A detective testifies Jay told him he first saw Hae's body on Franklintown Road. In another interview with police he tells them it was at a Best Buy. In one interview with police he tells them Adnan showed him Hae's body on Edmonson Avenue. The details of his story changed on each telling. The problem is that Jay was, well, a bit of a liar. There was only Jay's testimony - which seemed, at least in the prosecution's telling, to be backed up by cell phone records. There wasn't any physical evidence linking Adnan to the crime. He claims Adnan strangled Hae, showed Jay the body and made Jay help bury Hae's body. The case came down to the testimony of Jay, who claimed Adnan told him he was going to kill Hae, Adnan's former girlfriend. If that paragraph doesn't make much sense to you, then you probably haven't been following Serial, the wildly successful podcast in which Sarah Koenig reopens and reinvestigates the 1999 Baltimore murder case that put Adnan, who was then 17 years old, behind bars for the rest of his life. And while the story he told the Intercept's Natasha Vargas-Cooper is more believable than the one he told the police or Adnan Syed's juries, it also makes Jay, as a witness, less credible - and thus it makes the case against Adnan much weaker. We've finally heard from Jay Wilds, the key witness in the murder of Hae Min Lee.
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