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Nov 2014
44m 46s

Serial S01 - Ep. 9: To Be Suspected

Serial Productions & The New York Times
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New information is coming in about what maybe didn’t happen on January 13, 1999.  And while Adnan’s memory of that day is foggy at best, he does remember what happened next: being questioned, being arrested and, a little more than a year later, being sentenced to life in prison. 
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