![]() ![]() It could be me-someone who knows Adnan, knows the lawyers, knows Sarah Koenig, knows more about the story than anyone could know, and who also is very concerned about protecting Adnan’s interest. She told me that somebody was eventually going to write the book. I’m not comfortable with that.” But then she raised an excellent point. So when the agent contacted me, I said, “Absolutely not. And she had given me an electronic copy once, but for me to have my daily full-time job, plus my family, plus a blog-I didn’t have the time to go through the documents. They had gone from Adnan’s home to Sarah Koenig. ![]() The case documents-I hadn’t seen them in many, many years. I didn’t know the case as well as I needed to, even at that point. I’ve always wanted to write a novel.” And she said, “No, I mean about Adnan’s case.” There was a literary agent who read my blog and had seen my other writing and said, “You should consider writing a book.” And I said, “Oh, that would be great. And I had been writing for many years for different outlets and across a spectrum of issues-a lot of political issues and issues around bigotry and civil rights. When Serial was airing I was blogging every week in response to it. RC: Actually, it started before the Undisclosed podcast even began. IB: Knowing all of the information that was out there-with Serial, with your podcast Undisclosed and your blog-what then spurred the book? And it’s crazy that it would take so much media and so many resources and investigators to correct something like this. It’s ridiculous that it would take this long. I thought: “The Maryland judiciary system knows-everybody knows-what she went through and how that must have affected her clients.” There was a part of me that thought, “How could those cases that she had in her last couple of years not be given a little more attention to see what really went wrong?”īut I never imagined that it would be like this. Especially after Cristina Gutierrez (Adnan’s trial attorney) was disbarred and became ill. I really had a lot of confidence in the system-that there had been a tremendous mistake. The thing that I hoped to do, after the conviction especially, was help the family select good attorneys. I had no experience in criminal law-not then, not even now really. Did you ever think, back in 2000 when he was convicted, that you would eventually play such an important role in his case? Innocence Blog: You have been an incredible champion for Adnan. The book also includes written recollections and insights from Syed himself.Įarlier this week, Chaudry spoke with the Innocence Blog about her reasons for writing the book and how Serial got some of the story wrong. In response, she’s released Adnan’s Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial, her new book which delves into important case details not covered in Serial. The series-downloaded 100 million times-put Adnan Syed, the young man convicted of the 1999 murder, in the spotlight, and highlighted aspects of the investigation that Syed’s supporters, including Chaudry, say reveal his innocence.īut Chaudry says that Serial didn’t tell the whole story. The result was Serial, one of the most successful podcast ever produced. In 2014, attorney and writer Rabia Chaudry contacted producer Sarah Koenig at This American Life to pitch a story about the 1999 murder case of Maryland teenager Hae Min Lee. ![]()
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