January 13, 1999) was a Korean-American high school senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States, who disappeared on January 13, 1999. Her body was found four weeks later in Leakin Park, the victim of murder by manual strangulation. Adnan Syed (Urdu: عدنان سید‎), her ex-boyfriend, was convicted in February 2000 of first-degree murder and given a life sentence plus 30 years.