Murder of Hae Min Lee

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Hae Min Lee (Korean: 이해민; October 15, 1980 – January or February, 1999) was a Korean-American high school student who went missing on January 13, 1999, in Baltimore County, Maryland, before turning up dead on February 9, 1999, when her corpse was discovered in Leakin Park, Baltimore. Her autopsy revealed that she had been killed by way of manual strangulation. Amidst an ongoing investigation by the Baltimore Police Department, Lee's ex-boyfriend Adnan Masud Syed (Urdu: عدنان مسعود سید; born May 21, 1981) was arrested on February 28, 1999, and put on trial for homicide. He was found guilty on all counts for the charges of kidnapping, false imprisonment, robbery, and first-degree murder; Syed was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years. Syed's friend Jay Wilds had confessed and pleaded guilty to being an accessory to the murder and was given a five-year suspended sentence. In 2014, the investigative journalism podcast Serial covered the events of Lee's killing, bringing renewed attention...

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