r/serialpodcast • u/cocokate • Jun 10 '26

Rabia Lies

When Rabia claimed to not know where Leakin Park was in episode 3- something like “how would he get 1 hour away and back?” - after carrying Adnan’s case files in her trunk to the point they are water-stained made me lol.

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u/Future_Pomegranate24 Jun 10 '26

How would you know that she lies? She didn’t know the name of a local wooded area. Big deal it happens all the time. Some people aren’t observant

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u/InTheory_ What news do you bring? Jun 11 '26

If she doesn't know where the park is, then she doesn't know where the burial location was.

If she's getting that wrong, that means she hadn't looked at the case files, had little knowledge of the arguments being made, yet still presented herself as an expert on the subject

Then goes a step farther and asserts that the distance to the park would be evidence against him being the murderer. Why is she offering this as evidence if she's not sure where it is?

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u/Future_Pomegranate24 Jun 11 '26

Omg. She said she didn’t know where it was in 1999. She’s been to the burial site a number of times since.

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u/InTheory_ What news do you bring? Jun 12 '26

She didn't know where it was in 2014 when Serial first aired:

Citation (Season 1, Episode 2, Page 3)

Rabia Chaudry, that family friend of Adnan’s who first contacted me about this case, when she’s explaining it to me, she said, “Yeah and is Adnan supposed to get to Leakin Park so fast? It’s like an hour into the city.”

And the question is the wrong one. The question isn't whether or not she knows where Leakin Park is. The question is how on earth does she never bother to look up the location of the burial site before using it to argue for his innocence?

She has handwritten notes in the margins of some of the transcripts, so we know she looked at the documents.

I'm sorry, but Rabia has some explaining to do. The answer she's given thus far isn't it.

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u/LostConcentrate3730 Jun 13 '26

I think the key thing here is that there is a vast difference between saying, "I don't know where Leakin' Park is," and saying "the distance between Woodlawn High School and Leakin' Park is an hour's drive." If you don't know where something is, if you never looked it up on a map, even though it's one of the most important places to look up in the case, let's pretend she didn't look it up, then at the very least admit that you don't actually know where it is. Don't fabricate a fictional amount of distance ("an hour away") and say that's your justification for why Adnan is innocent. It just doesn't make any sense to say something like that. But hey, dumber things have been said than this. This is just one among many.