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In this Ted talk, Scott Fraser talks about a cold blood drive by murder in California. A father was shot and killed in this drive by by teenagers in the city. They found the suspect shooter in 24 hours, convicted him for 1st degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison. So what's wrong with this? In the podcast Serial, a high school teenager was charged with the murder of his ex girlfriend. Fraser states that the human mind will only store in bits and pieces of the experience in front of us. He states that when it is time to recall information from what we experienced, people have incomplete information and the brain will fill in information that was not there or what someone experienced. It's called reconstructive memories and it happens in every aspect of our lives. In the podcast, the narrator and investigator on this case questioned many students at the high school about the young girl Hae Min Lee and the suspected murderer Adnan Syed. Adnan is questioned and has trouble trying to remember what happened so long ago. He says he is innocent, but there are people testifying otherwise. His close friend at the school goes back on some of the things he's said also and seems hard to remember the past events that happened on that January evening. Like Fraser stated, many people/eyewitnesses will forget important info from things they experienced and it was clear that this is what happened with many students that had many different stories. Their brains tried to put selective information in the gaps that they couldn't remember and either nothing was adding up or the story was constantly changing. Reconstructive memories make it to where a person will never recall the true occurring events and only can put together what their minds tell them. So, this is why eyewitnesses get testimonials wrong.
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