re: New Netflix docu-series "Making a Murderer" (Spoilers)

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Is there any sourcing for those claims?

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Statements from Prosecutor Ken Kratz:
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If the documentarians knew that Avery had a history with the victim, they should've stated it in the series.

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Statements from Prosecutor Ken Kratz:

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Were those introduced into evidence or is he just saying them now?

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If the documentarians knew that Avery had a history with the victim, they should've stated it in the series.

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agreed

However this:

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Kratz also claims that a bullet, recovered from Avery's garage, couldn't possibly have been planted by police, as the defense also alleged. "Ballistics said the bullet found in the garage was fired by Avery's rifle, which was in a police evidence locker since Nov. 6, 2005," says Kratz. "If the cops planted the bullet, how did they get one fired from [Avery's] gun? This rifle, hanging over Avery's bed, is the source of the bullet found in the garage, with Teresa's DNA on it. The bullet had to be fired before Nov. 5."

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is just self-serving bullshite. If they wanted to plant the bullet, then they would have fired the gun themselves!

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Were those introduced into evidence or is he just saying them now?

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They tried to introduce the towel thing, but the judge agreed that it was inflammatory.

Avery requesting the victim specifically was a part of her boss' testimony, but they didn't show that.

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Where are you getting that info?

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While Kratz refuses to re-try the case in the court of public opinion, he stands by the physical and circumstantial evidence presented at trial that secured the conviction of both Avery and Dassey. Evidence like the bullet found in Avery’s garage with Halbach’s DNA on it. It was proven to have been fired from a gun Avery owned. Or, the testimony from an AutoTrader official who said Steven Avery requested the magazine send Halbach to photograph the van.

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Here's another interesting one:

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What’s more, the Making a Murderer team did all this without mentioning that none of these three men were included on any list of alternative suspects. All we hear is that Avery’s original defence team was prevented from discussing other possible suspects in court. The filmmakers don’t tell us that those suspects were all related to the Avery clan and the salvage yard and that they included Steven Avery’s brothers, Earl Avery and Charles Avery, his brother-in law Scott Tadych, his nephew Bobby Dassey and — wait for it — Brendan Dassey.

Yes, you read that correctly. All the while Making a Murderer is building a case that the prosecution of Brendan Dassey as a murderer alongside his uncle is a gross miscarriage of justice, they neglected to acknowledge that taht Avery’s very competent defence team was also prepared to throw Brendan under the bus. Turns out real life is way more complicated than even a 10-hour documentary.

The problem for the filmmakers is the lawyers were probably right. If Steven Avery didn’t kill Teresa Halbach, it was likely one or more of the people on their list. That’s not as good a story as leaving it up in the air and implying the cops or the victim’s brother or her ex-BF and the roommate did it. But if you think about it, it actually makes a lot of sense that the murderer was connected to the Avery clan.

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This is the best enumeration of things that were left out that I can find:

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Could Avery have been intentionally set up by someone in the extended Avery clan? A cousin or uncle killing the woman, and leaving evidence on the site so as to point fingers at the convicted Avery, knowing the police would consider him the strongest suspect? And then Gump being coerced into implicating himself? Unless Avery and Dassey DID do it, then this makes sense to me as cousins/uncles would not draw suspicions by being seen on the salvage yard, and also knowing the coming and goings of Avery.

What motive did Avery himself have?

I'm having the hardest time with the sweat/key point as well as the Brendan bleach point.

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I was just responding to the fact that the defense laid out other avery family members as potential perpetrators, but I can't fathom one single reason why any of them would do that.

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That Tadych guy was a scary creep. I could see him being a sociopath.

I'm only on episode 3, but has anyone here mentioned how violent Avery's letters were to Lori while he was in prison for the rape? He said he was going to fricking kill her in several different letters if I recall correctly. I don't get that vibe by just watching the guy talk on camera, but maybe he's just one bipolar dude. Reading the stuff in this thread that was omitted from the doc makes me think he was guilty, but it's hard for me to see motive like you say. I'll continue to watch the series regardless.