https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/07/prosecutor-serial-case-goes-record/
― man alive, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:49 (nine years ago) link
Unsatisfying on some points, but illuminating on others, especially the point about cell tower tech being different at the time.
― man alive, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
Well, there is a major problem with that explanation, which is that the only phonecall that ties Adnan to Leakin park, a phonecall to Yaser, actually pings at Woodlawn. So if cellphonetech is as he says it was, then Adnan never provably called or was called from Leakin park. And Urick really, really keeps going on at that point, that Adnan called or was called from Leakin, and that that is a fact, but it was never proven as such. Adnan just didn't dispute that he thought he had his phone on him.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link
Right, that was sort of the main problem I had with the interview, the way he sidesteps the whole "what if Adnan wasn't with the phone when it was in Leakin' Park?" question.
― man alive, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
Took another look at Jays new story, and another look at the cellphone records, and obviously we all know they would not add up perfectly, but... It's a shambles.For example, there isn't a single call to Jays house, not a one. So how did Adnan get Jay to meet outside his grandmas? It's such weird journalism from the intercept. Going 'Exclusive: Jay tells his story' and then just letting him tell a new story that doesn't square with anything, and at no point going 'well, could not have been midnight, don't you just mean after dark?'
Letting Jay tell a new story which can't be true, and letting Urich repeatedly say something that doesn't hold up either. But then they also presenting it as if they are really proving that Serial didn't do their jobs. But if Serial was bad journalism then TheIntercept is...
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
For example, there isn't a single call to Jays house, not a one. So how did Adnan get Jay to meet outside his grandmas?
This isn't really that hard to explain though, e.g. he might have known that Jay was likely to be at his grandma's at that time, because he usually was, or because they had discussed it earlier. It was where he was living and where he ran his dealing operation out of.
― man alive, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
Also why would there be a call to Jay's (grandmother's) house from the cell phone arranging for Adnan to meet Jay there if Jay was the one who had the cell phone at the time, or am I misunderstanding your point?
― man alive, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
Well, it's what Jay says. Jay says Adnan called him at home, and asked him to come outside. But there is no call like that. It was just an example. There are a myriad ways how it doesn't fit with the timeline.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
The thing supposedly took place between Cathy's and Leakin Park, which is a 45 min window with a few other calls being made in a completely different place.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
Has the 6:24 incoming call been clearly identified? Maybe, just for example, the 6:24 call is Jay calling Adnan's cell from Jay's (grandma's) house when Adnan has the phone -- it's a 4+ min call, maybe they're talking for a bit on the phone, then when Adnan gets close by he says "come outside.'
― man alive, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
But the problem with that kind of analysis is that it hinges on someone's memory, 15 years later, of the more minor details of a story that anyone could get wrong, let alone someone stoned.
― man alive, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:53 (nine years ago) link
Which is why I don't put too much stock in the mere fact that there are "inconsistencies" in his testimony.
I thought that there are two outgoing calls, one to Jenn and one to Yaser immediately prior to the two Leakin Park incoming pings. I guess it's "possible" that Jay took the phone and ran off with it to Leakin Park and then gave it back to Adnan before 9pm, but I'd say it's pretty strong evidence that the phone was with both of them.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:00 (nine years ago) link
The 6:24 call pings at Cathy's. Don't think Adnan can get to Jay from Cathy in four minutes. And yeah, there are two outgoing calls right before Leakin Park, as in, only ten minutes before, but problem is they don't ping from Leakin Park, but from the mosque. So they hardly prove that Adnan called anyone from Leakin Park.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
Btw, this: http://viewfromll2.com/2014/12/13/serial-why-the-nisha-call-shows-that-hae-was-murdered-at-332-p-m/ Apparanlty, buttdials ocures with some frequency during violent attacks... The writer is a bit disengenous, as he claims he isn't making a statement on WHO had the phone, just that the guy with the phone probably murdered Hae during the Nisha call. Seeing as the phone called Jenn ten minutes before, though, it's a pretty speculative attack on Jay.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:08 (nine years ago) link
Which tower is the mosque? I don't see it on the maphttp://serialpodcast.org/maps/cell-tower-map
― man alive, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
"So they hardly prove that Adnan called anyone from Leakin Park."
They indicate he had the phone 10 minutes prior and that Jay was likely with the phone as well 10 minutes prior.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
― Frederik B, Wednesday, January 7, 2015 5:08 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this makes a lot of pretty big leaps
― man alive, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link
It definitely does. But something weird happened with that call.
The mosque as apparantly L651, same as Adnan, Best Buy and Woodlawn.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:26 (nine years ago) link
― Frederik B, Wednesday, January 7, 2015 5:05 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
BTW not sure this is right either, the 6:24 call doesn't ping from the tower closest to Cathy's on the map, nor does the 6:09 call, only the 6:07 call does.
― man alive, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:27 (nine years ago) link
But something weird happened with that call.
But even proving that the call was a butt dial wouldn't be proof of anything else, it would just take away the "Nisha call" theory.
― man alive, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link
Well, true that. But everyone has said there were multiple calls at Cathy's, so it seems more likely that the place is covered by two towers?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
x-post, that. And you're of course right on in you're post right above me, man alive.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:31 (nine years ago) link
lord of the pings: the two towers
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link
lol
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
BTW who were "Phil" and "Patrick" again?
― man alive, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:45 (nine years ago) link
the 3:48 and 3:59 calls
Patrick is a friend of Jays. He claimed it was his weed-dealer. Phil, dunno. Anyone else know?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:47 (nine years ago) link
Starting to go down the rabbit hole now, but is there any way Adnan had the cell at 3:21 and made the "come get me" call to Jay on Jenn's home # at that time?
― man alive, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:53 (nine years ago) link
I guess that would contradict the whole "it was definitely after 3:30" thing though
― man alive, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:55 (nine years ago) link
I've thought about that as well, but then everybodys story is so weird, because why would everyone say Adnan borrowed out his phone? Also, earlier outgoing call at 12:41 is also to Jenn.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:57 (nine years ago) link
wasn't the phil the coworker from the video store?
― just1n3, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 23:00 (nine years ago) link
Well, Jay didn't work there at the time, so that would be weird?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 23:02 (nine years ago) link
Maybe Phil got him the job at the store. I actually think the guy SK interviewed in ep. 12 though was named Josh.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 23:29 (nine years ago) link
yeah I think you're right
― man alive, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link
about it being josh
I don't recall if it was his real name though. Maybe it was a pseudonym for "Phil".
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 23:33 (nine years ago) link
i can't find any info on who phil is.
― just1n3, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 23:36 (nine years ago) link
but josh IS the coworker dude
― just1n3, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 23:37 (nine years ago) link
He has to be a friend of Jays, since everyone agrees that Nisha is the only call to someone only Adnan knew. Could be a friend of both.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 23:41 (nine years ago) link
I've been pretty critical of Serial, but these Intercept interviews are awful.
And all she had to do is put the tough questions raised in Serial to these guys - the hard work is already done.
― Brio2, Thursday, 8 January 2015 00:06 (nine years ago) link
haha it says pubic library
― kola superdeep borehole (harbl), Thursday, 8 January 2015 00:15 (nine years ago) link
I'd say dude caught curating a pubic library prbly did it
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 January 2015 00:50 (nine years ago) link
This is the case that'll never stop being litigated.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 8 January 2015 01:33 (nine years ago) link
On message boards.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 8 January 2015 01:40 (nine years ago) link
That 80 alibi witnesses who go poof is pretty interesting. Pretty clear why they didn't focus on Adnan's non-alibi in that light. Also odd that it's not brought up by Serial to my recollection.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 8 January 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
Well, probably, none of the alibis were bulletproof, and they were all dropped? I think Adnans dad testified that he was at mosque, and one other guy said the same at grand jury trial. Also, honestly I find it really really weird that it's TheIntercept themselves that presents that evidence. Where did they get that from? And if they know that, why don't they know that the cellphonerecords actually doesn't do what Urick says they do?
Also, Urick says that Jay stated that he got a call 'around 2:45', which Jay never did. He always said 3:45, though that is demonstrably untrue, and prosecution ignored it as well.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 8 January 2015 02:21 (nine years ago) link
The Intercept interviewer, Natasha Vargas-Cooper, didn't actually follow Serial, but got offered an interview with Jay through someone who know him. She listened to the podcast over 'a few days' and got involved because she 'saw some really huge… I mean just some stuff that I was like – I mean problems, and I don’t mean that necessarily in the ethical sense but it was like …' I think we know why these interviews are so poorly researched.
http://observer.com/2014/12/heres-how-the-intercept-landed-serials-star-witness-for-his-first-interview/#ixzz3OBRTP490)
― Frederik B, Thursday, 8 January 2015 02:34 (nine years ago) link
"Where did they get that from?"
Well they have a link to the document signed by the attorney so they clearly got it.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 8 January 2015 02:46 (nine years ago) link
"Well, probably, none of the alibis were bulletproof, and they were all dropped?"
More like they were bullshit. Did you read doc? It's basically patently untrue.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 8 January 2015 02:47 (nine years ago) link