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Probably true in my case. I guess what I meant to say is emotional events sometimes get frozen in your memory and it can make it easier to recall events on an emotional day as opposed to just regular, mundane days. I can definitely remember where I was, what I was doing, and even what I was wearing when I got the call that my friend had died, but I couldn't tell you a single thing I did any other day that week. I mean it was spring break of my senior year of high school so I was probably up to no good, but what exactly we did I'm not real sure.

Sure. I think emotion increases the likelihood one will remember the event(s) of that day.

I have two problems with the lack of memory being evidence of guilt in Adnan's case because he should have had an emotional response that day (from the phone call) and should remember that day better.

1. It seems reasonable not to have had much of an emotional response given that he was extremely high. In addition, it was only a few hours after school when he last saw her. Besides not picking up her cousin and not going to the wrestling meet, a 17-year-old not being accounted for a few hours after school is not especially alarming.

2. Even if he did have an emotional response at the time of phone call, that doesn't mean all the memories that happened earlier in the day became more evident (or even later), likey just the ones related to the emotional response.

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Posted by Big Scrub TX

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Posted on 11/21/14 at 4:19 pm to buckeye_vol

I didn't see this thread here until just today...but I have been gripped by Serial for the past month.

I thought Episode 9 really threw things off kilter. It's really becoming even more meta now, what with the real-time updates at the beginning. The Best Buy phone booth thing just seems really puzzling to me. Why would Jay make up something like that?

I think where I am now is that the prosecution definitely was faulty and there clearly was a reasonable doubt (I mean, come on...no physical evidence AND seemingly relevant players not even searched or interviewed by the police?!?!?)

However, it seems like only one or both of them are the people who did it. Why would Jay have implicated himself at all if he hadn't at least seen the body?

I generally don't buy the "psychopath trolling us all", but I will say that Adnan is extremely articulate, and thus would seem to be quite intelligent.

I really don't know what to make of it...between the timeline, the phone booth and the cell records, it seems like an unsolvable puzzle.

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