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Murder of Hae Min Lee (Baltimore 1999)

SOLVEDLeakin Park, Baltimore, Maryland0:42

Hae Min Lee, an 18-year-old Baltimore County high school student, was strangled and found buried in Leakin Park in February 1999. Judge Jennifer Schiffer resentenced Lee's ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, to time served; conviction remains reinstated. Send this to someone from Baltimore.

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Her little cousin waited at daycare. Hae Min Lee never came. She was last seen leaving Woodlawn High at 2:15 PM — January 13th, 1999. Four weeks later, she was found in Leakin Park. Strangled. Her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, got life. Case closed. Then a podcast tore it back open, and the world took sides. Conviction thrown out in 2022 — after 23 years. Reinstated on appeal. In 2025 — resentenced to time served. Twenty-seven years on, people still argue. Where do you stand? See every citation on casepin dot org.

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