Hae Min Lee

In Syed's case, the question is open as to whether he's a murderer, or was simply the victim of overzealous prosecutors, keen to put a man away for this crime ...

[New York Times](https://web.archive.org/web/20190513220529/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/arts/television/the-case-against-adnan-syed-serial-hbo.html), Wilds testified that Syed had said he planned to kill Lee. [Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/baltimore-adnan-syed-hae-min-lee-024f739b28b33cf50e76c50d640c0882?taid=6328ce267c9ef6000120a207) reports, judge Melissa Phinn gave the state 30 days to either set a new trial date or dismiss the case. [library](https://www.grunge.com/727538/secret-libraries-around-the-world/) instead of at the crime scene, according to [The New York Times](https://web.archive.org/web/20190513220529/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/arts/television/the-case-against-adnan-syed-serial-hbo.html). What's more, [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/us/adnan-syed-murder-conviction-overturned.html) reported that there were two other suspects in the case that the prosecution knew about, yet they withheld that information from the defense during the original trial. [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/19/us/adnan-syed-conviction-vacate/index.html) reports, he was charged with first-degree murder, robbery, kidnapping, and false imprisonment, and convicted of all charges. [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/19/us/adnan-syed-conviction-vacate/index.html), Maryland prosecutors vacated the conviction against the man convicted of killing Hae Min Lee. Prosecutors operated on the hypothesis that Lee had started dating another man and that Syed wasn't going to allow that to happen. A few weeks later, after extensive searching, her body was found in a shallow grave, having been murdered via strangulation, according to [The Baltimore Sun](https://web.archive.org/web/20150124194117/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1999-03-01/news/9903010074_1_min-lee-young-lee-woodlawn). When she was a preteen, she, her mother, and her brother emigrated to the United States and the family moved in with older relatives. Within a few years, she was a thriving teenager: she was a student-athlete at Woodlawn High School, where she participated in lacrosse and field hockey, and managed the wrestling team. [ Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/adnan-syed-hae-min-lee-murder-timeline-b2170974.html) reports, a young woman named Hae Min Lee, 18, disappeared after leaving her Maryland high school for the day. In Syed's case, the question is open as to whether he's a murderer, or was simply the victim of overzealous prosecutors, keen to put a man away for this crime despite significant problems with their case against him.