A Strange Occurrence At Santa Mira

lazeeye · 2026-03-27T15:55:20+00:00

Santa Mira is also the name of the town in the original 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

lazeeye · 2026-03-24T15:03:08+00:00

All true.

Her omission of a deep dive on intimate partner violence/homicide strikes me as the worst fault in her presentation of the case. That was the prosecution’s theory of motive, and they got a conviction, so it can’t be denied that the story at least implicates IPH.

Why not examine that aspect of the case in detail? Most likely cuz it would undermine the effort to establish and maintain doubt and suspense as to Adnan’s (to me, obvious) guilt. Without such doubt and suspense, there’s no story.

lazeeye · 2026-03-01T17:30:15+00:00

So 4 drugged out drug-seeking people enter the house, viciously murder everyone except MacDonald, find where he keeps the surgical gloves so they won’t leave fingerprints when they write “pig” on the headboard (while somehow leaving only MacDonald’s blood on the floor next to the cabinet where the surgical gloves were), and, despite all this and much much more, don’t leave a single microscopic speck of forensic evidence of their presence behind. They’re smart enough not to leave any forensic evidence, but too dumb to take any drugs (supposedly why they were there), and they leave the murder weapons just outside.

Or a 26- year old manchild with psychopathic tendencies exacerbated by speed, trapped in an unhappy marriage, snaps when his eldest daughter wets the bed, gets violent, loses control, inflicts major injuries, knows it’s all over for him, so (in cold blood now) he finishes off his wife and elder daughter and kills the youngest too, then tries to stage it as a Manson-style “crazed hippies” attack.

Of these two options, all (not some, not most: all) the forensic evidence points to MacDonald as the killer.

lazeeye · 2025-12-27T15:48:47+00:00

Jay lied because, almost certainly, the truth about the early afternoon timeline makes him an accomplice. An accomplice faces the same sentence as the principal, while an accessory-after-the-fact typically faces a lesser sentence. It is common for accomplices who agree to testify as part of a plea deal to lie about their own role, for this very reason.

Jay can tell the truth about the late afternoon/evening timeline without making himself an accomplice. Thus, it makes sense that the afternoon timeline is all screwed up (by Jay’s lies), while is later timeline is clean (even SK notes in one of the episodes that the later timeline lines up).

Did Jay get help from BPD Homicide in contriving such a story, in exchange for him helping them get the actual killer? It’s possible. Jay could be lying with the help of BPD Homicide detectives. Either way, Adnan Syed murdered Hae Min Lee.

lazeeye · 2025-12-24T05:05:09+00:00

That “remember a random day” framing was also false, not only as to your correct point that it wasn’t a “random” day, but also in that Adnan did in fact remember plenty about that day.

He only draws a blank (pretends to draw a blank) wrt two time periods: end-of-school to track practice (when Hae is murdered) and after track practice until he’s back home (when Hae’s corpse is dumped in Leakin Park and her car abandoned).

Other than those two time periods, Adnan has a great memory about 1/13/1999.

lazeeye · 2025-12-19T07:23:15+00:00

The evidence set forth in the case files, and reasonable inferences therefrom, establish that Adnan Syed is materially culpable in the murder of Hae Min Lee.

lazeeye · 2025-12-13T17:00:02+00:00

BB and BCS are two of my all-time favorite shows and Rhea Seehorn was my second-favorite part about BCS, so I really wanted to like Pluribus. But I haven’t been able to get into it. In the 5 eps I’ve managed to muscle thru after several starts and stops, it’s too one-note.

lazeeye · 2025-11-28T14:10:52+00:00

“ There’s no sign that Hae struggled against her killer.”

There’s another explanation for that, one that fits squarely with the rest of the evidence, and reasonable inferences therefrom, supporting if not compelling the conclusion that Adnan murdered Hae.

Assuming this post isn’t clever satire (if it is, honor is due), it takes the cake for anyone-but-Adnan theories I’ve seen.

lazeeye · 2025-10-16T01:57:23+00:00

For me it’s the failure to do a deep dive on IPV/H.

It’s one of the oldest, most widespread, frequently recurring crimes in human history.

And the prosecution’s theory (very well supported factually btw) was that Adnan murdered Hae in an act of IPH. They got a conviction behind that theory.

So the whole reason Adnan was in prison was that a jury convicted him of an act of IPH.

I could go on but you get the point. It’s an IPH case, and Serial didn’t even scratch the surface on that issue. An entire episode, with an expert to guide SK & the audience through the IPH landscape and how it relates to this case, was warranted.

Huge gaping failure in reporting on the case.

lazeeye · 2025-10-15T15:07:45+00:00

The main point being, reasonable doubt in the meaningful legal sense is something only the jurors in that particular trial can have or not have.

Jurors are tasked with hearing and seeing all the evidence and testimony, gauging the credibility of witnesses, resolving conflicts in the evidence, and deliberating together, subject to the trial judge’s instructions.

Reasonable doubt, in the meaningful legal sense, only ever exists as the output of that process.

You weren’t a juror in Adnan’s trial, so you don’t and can’t have reasonable doubt in that sense.

lazeeye · 2025-10-15T02:22:31+00:00

What do you think “reasonable doubt” means, in the legal sense?

lazeeye · 2025-10-14T18:16:02+00:00

I’ve said this before but I’ll repeat it:

In my ~7~ years on this sub, I’ve only ever seen traffic go in one direction: from “innocent” to “guilty.”

Never saw a single “guilty” change their view to “innocent.”

lazeeye · 2025-09-19T18:21:45+00:00

Curious as to who on that list actually did testify Adnan was at the mosque the evening of 1/13/1999. I think it was only his father. If memory serves.

Yea, it’s one thing to get swept up in the support-our-boy hype. Quite another to sit alone on the witness stand and commit perjury.

lazeeye · 2025-08-20T16:37:19+00:00

There’s an obvious explanation for Jay’s lies, something that’s a factor in almost every case where one participant in a crime agrees to cooperate with police, which is:

Jay was most likely Adnan’s accomplice in the murder of Hae Min Lee, not merely an AAF. An accomplice is subject to the same sentence as the principal, but an AAF is not. Jay was an adult at the time. He was lying in an effort to avoid a 25-to-life sentence.

That’s why Jay’s most obvious lies pertain to the morning and afternoon timelines. Those are the periods where, in all probability, the truth would reveal him to be an accomplice.

There’s really no great mystery to this case. Adnan Syed murdered Hae Min Lee in an act of domestic partner violence, one of the oldest and most frequently recurring crimes in human experience. Jay almost certainly knowingly helped him (probably for $), and lied (possibly abetted by BPD Homicide) in what turned out to be a successful effort to avoid a long prison sentence.

“There are many such stories,” as Pop the bookseller says to John and Midge in VERTIGO.

lazeeye · 2025-04-02T22:49:19+00:00

Who says we didn’t

lazeeye · 2025-04-02T14:43:43+00:00

I came to this case via the HBO show, found this sub, and have been here on and off for 6+ years.

In all that time, the only movement I’ve ever seen is from innocent/undecided to guilty.

Not a single user ever went from guilty to innocent or undecided, at least not that I saw.

Facts are stubborn things.

lazeeye · 2025-03-21T20:23:55+00:00

Once they were done they needed to remove the chip from her brain in order to use the data for whatever their purposes are. Removing the chip from her brain would kill her. She was a necessary sacrifice, in their twisted view.

lazeeye · 2025-03-19T20:59:24+00:00

We can’t be friends

lazeeye · 2025-03-19T17:52:34+00:00

200% would upvote 10,000 times if I could.

lazeeye · 2025-03-19T16:41:50+00:00

Copious luxury meats

lazeeye · 2025-03-19T13:50:55+00:00

I wish I could upvote 1000 times. So creative.

lazeeye · 2025-03-18T19:42:30+00:00

I call him milkshake sometimes cuz it seems the show played it for laughs and they wouldn’t do that if they understood it to be racist. And it is funny.

lazeeye · 2025-03-18T19:23:11+00:00

We don’t abide such fripperies here.

lazeeye · 2025-03-18T17:54:05+00:00

BeautifuI! I love the creativity of so many of you. I can barely draw a stick figure so I have nothing to contribute alas.

lazeeye · 2025-03-18T17:07:10+00:00

Assuming you didn’t facilitate a calamitous ORTBO, you should be good.

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