![]() ![]() ![]() “But trying to do it as a serial, this is as old as Dickens.” Maybe in podcast form it is, and trying to do it as a documentary story is really, really hard,” Koenig told the Guardian. High-school student Hae Min Lee went missing early in 1999, and after her body was found a few weeks later, her former boyfriend Adnan Syed was arrested and convicted of murder, before being sentenced to life plus 30 years in prison. Serial was launched as an offshoot from US radio show This American Life, as an experiment in “audio storytelling” based on reporter Sarah Koenig’s investigation into the real-life murder mystery. According to Apple, it is the fastest podcast to reach 5m downloads and streams in iTunes’ history, having been a fixture in the company’s podcast charts in the US, Canada, UK and Australia, but also reaching the top 10 in Germany, South Africa and India. ![]()
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