Who is in this picture with Adnan?

Question

Does anyone know where this picture came from? The earliest appearance of that photograph (that I can find) is a Huffington Post article dated December 12, 2014. The Huffington Post credits “Serial” but the photo doesn’t seem to appear on the official Serial web site.

Before we received the police investigation file, this is the picture that Rabia would use on twitter to inflame her followers. She’d write about how this kid had been ripped from his home, etc. Never mind that Adnan looked noticeably older on the day he was arrested, and the picture Rabia was using appears to have been taken months, if not a year, before arrest.

I think the younger photo came from Krista. Despite Sarah Koenig telling her listeners that Krista called her “out of the blue” while listening to the podcast, Sarah and Dana actually visited Krista in September of 2014, while still researching for the podcast. Apparently, Krista has a scrapbook that she has shared with several members of the faux press over the years. Most recently, the fake program “Crime Watch Daily.”

But, Crime Watch Daily either forgot to crop the photo, or didn’t get the memo.

Crime Watch Daily used this photo that hasn’t been cropped. In this photo we see that Adnan is holding something in his hands, and a girl with shoulder length black hair has her own hands clasped over Adnan’s in a familiar way (more than friendship?)

There was a map of the Baltimore Zoo found in Hae’s car. Does anyone from Baltimore know if this photo was taken at the Baltimore/Maryland Zoo?

Does anyone else think that’s Hae in the picture? It’s summertime, right? Hae got a hair cut on Saturday, August 15 and school started Wednesday, August 26.


Here are some photos of Hae for reference, organized in the sequence I think they were taken. (I'm interested in how people would place these pictures in a timeline, which came first, next, etc.)


  • This picture looks to be Hae at her oldest, before her death. In fact, she looks about a year older than she does in this picture.

ETA: There are letters next to the pictures so people can say how they would re-organize which pictures were taken first, and so on, in sequence.

Posted Feb 4, 2017, 9:23 PM UTC · edited

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