More and more, we hear about strangeness coming from this show. It seems that the show about potentially proving the innocence of murderers is a little bit weird!
Huh! Who woulda thunk it?
So far, here’s what we know about these so-called ‘murderers’.
In 2005, Steven Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, apparently murdered Teresa Halbach.
Since then, they have kept to their innocence, and Netflix has made a docu-series about their struggles.
Here’s the story (with a little more detail):
So all the way back in 1985, this guy Steve Avery was just a regular ol’ dude who owned an auto salvage yard in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
As regular ol’ dudes do.
Out of the blue, he’s accused of a crime.
And this crime was the sexual assault of Penny Beerntsen, which is a very serious crime indeed.
Luckily for Steve, however, he had a rock-solid alibi. Phew! Dodged a bullet there!
Except he doesn’t dodge a bullet.
He gets convicted of the crime (despite the alibi, jeez our justice system can really stink sometimes) and spends the next 18 years of his life in prison.
That really stinks.
However, thanks to something called “The Innocence Project” he’s set free.
There’s a lot of stuff involving the DNA in the case being attached to another man, but at the end of the day, Steve Avery is set free from jail.
And, obviously, he’s not too happy.
It’s now 2003 and Steve Avery decides he’s going to sue Manitowoc County and the people involved in his prosecution.
Seems pretty fair, they did take 18 years of his life.
So, he files a $36 million civil lawsuit against them.
Which is no small fee, obviously.
Then, after two years in 2005, suddenly Steve is convicted of the aforementioned Teresa Halbach murderafter she had taken a picture at Steve’s auto salvage yard.
Once again, this arrest was controversial.
So obviously his lawyers argued that he was once again being set up for a crime he did not commit.
Even though they did find his bloodstains in Halbach’s car.
Then again, the timing did seem a little too perfect.
He was suing the county for $36 million, and then suddenly his blood is found in a woman’s car.
That’s what his lawyers said during his trial at least, that this was all too convenient.
And get this!
There was a vial of Avery’s blood that was taken during the 1985 trial that was taken from an evidence locker and had puncture holes in it.
Could this be evidence tampering as well?
Well, none of this mattered.
Because Steve Avery is now in jail for the murder of Teresa Halbach. So is his nephew, who recently got his appeal for release denied.
And as of now, it looks like they’re going to stay there.
They’ve been trying to prove their innocence, but to no avail.
Sure, they’ve come up with some interesting proposals, but no matter how much they prove his innocence, a TV show isn’t going to overturn a court’s ruling.
Right?
Actually, there may have been a break in the case.
Cut to Shawn Rech, the director of Convicting a Murderer , a spinoff of the hit TV show.
Recently, he talked to Fox News about an interesting confession he heard from a prison inmate while shooting his show.
Here’s the story that Shawn Rech tells.
While the name of the inmate has yet to be released, apparently, he confessed to the murder of Teresa Halbach in a letter he wrote years prior.
“He characterized it as a tragic accident.”
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Then again, there are some doubts.
Namely, Shawn Rech says, the fact that he’s not all that trustworthy:
“He already admitted to lying, he’s a convicted felon, so that tells you, maybe he’s not the most believable guy in the world.”
What do you think?
Will this be the thing that finally gets Steve the justice he deserves? Or is he going to be in jail for the rest of his life?
And most importantly… did he do it?
