Season 1 is an investigation into a 1999 Baltimore murder. Koenig has said that Serial is "about the basics: love and death and justice and truth. All these big, big things."[2] She also has noted, "this is not an original idea. Maybe in podcast form it is, and trying to do it as a documentary story is really, really hard. But trying to do it as a serial, this is as old as Dickens."[3] Episodes are released weekly on Thursdays.

Hae Min Lee (Hangul: 이해민) was an 18-year-old student at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore, Maryland. She was last seen at approximately 3:00 p.m. on January 13, 1999.[4] Her corpse was discovered on February 9 in Leakin Park and identified two days later. The case was immediately treated as a homicide.[5] Lee's ex-boyfriend, Adnan Masud Syed, was arrested on February 28 at 6 a.m. and charged with first-degree murder, which led to "some closure and some peace" for Lee's family.[6] A memorial service for Lee was held on March 11 at Woodlawn High School.[7] After a six-week trial, which was the second trial, Syed was found guilty of Lee's murder on February 25, 2000[8] and given a life sentence, despite pleading his innocence.[9] Syed did not speak in front of the jury.

I listened to the first episode - have to get around to the second.

And I do believe something like this could change things - I believe Adnan has filed a court motion.