AMERICAN CRIME STORIES VOLUME 1: Adnan Syed and Making a Murderer - 2 Books in 1 Featuring... *Adnan Syed*Making a Murderer 2 Great Books in 1! Adnan Syed In 2014, the story of a decade-old murder of a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland became a sensation when the podcast Serial finally told the story of Hae Min Lee, a popular student at Woodlawn High School who was murdered in January 1999. The little-known story was finally able to receive the national attention it deserved. The story of the horrific murder of a young girl with a promising future captivated 100 million listeners and generated an interest in the case. This growing interest and public awareness resulted in a new trial and previously ignored evidence to be taken into account. At the centre of the case is the young man proven guilty and tried for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Adnan Syed. Syed has now spent over half his life in prison and possibly for nothing and has proclaimed his innocence the entire time. Like many cases, this one is surrounded in doubt, mistrial, unreliable stories, and unreliable evidence which sent a potentially innocent man to prison for almost twenty years. Making a Murderer The man known for Making A Murderer, the documentary of the darkest chapters of his life, was born by the name of Steven Avery on July 9th in 1962. A native of Manitowoc County in Wisconsin, the infamous events that birthed the television show series about him started with a wrongful conviction in 1985 for sexual assault and attempted murder. He was imprisoned for long enough to serve eighteen of the thirty-two years of his sentence before DNA evidence exonerated him and he was released. Two years later, the nightmare began anew when he faced a much longer sentence after being charged with murder. After being exonerated in 2003, discussions were started about the criminal justice system in Wisconsin, which led to the Criminal Justice Reform Bill in 2005. This bill brought reforms into action that were meant to stop wrongful convictions in the future. Also in 2003, Steven Avery filed a civil lawsuit for a total of $36 million that was aimed at Manitowoc County, its former district attorney, and its former sheriff and for his wrongful conviction and imprisonment. This civil suit for his previous wrongful conviction and imprisonment was still pending when he was arrested again in November of 2005. By 2007, he'd been convicted of the murder of a local photographer and was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility in the future for parole...