Serial episode 3 leakin park answers

Serial link: https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/3/leakin-park

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Serial, Episode Three ("Leakin Park") tells the story of "Mr. S." When you are first hearing the interview with "Mr. S." while he is in police custody, do you find his version of how he came across Hae's body believable? What specifically does he say (or not say) that causes him to be believable or not? Then, when you learn of Mr. S's record and the specific nature of his crimes, does that make him and his story more or less believable? What does the knowledge of his crimes do (if anything) to the way you think about him? If it causes you to change the way you think about his believability, why?

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ENGL 1302 – Formal Response (Episode Three)

April 2nd, 2016

Leakin Park

When I first heard the story Mr. S gave the police I found it kind of shady. The fact that he found a body in a very secluded area of the park by accident just doesn’t sit right. How does one stumble upon a body that, according to the records, was so well hidden? As the interview continues, things seem to get a bit clearer for me when he says he went that far in to not be seen and that that’s when he saw the black hair. My question is, how did he know it was a person? It could’ve easily been a wig that someone dropped. When Sarah Koeing explains where he stopped and where the body was located things seem to go back to suspicious. He was on the opposite side of the tree, so why did he look over it? Another thing that he says that kind of makes his story questionable is that he also saw a foot. Koeing and everybody else that saw images or that happened to be at the site where Hae was found made it seem like you couldn’t see anything but her hair. The surveyor almost stepped on the body, so how was Mr. S able to spot it that easily?

As for his criminal record, I don’t believe that the nature of his crimes makes him less believable. Streaking, as Koeing stated, is not a violent crime. Just because he likes to expose himself, doesn’t necessarily make him a murderer. To me, learning about his crime didn’t change my thoughts about him. I still believe his story was kind of weird but didn’t really seem incriminating. I think if his crimes would’ve been of a violent nature it would’ve been easier to pin the murder on him. The fact that he went to the police when he found the body speaks volumes to me, though. If he did commit the crime and had gotten away with it for about a month, why would he turn himself in now? The cops had no leads to him so he had what some people would call the “perfect crime.” Why would he jeopardize his freedom like that? In some ways, I find it hard to believe that he just stumbled upon the body while relieving himself in the woods, but on the other hand, I don’t believe that someone who murders another person would just put everything at risk like that.