OT: Making A Murderer on Netflix

CyJack13

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Wasn't it Lenk that couldn't remember if it was the afternoon or night when he showed up and didn't sign in? I think he had said around 2 at his disposition maybe and 6-7 at a later date.

Other way around I think. Said around 2 at the trial which was right after they mentioned when the sign in log was established that afternoon.
 

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The way I see it the only two people it could possibly be is SA or Lenk. If Stevens relatives that were going hunting or the ladies brother and ex did it I don't think it is possible that the cops planted evidence just to get SA. So that would mean that either Stevens relatives or the ex and brother planted that evidence and I don't see that happening.

So to me the only 2 options are SA or Lenk. I am for sure leaning towards Lenks as being the killer. He was there when the majority of the evidence was found even though he wasn't suppose to be involved in the search. Also he had access to Stevens vial of blood.

If SA did kill her there is one thing that is for damn sure. He absolutely did not kill her where the prosecutors said he did. No freaking way.
 

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I think someone killed her, threw her in RAV4 burned her elsewhere and then tried to pin it on Avery. She was missing a couple days before it was reported. Avery was such an easy target. The only people with a motive was the police. Maybe a hit man. It was just such a messed up investigation. No other dna in rav besides that little blood. No Dna in the house. No samples taken from bedroom. No scuff marks on the bed post. I feel bad for the family but they must have some doubts without any Dna evidence. He had a crusher and smelt on the premises. No way he cleaned house and garage and left car and body parts around. Unreal that Brandon was given life with zero evidence. Brandon is the worst part of the entire thing.
 

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I think someone killed her, threw her in RAV4 burned her elsewhere and then tried to pin it on Avery. She was missing a couple days before it was reported. Avery was such an easy target. The only people with a motive was the police. Maybe a hit man. It was just such a messed up investigation. No other dna in rav besides that little blood. No Dna in the house. No samples taken from bedroom. No scuff marks on the bed post. I feel bad for the family but they must have some doubts without any Dna evidence. He had a crusher and smelt on the premises. No way he cleaned house and garage and left car and body parts around. Unreal that Brandon was given life with zero evidence. Brandon is the worst part of the entire thing.

http://youtu.be/DhlgZh28Fx8
 

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A couple of comments. Police are prevented from illegal coercing, which generally means they can't physically abuse someone, threaten their harm against them or their family, deny them food, sleep, etc. What the Wisconsin police did is fine. The court properly allowed it in and it was for the jury to decide how much weight to give it. The investigator was hired by Dassey's attorney, which is all the more odd. Len simply decided his guy was guilty, didn't want to try the case and was going to beat that kid into cooperating and pleading. If (if) I had to defend it, I would say that Len knew he'd get convicted regardless after that 1st confession and was trying to look out for his best interest and get him a deal vs. what he got.

I'm telling you, there is a lot of good people who when put on a jury like that will not have the courage to go against the police and the district attorney. They fear what their neighbors will say when they get off that jury, they fear the chance that the accused did it (and will do it again) and they make a mistake and let him go.

No, it's not.

It may be legal, but it's not "fine." If you hand me a kid with a cognitive disability like Brendan, I could have him confessing to intentionally sinking Atlantis inside of half an hour. They told the kid that he was a liar almost 80 times in 3 hours. That's people you have been told are the good guys, and the authority, telling you you're a liar every 2.25 minutes. That's coercion, and even if it's legal, it's not "fine."
 

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no, it was not. the sheriff released this information because he's getting non-stop calls. his comment was that the filmmakers didn't show all the evidence against him because it would have hurt their cause. i'm not saying he did or didn't do it - only that i would believe the filmmakers would leave things out.

it wasn't the Sheriff, it was Kratz.

The phone calls to Auto Trader were admitted into evidence, but the judge disallowed the testimony giving it context. According to one coworker, Teresa was creeped out by them, citing that the first meeting with him he answered the door in just a bath towel. Another coworker related how she thought it was hilarious, and only told coworkers about it it in a "crazy people I've dealt with" sort of joking way. The coworker that claimed she was creeped out by Avery heard it from another coworker that heard it from Teresa.

As for leaving stuff out - the film makers admit this. They say that it was a 16 week trial, and even with 10 hours of documentary, some stuff had to be edited out. They edited out a lot of the defense as well. They felt that testimony of the two family members, combined with DNA on the bullet and no EDTA in the blood represented the strongest portions of the prosecution, and left out the chaff that wasn't as important.
 

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I was walking out of the house when it started but Good Morning America was doing a story on this.
 

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/making-murderer-filmmakers-just-revealed-145808049.html

"Making a Murderer" creators Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos appeared on the "Today" show on Tuesday to reveal a new twist to the story of Steven Avery: At least one juror believes Avery was framed by the police.
Ricciardi and Demos' Netflix documentary series follows the trial of Avery, who was convicted of murder in the death of photographer Teresa Halbach. Throughout the trial, Avery's lawyers argued that Avery was set up by the local police, whom they accused of planting their client's blood on Halbach's car and leaving her keys in his bedroom.
According to Ricciardi, the filmmakers were contacted by one of the jurors after the series was released last month.
"They believe Steven Avery was not proven guilty — they believe Steven was framed by law enforcement and that he deserves a new trial,"Ricciardi told the "Today" hosts. "And if he receives a new trial, in their opinion, it should take place far away from Wisconsin."

The filmmakers said the unnamed juror told them the juror's vote to find Avery guilty was made out of fear.
"Obviously we asked this person, 'So, explain what happened, why did you cast your vote for guilty?'" Demos said on "Today." "And what they told us was they feared for their personal safety."
While this may not have an immediate legal impact on Avery's conviction, it is further fuel for theories that he unfairly sits in prison.
 
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I just now put two and two together. Kiss the Girls was an Alex Cross novel. That specific book in mind was pretty disturbing, which made it great.
 

ISUCubswin

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Got about halfway through Dear Zachary and was so ****** Canada let Zachary's mother out on bail that I turned off the TV.

So I just now googled the finish.

Wow. Makes me sick.
 

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The other part of the Today Show appearance was to say that jurors traded votes. That's how he was convicted of murder but not dismembering the body.
 

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didn't one Defense lawyer say the first vote of the jury prior to the dismissed lawyer was 7 voted innocent, 2 guilty and 3 undecided.....
 

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I think this may be a case where Avery (or someone else in his family) committed the crime, AND he was framed by the police. I don't think there is much of a chance that the story the prosecution constructed of the murder is accurate. The police didn't think they had the evidence to convict him, so they framed him and created the timeline of how everything went down. That doesn't mean he didn't actually do it though, it still seems very likely given the legitimate evidence (including what wasn't presented in the documentary) that he did it. His nephew? He should be exonerated... I cannot believe what the lawyers, including his own defense did to him, and he obviously wasn't competent mentally to be interviewed on his own like that. He would've done anything they told him to do.

I don't buy that the county murdered the woman in order to frame him though... not because they aren't capable of it (some seriously terrible people there), but because I don't think they had the foresight and planning to logistically make it all happen and keep it all under wraps.
 

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What about Avery's brother-in-law, Tadych? His testimony was very sketchy. Tadych said he saw Halbach taking pictures, but she was gone by 3 p.m. The bus driver said she saw Halbach from 3:30 to 3:40. the bus driver's testimony is one of the more reliable in the case. He exaggerated the height of the flames coming from Avery's bonfire. The defense mentioned him trying to sell a .22 to one of the Dassey brothers (Halbach was killed with a .22). He was quoted after the verdict as saying Avery "got what was coming to him," and "This was the best thing that could have happened," or something to that effect. He was familiar with, probably lived (although I'm not positive of that) on the Avery acreage. He clearly did not like Steven Avery and perhaps had the capability of framing him. At teh very least, his testimony was a crock of ****.
 

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