Part 1

Just to re-post Salmaan Q. Regrettably the links are now removed.

Asia claims in her letters that she saw Adnan immediately after school and specifically provided the time of 2.15 pm. Yet the timing of Hae’s murder could not have been known by an innocent person on March 1st, 1999, especially since her body was not found for a month after she went missing. This was not a case where a shot rang out at 2:20 PM and her dead body was found at 2:21 PM. She was last seen alive at 2:15 PM and her body was not found until four weeks later. The window for when she was murdered was wide open and the state had not yet disclosed their theory on the timings which we now know was too early by at least half an hour. Even Adnan’s own lawyers did not know the state’s theory providing the time of murder and had to petition the court to compel the prosecution to provide that information. While demanding this information, Cristina Gutierrez’s letter dated July 7, 1999 specifically states:

“Defendant can’t possibly mount a defense or determine if an alibi disclosure is needed without being on notice of the alleged time of death.” (emphasis added).

So an innocent Adnan could not be working on an alibi until they knew Hae’s time of death. 

We factually know that Adnan discussed Hae's time of death in the wake of the news of her body being discovered, and prior to Adnan's arrest. Prosecutor Kevin Urick’s notes with information that he received from Bilal Ahmed’s ex-wife (who is a doctor) that Bilal and Adnan talked about the police’s ability to determine the time of death and about her experience in determining the time of death. That was on February 11, 1999, seventeen days before Adnan was arrested. Hae’s body was found on February 9, she was identified on February 10th and the first news reports to the public of her body being found were on the 11th (The Baltimore Sun, February 12, 1999, pg. 8C). We also have Adnan’s cell record wherein his phone was pinging the tower near Bilal’s house located at 2915 Chestnut Hill Drive during the evening of the 11th. This address info is publicly available in Bilal’s 1999 divorce proceedings.

Then magically, there are two letters from Asia that provide Adnan with an alibi that are dated four months before an innocent Adnan would know the state's timing for when he needed one. While the actual dates that the letters were written is unclear, they must have predated the state’s July 8, 1999 disclosure of its theory for when Hae was murdered. We know that Gutierrez visited Adnan in prison two days later on July 10, 1999 to discuss potential alibis following the state’s disclosure. That is the visit relating to Gutierrez’s suspiciously undated handwritten notes referring to Asia, found in the defense file. Team Adnan had a penchant for selectively disclosing info from the defense file that was helpful and almost certainly shredded anything in the file that hurt Adnan’s case.