guilty or not??

Jacob's classmate Sarah killed Ben. It is not a coincidence that she is black, because this story is mainly about white privilege and white guilt.

That little weirdo either did it(most likely) or he is the stupidest innocent person to ever get accused of a crime. It's like he wanted to look as guilty as possible and hamstring his own defense at every turn.

In the book he is guilty and I think that he is guilty in the serie as well

Definitely guilty.

Who doesn't call the police if they happen upon a dead body?!?! The cover up story Jacob told was lame and full of holes as evidenced by the scene when the attorney was asking him simple questions about what happened. He was easily rattled. The JOB story was much more believable b/c it's what happened. What teen isn't a little rattled when seeing a dead classmate? Jacob was happy at school and was playing games that same night?!?! He made crazy meme of himself. He immediately ran away when the police were at his house. He had a knife. He had motive. He had opportunity. He has sociopathic/psychopathic tendencies. He did it, IMO.

That's the easy theory.

My alternative theory is that somebody else killed him, some other student who knew Jacob and knew the guilty association was a dream come true. It could be Derek, or someone the viewers haven't been introduced to before. I think the show could go in that direction, while teasing us that it could be Jacob.

There's no doubt that the kid has got problems, and at worst is a psychopath. But that doesn't mean that he's guilty. Plenty of psychopaths exist without killing - I know, I've worked with them lol.

Guilty, definitely. He's a little weirdo, creepy kid.

The fact that they don't even tell you is annoying. Ambiguous endings suck.