Adnan Syed was released from prison in September 2022 after serving 23 years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee; the release came about because there were two “alternative suspects” in the prosecution files. The specific statements about their potential guilt had not been turned over to Adnan’s defense, thus constituting a Brady violation. Because of this violation, the Baltimore prosecutor’s office felt that there was enough doubt about the verdict that Adnan should be freed. At first the suspects’ names were withheld from the public, and those who knew their identities were asked not to divulge them or even offer speculation. But now the names are known to the general public, as was, of course, inevitable. One, Alonzo Sellers, is discussed in the material below; the other, Bilal Ahmed, has not been on my radar at all. Bilal is the man who co-signed Adnan’s contract for his infamous cell phone and who met with Adnan on the evening of 1/13/99 to go over the Ramadan prayers that would be led at the mosque on the night of Jan 14, the day after Hae disappeared. Bilal is now in prison for sexual assault and is probably the one who said he was going to “make Hae disappear.” I’m highly dubious, though, that he actually was involved in her murder, as I don’t see how he could have waylaid and killed her between the time she left school on 1/13/99 and the time she was supposed to pick up her little cousin. As is outlined below and has been said in many other theories, someone almost certainly contacted Hae via her pager on that afternoon and lured her to her death. Could/would Bilal have known Hae’s pager number? Seems doubtful to me. Was he following her around on the off chance that he’d have a chance to kill her? Again, doubtful.
Hae Min Lee murder
Clues to Hae’s Murder in the “Don Note”
As I said in my theory of the case as outlined in my now-revised post, the root cause of Hae Min Lee’s murder was her obsession with Don Clinedinst. To say this is not to blame the victim, but it is to explain her. Had she only flirted with him and hinted that she’d like to go out with him but never gone any further, I firmly believe that she would not have been murdered on Jan. 13, 1999. And Adnan Syed would never have served over 20 years in prison for a crime that he didn’t commit.