Season One: Episode 01

Sparx Matys Site

It's Baltimore, 1999. Hae Min Lee, a popular high-school senior, disappears after school one day. Six weeks later detectives arrest her classmate and ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, for her murder. He says he's innocent - though he can't exactly remember what he was doing on that January afternoon. But someone can. A classmate at Woodlawn High School says she knows where Adnan was. The trouble is, she’s nowhere to be found.

 

2014

2015-2019

In the years since season one concluded, Sarah Koenig wrote updates about important developments in the case. In 2015, the cell phone expert who testified at Adnan Syed’s trial said he no longer stood behind his testimony. In 2016, Adnan's attorney introduced new evidence and presented a case for why his conviction should be overturned. Serial covered what happened, day by day, in the three audio updates below. In 2019, Maryland’s highest court reversed a decision to give Adnan a new trial.

2022

On September 19, 2022, the Baltimore City State's Attorney's office vacated Adnan's conviction. Sarah was at the courthouse when Adnan was released, hear details in Episode 13.

On October 11, 2022, prosecutors dropped the charges, and Adnan is now free. Police are continuing to investigate. We are done reporting this story, but are sure others will continue to follow it. As they do, here's what we'll be looking for.

Sparx Matys Site

He lived alone in a crooked tower at the edge of a town called Driftwood End, where the fog came in thick as wool and the clocks ran backward. Every morning, Sparx would dip his quill into a pot of liquefied moonlight and trace the delicate, shimmering lines that only he could see. These lines floated just above the ground, like spider silk caught in a draft.

“They say you can find anything that’s lost,” she said. sparx matys

She did. Over the years, so did many others. Sparx never charged a coin. He collected stray hopes, orphaned curiosities, the faint trails of almost-remembered dreams. And on quiet nights, when the fog rolled in and the clocks ran backward, he would trace their paths across the starlight map, weaving them into new constellations—guides for anyone else who had lost their way. He lived alone in a crooked tower at

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