BALTIMORE — The author of the decades-old handwritten note Baltimore prosecutors cited as central to their argument to overturn Adnan Syed’s murder conviction in September now says his note was misinterpreted.
The note describes a threat made against Hae Min Lee that was relayed to Kevin Urick, the former Baltimore assistant state’s attorney who prosecuted Syed in 2000 and is the note’s author. Killed in 1999, Lee was Syed’s ex-girlfriend and his Woodlawn High School classmate.
“He told her that he would make her disappear. He would kill her,” Urick wrote more than two decades ago.
