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16th July 2020, 07:06 PM | #361 |
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I just went straight to Day 3, as Chris suggested, and read from there. Kayla's testimony is the first 22 pages.
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16th July 2020, 07:29 PM | #362 |
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excerpts from Kayla's testimony
I may have made some mistakes transcribing it. It sounds as if she repudiated everything that she had said earlier.
The questioner is Attorney Fallon. p. 13 Q. All right. What did Brendan tell you about the fire? You'll have to pull the microphone a little closer so we can hear you. A. He didn't tell me anything. I--I kind of made up the statement. And I'm sorry. p. 15 Q. And in the written statement that I just showed you, you reported that Brendan told you he had seen body parts in the fire on Halloween; right? A. Yes. But that's not true. Q. All right. And you also told the officers in a separate conversation that day that you had seen -- or that Brendan had seen Teresa alive in Steven's trailer? A. Yes. Q. All right. So you're telling us you made something up to get Brendan into trouble? Not really. I was just really confused about everything. A. Yes. Q. All right. And that she was pinned up in a chair? A. Yes. But that's not true. Q. All right. Now, you're saying today you made that up? A. Yes. Q. All right. So you're telling us you made something up to get Brendan into trouble? A. Not really. I was just really confused about everything. p. 19 Attorney Fremgen is the questioner. Q. Okay so you were lying to the police officer? A. Yes. |
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"All right, I'm just gonna to come out and ask you. Who shot her in the head?"
Officer Weigert. |
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17th July 2020, 03:08 AM | #366 |
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Kayla later claimed at trial that she lied. However this was to protect Brendan.
She told police the exact same thing Brendan told the police. Teresa tied up in Avery's trailer and Brendan helping him move the body. The idea that Brendan and Kayla both made up the same story stretches credulity. |
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Officer Weigert killed Teresa? Despite the fact the murder weapon is hanging on Avery's bedroom wall, her bones are in Avery's burn pit, his blood is in the victims car and his nextdoor neighbor said they both raped and killed her?
Are you smoking crack? that's crazy! |
17th July 2020, 05:28 AM | #368 |
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No, that's who asked Brenden that exceedingly leading question.
There was no evidence Teresa was ever in Avery's bedroom, no DNA evidence on the restraints other than Avery's and it was on the handcuffs and leg shackles. There was no evidence that the shackles were attached to the bed. There was no evidence that any of Teresa's blood was in Avery's sink like Brenden said Avery washed her blood off of him in his sink after Avery stabbed her. ANd what about the Black Jack creeper? There were stains on it, indicating that it wasn't cleaned, but the stains were not blood, so Brenden's testimony that they used the creeper to transfer Teresa to the burn pit is false. Brenden's confession is false. |
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17th July 2020, 05:57 AM | #369 |
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They never thoroughly searched Avery's trailer for Teresa's DNA. And he was cleaning the place out with a rug doctor machine not long after she died.
Brendan's confession is not false. He confessed to his cousin Kayla pior to talking to police. They found human bones in the quarry where Brendan said Avery hid some. They found a bullet with the victims DNA on where Brendan said the victim was shot. The bullet was matched to the gun that Brendan said Avery used. Brendan said the victim was shot in the left side of the head and they found bullet holes to the left of the victims skull. |
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Yeah, they did, they tested samples from the sink Avery supposedly washed his hands after stabbing Teresa and found none of her DNA, just Avery's.
Everything he confessed to was fed to him from the police during his interrogation. Kayla recanted all that on the witness stand. Again, information fed to him by the police. Read the transcript of Brenden's interrogation, he said she was shot outside the garage, then inside the garage, he is not credible for the location of the alleged shooting. Oh Really? Fifty-fifty guess. |
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And?
The police never told Brendan she was raped. The police never told Brendan she was shot with Avery's 22. The police never told Brendan that Avery asked him if he "wanted some pussy" "that's how you do it" "did it feel good" and that he was proud of him for raping her. That does not mean she was lying at first. Really? Brendan is the one who brought up the bones in the gravel pit. "FASSBENDER: And what I’m understanding is then in the back of both your yards or his yards, down toward into the pit, over that area? BRENDAN: In like Radandt’s pit. FASSBENDER: Oh, Radandt’s pit? (Brendan nods “yes”) not into your ah, (Brendan shakes head “no”) the salvage yard area? (Brendan shakes head “no”) You think you’ll be able to show us that? BRENDAN: (nods “yes”) Yeah." So I guess they must have planted the bones in Radandt’s pit to corroborate what Brendan "made up"? |
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"Okay."
" None were consistent with Teresa Halbach?" "Correct" That's testimony from Ms. Culhane, evidently Teresa was never in the bedroom where alleged rapes took place. So she wasn't raped where Brendan says she was raped. The police definitely told Brendan that she was shot, before he was asked who shot her, he was saying she was only stabbed, after that he embellished the story quite a bit. The thing is, if Brendan says they used one of two black jack creepers to move the body, which has been stabbed, the throat cut, shot anywhere from 2 to 10 times, to the fire pit, and there are stains on both creepers indicating that they had not been cleaned, but there was no blood on either creeper. Kind of puts a hole in the theory that they cleaned up the crime scene. |
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Switching topics to the case against Dassey, one has to wonder why would Kayla make this statement and then try to recant it on the witness stand? I don't have an answer for that, and it's always bothered me how dysfunctional this whole family is and the heavy price they all had to pay for it.
Everyone seemed to be more than willing to throw Steven Avery under the bus, and not just once but numerous times. As a parent myself it's just beyond belief that Brendan was interviewed multiple times without at least a parent present. In her defense though she claims she was not notified, but that doesn't explain why it was allowed to happen more than once. I am sure they might have believed at the time they were doing the right thing, and they might have felt even more justified if they are trying to nail Avery, but how they failed to see what was coming is just beyond me. Cases like this are the reason I tell my child that if they are ever in this situation they are to immediately tell me and not to say anything without a parent there. This is real life, not the movies. "Can you come down to the station and answer a few questions for us?". No. Hell no. |
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Exactly. There is only one logical explanation.
Brendan had told Kayla that he had seen Teresa pinned up in Avery's trailer, because that is what Brendan had witnessed. Kayla did not know how much Brendan was truly involved and told the police without knowing how much trouble she would later get him in. |
17th July 2020, 09:19 AM | #375 |
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No, that testimony from Ms Culhane explains why Avery was cleaning up his place and using a rug doctor the day after she died.
Had they looked harder they probably would have found Halbachs DNA. But why waste more tax payers money when they already have a mountain of evidence? The creepers where not looked at until months after the crime took place. Once you clean something, it gets dirty months later The only information police fed Brendan was Teresa having tattoos on her stomach. Which unsuprisingly Brendan refused to confirm such a thing. https://streamable.com/kfrk3 |
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They were both children, I don't think we should put much weight on what either of them said. For that reason, I can't really say with any amount of certainty that what either of them said was true. I don't think Kayla was naďve enough to not understand that Brendan would in fact get in serious trouble. Kids, especially teens, are a lot smarter and more observant than we give them credit for.
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17th July 2020, 09:42 AM | #377 |
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What Kayla said Brendan said. Is the exact same thing Brendan admitted to the police. It’s not plausible that they would both make up the same story independently.
Brendan and Steven both admit they were together that night. Both in the garage and at the bonfire. One cannot be innocent while the other is guilty. Unsurprisingly the innocent explanations from Brendan contradicts Stevens. For example Steven said Brendan was helping him clean up rain deer blood in the Garage while Brendan claims he was helping Steven clean up car oil in the garage. |
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They were family, and both shared an uncle in Steven Avery. I think that it's quite possible they talked a lot while all this was going on. You're also leaving a lot out...if you read Kayla's statement two things are clear:
1. It's not an elaborate story at all. Brendan is the one who told a story in his confession. She could have easily picked up what she said from the media or from other members of her family, all of whom made it clear that they did not like Steven Avery. 2. She hates her uncle. She says exactly that, one does not need to infer anything. You also brought up the allegations Kayla had against her Uncle, so you can't deny she had a reason to make things up to bury her Uncle. https://www.websleuths.com/forums/th...tement.298789/ It is entirely possible she thought she was doing the right thing and wanted only to see her Uncle pay for what he did, both to Teresa and to herself. She quite clearly realized though that she had also helped seal Brendan's fate, which is why she is so upset at trial. I don't think that these are crocodile tears as some have said. Like I said, as a parent I have a lot of empathy for these kids being pulled into the madness of their Uncle, and I'm not going to discard that family dynamic. The law doesn't work this way however, and they were tried and convicted separately. Of course, if Brendan was there that night then he is guilty of a crime, but the evidence does not show he is guilty of the same crimes as Avery. Okay, but not much to do with Kayla and why she would have made an initial statement to the police and then say she lied at the trial. |
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So the lying cops couldn't come up with a truthful control question?
Obviously Brendan was making stuff up, rather than being truthful, because he gave differing accounts of nearly everything the cops asked him about. Until he said what the cops wanted him to say, and you think that is the truth? Examples being where Teresa was shot, where on her body she was shot, what he saw in the fire etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. |
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There is no such thing as a truthful control question. The whole point of a control question is to ascertain whether someone is lying by feeding them a lie.
Brendan said he had seen Teresa naked. Cops tell Brendan "we know Teresa had Tattoos". Brendan said she didn't have any tattoos. Hence he was being truthful with them. If he was repeating stuff he was being fed as you claim he would have said yes she did have tattoos. Make sense? |
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Dassey said he witnessed Avery shoot Teresa with his .22 in the garage. After this admission by Brendan, Investigators find a .22 spent bullet from Avery's 22 rifle with the victims DNA on. They also got a luminol reaction in the exact spot Brendan said he cleaned up the blood. Brendan also knew there were human bones hidden in the quarry pit. Hence he is guilty of being party to a murder and helping to cover it up. |
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The date on Kayla's statement
Point taken. Something that had escaped my notice until I went to the Websleuths link that was posted is that the date on Kayla's statement 03/07/06 is after Brendan's interrogation. To the best of my knowledge there are no recordings or transcripts of what Kalya said earlier.
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That is because Teresa never had any Tattoos.
You are misinterpreting Imprecise and vague statements. He is saying they took her outside as in took her out of Averys trailer. There is no well defined directly expressed admission that they shot her outside the trailer. |
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Brendan and the tattoo portion of the interrogation
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Just my opinion, but a control question ought to be something harder to guess than a 50/50 proposition.
After that question when Fassbender asked him if he believed them that Teresa had a tattoo, (they were lying at that point), he responded that he didn't know what the tattoo was. So we have Brendan answering both ways, and you claim he passed the control question. Jeez, I hope you never get interrogated like that for something you didn't do. We have some judges on record saying the confession was coerced and some that say it wasn't, so at this point we can only agree to disagree. I do find it objectionable that in this country it is legal for cops to lie to you. |
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Poor Brendan. Kayla made up a story to the police and then Brendan made up the same story. Then cops planted the victims bones in the quarry and planted a bullet with the victims DNA on. All to corroborate what he “made up”.
Poor Steven Avery. The victim was last seen alive walking to his trailer. Then he has an 8 hour bonfire in in his burn pit before someone planted her bones there. |
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When The Atheist changed his mind on the Lundy murders he announced it on thread and posted to his website.
This is very unusual and quite interesting. We all imagine we would pivot (to employ a fashionable term), but it seems we don't. I am trying to imagine pivoting and being satisfied Brendan witnessed Teresa being raped in shackles, then emulated. Watched her shot twice inside and outside the garage, helped Brendan move her in the car, then watched an 8 hour bonfire. He also watched Steve open the hood of the car and disconnect the batteries of the Rav 4 in a distant location. I may be missing some data... |
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When I finished watching the first series of MAM. I was open minded about Avery's case. But convinced Brendan was innocent.
Then with all the subsequent publicity. All the case files were released to the internet along the the questioning footage. Then it became apparent that the whole series was grossly misleading and made purely for profit and entertainment. There is no shame in admitting being duped by the show, as it deliberatley omitted so much crucial evidence from the viewers. |
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Avery and Dasseys guilt or innocence are not mutually exclusive. This has always been a troubling case because there is so much evidence pointing to Avery, but of course he maintains his innocence and never confessed (saying to his attorney "what me and Brendan done that night" is not a confession). There is very little evidence pointing at Dassey other than this confession.
Brendan could have given a false confession but still be guilty of at least accessory. I don't think we'll ever know the truth. It would help in finding the truth though if discussions didn't tend to conflate the two separate trials and evidence presented in each. |
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