There's just no way the very long episode of This American Life is going to have a satisfying ending. Sure, it's fun listening to Sarah Koenig run around trying to understand why teenagers and police officers behave the way they do, but unless the show ends with a shocking confession, it's going to be a let down. The ending will be Adnan is still in jail and everybody thinks he's innocent except when they think he's guilty.
But put those feelings aside because HE OBVIOUSLY DID IT. He did it. He must have done it. It's just the only thing that makes sense. And don't give me any of the "Jay" bullshit. Sure, he's a liar and a weirdo, but that doesn't mean he's a murderer any more than Adnan's charm means he's not. He's just lying to cover up his much bigger role in the whole thing. I mean, he claims he brought the shovels, but then just watched Adnan dig. There's no way. Digging is hard. Nobody is going to dig a hole and just let you sit there watching. Especially a guy who just murdered somebody.
And the stuff he lied about was all trivial. Maybe it wasn't a Best Buy parking lot. Maybe it was a Barnes & Noble or a Toys 'R' Us. So what? The only people who actually care which parking lot it was are the executives at Best Buy who have been getting some of the worst product placement ever. "Is the Best Buy parking lot a good place to murder somebody or just to smoke pot and make out? Find out today!" "This strangulation is brought to you by Best Buy. We probably don't have pay phones!"
Everybody agrees that the prosecution's case was weak—but that also doesn't make Adnan innocent. The "false confession expert" thought the police actually did a good job on the investigation. And if you're worried that this could happen to you, you could be accused of a murder and couldn't prove your innocence, it's unlikely because government spying has come so far in the last 15 years. All that "pinged a cellphone tower" crap is long gone. If Adnan waited until now to murder his ex, we'd have known exactly where he was every step of the way and whether those steps added up to his daily fitness goal.
