mama's boy

Interviews in Serial (including ones from Adnan) do acknowledge that Jay was known as a resident bad boy at Woodlawn High School.

A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.

You see, I'd always thought of him as the boy whom Great-aunt Lucia described having seen.

Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw, for he knew the boy was talking about him.

A look of passion came into the face of the watching boy, and again he fingered his revolver.

Several times after this the boy and his sisters came to look down into the pig pen.