The Serial podcast ended last December, but the fight to exonerate Adnan Syed, the man at the centre of the story who was convicted of murdering his classmate Hae Min Lee, has continued.

Serial host and producer Serial is an investigative journalism hosted by, narrating a nonfiction story over. The series was co-created and is co-produced by Koenig and Julie Snyder and developed. New episodes were originally available weekly when a season was active, but partway through the second season the schedule was revised to every other week. Serial ranked number one on even before its debut and remained there for several weeks. Serial won a in April 2015 for its innovative telling of a long-form nonfiction story. As of 10 June 2017, the podcast's episodes were downloaded a total of 175 million times, establishing an ongoing world record. The last episode of season two of Serial was released March 31, 2016.

The producers of Serial launched the podcast on March 28, 2017. Season three's first two episodes were released on September 20, 2018. The series is being adapted for television. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Series overview [ ] Season Episodes Originally aired First aired Last aired 12 October 3, 2014 ( 2014-10-03) December 18, 2014 ( 2014-12-18) 11 December 10, 2015 ( 2015-12-10) March 31, 2016 ( 2016-03-31) TBA September 20, 2018 ( 2018-09-20) September 20, 2018 ( 2018-09-20) Koenig has said that Serial is 'about the basics: love and death and justice and truth. All these big, big things.' She also has noted, 'this is not an original idea.

Maybe in podcast form it is, and trying to do it as a documentary story is really, really hard. But trying to do it as a serial, this is as old as.' Reported that, directors of and the film, would be producing a television program about the podcast that will take a 'behind-the-scenes approach that details how Koenig went from virtual anonymity to creating one of 2014's biggest cultural phenomenons'. Season 1 (2014) [ ] Season 1 investigated the 1999 (: 이해민), an 18-year-old student at in, U.S. She was last seen at about 3 p.m.

On January 13, 1999. Her corpse was discovered on February 9 in and identified two days later.

The case was immediately treated as a homicide. Lee's ex-boyfriend, Adnan Masud Syed, was arrested on February 28 at 6 a.m. And charged with first-degree murder, which led to 'some closure and some peace' for Lee's family. A memorial service for Lee was held on March 11 at Woodlawn High School.

Syed's first trial ended in a mistrial, but after a six-week second trial, Syed was found guilty of Lee's murder on February 25, 2000, and given a life sentence, despite pleading his innocence. Syed did not speak in front of the jury. In February 2015, three weeks after the end of Season 1, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals filed a decision allowing Syed to appeal his conviction on grounds his attorney,, had provided ineffective counsel for failing to seek a plea bargain during his trial.

The Court also announced that another three-judge panel would address the question of whether new evidence from Asia McClain, providing an alibi for Syed, would be admitted. On June 30, 2016, Judge Martin P. Welch granted Syed's motion for post-conviction relief, setting aside the original conviction and calling for a new trial, agreeing that it demonstrated ineffective assistance of counsel that Syed's lawyers did not question the interpretation of cellphone tower evidence during the original trial. On March 29, 2018 the Maryland Appellate Court upheld the lower court ruling for a new trial in a 2-1 decision. The Court held that Syed's counsel was ineffective for failing to present alibi evidence and failing to question cellphone tower evidence.