Rabia didn't want us to know PI Drew Davis was hired by Adnan's original lawyers.

So this is something I noticed a while ago, but I never quite understood the significance until right now.

On her December 19, 2014 blog post, Rabia posted a (cropped, duh) portion of Drew Davis’ report on Don. She put this caption under it:

From a statement by Gutierrez’s private investigator. No date on it.

However, this report came up again in Susan Simpson’s hit piece blog on Don’s alibi. Unlike Rabia, Simpson had no trouble dating the report:

In March 1999, defense investigator Drew Davis visited the Owings Mills LensCrafters in an attempt to verify that Don was there on 1.13.

She then cites the same report Rabia posted (in a less cropped form):

Private Detective Andrew Davis responded to LensCrafters located in Owings Mills Mall in Owings Mills. PD Davis spoke to manager, [DA]. PD Davis was advised that any information that was obtained from Lens Crafters would have to be obtained through their general manager. PD Davis was also instructed to speak to Detective Joe O’Shea from Baltimore County Police Homicide. No further information could be provided.
. . .
PD Davis was able to speak to a police official who was involved in this investigation. PD Davis was advised by the subject that all alibi’s provided by Don, Hae’s current boyfriend, were confirmed and he had been completely ruled out as a possible suspect. PD Davis was also assured that the police had an “air tight” case against Adnan Syed in this case. The police official was confident that they had in fact arrested the correct person.

So Rabia hid the date of the investigation. But why? Well, it ties in with another misleading statement in the same caption:

From a statement by Gutierrez’s private investigator. No date on it.

Gutierrez wasn’t retained until April 18, well after Drew Davis checked into Don’s alibi. Davis was hired by Adnan’s original lawyers, Douglas Colbert and Chris Flohr. Gutierrez kept him on, but at the time of the report Rabia posted, he wasn’t working for her. Why would Rabia give this misleading information?

Well, according to Adnan’s PCR testimony, he received the Asia letters in the first week of March. Since Colbert and Flohr had a PI investigating the case during this time period, this means that Adnan never showed them the letters, or they investigated Asia and found she didn’t work out. The other possibility is that Colbert and Flohr provided Ineffective Assistance of Counsel. However, both men are still alive, and thus capable of suing Rabia, so she doesn’t want to go that route.

Plus, they weren’t “rude” to her.