What Animal Does Sarah Koenig Say Adnan's Eyes Remind Her Of?

There is one part of Jay's story that has been bugging me for a while now. Jay claimed in his first constabulary interview that, after dropping Adnan off at runway, he went home to wait for Adnan to telephone call to pick him up once practise was over. In Jay'south second police interview, withal, and in his testimony at the commencement trial, his story changes. Jay claims that later on dropping Adnan off at track practice, he went to Cathy's house, where he hung out with Cathy and Jeff for half an hour or and then, until Adnan called him to ask to be picked up.

Only this story is apparently a lie. Moreover, information technology is an incredibly dumb prevarication, because it is easily (and thoroughly) contradicted by Cathy, who is a reliable and credible-seeming witness. Co-ordinate to Cathy, she got home effectually 5pm that day, and a picayune while later, Jay and Adnan showed up together. There is no mention any of Jay making a previous trip to visit her, while Adnan was at rail, and in fact, co-ordinate to Cathy's timeline, it would have been impossible for Jay'southward "first" trip to her flat to always have occurred. Even worse, it does not match the cellphone records. There is no way that Jay could take fabricated a trip to Cathy'southward after dropping Adnan off at track, not if the cellphone records (or the laws of space-fourth dimension continuum) take even a shred of meaning.

So this bewitched me. A lot. It was a lie that had no credible explanation, and that made Jay's story even more impossible and absurd than it already was. Virtually of Jay'south weird timeline-based lies have obvious explanations for how they evolved, simply this one didn't.

For background purposes, hither is what Jay said during his starting time interview:

Ritz: What happens after you drop him off at school, is in that location come up a point in time when you lot become back to school and pick him up?
Jay: Yeah, uh huh.
Ritz: How do yous know what fourth dimension to get back to schoolhouse?
Jay: He chosen me on the cell phone.
Ritz: Do y'all call back what fourth dimension he chosen you?
Jay: Um maybe like six forty-5, something like that.
Ritz: When he calls you at vi xl-5, where exactly are you?
Jay: Ah I think I was at my firm.
Ritz: You're at home?
Jay: Yes.
Ritz: Y'all leave home, y'all go dorsum over to school to choice him upward?
Jay: Uh-huh. (Int.1 at 11-12.)

And hither is what Jay said in the 2d:

Ritz: Were did you drop him off at schoolhouse?
Jay: In the front.
Ritz: Were do yous go?
Jay: I go, I was on my mode home, but then I stopped off at G[i]lston Park and ah, ah, I smoked another blunt earlier I went home. And then, I, I think I may have, may take gone yeah, I went to Cathy and Jeff'south. And [Adnan] chosen me from the prison cell phone in that location and then I left Cathy's and Jeff'due south to hang out. (Int.2 at twenty-21.)

And here is why the lie virtually Cathy's apartment makes no sense: Jay'south argument in the commencement interview matches the location data from the cellphone records, while Jay's statement in the second interview does not. It is generally accustomed that Adnan's call for a pickup from track practice occurred at 4:58 p.chiliad., and this call pings L654C — which would exist completely consistent with Jay being at his house (well, i of his houses, anyway) at the time of that call:

iv:27 and iv:58 calls ping L654C.

Every bit you can see, Jay's house is hands in range of L654C. Cathy's apartment, on the other hand, is admittedly not.

Yet in betwixt the first interview and the second, Jay changed his story — despite the fact that Jay'south claim from his first interview, in which he said that he was at his house when Adnan called him to exist picked up from track, is one of the only times that he actually managed to tell a story that matched the location data (even if his timing was well-nigh two hours off). So why, and then, did Jay change his story in the 2nd interview, to tell a version of events that was fifty-fifty more than demonstrably fake than his first story, and even more in conflict with the location data from the cellphone records?

Considering the police told him to, that's why. The constabulary falsely believed that L654 was located three farther miles s than it really was, and and so they fabricated Jay change his story to match their wrong location data.

To understand what happened, nosotros demand to support a fleck and examine what the investigators were doing before and afterwards Jay'south first and second interviews. At the time of the first interview, the detectives definitely had two things: (1) a list of the calls fabricated on January xiii, 1999 and the towers they pinged; and (2) a listing of the jail cell towers and the addresses where they were located. Both documents had been faxed over to the detectives by AT&T on Feb 22, 1999 (as shown by the header data). From comparing the two lists, one thing would have stood out to them: at that place is 1 tower located in the middle of Leakin Park, and that tower is pinged at seven:09 and seven:16 pm. Ergo, they conclude, the burial occurred at seven:09 or 7:xvi pm.

So they went in and interviewed Jenn and Jay, and get statements that friction match the testify they already have. In order to farther investigate Jenn's and Jay's stories (every bit well as Adnan's), they requested a map of the cell tower locations, in lodge to assist them in visualizing where the various calls are pinging at the various times. Detective Ritz sent a note stating that he was going to "have an engineer prepare a map on a diagram of the calls outgoing and incoming from the cell locations. This would aid[ ] corroborate information provided to us by witnesses and discredit the suspect'due south alibi."

Pursuant to Ritz's directives, someone so prepared a map charting out all of the towers that Adnan's cellphone had pinged on the day of Hae'due south death. Once it came back, still, the detectives realize they have a big problem with Jay's story — considering information technology makes a mockery of what the map was showing them.

Just whoever fabricated the detectives' map made an fault. They put tower L654 in the wrong place.

It was an understandable mistake, really. You see, L654 is located at 824 Dorchester Rd., Catonsville, at the southeast corner of 40 and 695, directly south of Westview Mall. You can encounter how the address was provided on the tower location records faxed over past AT&T:

Only, as it turns out, at that place are two locations in western Baltimore with the address of 824 Dorchester Road. There is an 824 Dorchester Rd, Catonsville, Maryland 21228 (where L654 is actually located) and an 824 Dorchester Rd, Baltimore, Maryland 21229 (three miles to the southward of the tower's actual location).

The result of these confusing street names is that the cell tower map that was provided to Detective Ritz mistakenly placed L654 at the 824 Dorchester Rd located in Baltimore, non the 1 located in Catonsville, every bit shown below:

Most of the towers shown are placed correctly; towers L655 (circled in light-green), L653 (in blueish), L607 (in dark-brown), and L608 (in pink) are all roughly in the right spots. Merely L654 (in the xanthous rectangle) is non. It should be where the xanthous ellipse has been placed, n of L655, not in between L655 and L608.

Why does all this matter? Because the faux L654 on the detectives' map is located directly adjacent to Cathy'south apartment:

And then going into Jay'due south second interview, on March 15, 1999, Detectives Ritz and MacGillivary were armed with an incorrect cell tower map which falsely told them that L654 was located almost directly on peak of Cathy'south apartment. L654 was pinged by Adnan'due south cellphone exactly twice on the day of Hae's death, by two incoming calls at 4:27 and 4:58 pm. This must accept meant — according to the detectives' inaccurate map — that Jay was somewhere close to UMBC at those times, which is the presumed range of (false) L654. And what else is well-nigh UMBC?

Cathy's apartment. Which is why the detectives told Jay that he needed to tell a story explaining why the iv:27 and iv:58 calls pinged a tower that was (allegedly) next to Cathy'due south apartment. Jay happily obliged the detectives:

And and then, I, I think I may take, may have gone yeah, I went to Cathy and Jeff'southward. And [Adnan] called me from the cell phone there and then I left Cathy's and Jeff'south to hang out. (Int.2 at 20-21.)

And there it is. Proof that the detectives coached Jay'due south story to make information technology fit the location data from Adnan'south cellphone.

Because at that place was no reason any for Jay to tell this lie, other than that the detectives told him to. Jay's story needed to modify in order to conform to their imitation maps, and also to their false behavior about what happened on January thirteen, 1999. And when the cops informed Jay that the tower data said he was at Cathy's at 4:27 and iv:58 pm, Jay conformed to the detectives' request, spouting out a story that he had to have known was impossible nonsense, simply because that was what the cops wanted to hear.

It gets even more curious, though. Considering it appears that, in between Adnan's beginning and second trial, the prosecution realized there had been an error in their cell tower map.At the get-go trial, Jay stuck by the claim he was at Cathy's when Adnan called him to be picked upwards from track:

Jay: Okay. [Adnan] decided that information technology was time for him to go to track exercise so then I drove him to the front of the school. He left the telephone in the car, exited the motorcar, and walked into Woodlawn High School.
KU: What did yous exercise at that point?
Jay: I left and went to my friend [Cathy's] firm.
KU: What, if anything, did you do there?
Jay: I sat there. I smoked, they didn't. They watched goggle box. l was debating with practice. He called, asked me to come up get him from school. (12/xiv/99 Tr. 199.)

Only by the fourth dimension of the 2d trial, however, the prosecution had changed its melody, and seems to have realized that the iv:27 and 4:58 calls were not showing that Jay was at Cathy's flat at all. They were (allegedly) showing that Jay was near his house instead. Just similar Jay said in his first interview.

Oops.

That'due south okay, though. Considering when Jay's story does not match the cellphone records, the solution, as always, is simply to change Jay'southward story. Which is what the prosecution apparently did at the second trial, through the testimony of the prosecution's expert witness, Abe Waranowitz. During direct examination, Waranowitz was questioned almost whether the test calls he had made were consistent with Jay's (new) story:

KU: At present, if at that place was testimony that someone had dropped someone off at schoolhouse to go to runway practise and the person who had the car went to 1000[i]lston Park, parked for a while and and so went back to selection the person upwards, if you found — and they called at G[i]lston Park, one or more incoming calls were received by the AT&T wireless subscriber phone and and then y'all found cell phone records that had calls from the L654C prison cell site, would that functioning of the AT&T network be consistent with the testimony?
Waranowitz: Yes. (2/08/00 Tr. 102.)

Jay'due south story is truly a wondrous thing. It can be consistent with the cellphone records when they are wrong, and then still be consistent even after the cellphone records accept been corrected. And how could a story that is so amazingly consistent with the cellphone records have perchance been anything other than true?

-Susan

Source: https://viewfromll2.com/2015/01/13/serial-evidence-that-jays-story-was-coached-to-fit-the-cellphone-records/

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