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Serial S01 - Ep. 3: Leakin Park

Serial

2014/10/09
Serial

Serial

2014/10/09

Shownote

It’s February 9, 1999. Hae has been missing for three weeks. A man on his lunch break pulls off a road to pee, and stumbles on her body in a city forest. His odd recounting of the discovery makes Detectives Ritz and MacGillivary suspicious. For instance, w...

Highlights

This episode delves into the suspicious discovery of a body in Leakin Park, focusing on the man who found it and the detectives' immediate doubts about his story. The investigation takes a turn as the finder's past and questionable behavior come under scrutiny.
00:00
Detectives were certain Adnan murdered Hae.
10:44
A surveyor failed to spot the body even when looking for it.
13:30
He walked 127 feet into the woods to urinate.
23:20
He failed an initial polygraph but passed a second one
24:35
His history of indecent exposure makes seeking police attention unlikely

Chapters

The investigation zeroes in on Hae's boyfriends, Adnan and Don, before her body is even found.
00:00
A man on his lunch break stumbles upon Hae's body in a notorious city forest, but his story immediately raises red flags.
05:24
Why would a man walk 127 feet into the woods to pee? Detectives grill the body's discoverer on his bizarre behavior.
13:30
A history of indecent exposure and a failed polygraph test cast a long shadow over the man who found Hae.
21:40
Could the man who found the body be telling the truth? The search for a connection to Adnan or Jay comes up empty.
24:35

Transcript

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