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Our attempt to map the witness testimony & the cell phone records FROM the state’s case against Adnan Syed For the last year, I've spent every working day trying to figure out where a high school kid was for an hour after school one day in 1999-- or if you want to get technical about it, and apparently I do, where a high school kid was for 21 minutes after school one day in 1999. -sarah koenig, episode 1 SERIAL: VISUALIZED Monica, Brian, Scott, and Gregg work together at Propoint in NYC, and like you, are obsessed with Serial. Unable to keep the facts straight ourselves—let’s not even get into what are or are not the facts—we did what we do everyday at work: made things visual. This is the result.

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Our attempt to map the witness testimony & the cell

phone records FROM the state’s case against Adnan Syed

For the last year, I've spent every working day trying to figure out where a high school kid was for an hour after school one day in 1999-- or if you want to get technical about it, and apparently I do, where a high school kid was for 21 minutes after school one day in 1999.

-sarah koenig, episode 1

SERIAL: VISUALIZED

Monica, Brian, Scott, and Gregg work together at Propoint in NYC, and like you, are obsessed with Serial. Unable to keep the facts straight ourselves—let’s not even get into what are or are not the facts—we did what we do everyday at work: made things visual. This is the result.

PATAPSCOSTATE PARK

LEAKINPARK

2:45pm

3:00pm

2:36pm

1

they leave hae’s car

2

side of towerpinged

doesn’tCOINCIDEW/story

locationsequence

pathCOINCIDESW/story

# alternatepath omitted in trial

“Can we all agree that whatever happened to Hae probably didn’t involve a 2:36 p.m. call from that phone booth saying ‘Come and get me I’m at Best Buy’?”

-sarah koenig, episode 9

window of opportunity

2:15-2:36PM

adnan shows jay the body at best buy

~2:45PM

they leave hae’s car at 1-70 park & ride ~3:00PM

11

22

incoming call: come get me at best buy

2:36PM

BALTIMORE

PATAPSCOSTATE PARK

LEAKINPARK

3

2

3:00pm

3:22pm

3:15pm

3:21pm

3:32pm

-sarah koenig, episode 6

they leave hae’s car at 1-70 park & ride

~3:00PM

OUTGOING call: JENN

3:21PM

adnan & jay at the woodlawn golf course 3:22PM33

22

incoming call: ?

3:15PM

OUTGOING call: NISHA

3:32PM

“…Out of all the calls on the log, this is the one that I think of as the ‘smoking gun’ call...there are seven outgoing calls on the log, six of them are to people Jay knows, the seventh is to Nisha, someone only Adnan knew.”

BALTIMORE

side of towerpinged

doesn’tCOINCIDEW/story

locationsequence pathCOINCIDES

W/story# alternate

path omitted in trial

PATAPSCOSTATE PARK

LEAKINPARK

4B

4A

3

side of towerpinged

doesn’tCOINCIDEW/story

locationsequence pathCOINCIDES

W/story# alternate

path omitted in trial

4:45pm

4:30pm

3:22pm

adnan & jay AT the woodlawn golf course

3:22PM

INCOMING call: adnan’s mother?

4:27PM

they SMOKE AT patapsco~4:00-4:30PM

4B4B

4A4A

33

OUTGOING call: JENN

4:12PM

INCOMING call: ?

4:58PM

OUTGOING call: KRISTA

5:38PM

JAY DROPS ADNAN AT TRACK PRACTICe

~4:30-4:45PM

4:27pm

4:58pm

4:12pm

5:38pm

“This is the next stop in the itinerary to a place known as the Cliffs at Patapsco State Park... yeah, this just seems absurd. It’s three—say it’s between 3:45 and 3:50 now in their world. If I’m Adnan and I need to be seen for track [practice], I’m freaking out right now, that I need to get back for track to have an alibi.”

-sarah koenig, episode 5

BALTIMORE

PATAPSCOSTATE PARK

LEAKINPARK

5

4B

JAY PICKS UP ADNAN from TRACK PRACTICE

~5:45PM

INCOMING call: hae’s brother or aisha?

6:07PM

INCOMING call: hae’s brother or aisha?6:09PM

They arrive at “CATHY’S” HOUSE

~6:00-6:35PM

INCOMING call: officer adcock

6:24PM

6:09pm

6:07pm

6:24pm

4B4B

55

5:45pm

6:35pm

“It was about six o’clock at night. And they all three, Adnan, Jay, and Cathy, acknowledge being together at the apartment, there’s no dispute about that.”

-sarah koenig, episode 6

BALTIMORE

side of towerpinged

doesn’tCOINCIDEW/story

locationsequence pathCOINCIDES

W/story# alternate

path omitted in trial

PATAPSCOSTATE PARK

LEAKINPARK

5

6

side of towerpinged

doesn’tCOINCIDEW/story

locationsequence pathCOINCIDES

W/story# alternate

path omitted in trial

“Jay follows Adnan out, leaves his hat and smokes behind, Cathy says. They go downstairs and then, she says, they get in a car and just sit there in the car for a while.”

6:45pm

6:35pm

-sarah koenig, episode 6

BALTIMORE

they leave “CATHY’S” HOUSE

~6:35PM

they get shovels from JAY’S HOUSE

~6:45PM

55

66

PATAPSCOSTATE PARK

LEAKINPARK

2

4

6

7

8

“…Then Jay goes to McDonald’s back by school to wait for Adnan, says he’s there waiting for about 20 minutes, then they drive all around …”

-sarah koenig, episode 6

6:45pm

BALTIMORE

6:50pm

7:00pm

6:59pm

7:00pm

They leave jay’s house

~6:45PM

they pick up hae’s car at 1-70 park & ride

~6:50PM

outgoing call: yaser

~6:59PM

77

88

66

jay & adnan meet at mcdonalds

7:00PM

OUTGOING call: JENN 7:00PM

side of towerpinged

doesn’tCOINCIDEW/story

locationsequence pathCOINCIDES

W/story# alternate

path omitted in trial

PATAPSCOSTATE PARK

LEAKINPARK

9

8

7:09pm

7:16pm

BALTIMORE

7:05pm

7:00pm

“Since the range of that Leakin Park tower reaches beyond just the territory of the park, could they have been someplace else besides digging a grave in the actual park?”

-sarah koenig, episode 5

they leave mcdonalds

~7:00PM

INCOMING call: jenn

7:09PM

incoming call: ?7:16PM

88

99they arrive at leakin park to bury the body

~7:05PM

“Since the range of that Leakin Park tower reaches beyond just the territory of the park, could they have been someplace else besides digging a grave in the actual park?”

-sarah koenig, episode 5

side of towerpinged

doesn’tCOINCIDEW/story

locationsequence pathCOINCIDES

W/story# alternate

path omitted in trial

PATAPSCOSTATE PARK

LEAKINPARK

10

9

“I told them the truth, I did not show them a location that was true, no.”

-jay, episode 5

8:04pm

8:05pm

ADNAN & JAY LEAVE LEAKIN PARK

~8:00PM

OUTGOING call: JENN

8:05PM

ADNAN DROPS off jay at the mall~8:15PM

OUTGOING call: JENN

8:04PM

1010

99

8:00pm

8:15pmBALTIMORE

side of towerpinged

doesn’tCOINCIDEW/story

locationsequence pathCOINCIDES

W/story# alternate

path omitted in trial

As listeners, we’ve struggled to hold all the details of Serial and the case against Adnan Syed in our vision.

With this infographic, we set out to provide some clarity with the help of multiple listenings of the podcast

and support from the Serial website, user contributions on Reddit, our own estimations, and rudimentary math.

We hoped to get closer to some version of truth, but under scrutiny, the details themselves became

slipperier. That alone may say something. Maybe our journey here can help you with yours.

Prosecutor Casey Murphy said to the jury in her closing statement, quote: ‘The most important thing for you to remember about Jay’s testimony is that it does not stand alone. It is corroborated.’ She added, ‘The cell phone records support what those witnesses say, and the witnesses support what those cell phone records say. There’s no way around it.’

-sarah koenig, episode 5

5:38pm2:36pm