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[quote=Anonymous]One thing that I think was interesting about the HBO series is how it made some things a lot clearer than the podcast did.

For example, Detective Massey notes that someone made an anonymous tip about Adnan. In the podcast, that person is described as "an Asian male" and it is vague whether the person is assumed to be South Asian (e.g., Pakistani, someone in Adnan's community) or East Asian (e.g., Korean, someone in Hae's community). In the HBO series, Detective Massey makes it clear that the anonymous tipster was a young Korean male.

Obviously more will be revealed in coming episodes, but in my listening to the podcast and the episodes of Undisclosed that I listened to (not all of them), I find the following things suspicious:

1) Ex-boyfriend as primary suspect, current boyfriend barely investigated
2) Jay's story changing multiple times in multiple ways
3) Fairly blatant racial focus by prosecution (e.g., denial of bail) 
4) Obvious failure of defense counsel to investigate alibi witness for Adnan

I also think that most of the state's case hung on technological evidence that was nowhere near ready for prime time. There was no physical evidence linking Adnan to the crime or the disposal of the body other than his cell phone being generally tracked to the general area where the body was found. The entirety of the state's case falls on the shoulders of Jay's testimony, and Jay's testimony was different every time he gave it.[/quote]

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