Jay's Day Case Study

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Jay’s Day
January 13th, 1999-the day Hae Min Lee went missing, and the start of The State vs. Adnan Syed. On this Wednesday afternoon Hae’s family reported her missing after failing to pick up her younger cousin from school at around 3:15 p.m. Immediately, police turned to a young man, Adnan Syed, Hae’s ex boyfriend. Unfortunately for Adnan he seemed to be the only person connected to Hae that was unaccounted for during the 21 minutes after school. Although fingers are still pointed at Adnan, there is one man who seems to know more than anyone about the day Hae Min Lee died. This man’s name is Jay Wilds. Jay is not a friend of Adnan’s, but an acquaintance. Jay and Adnan only smoked weed together and were close to Stephanie, Jay’s girlfriend. …show more content…
Jay states he knows exactly what happened the day Hae Min Lee went missing yet he continues to share false information. Jay’s reports do not add up to his previous statements and the statements made by other people involved in the case. As reported by Rabia Chaudry in Undisclosed episode 11: Jay’s Day, she affirms the amount of inconsistencies Jay had “The problem with telling the story about Jay’s day is that Jay has given a minimum of seven different stories about what happened on January 13th: four police interviews, two trial testimonies, and most recently, an interview he gave to The Intercept” (Chaudry). Some examples of the inconsistent statements Jay has are explored in the Serial podcast, episode four. Jay changes his stories from interview to the next. During one version of Jay’s stories he states that he helped Adnan bury Hae. In another interview Jay tells that he only dropped Adnan off to bury Hae (Koenig). People do not just forget if they buried a human being. He should be consistent on this factor. This statement by Jay makes him seem …show more content…
‘So, the fact that you're giving me something that's inconsistent, that doesn't fit my theory of the case.’ What does verification bias cause you to do? Ignore it and push it to the side. That's what they're doing here, with these inconsistencies, they're kind of pushing them aside” (Trainum). This idea has to make people uneasy. How could a cop disregard information that is probably not true and use it against another person. Sarah Koenig shares further information that the cops did not even take into action to search Jay’s house, or give him a
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