Adnan Syed, the 35-year-old at the center of the podcast "Serial," was granted a new trial by a Baltimore court Thursday.

Syed has spent the last 16 years in prison since he was convicted in 2000 of killing his former high school girlfriend Hae Min Lee. The case and the controversy surrounding it later became the basis of the hit podcast.

Below is a timeline of the events in question leading to Syed's murder charges.