Timeline VI

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Thursday, February 4, 1999

Friday, February 5, 1999

  • 7:30AM: Jay gets off work at Southwestern Video

  • Adnan marked Tardy, Excused

  • 8:30AM: Adnan arrives in "Foods 1" 45 minutes late. Did he pick up Jay from work?

  • 9:20-10:40AM: A/B Schedule; English or Social Science

  • 10:45-11:45AM: Adnan in Yearbook with Debbie

  • 11:46AM-12:16PM: C Lunch

  • 12:20-12:50PM: Yearbook

  • 12:55PM-2:15PM: Adnan in Psychology with Aisha and Becky

  • 2:30-3:15PM: Study Hall per Coach Erin Graham. Adnan didn't have to sign in or go to study hall. Students change for track after Study Hall.

  • 4PM: Track Practice

  • Pay day for Adnan: Rural Metro Mobile Medical Transportation, Inc. for January 16-29, 1999

  • Undated: First or second week of February: Adnan receives acceptance letter to the University of Maryland, College Park, Scholars Program. According to Tanveer, Adnan was "excited to go to College Park." (After he was arrested, Adnan received a second letter from UM College Park, on 3-16-1999.)

  • 5:13PM: L608C, Adnan calls Yaser Home (:23)

  • 6:28PM: L687C, Adnan calls Becky (:52)

  • 6:30PM: L687C, Adnan calls Irina L. (:04)

  • 6:31PM: L687C, Adnan calls Aisha (:02)

  • 6:45PM: L684A, Incoming call, answered (:56)

  • 7:07PM: L712C, Adnan calls Becky (:58)

  • 7:28PM: L649B, Incoming call, answered (:30)

  • 7:39PM: L698A, Adnan calls Becky (:22)

  • 8:01PM: L701C, Adnan calls Krista (:11)

  • 10:15PM: L867C, Incoming call, answered (2:42)

  • 10:40PM: L698A, Adnan calls Jay home (:15)

  • 10:50PM: Incoming call goes to voice mail (:25)

  • 10:53PM: L651C, Adnan checks his voice mail (:36)

  • 10:57PM: L651C, Adnan calls his work, Rural Metro (410) 281-1010 (:43)

  • 11PM: L651C, Adnan calls [wrong number?] his work, Rural Metro (410) 281-1000 (2:01)

  • 4PM-8:30: Jay works at Drug Emporium - second job

  • 11:45PM: According to Sis, Jay worked the midnight shift at Southwestern Video on February 5.

  • Jay says that Adnan came by one night and asked him to help cover up the body. Jay refused. This would have been Feb 4, 5, 7, 8 or 9.

Saturday, February 6, 1999

  • 7:30AM: Jay gets off work at Southwestern Video.

  • 9AM-1PM: Police dogs search the woods and fields around WHS, use Hae's curling iron for scent.

  • 9AM-6:40PM: Adnan works/EMT

  • 12:24PM: L644A, Adnan calls Stephanie's private line (1:51)

  • 12:28PM: L644A, Adnan calls Wrong Number? (410) 313-9136 (:04)

  • 12:29PM: L644A, Adnan calls (410) 313-9133 (:55)

  • 6:12PM: L659A, Adnan calls (410) 523-8495 (1:42)

  • 6:15PM: L659A, Adnan calls (410) 532-1012 (:29)

  • 6:18PM: L659A, Adnan calls his home phone (:08)

  • 6:21:16PM: L608B, Adnan tries to dial the operator "0" (:17)

  • 6:21:41PM: L608B, Adnan calls information "411" (:31)

  • 6:22PM: L608B, Adnan calls (410) 607-6576 (:36)

  • 6:39PM: Incoming call goes to voice mail (:13)

  • 6:41PM: Incoming call goes to voice mail (:05)

  • 6:42PM: Incoming call goes to voice mail (:06)

  • 6:45PM: L608A, Incoming call, answered (:50)

  • 8:46PM: L651C, Yaser calls Adnan (:28)

  • 9:19PM: L651C, Incoming call, answered (:46)

  • 9:21PM: L651C, Adnan calls (410) 549-4649 (:37)

  • 9:22:03PM: L651C, Adnan calls (443) 253-3494 (1:33)

  • 9:22:43PM: L651C, Incoming call goes to voice mail (:32)

  • 9:25PM: L651C, Adnan calls (443) 253-9712 (:55)

  • 10:04PM: L651C, Incoming call goes to voice mail (:15)

  • 10:19PM: L601B, Incoming call, answered (5:53)

  • 10:35PM: L692A, Incoming call goes to voice mail (:05)

  • 10:53PM: L602A, Incoming call goes to voice mail (:25)

  • According to Sis, Jay does not work at Southwestern Video on February 6.

Sunday, February 7, 1999

  • Late night calls:

  • 12:26AM: L602A, Adnan checks his voice mail (1:02)

  • 12:29AM: L602A, Adnan calls Krista's friend Ryan (1:00)

  • 12:30AM: L602A, Adnan calls Krista (2:11)

  • 12:33AM: L602A, Adnan calls Irina L (4:23)

  • 12:38:03AM: L602A, Adnan calls Peter B (:05)

  • 12:38:35AM: L602A, Adnan calls (443) 253-9864 (:20)

  • 1:09:21AM: L698B, Adnan calls Peter B (:09)

  • 1:09:44AM: L698B, Adnan calls (410) 613-8508 (:17)

  • 12:44PM: L651C, Adnan calls (800) 230-1451 (:17)

  • 12:44PM: L651C, Adnan calls (800) 909-2883 (:25)

  • 12:45PM: L651C, Adnan calls (800) 230-1451 (:15)

  • 12:46PM: L651C, Adnan calls (800) 909-2883 (:27)

  • 12:47PM: L651C, Adnan calls (800) 813-0905 (:06) - this was a phone sex # in 1999

  • 12:48PM: L651C, Adnan calls (800) 555-5269 (:24)

  • 12:49PM: L651C, Adnan calls (800) 229-1923 (:02)

  • 1:12PM: L651C, Incoming call, answered (1:26)

  • 2:22PM: L651C, Incoming call, answered (4:17)

  • 3:49PM: L651C, Adnan calls Krista (:59)

  • 3:53PM: L651C, Adnan calls Krista (21:40)

  • 6:59PM: L651C, Adnan calls Nisha (55:07)

  • 7:52PM: L651C, Incoming call goes to voice mail (:46)

  • 8:47PM: Incoming call goes to voice mail (:04)

  • 9PM: Incoming call goes to voice mail (:07)

  • 9:08PM: Incoming call goes to voice mail (:01)

  • 11:28PM: Incoming call goes to voice mail (:20)

  • 11:30PM: Incoming call goes to voice mail (:22)

  • 11AM-5:15PM: Jay works second job: Drug Emporium

  • 11:45PM: According to Sis, Jay worked the midnight shift at Southwestern Video on February 7.

  • Jay says that Adnan came by one night and asked him to help cover up the body. Jay refused. This would have been Feb 4, 5, 7, 8 or 9.

Monday, February 8, 1999

  • 6:37AM: L651C, Adnan checks his voice mail (2:03)

  • 7:30AM: Jay gets off work at Southwestern Video.

  • 8:30AM: Adnan arrives Foods 1, Adnan marked Tardy, excused.

  • 9:20AM-10:40AM: A/B Schedule; English or Social Science

  • 10:45-11:45AM: Adnan in Yearbook with Debbie

  • 11:46AM-12:16PM: C Lunch

  • 12:20-12:50PM: Yearbook

  • 12:55-2:15PM: Adnan in Psychology with Aisha and Becky

  • 2:30-3:15PM: Study Hall per Coach Erin Graham. Adnan didn't have to sign in or go to study hall. Students change for track after Study Hall.

  • 3:55PM: L651C, Adnan calls O'Shea (10:20) - right before track practice? Confirming the meeting for the next day?

  • Undated: According to O'Shea's Report, he had several conversations with Adnan and attempted to arrange a face to face interview with Adnan and his parents. Adnan said he did not want to discuss his relationship with his parents, due to their strict beliefs. A face to face interview was scheduled and cancelled more than once. After "postponements," the interview was scheduled for February 10, 1999.

  • 4PM: Track Practice

  • 6:42PM: Incoming call goes to voice mail (:29)

  • 6:46PM: Incoming call goes to voice mail (:04)

  • 6:57PM: L651C, Adnan checks his voice mail (:26)

  • 7:30PM: L698B, Adnan calls Saeedia (:43)

  • 8:22PM: L654C, Adnan calls (443) 253-9712 (:55)

  • 8:53PM: L651C, Adnan calls Nisha (:47)

  • 9:19PM: L651C, Incoming call, answered (:18)

  • 9:27PM: L651C, Adnan calls Saad's girlfriend's house, looking for Saad (:26)

  • 9:35PM: L651C, Adnan pages Saad (:18)

  • 9:36PM: L651C, Adnan calls (410) 750-6970 (1:03)

  • 10:14PM: L651B, Adnan calls Aisha (12:52)

  • Investigation:

  • 8:41AM: Wanda Belle faxes Imran's email to Detective O'Shea

  • Detective O'Shea takes Hae's computer from her home.

  • Detective John Rau of the Computer Crimes Unit subpoenas AOL for Hae's AOL emails.

  • 11:45PM: According to Sis, Jay worked the midnight shift at Southwestern Video on February 8.

  • Jay says that Adnan came by one night and asked him to help cover up the body. Jay refused. This would have been Feb 4, 5, 7, 8 or 9.

Tuesday, February 9, 1999

Wednesday, February 10, 1999

  • 5:13AM: L651C, Adnan checks his voice mail (1:58)

  • 7:30AM: Jay gets off work at Southwestern Video.

  • Investigation:

  • 10AM: Autopsy performed

  • Detective O'Shea and Adnan are scheduled to meet on this day for a face to face interview. O'Shea cancels the interview. The two never met face to face.

  • Police Progress Report re; Autopsy and fingerprints

  • The body is identified as Hae Min Lee.

  • If Dr. K thought lividity indicated the body had been stored somewhere first, that would have been part of report. It wasn't because lividity was not an issue. The issue was invented after Jay's Intercept interview, as it offered a way to distance the burial from the 7PM pings.

  • Further reading on the made-up lividity issue.

  • Items collected during autopsy

  • Dr. Korrell says Hae's body cannot be released to the funeral director without a fingerprint identification.

  • MacGillvary speaks to Rick Dixon at Immigration to get Hae's prints from her Immigration file. Dixon doesn't have Hae's file, but can get it the next day, February 12.

  • noon: MacGillvary & Carew meet with Sharon Talmadge (fingerprint expert).

  • 1PM: Sharon Talmadge travels to the OCME to fingerprint Hae's remains with only partial results.

  • Sharon Talmadge and Detectives travel to Hae's home and fingerprint her personal belongings, to match to the remains.

  • Vial of Hae's blood logged

  • 2:25PM: Hae's clothes and jewelry entered into property.

  • 7:04PM: Police print registration for Hae's Nissan

  • MacGillvary requests that an hourly announcement be broadcast citywide, to assist in the search for Hae's Nissan.

  • County Missing Persons Detective O'Shea is off the case. City Homicide Detectives Ritz and MacGillvary are assigned to the murder investigation.

  • 5:30PM: WHS School Officials are notified that Hae's body was discovered.

  • Undated Det. Ritz Note: Includes Hope Schab post-it, information about Hae's car, Security Nissan business card. Possibly O'Shea passing case off to Ritz. Adnan's name on the note.

  • 8PM: Detectives pull the registration for Adnan's Honda Accord. Adnan is a suspect.

  • Adnan:

  • 7:45-9:10AM: Adnan in Foods 1

  • Adnan on time

  • 9:20AM-10:40AM: A/B Schedule; English or Social Science

  • 10:45AM-11:45AM: Adnan in Yearbook with Debbie

  • 11:46AM-12:16PM: C Lunch

  • 12:20-12:50PM: Yearbook

  • 12:55PM-2:15PM: Adnan in Psychology with Aisha and Becky

  • 2:30-3:15PM: Study Hall per Coach Erin Graham. Adnan didn't have to sign in or go to study hall. Students change for track after Study Hall.

  • 4PM: Track Practice (Adnan's last track practice?)

  • 6:17PM: L651C, Adnan pages Saad (:18)

  • 6:48PM: L698A, Incoming call, answered (:13) - Saad returning?

  • 7:14PM: L651C, Incoming call, answered (:08)

  • 9:52PM: Incoming call goes to voice mail (:04)

  • 10PM: Krista said that once Hae's body was identified, on the 10th, she had to "pull it out of Aisha" that Hae was dead. She called Aisha and could tell something was wrong, and asked, "is everything okay?" Aisha said, "No. Hae's dead." Krista said, "Has anyone told Adnan yet?" And Aisha said, "No. Can you call him?"

  • 10:29PM: Incoming call goes to voice mail (:04)

  • 10:33PM: Incoming call goes to voice mail (:25)

  • 10:50PM: Incoming call goes to voice mail (:27)

  • 10:52:08PM: L651C, Adnan checks his voice mail (2:44) - listens to all the messages about Hae?

  • 10:52:45PM: L651C, Incoming call goes to voice mail (2:34), Adnan lets this one go to voice mail while he is listening to his messages.

  • Krista says that she is the one who told Adnan that Hae had been found dead. Young Lee says he is the one who told Adnan. It's possible that Adnan told Krista she was the one who told him, when he already knew from Young Lee. Krista said that Adnan told her he was going over to Aisha's. Krista called Aisha and asked if Aisha wanted her there, too. Krista says she drove over to Aisha's to be with both of them.

  • 11PM Approximate: According to Krista, Adnan, Krista and Stephanie all arrive at Aisha's in separate cars.

  • According to Krista, Adnan calls O'Shea to say the body can't be Hae's because all Asians look alike.

  • 11:11PM: L698A, Adnan calls O'Shea (:04)

  • 11:12PM: L698A, Adnan calls O'Shea (:14)

  • 11:17PM: L698A, Adnan calls Stephanie Private Line (:13)

  • 11:30PM: Adnan repeats that all Asian girls look alike, and it can't be her.

  • Adnan spends the night at Aisha’s.

  • According to Sis, Jay did not work at Southwestern Video on February 10.

Thursday, February 11, 1999

  • Hae’s body discovered the previous day:

  • 12:21AM: L698A, Adnan calls Hope Schab (:04) - he is at Aisha's

  • Hope Schab said Adnan called her home from Aisha's home ten times, spoke to her roommate. According to Hope Schab, Adnan was laughing and made up a girl's name, and left a message.

  • 5AM: WHS Assistant Principal notifies School Nurse Sharon Watts that Hae's body was found. He anticipated issues with the students, so a crisis team would come in.

  • 6:45AM: Sharon Watts meets with principal and crisis team in the WHS library to coordinate the crisis plan for the day. The team consists of an outside psychologist (Dwayne), a school counselor (Betty?), nurse Sharon Watts, and a teacher (no name given). All four will wait in the health suite for students to come in.

  • 7AM: Sharon Watts meets with principal and crisis team in the WHS library to coordinate the crisis plan for the day.

  • The team consists of an outside psychologist (Dwayne), a school counselor (Betty?), nurse Sharon Watts, and a teacher.

  • All four will wait in the health suite for students to come in.

  • A memo is written for teachers to read to students during first period

  • 7:45AM: Teachers read memo to students

  • Heath Teacher Mrs. Kramer said Adnan, Aisha, Becky and Aisha's sister were in the library when the announcement was made. Mrs. Kramer said Adnan used the printer in the library to print an assignment for Efron, then left with the other students.

  • 7:45AM: Adnan is marked on time to Foods 1 and Home Room

  • 8AM: Approximate. According to Ja'uan, Adnan is not in his first period class.

  • Sharon Watts sees Adnan standing just outside the health suite door but she is focused on other distraught students, and the atmosphere is charged.

  • 8/8:15AM: Psychologist (Dwayne) tells Sharon that Adnan "cannot be reached." Sharon Watts takes Adnan into the health suite.

  • Sharon Watts thought that Adnan's "catatonic" state was a contrived emotion, very rehearsed, insincere. (Was Adnan acting like he had just heard about this that morning?)

  • Adnan asks Sharon how the police can be sure it is Hae Lee as all Asians look alike and police are stupid.

  • Adnan said "they" had tried to trace Hae back to California, so she might be there. Sharon confirms Hae is dead, Adnan starts to cry.

  • Adnan tells Sharon that the night before Hae disappeared: a) Hae called him and said she wanted to get back together b) During this same call, Hae said she still loved him c) Adnan turned Hae down because he did not want to get back together, and just wanted to be friends

  • 9AM: WHS Principal updates Administrators

  • First time Becky sees Adnan after Hae's body is found, Adnan said he: a) knew that Hae breaking up with him was the right thing, b) Hae loved him more than he loved her, c) Hae was able to put aside her feelings so his parents and mosque wouldn't suffer.

  • Adnan gets permission to leave school and go with friends. Sharon lasts sees Adnan fine, and laughing with friends. According to Mrs. Kramer, Adnan told Mrs. Kramer he would be leaving early to go to Aisha's house, and said "maybe it's her." Mrs. Kramer said that Adnan left with Imran H. and Peter.

  • Krista testified that Adnan went to Peter's house with most of their other friends. Krista said there were only three people at Aisha's, until just before 5PM when Adnan arrived at Aisha's.

  • 11:45AM: Media arrives on campus at WHS

  • Noon: WHS Principal updates Administrators

  • 1PM: James Wilson holds a press conference gives a brief press release. Communications Officer, arrives at school to assist with questions from the media.

  • WHS Press Release

  • WHS Memo to Parents

  • 2:24PM: Incoming call goes to voice mail (:40)

  • 3:56PM: Incoming call goes to voice mail (:08)

  • 4PM: Track Practice. Adnan does not attend.

  • 4:13PM: L651C, Adnan checks his voice mail (:39)

  • 4:31PM: L698A, Incoming call, answered (2:09)

  • 5PM: ABC-WMAR Reports Hae's body was found "2 days ago." This report states that the crisis counselors were at WHS this day.

  • Krista testified that Adnan watched this broadcast at Aisha’s. Krista said she watched this broadcast with Adnan and it finally clicked and he realized she wasn't coming back. Krista says that Adnan was "at a friend's house, in the basement."

  • Jay says he saw this news report when he was at work.

  • 5:19PM: L698A, Incoming call, answered (:29)

  • 5:22PM: Incoming call goes to voice mail (:33)

  • 5:24PM: L698A, Adnan checks his voice mail (:49)

  • 5:36PM: L698A, Incoming call, answered (:39)

  • Krista says that after the broadcast, Adnan called someone from the mosque to come and get him so he could pray or talk about what he was feeling. Krista testified that Adnan called his spiritual advisor to come pick him up, after the broadcast.

  • 5:38PM: L698A, Adnan calls Saad's home (:35)

  • 5:41PM: L651C, Incoming call, answered (:19)

  • 5:58PM: L698A, Incoming call, answered (:24)

  • 7:44PM: L698A, Incoming call, answered (:49)

  • 8:01PM: L698A, Incoming call, answered (:45)

  • 8:03PM: L698A, Incoming call, answered (:31)

  • 8:05PM: L698A, Incoming call, answered (1:38)

  • 8:56PM: L698C, Adnan calls Debbie (:08)

  • 9:01PM: L698C, Adnan calls (410) 336-3088 (:31)

  • 9:03PM: L649B, Incoming call, answered (1:13)

  • Adnan drives to Western Maryland with Muslim friend according to story he told Becky. This is when he realized it was "god's plan" for Hae to live only 18 years.

  • From the "pings," looks like the Western Maryland trip could have happened after 9PM.

  • According to Saad, after Hae's body was found, Saad asked Adnan if he had anything to do with it and Adnan said, "No. Of course not." Here is Saad explaining this in 2016.

  • 11:09:02PM: L651C, Adnan calls Aisha (:26)

  • 11:09:49PM: L651C, Adnan calls Aisha (1:12)

  • 11:11PM: L651C, Adnan calls Stephanie Private Line (29:20)

  • Becky starts writing things down in a notebook

  • According to the Baltimore Sun, Hae's family is gathered at her home, to "remember a scholar and an athlete who emigrated from Korea with her mother and brother seven years ago."

  • Investigation:

  • Noon: Dr. Korrell attempts to fingerprint Hae so her body can be released to the family

  • 12:55PM: National Crime Information Center database entry for Hae is changed to a homicide. Hae’s Nissan remains active on the database, notes as STOLEN VEHICLE, with a request to hold for finger prints, if found.

  • Dr. Rodriguez interviewed by ASA Walsh re: Crime Scene.

  • “Mr. A” reports to Detectives that he observed suspicious "black male" about a mile from the crime scene; not sure when.

  • O'Shea submits report on his January 22nd interview with Don.

  • 5:58PM: National Crime Information Center database entry for Hae’s Nissan is updated

  • According to Sis, Jay did not work at Southwestern Video on February 11.

Friday, February 12, 1999

  • Baltimore Sun reports Hae's body found

  • Adnan on time

  • 7:45-9:10AM: Adnan in Foods 1

  • 9:20-10:40AM: A/B Schedule. English or Social Science

  • 10:45AM-11:45AM: Adnan in Yearbook with Debbie

  • 11:46AM-12:16PM: C Lunch

  • Approx: Adnan with a friend. Photo taken by a classmate

  • 12:20-12:50PM: Yearbook

  • 12:55-2:15PM: Adnan in Psychology with Aisha and Becky

  • Undated: Inez asks Adnan if he will attend services for Hae at the Korean Chuch. According to Inez, Adnan said something about the type of service that was going on, and what was going to happen at the service, and how it was going to be done, and that he probably couldn't go.

  • According to Adnan, in an 8/21 interview

  • After school before track I went to Garland’s to find out the price of a tree. Spoke to saleswoman/manager [who] gave me a card with prices on it.

  • Next I went to "Things Remembered” store in Security Square Mall to find out prices for plaque and engraving.

  • Wrote prices on the card from Garland's.

  • And later:

  • I presented my card with info on the tree and plaque. Those 2 items were agreed upon. Procurement was decided later.

  • 2:25PM-8:30PM: Jay works second job: Drug Emporium

  • 4PM: Track Practice (Adnan's last track practice?)

  • 5:39PM: Incoming call goes to voice mail (:57)

  • 6:04PM: L651C, Adnan checks his voice mail, (1:56)

  • 6:07PM: L651C, Adnan calls Rehan A, (1:59)

  • 6:31PM: L651C, Incoming call, answered (1:38)

  • 6:34PM: L651C, Incoming call, answered (:36)

  • 6:35PM: L651C, Adnan calls his home phone (:10)

  • 6:45PM: L651C, Adnan calls Imran H (:14)

  • 7:01PM: L651C, Incoming call, answered (:14)

  • 7:25PM: L651C, Incoming call, answered (1:13)

  • 8:09PM: L651C, Incoming call, answered (:50)

  • 8:18PM: L651C, Incoming call, answered (:49)

  • 8:30PM: Jay clocks out at Drug Emporium.

  • 9:02PM: L651C, Adnan calls Tanveer at work (:43)

  • 9:14PM: L651C, Adnan calls (301) 384-9810 (6:18)

  • 9:21PM: L651C, Adnan calls Tanveer at work (:38)

  • 9:36PM: L651C, Incoming call, answered (1:41)

  • 9:52PM: L651C, Incoming call, answered (:53)

  • 10:16PM: L651C, Incoming call, answered (1:00)

  • 11:22PM: L673A, Incoming call, answered (4:11)

  • Adnan runs into Nisha at an Indian party in DC at Copacabana

  • Investigation:

  • O'Shea reports that the Missing Persons investigation is closed and cancels the teletype that had been sent to local news and government organizations looking for Hae.

  • Fifteen officers spend eight hours searching for Hae's car

  • 3:19 PM: Anonymous Call to Detective Massey re: Adnan

  • 3:25 PM: Anonymous Call to Detective Massey. "The suspect informed a friend (Baser Ali) that if he ever hurt his girlfriend, he would drive her car into a lake."

  • Anonymous caller gives Massey Yaser's home number. It's assumed detectives use Yaser's home number to set up the Pizza Hut interview with Yaser.

  • (Detectives would later subpoena Bell Atlantic twice (February 18 and March 1) to learn the identity behind Yaser's home phone number. They didn't cross reference phone numbers?)

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