Motive is absolutely evidence. Evidence is anything that contributes to an understanding of the events in question, and motives very frequently contribute to an understanding of a crime. I suspect you've fallen into the unfortunately common error of believing that "evidence" is synonymous with "incontrovertible…

"It's a common cause of adult murders, not high school murders."

"There is no "clear" motive for Adnan. There is a soap opera constructed motive."

Isn't it more plausible that he lied to the cops to cover his own ass?

You think that weed dealing is enough to get you to be an accomplice to a murder?

Also, their voice actor is really terrible.

1. When Adnan approaches him, he believes his choices are a) become an accessory to murder and probably face no criminal consequences or b) get turned in to the cops, go to prison for 3-5 years, maybe cause his grandma to lose her house. b) is not an irrational fear, except in the very special context he found himself…

That sounds as bad as or worse than "Welcome to Nightvale." I guess it's hypothetically possible that someone post-Golden Age of Radio has produced a decent audio serial, but if so it's a well-kept secret.

The interview was interesting. I haven't bothered with the details enough to say if the account he gives there matches the cell phone records (by the way—remember that the locations you get from those are fairly sketchy) or the other evidence any better than his various prior accounts, but his explanation of a) why he…

I had trouble Saturday (booting it up for the first time since these problems started), but it resolved within 15 minutes after a restart.

No, that's sort of the whole point. During the brief period of federally-enforced black suffrage, some Southern towns (and even states) had governments that were actually friendly to black interests. The KKK was an anti-democratic response to that reality, and one of their primary objectives was to suppress speech by…

This is a deeply stupid, not to mention incorrect, take. Free speech can absolutely be abridged by non-government actors. Consider the situation of black (or Republican) politicians in the post-Civil War American South, where electioneering and advocacy on behalf of freedmen was met with vigilante violence.

I thought he was terrible. I mean, it's inherently a stupid part, but Pitt was just a ludicrous ham. Good riddance.

Nothing like that came up on the podcast, save for a few questions from Gutierrez (about whether Jay would get in trouble with Stephanie if he had been "stepping out") that Koenig didn't comment on; she used them as an example of Gutierrez's grating speaking voice but didn't say a thing about the content.

But… he has nothing to lose. If it matches Adnan, he's no more incarcerated for life than he is now. If it's inconclusive, no effect. If, through some miracle (assuming for a moment that Adnan is the killer, but that Hae for some reason had someone else's skin under her fingernails) it matches someone else, he's…

I agree that the prosecution's theory was racist and unsupported by the evidence. But the plain-vanilla jealous ex-boyfriend theory is certainly plausible, and again, it provides a motive even if we don't know if it was something that motivated Adnan specifically.

This sounds like the product of research outside the podcast that I'm ignorant of. I didn't even know that Hae knew Stephanie or Jay. Did she?

"While it's possible to get by on superficial charm but have a
remorseless, cruel dark side that goes pretty much unnoticed and unexpressed outside of one incident"

I'm going back to basic human behavior here. One of the most common motives for murder is a woman leaving a man. It generally happens in the context of a larger pattern of abuse but a) not always, and b) the pattern can be invisible from the outside.

I only pedantically correct where I think I have a chance to help. (Or when it's funny.) I think many people don't know that it's "pore over" rather than "pour over" and spell check won't catch the error, so I do try to correct that one. Hopefully it will keep someone from embarrassing themselves in a cover letter or…