friday, 19 December 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
xp
I don't buy this innocent people always say they're innocent thing either sadly. Maybe I've followed too many true crime things, but it feels like there are enough people who are probably guilty who continue to say they're innocent to the bitter end (Jeffrey MacDonald springs to mind to return to Fatal Vision) that this is far from the truism the Innocence Project would have you believe.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 19 December 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link