Serial nears its end, but the Reddit detectives keep working

Podcast’s runaway success has inspired online commenters to carry out their own investigations – a phenomenon which at last seems to have been acknowledged by the show“I was just curious like everybody else … I just figured out where he lives and found out it wasn’t far,” a Reddit user messaged me late last month.The “he” the user was describing was Jay, the prosecution’s main witness in the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee. That’s the Baltimore case which Serial, the viral podcast