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  • In 1999, high school student Hae Min Lee went missing.
  • Lee's ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was convicted of her murder and sentenced to life in 2000.
  • Following Syed's release from prison after more than two decades, HBO releases a new episode of its docuseries, “The Case Against Adnan Syed.”
In 2019, HBO's "The Case Against Adnan Syed" thoroughly covered the murder of high school student Hae Min Lee and the conviction of her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed. At the time, Syed and his loved ones, who strongly believed in his innocence, had little hope that his conviction would be overturned.

Syed received a life sentence for the death of Lee in 2000. Both attended Woodlawn High School, outside of Baltimore. They split after experiencing that deep, young love, exciting, that knows no bounds. “He’s the cutest, sweetest, and coolest guy,” Lee had written in her journal, “and he loves me.”

The month following their breakup Lee, then 18, went missing on Jan. 13, 1999. Her body was discovered nearly four weeks later on Feb. 9, 1999 in Baltimore’s Leakin Park. Syed, the subject of the debut season of the Serial podcast, has long maintained his innocence. HBO's “The Case Against Adnan Syed” concluded in 2019, with the Maryland Court of Appeals denying a new trial for Syed.

But in the years that followed, Syed's judicial game of table tennis continued until he was finally freed from prison in 2022. A special fifth episode for the series (Sept. 18, 9 ET/PT on HBO and HBO Max) tells that story, wrapping up his 26-year ordeal. Rabia Chaudry, an attorney and friend of the Syed family, who brought the story to Serial host Sarah Koenig and is an executive producer on the docuseries, considers the murder of Lee unsolved.

“I think people need to still keep asking the questions and understanding that for every innocent person who's in prison, there is a person who is a killer who's out there,” Chaudry says. “And that's what I believe is happening in this case, that whoever killed Hae Min Lee is out there.”

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Here are updates in the case, from “The Case Against Adnan Syed” and an interview with Chaudry.

Adnan Syed is free, but has not been declared innocent​

Marilyn Mosby, former Baltimore City State's Attorney (2015-2023), questioned the integrity of Syed’s conviction and investigated the case. Mosby filed a motion to vacate Syed’s conviction in September of 2022, which a judge approved.

Syed left the courthouse and returned to his parents’ house, and found how much had changed in the decades he’d spent behind bars. A tree, only the size of a stick in his memory, now towers over him. Syed’s dad kissed him on the forehead and repeatedly told his son, “I’m so glad to see you.”

But months later, in March of 2023, the Maryland Court of Appeals reinstated the murder conviction, agreeing with Lee’s family that they did not receive timely notice. In December 2024, Syed’s legal team filed a motion to reduce his life sentence under Maryland's Juvenile Restoration Act, as Syed was not yet 18 at the time of the crime. On March 6, 2025, Syed’s sentence was reduced to time served. His murder conviction still stands.

Who killed Hae Min Lee?​

Chaudry has ideas about who might’ve murdered Lee, and provides a strategy for how the killer could finally be brought to justice.

“If I had the power to reinvestigate the case with the state's resources, I would begin with the man she was dating,” Chaudry says, alluding to Lee’s boyfriend at the time, Don Clinedinst. “I would begin with the man that she told her friend, 'I'm going to see that day,' because he's never been eliminated. Compare his DNA against the DNA found on her. Start there. Compare his hair to it. Eliminate him, and then we can move on.”

Some also have suspicions of Alonzo Sellers, who said he found Lee’s body in Leakin Park. Episode 5 opens with a postal worker’s 2020 account of seeing Sellers naked in the woods, with his face covered, carrying a child’s jacket. After the postal worker took a photo of Sellers, she claims he approached her vehicle and tried to pull her from it. According to the documentary, Sellers pleaded guilty to second-degree assault for this incident.

Chaudry hopes the new episode emphasizes Sellers "was never properly eliminated, that the police never even took his hair samples or DNA to compare in this crime, and that he failed the first polygraph.”

According to the docuseries, “as of May 2025, the Baltimore City Police Department has yet to test the new DNA results against alternative suspects.” The police department did not immediately respond to USA TODAY’s request for comment or to provide an update on the status of their investigation.

Adnan Syed's life now: He's the same 'positive person he's always been'​

In December 2022, Syed began working at Georgetown University as a program associate for the school’s Prisons and Justice Initiative.

Chaudry says Syed is doing well and lives in Virginia with his wife.

“I saw him at my mom's funeral last week,” Chaudry says during a Sept. 15 interview. He’s still “the same kind, considerate, nonconfrontational, positive person he's always been,” she adds. After March’s ruling, Syed is more comfortable planning his future.

“Now that it's over, I do believe he wants to go to college and finish his degree,” Chaudry says, “and hopefully have a family one day, have some kids.”

How Adnan Syed met his 'lovely' wife while in prison, and what she did to help free him​

Chaudry says that numerous women wrote to Syed during the release of the Serial podcast in 2014.

“He just kept passing them on to his mom,” Chaudry says, “and he really wouldn't respond, because he didn't find it appropriate. He just didn't want to get into anything crazy like that.”

The HBO docuseries, which first aired in 2019, caught the attention of a Pakistani American woman living in Virginia, according to Chaudry.

“She watched it,” Chaudry says, “and she just felt really depressed because at the end of the documentary, they say that the conviction was reinstated, he's not getting out.” So the woman wrote to Syed and he responded, uncharacteristically.

“She was probably the first one he wrote back, in all these years,” Chaudry says. “They started communicating through letter and then over phone. And then she came to visit him in prison.”

Chaudry says the two exchanged vows while Syed was still in prison.

At first, “I was very skeptical,” Chaudry says about his wife. There are “all kinds of crazy people out there. I don't know if I can trust somebody. Maybe they want to meet him because of all the fame, and this and that. But after I met her, I was like, ‘You're a lucky guy. She's lovely.’ And she worked very hard. The (reduced sentence under the Juvenile Restoration Act) could not have been passed if it wasn't for all the work she did behind the scenes.”
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'The Case Against Adnan Syed' shows his life now as a free man

A special fifth episode of HBO's docuseries, “The Case Against Adnan Syed,” gives viewers an update on Syed's life following his release from prison.
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Who Killed Hae Min Lee? Here Is the Latest Information

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Anyone who consumes true crime knows that one of the most popular podcasts in the genre is Serial. The This American Life spinoff premiered in 2014 and was co-created by producer Sarah Koenig. It all began when immigration and civil rights attorney Rabia Chaudry reached out to Koenig about an unsolved murder that happened in Baltimore in 1999.

Koenig had previously written about a defense attorney who was disbarred in 2001. The story ran in the Baltimore Sun.
That defense attorney, who later died, represented a friend of Chaudry's. This friend was the person accused of murder in 1999. The victim was his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee.

At the time of the murder, Lee and Adnan Syed were seniors at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County. Lee, 18, disappeared in January 1999. Her body was discovered six weeks later

(L-R): Hae Min Lee and Adnan Syed

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Who killed Hae Min Lee? ​

As of September 2025, Lee's murder remains unsolved. Not only was Serial the story of a cold case, but it was also the story of Syed, who was later convicted of Lee's murder. On Jan. 13, 1999, Lee's family reported her missing after she failed to pick up her cousin from elementary school.

Lee was last seen by several students at Woodlawn High School as she was leaving around 2:15 p.m.
Six weeks later, on Feb. 9, 1999, Lee's body was discovered in a shallow grave in Leakin Park, a place that later became known as a dumping ground for bodies. Lee's cause of death, which was ruled a homicide, was strangulation.

Less than a week later, police received an anonymous tip suggesting they look into Lee's ex-boyfriend. The couple had broken up towards the end of 1998, which led prosecutors to allege Syed was angry about the demise of their relationship.
Syed was arrested two weeks after police were told they should investigate him. His first trial ended in a mistrial, but the second resulted in a conviction.

The 19-year-old was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years. His complicated journey through the judicial process was laid out in Serial and revisited in the HBO docuseries The Case Against Adnan Syed. If Syed was convicted, why is Lee's murder still unsolved? Here's why
Adnan Syed

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Where is Adnan Syed now?​

According to The New York Times, in March 2022 agreed to conduct new DNA testing due to "advances in genetic profiling." This was made possible by a recent Maryland law that "gave prosecutors the discretion to modify the sentences of offenders who were under 18 at the time of their crimes and had served at least 20 years in prison," per the outlet.
Lee's skirt, pantyhose, jacket, and shoes were tested using a forensic mesthod called touch DNA, reported CBS News. While there were "multiple contributors" found on these objects, Syed's DNA was not.

Syed's conviction was vacated in September 2022. According to Time Magazine,Syed works at Georgetown’s Prisons and Justice Initiative, which "offers education and job training for incarcerated individuals and those re-entering the workforce."

He is also an advocate for the wrongfully accused
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The 1999 Murder of Hae Min Lee Has Been the Subject of Podcasts and Documentaries — What Happened?

Who killed Hae Min Lee? The story of her murder was thrust into the public eye via the wildly popular true crime podcast 'Serial.' Here's what we know.
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80-year-old Michigan man exonerated after nearly 60 years in prison

After having his name cleared, William Hunt now plans to work in Detroit as a mentor for a violence prevention program.
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Man freed from prison after commuted life sentence

William Hunt was serving a life sentence for a fatal armed bank robbery. After 60 years of maintaining his innocence, he returned home Tuesday.
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Michigan man walks free after nearly 60 years in prison

William Hunt left the Earnest C. Brooks correctional facility Tuesday after nearly 60 years behind bars.
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