In 1999, Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Maryland, went missing. When her body was found a month later, Adnan Syed, her ex-boyfriend, was arrested and convicted of strangling her.

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Adnan Syed's case earned worldwide attention when it was taken up by 'Serial,' a weekly podcast that saw a US journalist revisit his conviction and cast doubt on his ...