Is anyone else listening to this? What do you think?
If you haven’t heard of it, it’s by the same crew behind This American Life. In it, Sarah Koenig recounts her reporting on a 1999 Baltimore homicide, bringing listeners along as she investigates what happened. Here’s how they describe the first season:
On January 13, 1999, a girl named Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland, disappeared. A month later, her body turned up in a city park. She’d been strangled. Her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. The case against him was largely based on the story of one witness, Adnan’s friend Jay, who testified that he helped Adnan bury Hae’s body. But Adnan has always maintained he had nothing to do with Hae’s death. Some people believe he’s telling the truth. Many others don’t.
I’m really enjoying how they are opening up the reporting process in each of the episodes. She brings the audience along, step by step, which I don’t think reporters often get the chance to do.
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