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‘Serial’ witness provides crucial alibi for convicted murderer

By Tony Tran

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Crucial witness for the convicted murderer in the ‘Serial’ case comes forward with alibi.

The story of everyone’s favorite podcast-to-binge-listen never seems to end. Not for the fans of the show — some of whom take their amateur sleuthing to obsessive levels — and especially not for all the lives of those involved with the tragedy. As with each of the episodes, twists and turns to the story of Adnan Syed and the death of Hae Min Lee seem to crop up every day.

Take this one for example.

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One of the biggest turns in the first season of “Serial” occurred early in the podcast regarding the Asia Letters. Listeners will recall that in 1999, Asia McClain — fellow student of Adnan and Hae Min at Woodlawn High School — swore in an affidavit that she was with Adnan in a library at the time he was supposedly murdering his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. But then, in a twist, McClain went on to recant her testimony, telling the prosecutor that she made the affidavit after the Syed family pressured her to.

Now, almost 16 years later, the story has been complicated even further: in an interview with The Blaze, McClain says she never recanted her testimony nor did she say that she was pressured into giving Adnan the alibi. She says,

"“I did not write the March 1999 letters or the affidavit because of pressure from Syed’s family. I did not write them to please Syed’s family or to get them off my back. What actually happened is that I wrote the affidavit because I wanted to provide the truth about what I remembered. My only My only goal has always been to provide the truth about what I remembered.”"

She also describes the prosecution calling her and dissuading her from testifying.

When reached out for comment, the prosecutor Kevin Urick, asserts that her new testimony is “absolutely false.”

“She definitely told me that she wrote what she wrote, was to appease the family, to get them off her back,” Urick said. “[T]hat’s what I recall, the gist of the conversation, that she wrote something to get the family off her back, which can be interpreted that she was getting pressure.”

If what she is now saying is true then fate could tip in the favor of Adnan as his appeal approaches. For now, the now married Asia McClain seems to want to make things right, to have her story heard, and put to rest a nearly 16-year-old mystery whose truth may never see the light of day.

“I want people to understand as it pertains to my involvement in this case, that it is as simple as it can be. You see something, you say something.”

[H/T: Vulture, The Blaze]

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