Jay, made famous by podcast 'Serial,' finally shares his story

Serial , the podcast about the 1999 murder of Baltimore teenager Hae Min Lee, became the most popular podcast on iTunes this fall. Host Sarah Koenig talked to Adnan Syed, the man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend Hae, and spoke with officials, friends, relatives and investigators to figure out whether Adnan actually committed the crime. One person who did not speak on the record with Koenig and her colleagues is Adnan's former classmate Jay Wilds, the star witness in the trial against Adnan.

Jay is finally telling his story to The Intercept. The first part of a series about Jay, with a current photo if him, is online now.

Here's how he says the day of the murder went:

• "We (Adnan and I) were in the car together during last period (and he said) 'I gotta go do something. I’m going to be late for practice, so just drop me off. Take my car, take my cellphone. I’ll call you from someone else’s phone when I’m done.’


• Jay drops Adnan off, goes to the mall to get his girlfriend a gift, goes to his friend Jenn's to smoke, gets a call to pick Adnan up at Best Buy


• "So I go to pick him up, and when I get there he says, ‘Oh (crap), I did it.’ I say, ‘Did what?’ He says, ‘I killed Hae.’"


• "He said, ‘You’ve gotta help me, or I’m gonna tell the cops about you and the weed and all that (crap).’ And then he popped the trunk and I saw Hae’s body."


• Jay agrees to help bury Hae, because he's worried about being sent to jail for dealing weed at his grandmother's house


• The two dig Hae's grave in Leakin Park for about 40 minutes


• Jay drops Adnan at his car, Adnan drives to Hae's car, which has Hae's body


• Adnan buries Hae and leaves her car behind some row houses


• Adnan gets into his own car and takes Jay home


• When questioned, Jay stonewalled police as much as possible "until they told me they weren't trying to prosecute me for selling weed, or trying to get any of my friends in trouble"