If you were gripped by the hit podcast, it’s an awful shock to see Hae Min Lee brought to life, and even see her body after death. But this documentary should have let her lie
‘Do love and remember me for ever,” Hae Min Lee writes in her diary. Hers is a grim fame. In early 1999, Lee was strangled and buried in a shallow grave in Baltimore. Two decades later, she continues to be the subject of what has become a true-crime franchise, brought to the world’s attention by the success of the podcast Serial. The Case Against Adnan Syed (Sky Atlantic) is the latest instalment in the story of her murder. Syed was a teenager when he was convicted of the murder of his ex-girlfriend in 2000, although he has always said he is innocent.
Has The Case Against Adnan Syed got any more to add? Its makers say it does, “presenting new discoveries as well as groundbreaking revelations that challenge the state’s case”. But those are promised later in this four-part series. Much of the first episode, rightly, is focused on the young woman who has seemed incidental in the attempt to discover whether or not Syed has been the victim of a terrible miscarriage of justice.
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