So, now that I've finished, I decided to check in and it's surprising how this story has snowballed and is now being dissected by the internet(at a cursory glance anyway) while some sort of litigation is still proceeding. It's one thing to have the conversation framed as uncovering a mystery from 15 years ago via a little podcast that will at most(presumably) rally enough attention to force another look at the case down the road, this is something else now.
Here's some stuff that stood out to me, I'm sure if you've been discussing it for the past however long it's old news:
1. It was Adnon's idea to loan the car and phone.
2. Adnon can't confidently account for his whereabouts on that day not only before but post the missing persons detective's phone call.
3. Adnon's phone is in the Leakin park area during the time the body was supposedly buried and it's supposed to be in Adnon's possession at the time.
4. There's a call from Adnon's phone to someone Jay doesn't know later that day.
5. Adnon is seen around town with Jay after school, at that girl's apartment where they smoked.
So, assuming you buy what Adnon is saying entirely, Jay quickly turns into a mastermind. He either manipulates Adnon in such a way that he's left thinking it was his idea to loan car and phone, or Jay seizes the moment and improvises a sort of plan to implicate Adnon when the opportunity presents itself on the spot. That's one. Opposite Jay, Adnon looks scatterbrained, how is a call from a missing persons detective not a landmark moment for recall? Remember he couldn't come up with something then, not just 15 years later at the present moment. That's two. Three and Five are related in that the alternate explanation must be that Jay is busy parading Adnon and himself around town during that time. He does this knowingly, to leave a connection between them for when the heat eventually catches up to him. But, he's not only borderline brilliant on this day, he's lucky too because it just so coincides that they hit off the Leakin Park tower at the time he would later claim they buried the body together(which would then have to be buried at another time in a completely unrelated, untold manner). How does that work? That's three and five. Last is the phone call. Butt dial? No, no way. I suppose it's slightly more feasible that our mastermind Jay decided to speed dial a number on Adnon's phone for precisely this reason. Because someone would check and note that it sure as hell appears that it is Adnon who is using the phone at a crucial time. And wasn't this one of the first cases to use cell phone tech.? Jay is really on his game and up to speed on the latest in police tactics. That or another unlucky coincidence, Adnon can't remember when he did what, so he did call, but his shaky account for that day is undermined by himself there. Turning that alibi from shaky to somewhere below worthless, suspect is the word, I suppose. That's four.
So, the question is then: what is Adnon lying about? We know Jay is lying, Sarah doesn't have to work hard to paint him as Baron Munchhausen, he does it himself. But how involved in Adnon really?
EDIT: I wonder why we never got a piece of tape. Sarah: Jay knew the location of Hae's car. How could that be? And then Adnon would answer. Were his thoughts on that topic ever voiced?