Serial - the podcast *spoilers*

So, apparently there was no recoverable/testable DNA on the skirt, pantyhose and jacket at all. There was DNA on the shoes of "multiple" individuals who did not match Syed.

I am having a really hard time understanding how that would eliminate Syed as the murderer - the shoes weren't even on her when she was buried, they were in the car. I feel increasingly out on a limb arguing with a prosecutor's decision to overturn a conviction and at the same time I am completely baffled by this and do not understand.

The ONLY way it would wind up making sense is if that DNA specifically matches one of the "alternative suspects," and that suspect wouldn't otherwise have had contact with Hae such that the DNA accidentally got on her shoes (this is trace DNA so it's like tiny amounts of skin cells). And even then, you'd need a lot more than just DNA on shoes to convict. I guess we will see if that's the case?

Meanwhile, Rabia Chaudhry is now insisting that Scott Peterson is innocent too.

I'm not following that closely, but he was released on house arrest because they realized the defense was not told about other suspects... and whatever else was wrong about that trial. Meantime, they ordered new DNA work. Now that's back and in the absence of any more evidence against him, he's not going to be tried. Right?

There's no real question of eliminating him as a suspect.

I’ve read a few articles and I’m equally kinda baffled.

Mosby is kind of a sullied prosecutor and politician here in Baltimore, she’s currently under federal indictment. Would not at all be surprised if this was a cheap ploy to drum up good will.

“We used advanced DNA to determine that it was not Adnan Syed.”

I mean, this is a Trump-level statement.

I’ve read a few articles and I’m equally kinda baffled.

Mosby is kind of a sullied prosecutor and politician here in Baltimore, she’s currently under federal indictment. Would not at all be surprised if this was a cheap ploy to drum up good will.

― circa1916, Tuesday, October 11, 2022 8:53 PM (fifty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

At first I dismissed this as conspiracy theory, but there are literally stories in the news RIGHT NOW about how her attorneys are being accused of trying to influence the jury pool.

Becky Feldman, the attorney who wrote the motion, may have been a true believer, but it reads like she watched the HBO Doc and took it as gospel. She gets significant facts blatantly wrong.

xp OK I missed them coming right out and saying that. Wow.

This feels like a Mad Lib: Serial subject Adnan Syed spent his first Thanksgiving out of prison with Young Sheldon pic.twitter.com/TlPAHIJ6HO

— Jillian Sederholm (@JillianSed) November 30, 2022