As listeners of Sarah Koenig's Serial podcast we’ve struggled to hold all the details and the case against Adnan Syed in our vision. With this infographic, we set out to provide some clarity with the help of multiple listenings of the podcast and support from the Serial website, user contributions on Reddit, our own estimations, and rudimentary math. We hoped to get closer to some version of truth, but under scrutiny, the details themselves became slipperier. That alone may say something. Maybe our journey here can help you with yours.

1. Our attempt to map the witness testimony & the cell
phone records FROM the state’s case against Adnan Syed
For the last year, I've spent every working day trying to figure out where a high school kid was
for an hour after school one day in 1999-- or if you want to get technical about it, and apparently
I do, where a high school kid was for 21 minutes after school one day in 1999.
-sarah koenig, episode 1
SERIAL:VISUALIZED
Monica, Brian, Scott, and Gregg work together at Propoint in NYC, and like you, are obsessed with Serial. Unable to keep the facts straight ourselves—let’s not even get
into what are or are not the facts—we did what we do everyday at work: made things visual.This is the result.

2. PATAPSCO
STATE PARK
LEAKIN
PARK
2:45pm
3:00pm
2:36pm
1
they
leave
hae’s car
2
side of
tower
pinged
doesn’t
COINCIDE
W/story
location
sequence pathCOINCIDES
W/story
#
alternate
path omitted
in trial
“Can we all agree that whatever happened to Hae probably
didn’t involve a 2:36 p.m. call from that phone booth saying
‘Come and get me I’m at Best Buy’?”
-sarah koenig, episode 9
window of opportunity
2:15-2:36PM
adnan shows jay the body at best buy
~2:45PM
they leave hae’s car at 1-70 park & ride
~3:00PM
11
22
incoming call: come get me at best buy
2:36PM
BALTIMORE

3. PATAPSCO
STATE PARK
LEAKIN
PARK
3
2
3:00pm
3:22pm
3:15pm
3:21pm
3:32pm
-sarah koenig, episode 6
they leave hae’s car at 1-70 park & ride
~3:00PM
OUTGOING call: JENN
3:21PM
adnan & jay at the woodlawn golf course
3:22PM
33
22
incoming call: ?
3:15PM
OUTGOING call: NISHA
3:32PM
“…Out of all the calls on the log, this is the one that I think of as the
‘smoking gun’ call...there are seven outgoing calls on the log, six of
them are to people Jay knows, the seventh is to Nisha, someone
only Adnan knew.”
BALTIMORE
side of
tower
pinged
doesn’t
COINCIDE
W/story
location
sequence pathCOINCIDES
W/story
#
alternate
path omitted
in trial

4. PATAPSCO
STATE PARK
LEAKIN
PARK
4B
4A
3
side of
tower
pinged
doesn’t
COINCIDE
W/story
location
sequence pathCOINCIDES
W/story
#
alternate
path omitted
in trial
4:45pm
4:30pm
3:22pm
adnan & jay AT the woodlawn golf course
3:22PM
INCOMING call: adnan’s mother?
4:27PM
they SMOKE AT patapsco
~4:00-4:30PM
4B4B
4A4A
33
OUTGOING call: JENN
4:12PM
INCOMING call: ?
4:58PM
OUTGOING call: KRISTA
5:38PM
JAY DROPS ADNAN AT TRACK PRACTICe
~4:30-4:45PM
4:27pm
4:58pm
4:12pm
5:38pm
“This is the next stop in
the itinerary to a place
known as the Cliffs at
Patapsco State Park...
yeah, this just seems
absurd. It’s three—say it’s
between 3:45 and 3:50
now in their world. If I’m
Adnan and I need to be
seen for track [practice],
I’m freaking out right now,
that I need to get back for
track to have an alibi.”
-sarah koenig, episode 5
BALTIMORE

5. PATAPSCO
STATE PARK
LEAKIN
PARK
5
4B
JAY PICKS UP ADNAN from TRACK PRACTICE
~5:45PM
INCOMING call: hae’s brother or aisha?
6:07PM
INCOMING call: hae’s brother or aisha?
6:09PM
They arrive at “CATHY’S” HOUSE
~6:00-6:35PM
INCOMING call: officer adcock
6:24PM
6:09pm
6:07pm
6:24pm
4B4B
55
5:45pm
6:35pm
“It was about six o’clock at night. And
they all three, Adnan, Jay, and Cathy,
acknowledge being together at the
apartment, there’s no dispute about that.”
-sarah koenig, episode 6
BALTIMORE
side of
tower
pinged
doesn’t
COINCIDE
W/story
location
sequence pathCOINCIDES
W/story
#
alternate
path omitted
in trial

6. PATAPSCO
STATE PARK
LEAKIN
PARK
5
6
side of
tower
pinged
doesn’t
COINCIDE
W/story
location
sequence pathCOINCIDES
W/story
#
alternate
path omitted
in trial
“Jay follows Adnan out, leaves his hat and smokes behind, Cathy
says.They go downstairs and then, she says, they get in a car
and just sit there in the car for a while.”
6:45pm
6:35pm
-sarah koenig, episode 6
BALTIMORE
they leave “CATHY’S” HOUSE
~6:35PM
they get shovels from JAY’S HOUSE
~6:45PM
55
66

7. PATAPSCO
STATE PARK
LEAKIN
PARK
2
4
6
7
8
“…Then Jay goes to McDonald’s back by school to
wait for Adnan, says he’s there waiting for about
20 minutes, then they drive all around …”
-sarah koenig, episode 6
6:45pm
BALTIMORE
6:50pm
7:00pm
6:59pm
7:00pm
They leave jay’s house
~6:45PM
they pick up hae’s car at 1-70 park & ride
~6:50PM
outgoing call: yaser
~6:59PM
77
88
66
jay & adnan meet at mcdonalds
7:00PM
OUTGOING call: JENN
7:00PM
side of
tower
pinged
doesn’t
COINCIDE
W/story
location
sequence pathCOINCIDES
W/story
#
alternate
path omitted
in trial

8. PATAPSCO
STATE PARK
LEAKIN
PARK
9
8
7:09pm
7:16pm
BALTIMORE
7:05pm
7:00pm
“Since the range of that Leakin Park tower reaches beyond just
the territory of the park, could they have been someplace else
besides digging a grave in the actual park?”
-sarah koenig, episode 5
they leave mcdonalds
~7:00PM
INCOMING call: jenn
7:09PM
incoming call: ?
7:16PM
88
99 they arrive at leakin park to bury the body
~7:05PM
“Since the range of that Leakin Park tower reaches beyond just
the territory of the park, could they have been someplace else
besides digging a grave in the actual park?”
-sarah koenig, episode 5
side of
tower
pinged
doesn’t
COINCIDE
W/story
location
sequence pathCOINCIDES
W/story
#
alternate
path omitted
in trial

9. PATAPSCO
STATE PARK
LEAKIN
PARK
10
9
“I told them the truth, I did not show
them a location that was true, no.”
-jay, episode 5
8:04pm
8:05pm
ADNAN & JAY LEAVE LEAKIN PARK
~8:00PM
OUTGOING call: JENN
8:05PM
ADNAN DROPS off jay at the mall
~8:15PM
OUTGOING call: JENN
8:04PM
1010
99
8:00pm
8:15pm
BALTIMORE
side of
tower
pinged
doesn’t
COINCIDE
W/story
location
sequence pathCOINCIDES
W/story
#
alternate
path omitted
in trial

10. As listeners, we’ve struggled to hold all the details of Serial and the case against Adnan Syed in our vision.
With this infographic, we set out to provide some clarity with the help of multiple listenings of the podcast
and support from the Serial website, user contributions on Reddit, our own estimations, and rudimentary math.
We hoped to get closer to some version of truth, but under scrutiny, the details themselves became
slipperier. That alone may say something. Maybe our journey here can help you with yours.
Prosecutor Casey Murphy said to the jury in her closing statement, quote:‘The most important
thing for you to remember about Jay’s testimony is that it does not stand alone. It is corroborated.’
She added,‘The cell phone records support what those witnesses say, and the witnesses support
what those cell phone records say.There’s no way around it.’
-sarah koenig, episode 5
5:38pm2:36pm