Carried by strong winds, the smoke spread across Broward and Miami-Dade counties, creating a fog-like effect that alarmed locals.

The victim, Hae Min Lee, was strangled and buried in a shallow grave in 1999. Through the years, Syed maintained his innocence.

At Hurricane Gulch, another notorious patch just off Sausalito where the wind screams down from the Marin Headlands, Maixner watches for fog billowing over the ridges ... what wind does to smoke, dust ...