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I'd be interested in that answer as well. In an interview with the filmmakers that I'd read they said it was a combination of grants and personal money that paid for it.
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The treatment of Dassey by the police was child abuse. Disgusting.
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As an aside, I asked a number of family members and friends if they were planning to watch Making of a Murderer. Most had already started, and the remainder were planning to. All said "don't tell me anything". The documentary has certainly captured the imagination here.
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Which should be a message to all students of film making. People love crime mysteries, so get ahead of the curve. This is the modern world of crime solving. No longer can the machinery of state and judiciary foist provably corrupt practice. The searchlight is on. Film and documentary making is for seekers of truth, not just professionals.
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I withdraw it until I can find the proof. I read it somewhere and I should know better than to assert something for which I have no proof. Sorry.
I did also read they were "embedded with the defense" and I found that quote, but there is no proof offered for that statement either. I will say that the fact that they left out some important aspects of the case make it obvious the series was slanted toward the defense. There are 2 sides to every story and I think the series was quite adept at conveying the one side. I do not think there is any defense for what the authorities did to Brendan. That is certainly a travesty and I hope someone can right that situation. |
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I don't know about the defense being involved in making the documentary but I found a source for your other claims.
Steven Avery prosecutor Ken Kratz claims Netflix documentary Making a Murderer 'left out key evidence' And such is the problem with evidence by documentary. It may not be fair and balanced.
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I've only seen the first episode and while it looks like he was railroaded on the rape charge, he deserved the 14 years in prison for the torture of the cat. It appears that maybe a posse needs to be formed and extermination squads sent to that county to clean up the gene pool of low functioning citizens and worthless cops/prosecutors.
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Why? The police had the run of that salvage yard for eight days. How hard would it have been to simply move the remains to a spot closer to Avery?
Other things to remember regarding this particular point: - Other people lived on site at that salvage yard. Including Brendan Massey's stepfather and older brother. Who not only alibied each other (and whose alibis were contradicted by a third party), but also offered testimony against Avery. The police never treated either of them as a suspect. - There was an incinerator on the premises at the salvage yard. But Avery - for some inexplicable reason - chose to burn Halbach's body five feet from his trailer.
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I'm watching it now. I was surprised to read on the Wikipedia page that one of his crimes was dousing a cat with gasoline and throwing it into a fire. It's got me wondering why everyone in the documentary is acting like he is this swell guy who got railroaded. He got railroaded but that is some seriously horrifying ****. |
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Fair enough. But what this documentary was really about wasn't the guilt or innocence of Steven Avery, but rather the dubious tactics the state used to convict him and his nephew.
Steven Avery might have killed Teresa Halbach (I would argue that no compelling evidence has been presented that he did), but your inclination to not be convinced that he didn't is exactly the problem this series is highlighting. Our criminal justice system is supposed to work the other way around. |
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I've watched the whole series. I don't recall anyone making him out to be a "swell guy". He and his whole family came across as a bunch of skeevy ignorant hicks.
But even skeevy ignorant hicks who light cats on fire have the right to be treated fairly by our criminal justice system. Do you disagree? |
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Not only that, but he did seem to show genuine remorse throughout the doco. I'm certain many would have done something stupid and criminal as a teenager (while not as gross as this) and would not expect that the deed be held against them for the rest of their lives.
Please note I am not defending Avery at all, and he did get punished rightly for this crime. It simply should not be used to infer any guilt for murder. |
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No I don't disagree. But I don't think it's about him being "treated fairly" I couldn't care less how he was treated. I just think we need to be impartial and just in our systems.
It seems to me in watching the series that the outside investigators who came in know he did it. I do think they planted her key in his room and that the swipe of blood on the car seems suspicious. Did he have any cuts on him? Where did the blood come from? However, her burned body was found on his property, her car was there and he was the last person to see her alive. When they were interviewing him before she was found, I felt like he was lying (Don't start flipping out on me, I'm not saying that means he was guilty! It's just my impression after watching years of cops interviewing liars) If they planted the evidence but he's guilty it's a situation where the cops should be punished but in doing so the conviction would be overturned. That's a problem. There are several things left out of the documentary that make me question their objectivity. Here's a link on Daily Mail that explains some of them. (And I know it's daily fail!) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...cumentary.html The two calls with the number blocked and then the last one with it not blocked (because he knew she wouldn't pick up) were interesting to me. I was directed to this video by Ryan Ferguson who was vindicated by the Innocence Project. But in the case of Ryan Ferguson it is clear he was innocent. I'm not so sure on this guy. |
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Here's an article on the documentary:
http://www.npr.org/2016/01/05/461908...-of-a-murderer I'm watching the end of the series right now. I see no compelling reason to conclude that Avery killed Halbach. The police work was terrible and the evidence was tainted. This conviction needs a serious review. The poor kid was flat out bullied by those cops. Disgusting. |
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I found this interesting article that pretty much sums up how I feel.
http://www.pajiba.com/netflix_movies...nt-present.php |
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And the cut doesn't really fix a problem with the blood in the vehicle. No prints or anything else of Avery is inside the cabin of the RAV4. If he was wearing gloves so he wouldn't leave prints, how does the blood drip where it does? If he wasn't wearing gloves and just wiped everything down instead, how did he miss the blood especially next to the ignition?
The pajiba post has been pretty thoroughly answered elsewhere. Both the cat and threat are in episode one. Avery is on audio tape admitting both are true to the filmmakers. He had called Auto Trader several times because the salvage yard had listed several vehicles with them over the previous year. Testimony at trial was he'd asked for Teresa once. Excluded testimony is where the towel story comes from and the context of it isn't that Halbach was frightened - it was from a conversation with a receptionist, not her boss, and the receptionist says they both said Ewww and laughed about it. Either way that testimony was not presented to the jury. He did have cuffs and leg irons and those were swabbed. Avery and another person's (presumably Jodi) DNA came up on them, Halbach's did not. And finally the DNA on the hood latch could certainly have been planted, a solid swipe with a dirty sock would do it. I think it's absolutely possible Avery killed Halbach, it might even be likely. It's pretty easy to construct how it plays out from the most solid of the evidence, it's when you try to shoehorn Dassey's multiple narratives into it that the whole thing becomes nonsense. |
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This is what I mean about weird. People are acting like "Hey we can trust him, he admitted he doused a cat in gasoline and threw it into a fire....see how honest he was? He admitted it..."
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I can't speak for others but I will. LOL I've been reading alot about this case and if I had to estimate the way Avery's been characterized by most commenters 70% feel the way I do - Avery has warts, plenty of them. He's not an especially likable and certainly not an especially smart individual. The case against him however has some serious flaws and whatever one may think of Avery personally the whole thing is a troubling look small town justice. Avery had $400K to play with and was still convicted - imagine how it goes for people who don't have that kind of resource to draw from.
Brendan Dassey for example...the very first thing his public defender does is try to get him to plead guilty. He lets Dassey continue making statements to police. He sends in his own investigator to further pressure the kid. By the time Dassey gets new counsel, it's too late and the damage has been done. There's literally no physical evidence at all that ties him the the murder of Halbach. No witnesses that place them together. Zip. On the basis of his own muddled and manipulated statements and a pair of jeans with bleach on them, that kid was sentenced to life for raping and killing a woman. To me that's the point the series is trying to make, it's showing how slanted the system is against people like Avery and Dassey - people who are not well connected, not wealthy, not well liked, not terribly bright. |
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Im up to episode 6 great series thus far,I agree with all that treatment of Dassey was appalling and illegal.
I guess the kid wouldnt have requested an attorney regardless of his rights,haven't seen anything to suggest he did. Crazy hick town full of corrupt cops. |
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While I'm empathetic to the cause the movie makers chose to publicize, they picked an odious poster boy when there are hundreds (maybe thousands) of suitable candidates where prosecutors have railroaded innocent people.
The claim the prosecutors moved the bones is not credible. The idea other people could have committed the murder is reasonable but the fact the victim had documented contact with the victim is troubling Claiming this was to get out of the millions of dollars lawsuit is contradicted by the fact the lawsuit was settled for a few hundred thousand. |
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The 10 part Netflix documentary is fascinating, but it ignored key pieces of inculpatory evidence.
Teresa Halbach told her supervisor that on 10/10/05, she went to the Avery residence and he opened the door wearing nothing but a towel. Halbach felt "creeped out" by Avery and requested that she never return to Steve Avery's residence. In the weeks leading up to the murders, Avery called Halbach's workplace several times requesting that Halbach return to his residence. Avery called Halbach 3 times on 11/31/05, and he used the Star 67 feature for the first two phone calls. Avery lured her to the residence by claiming that his sister would meet Halbach at the Avery compound. Avery's last phone call was recorded approximately an hour after Halbach's arrival at the Avery compound. Avery did not use the Star 67 feature for this phone call. Avery left a message wondering why Halbach didn't show up in an attempt to create an alibi. Brendan Dassey's confession contained details that were only known to case investigators. This included steel tire belts being used to burn the body more quickly; Halbach's cell phone being in the burn barrel; Avery opening the hood of Halbach's car to dismantle the vehicle; and Avery removing the license plates from Halbach's vehicle. Avery's DNA was also found under the hood of Halbach's vehicle and the license plates from Halbach's vehicle were found crushed inside another vehicle on the Avery compound. Dassey stated that Halbach was shackled to his uncle's bed with handcuffs and leg irons. A few weeks before the murders, Avery was accompanied by his sister to a sex shop and he purchased handcuffs and leg irons. A bullet containing Halbach's DNA was found in Avery's garage and was definitively linked to Avery's .22 rifle. Dassey claimed that they used bleach and ammonia to clean up Halbach's blood in Avery's garage. Dassey's mother asked her son why he had bleach stains down the front of his pants and he told her that he was helping his uncle clean the garage. During a phone conversation with his mother, Dassey told her that Avery had touched him and other family members in their private parts. During his police interrogation, Dassey told investigators that the family was frightened of Avery due to his hair trigger temper. There were also several disturbing allegations that arose during the course of Avery's trial that were not presented in the documentary. A 23 year old woman reported to police that a year before Teresa Halbach was murdered, she was raped by Steve Avery. She states that she didn't report the rape back in 2004, because Avery told her that he would kill her if she reported him to the police. A fellow inmate of Avery's during his original 18 year incarceration, told investigators that Avery showed him a diagram he drew of a torture room. Avery told this fellow inmate that if he was released from prison, he would use this room to rape women. In 1985, Steve Avery was clearly railroaded by law enforcement and spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, but it is equally clear that Avery is a rapist, sadist, and cold-blooded killer. |
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I don't think it's clear at all. To start how did these two borderline mentally disabled idiots forensically clean the bedroom of all traces of Halbach's DNA? Where is the physical evidence anywhere of Dassey's involvement? As for Dassey disclosing details of the kill room, did you watch the interviews? They were criminal. The cops could have bullied him into saying the pope was involved.
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JTF, just a couple points because I don't have time to address it all but most of that isn't true.
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Well, I think we’re just arguing semantics. The point is, the investigation and subsequent trials were not handled fairly or impartially.
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It’s been covered by other posters in this thread (SomedayGirl gives a nice rebuttal for most of it), so I won’t go into detail.
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As far as that last call supposedly made after she was already dead, as far as I can tell the only source for that claim is the prosecutor. Considering that he’s demonstrated himself to be an unethical scumbag, not really willing to take his word on anything. |
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Well, they didn’t choose him. At least not for that. They starting filming his story after he was exonerated from his 1985 wrongful conviction and released from prison. The ensuing drama literally unfolded in front of the cameras.
And I think the fact that Avery and his family are odious is the point. It’s easy to rally around someone clean-cut and well-spoken, with an all-around good moral character. But the criminal justice system should work the same for everyone, and we shouldn’t just shrug our collective shoulders when someone unlikable is abused by it.
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So if someone wanted to make the argument that this was a frame-up in response to the lawsuit (which I am not): Mission accomplished. |
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Just to be clear, I don't doubt that he called her (and I also don't find calling someone with whom you are engaged in a legitimate business transaction the least bit suspicious), but rather how it was determined the last call came after she was already dead. How do they know exactly when she died?
Sounds like something Ken Kratz pulled out of his backside. And by the way, you're providing great info. I'm glad you went down that rabbit hole because it saves me from doing the same. |
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I don't think any tampering was motivated by the suit. I think if anything was planted it was to bolster their case, not to create one out of whole cloth for some nefarious reason.
If anything was manufactured or manipulated, however, that invalidates the whole case to me. None of it can be trusted and both Avery and Dassey should go free regardless of their guilt or innocence. ETA: Ahhhh, I see your point about the call now. |
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Completely agree. It's clear they zeroed in on Steven Avery from the very beginning, and it's my belief that the investigation was not only steered towards him, but evidence was manipulated in the process.
Whether he did it or not will probably never be known, ironically enough, because of how compromised the investigation was. |
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