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Making A Murderer (Netflix) (Spoilers) (1 Viewer)

If it's true that 7/12 jurors went into deliberation saying "Not guilty," it's really hard for me to understand how all 12 left thinking he's guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt. How does that happen, other than a couple of stubborn people thinking he's guilty, and the rest simply getting tired of arguing, and giving in to the opposition?

 
If it's true that 7/12 jurors went into deliberation saying "Not guilty," it's really hard for me to understand how all 12 left thinking he's guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt. How does that happen, other than a couple of stubborn people thinking he's guilty, and the rest simply getting tired of arguing, and giving in to the opposition?
I'm not assuming the bolded part is true.

I'm only assuming that eventually they all agreed to say he was guilty, not that they all fully believed it.

 
Read through this whole thread. I am torn.

My wife and I have discussed a couple of things that make me sympathetic to the locals that watched this drama unfold in real time:

1. We live in a small town in Oregon and have had a few local murders over the years. Of course there was all the local media coverage which we followed just like the people in Wisconsin did. I have no doubt in my mind that the people who were convicted did the crimes. I'm pretty sure if during the trial I saw on the news that the defense was crying "Frame!" I probably would have rolled my eyes. I doubt I'd be so vigorously defending the local system like some in here are doing, but I have some empathy as to why they are convinced as to Steve's guilt.

2. There are a couple of families in our area that remind me of the Averys. Many members, in-laws and cousins all the same, PWT to the core, completely dysfunctional. Several years ago one of the sons was stalking and threatening my dad over a one-time disagreement that he would not let go. We had to get a restraining order, and because he was threatening our lives we carried guns for a short time in our vehicles. Eventually he settled down, apologized, and hasn't been a problem since. But if I heard that one of these people was arrested for murder and saw the kind of things on the local news that Kratz pulled I would not be shocked and I'm sure I'd instantly buy in to his guilt. The irony of the family in my area is that the father of the stalker was a Captain in our city police until he was forced to resign for domestic violence a few years ago. Now he cooks pizza in a pizza parlor. Anyway, again I could see being convinced of their guilt and not being easily swayed, just like some of the Wisconsin folks in here.

With all of that being said, I don't know how you can watch this series - even though it is admittedly slanted toward the defense - and not second guess your convictions of guilt. The Brendan stuff is unreal, there is no way things happened the way he was coerced into confessing. He should get a new trial no question.

I'm less certain about Steve. My gut says he didn't do it, for two reasons. The first is all of the doubt over the County's involvement in finding evidence against him that has been gone over in her ad nauseum. The second is how he looked when the verdict of guilty on Count 1 was read. To me, he didn't look mad. He didn't look shocked even. To me he looked very sad and almost betrayed. He looked at the jury like, "Seriously? How can you think I'm guilty?" I don't think a guy as dim as him can be that good an actor. I think that look was legit, and in that moment I believed he was innocent. I'm probably 70/30 he didn't do it.
For me, the biggest reason my gut says he didn't do it is a lack of motive. The second biggest reason is even dumb people aren't dumb enough to park the car of the person you murdered on your property. The third biggest reason is the prosecution shows evidence of ropes and knives and a very bloody method of killing her, yet evidence of something like that happening on the property is severely lacking. I don't deny the prosecution presented evidence against Steve, but if the evidence was enough to go beyond reasonable doubt, then there was no need to suggest if Steve didn't do it, then who did, and put the burden of proof on the defendant to answer the "then who did it" question. That's not the defendants burden. The burden is on the prosecution to prove the defendant did it, which I feel they came up short on.

I don't like Steve. Well, that's hard to say having only learned about him from the documentary. But from what I've seen, he's not a guy I would likely be friends with. And that's okay, because most people aren't. I think there's a good chance he's a ####, and just wouldn't like being around him. But the law exists to protect people we don't like just as much as it exists to protect those we like. The system failed here. I think the system has gotten to the point where it's failing a lot. Being innocent until proven guilty has been moved to just being an ideal, as there are too many people in law enforcement who's reputations, careers and lively hoods are too tightly tied to being right. So anyone falsely accused of anything has the burden of proving those people are wrong. If they can't, then it's accepted that those people are right, even when there's doubt.
Always been this way. Now though, with the prevalence of cameras and people recording a lot of these things, the curtain is being pulled back to an extent. Docs like this definitely impact my feelings on the death penalty. How can it not?

 
@ZellnerLaw Kathleen Zellner now representing Steve. Vows not to quit until he is released. I don't think this story is going away.
I'm not sure what she can do. He's exhausted his appeals.

He can move for a new trial, but only if there's newly discovered evidence (if I understand correctly). Maybe there will be, but if not, I'm not sure what any lawyer can do for him other than maybe keep applying to the governor for a pardon...

 
If it's true that 7/12 jurors went into deliberation saying "Not guilty," it's really hard for me to understand how all 12 left thinking he's guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt. How does that happen, other than a couple of stubborn people thinking he's guilty, and the rest simply getting tired of arguing, and giving in to the opposition?
Never seen 12 Angry Men?

 
I heart radio has 'Rebutting a Murderer' podcast series from WISN'S Dan O'Donnell.
It's been discussed here. I don't find it to be an intellectually honest piece of journalism, myself. I'll have to read the transcripts of the rest (and the ensuing comments) though. I think he was only through ep 6 when I was checking it out.
So an extremely biased TV Movie is what you use to make your mind up on things and not all the evidence.

You people scare me

 
If it's true that 7/12 jurors went into deliberation saying "Not guilty," it's really hard for me to understand how all 12 left thinking he's guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt. How does that happen, other than a couple of stubborn people thinking he's guilty, and the rest simply getting tired of arguing, and giving in to the opposition?
I'm not assuming the bolded part is true.

I'm only assuming that eventually they all agreed to say he was guilty, not that they all fully believed it.
True, and that's what I meant to say, even though it didn't come out that way. They left SAYING that they believed he was guilty, beyond the shadow of a doubt, not necessarily believing that to be the case.

If it's true that 7/12 jurors went into deliberation saying "Not guilty," it's really hard for me to understand how all 12 left thinking he's guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt. How does that happen, other than a couple of stubborn people thinking he's guilty, and the rest simply getting tired of arguing, and giving in to the opposition?
Never seen 12 Angry Men?
A long time ago. But, yeah, I know what you're saying. As soon as I typed that, I thought to myself "Well, I suppose that's why they call it 'deliberation'."

Regardless, I get the feeling that the people who had doubts just sort of gave up, and went with the flow of saying he's guilty.

 
1.Steve Avery went to jail the first time for a crime he did not commit. Was he somewhat crazy to start with? That does not matter in the 1st statement I made.

2. While in prison for 18 years he did what he had to do to survive but he likely was taught as many are on how to be a criminal and graduate with top honors as he is finally granted his release.

3. In prison he is reportedly discussing ways he wants to hurt women when he gets out including torture chambers.

4. He calls and calls and calls the victim until she shows up on his property. Her body is discovered later on, in his burn pit cremated and hacked. Her cell phone discovered in a tin bin not 20 feet from the front door of Steve Avery. He was known to answer the door in a towel and this woman had been there before and told Autotrader she never wanted to go back, she was afraid of Avery.

Just because a guy went to prison unjustly does not make him a mentally stable angel and 18 years in prison might have made him worse. But I have no doubt Steve Avery murdered that woman and hacked her body up and raped and sexually assaulted her in ways we will never comprehend. He had his cousin take part on the assault.

The police were guilty of a lot of crimes in his 1st run in with the law. He should not have gone to prison. But that does not excuse him from committing murder after his release. I know folks find it hard to swallow but yes this idiot pissed away a likely large sum of money and a free life. The producers of the film did a great job framing it and entertaining everyone but they left out some basics that change the entire view of this case. You must seek out the evidence because it all points to Avery.

To even suggest the police somehow parked that car in his salvage yard and then the DNA on the bullet fragment from the garage that was unloaded by the gun in his bedroom, it would take a cover up the likes a Hollywood Movie Script couldn't even put together. The group that freed him the first time, they are not going to even see this case because the evidence is so ridiculous against Avery, it has to be him but we've seen so much TV crime drama over the years I am afraid some folks are a little confused.

 
1.Steve Avery went to jail the first time for a crime he did not commit. Was he somewhat crazy to start with? That does not matter in the 1st statement I made.

2. While in prison for 18 years he did what he had to do to survive but he likely was taught as many are on how to be a criminal and graduate with top honors as he is finally granted his release.

3. In prison he is reportedly discussing ways he wants to hurt women when he gets out including torture chambers.

4. He calls and calls and calls the victim until she shows up on his property. Her body is discovered later on, in his burn pit cremated and hacked. Her cell phone discovered in a tin bin not 20 feet from the front door of Steve Avery. He was known to answer the door in a towel and this woman had been there before and told Autotrader she never wanted to go back, she was afraid of Avery.

Just because a guy went to prison unjustly does not make him a mentally stable angel and 18 years in prison might have made him worse. But I have no doubt Steve Avery murdered that woman and hacked her body up and raped and sexually assaulted her in ways we will never comprehend. He had his cousin take part on the assault.

The police were guilty of a lot of crimes in his 1st run in with the law. He should not have gone to prison. But that does not excuse him from committing murder after his release. I know folks find it hard to swallow but yes this idiot pissed away a likely large sum of money and a free life. The producers of the film did a great job framing it and entertaining everyone but they left out some basics that change the entire view of this case. You must seek out the evidence because it all points to Avery.

To even suggest the police somehow parked that car in his salvage yard and then the DNA on the bullet fragment from the garage that was unloaded by the gun in his bedroom, it would take a cover up the likes a Hollywood Movie Script couldn't even put together. The group that freed him the first time, they are not going to even see this case because the evidence is so ridiculous against Avery, it has to be him but we've seen so much TV crime drama over the years I am afraid some folks are a little confused.
I agree. But i do think the local police enhanced some of the evidence against him. He did it but the case against him was solidified imo.

 
While it may be true that Avery did it, it most certainly didn't happen the way Kratz portrayed it and the motive was still shaky, at best. The county's motive for making sure there was enough evidence to convict is plain as day.

 
I heart radio has 'Rebutting a Murderer' podcast series from WISN'S Dan O'Donnell.
It's been discussed here. I don't find it to be an intellectually honest piece of journalism, myself. I'll have to read the transcripts of the rest (and the ensuing comments) though. I think he was only through ep 6 when I was checking it out.
So an extremely biased TV Movie is what you use to make your mind up on things and not all the evidence.

You people scare me
LOL... ok guy. TV movie... that's the kind of intellectually dishonest stuff that Mr. O'Donnell might say.

And how do you know how much research I've done on the case after viewing the "TV movie"? Mighty presumptuous of you. Glad you're so frightened though.

 
1.Steve Avery went to jail the first time for a crime he did not commit. Was he somewhat crazy to start with? That does not matter in the 1st statement I made.

2. While in prison for 18 years he did what he had to do to survive but he likely was taught as many are on how to be a criminal and graduate with top honors as he is finally granted his release.

3. In prison he is reportedly discussing ways he wants to hurt women when he gets out including torture chambers.

4. He calls and calls and calls the victim until she shows up on his property. Her body is discovered later on, in his burn pit cremated and hacked. Her cell phone discovered in a tin bin not 20 feet from the front door of Steve Avery. He was known to answer the door in a towel and this woman had been there before and told Autotrader she never wanted to go back, she was afraid of Avery.

Just because a guy went to prison unjustly does not make him a mentally stable angel and 18 years in prison might have made him worse. But I have no doubt Steve Avery murdered that woman and hacked her body up and raped and sexually assaulted her in ways we will never comprehend. He had his cousin take part on the assault.

The police were guilty of a lot of crimes in his 1st run in with the law. He should not have gone to prison. But that does not excuse him from committing murder after his release. I know folks find it hard to swallow but yes this idiot pissed away a likely large sum of money and a free life. The producers of the film did a great job framing it and entertaining everyone but they left out some basics that change the entire view of this case. You must seek out the evidence because it all points to Avery.

To even suggest the police somehow parked that car in his salvage yard and then the DNA on the bullet fragment from the garage that was unloaded by the gun in his bedroom, it would take a cover up the likes a Hollywood Movie Script couldn't even put together. The group that freed him the first time, they are not going to even see this case because the evidence is so ridiculous against Avery, it has to be him but we've seen so much TV crime drama over the years I am afraid some folks are a little confused.
If you follow the evidence and seek the truth, you'll find more than enough questions to make a reasonable person unsure of Avery's guilt in the murder trial.

It has surprised and saddened me to see how many people can't let go of mistaken opinions (formed during his rape conviction) and now can't question what they were fed by the police and prosecutor in the publicity surrounding his murder trial.

I honestly don't know what more would be needed to cause someone to have a reasonable doubt as to whether Avery committed that murder.

 
4. He calls and calls and calls the victim until she shows up on his property. Her body is discovered later on, in his burn pit cremated and hacked. Her cell phone discovered in a tin bin not 20 feet from the front door of Steve Avery. He was known to answer the door in a towel and this woman had been there before and told Autotrader she never wanted to go back, she was afraid of Avery.
She called the Avery's first and left a message. They had an appointment together. He was returning her call. And there were 2 calls, like half hr apart.

Also, her "body" was discovered in several (3) locations

Her co-workers testimony regarding her attitude towards Avery was, "ew"... and that's it. Pretty sure the fear thing was heresay... LMK if you know who's testimony that was though.

 
I heart radio has 'Rebutting a Murderer' podcast series from WISN'S Dan O'Donnell.
It's been discussed here. I don't find it to be an intellectually honest piece of journalism, myself. I'll have to read the transcripts of the rest (and the ensuing comments) though. I think he was only through ep 6 when I was checking it out.
So an extremely biased TV Movie is what you use to make your mind up on things and not all the evidence.You people scare me
LOL... ok guy. TV movie... that's the kind of intellectually dishonest stuff that Mr. O'Donnell might say.

And how do you know how much research I've done on the case after viewing the "TV movie"? Mighty presumptuous of you. Glad you're so frightened though.
He's a moron.
 
Can a lawyer enlighten me as to why the evidence Lenk found was admissible in court when he clearly had a conflict of interest and was not supposed to be parr of the investigation?

 
Can a lawyer enlighten me as to why the evidence Lenk found was admissible in court when he clearly had a conflict of interest and was not supposed to be parr of the investigation?
I can't recall the term... but it's something like, "eminent discovery" (but that's not it)... basically the argument is that it would've been found eventually so it doesn't matter that someone who wasn't supposed to be there was the one that found it.

 
Can a lawyer enlighten me as to why the evidence Lenk found was admissible in court when he clearly had a conflict of interest and was not supposed to be parr of the investigation?
I can't recall the term... but it's something like, "eminent discovery" (but that's not it)... basically the argument is that it would've been found eventually so it doesn't matter that someone who wasn't supposed to be there was the one that found it.
Imminent.

 
Can a lawyer enlighten me as to why the evidence Lenk found was admissible in court when he clearly had a conflict of interest and was not supposed to be parr of the investigation?
I can't recall the term... but it's something like, "eminent discovery" (but that's not it)... basically the argument is that it would've been found eventually so it doesn't matter that someone who wasn't supposed to be there was the one that found it.
Imminent.
eminence discovery

:P

 
lil danny odonnel has a how on iheartradio i do not even know what that is but if i had a radio show it would be on ifartradio expecially after these jalapeno stuffers i just had tame that to the bank bromigos

 
The producers of the film did a great job framing it and entertaining everyone but they left out some basics that change the entire view of this case. You must seek out the evidence because it all points to Avery.
Really? Please, enlighten us.
Agreed. I've read every article out there I think, including the ones with the "missing evidence" left out from the documentary, and not one bit of it was damning enough to make a difference, IMO.

 
This is actually a pretty good, slightly lengthy overview of the whole story:

Netflix's Making a Murderer: the case of Steven Avery, explained
Updated by Alex Abad-Santos and German Lopez on January 23, 2016, 3:15 p.m. ET
Worth the read IMO.
Interesting. Nothing new in that one really, that hasn't been covered in other articles, except for the interview with the makers, which I hadn't seen. Interesting bit about the juror that contacted them. A juror that had initially voted innocent and still believed Steven was framed. When asked why they changed their vote, they said because they feared for their physical safety.

 
The producers of the film did a great job framing it and entertaining everyone but they left out some basics that change the entire view of this case. You must seek out the evidence because it all points to Avery.
Really? Please, enlighten us.
Agreed. I've read every article out there I think, including the ones with the "missing evidence" left out from the documentary, and not one bit of it was damning enough to make a difference, IMO.
Yea, my favorite from those (which Kratz whats going on about) was the "sweat DNA" under the hood. When

A) No such thing as sweat DNA and sweat itself doesn't even have your DNA in it

and

B) The DNA evidence found under the hood was deemed inadmissible because it was determined the guy collecting it didn't follow protocol by changing gloves after he got the blood samples from within the car... thus possibly cross contaminating it. Oooops!

Funny how people accusing others of "leaving stuff out", leave out that pretty important fact. SMH

 
I'm not running someone's car off the road because she accused me of wanking it. That's not "understandable" to me. Calling her a #### at the family BBQ is understandable.
I'm not reacting that way either, but a couple of thoughts:

1. Don't underestimate how you'd really feel if someone was falsely going around town saying you whip your junk out in the front yard when they drive by. And then your friends and enemies both start talking about it and believing it. I think it would make you madder than just waiting for a family BBQ to bring it up.

2. Avery has an IQ of 70. Who knows what kind of logic one would use when dealing with a mental handicap of that severity.

Clearly his choice was illegal, reckless, and ill-advised. But based on the 2 factors above, I can kind of understand how he might have arrived at doing that on the spur of the moment seeing her drive by.
This is what I find odd. This is just accepted as fact as is everything else pointing to Avery doing it, but somehow everything else is questionable.

 
A) No such thing as sweat DNA and sweat itself doesn't even have your DNA in it
While technically sweat doesn't contain DNA in and of itself, skin cells often shed within sweat so you can quite often get DNA from sweat. Just like your saliva doesn't technically contain any DNA but there is almost always skin cells from the inside of your mouth which is why they ask for saliva and swab the inside of your mouth when they want a DNA sample. So while they can't scientifically say the DNA under the hood definitely came from sweat, they were making an assumption since no blood was found that he leaned over and sweat probably dripped off his head which I assume is where they got the whole "sweat DNA" thing. Now if that was deemed contaminated then this is all a moot point, but you can most definitely get DNA from sweat (you just can't confirm DNA you found came from sweat if that makes any sense)

 
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The producers of the film did a great job framing it and entertaining everyone but they left out some basics that change the entire view of this case. You must seek out the evidence because it all points to Avery.
Really? Please, enlighten us.
Agreed. I've read every article out there I think, including the ones with the "missing evidence" left out from the documentary, and not one bit of it was damning enough to make a difference, IMO.
Yea, my favorite from those (which Kratz whats going on about) was the "sweat DNA" under the hood. When

A) No such thing as sweat DNA and sweat itself doesn't even have your DNA in it

and

B) The DNA evidence found under the hood was deemed inadmissible because it was determined the guy collecting it didn't follow protocol by changing gloves after he got the blood samples from within the car... thus possibly cross contaminating it. Oooops!

Funny how people accusing others of "leaving stuff out", leave out that pretty important fact. SMH
Where are you getting this? I see tons of sites that mention sweat. At best it would seem you are arguing a technicality. Sweat doesnt have DNA!!!!! Oh yeah, but I forgot to tell you sweat has stuff in it that has DNA.

https://www.ncjrs.gov/nij/DNAbro/id.html

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1997-02-03/news/1997034091_1_dna-saliva-sweat

http://nij.gov/topics/forensics/evidence/dna/basics/pages/identifying-to-transporting.aspx

 
They didn't find any sweat on the hood. They found DNA, so they guessed that it might have come from sweat. (Of course, another guess would be that it was planted.)

 
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4. He calls and calls and calls the victim until she shows up on his property. Her body is discovered later on, in his burn pit cremated and hacked. Her cell phone discovered in a tin bin not 20 feet from the front door of Steve Avery. He was known to answer the door in a towel and this woman had been there before and told Autotrader she never wanted to go back, she was afraid of Avery.
She called the Avery's first and left a message. They had an appointment together. He was returning her call. And there were 2 calls, like half hr apart.

Also, her "body" was discovered in several (3) locations

Her co-workers testimony regarding her attitude towards Avery was, "ew"... and that's it. Pretty sure the fear thing was heresay... LMK if you know who's testimony that was though.
You have the facts wrong. Not one single bone was missing of the 270 in the human body if that number I said is accurate. All of her in pieces was found in his pit.

I can smell the Aaron Hernandez defense team getting ready to represent their next case.

 
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More facts for those who care...

-His blood is found in 6 different places in her car.

If any gun owners want to chime in on this next bit be my guest but to my knowledge ballistics are like a fingerprint. Only one gun make a particular mark as a bullet travels down a barrel. With that in mind...

-DNA on bullet fragment in his garage

-Bullet fired from gun hanging on his bedroom wall

-All her bones were found in the pit.

-Weapon used to hack her up was in the pit as well

-Camera and phone were burned as well.

-Avery had a deep gash on his finger presumably from the weapon he used to hack her up

-Her remains were interwoven with steel belt radial tires of the tires in the fire, that proves that is where they were burned. Her body was not burned elsewhere and brought there, that's just bananas.

The evidence is stacked deep against Avery. I don't know how any rational person can look at the evidence and point to anyone else but Avery and the cousin who confessed they did it.

 
4. He calls and calls and calls the victim until she shows up on his property. Her body is discovered later on, in his burn pit cremated and hacked. Her cell phone discovered in a tin bin not 20 feet from the front door of Steve Avery. He was known to answer the door in a towel and this woman had been there before and told Autotrader she never wanted to go back, she was afraid of Avery.
She called the Avery's first and left a message. They had an appointment together. He was returning her call. And there were 2 calls, like half hr apart.

Also, her "body" was discovered in several (3) locations

Her co-workers testimony regarding her attitude towards Avery was, "ew"... and that's it. Pretty sure the fear thing was heresay... LMK if you know who's testimony that was though.
You have the facts wrong. Not one single bone was missing of the 270 in the human body if that number I said is accurate. All of her in pieces was found in his pit.
Bones or bone fragments were found in three places: the burn pit (where partial fragments were found of all bones below the neck), burn barrel number two, and a nearby quarry pile (not confirmed to be Halbach's, but not suspected to be anybody else's).

 
4. He calls and calls and calls the victim until she shows up on his property. Her body is discovered later on, in his burn pit cremated and hacked. Her cell phone discovered in a tin bin not 20 feet from the front door of Steve Avery. He was known to answer the door in a towel and this woman had been there before and told Autotrader she never wanted to go back, she was afraid of Avery.
She called the Avery's first and left a message. They had an appointment together. He was returning her call. And there were 2 calls, like half hr apart.

Also, her "body" was discovered in several (3) locations

Her co-workers testimony regarding her attitude towards Avery was, "ew"... and that's it. Pretty sure the fear thing was heresay... LMK if you know who's testimony that was though.
I thought the sequence was that Avery called autotrader and left his sister's name and number(I have seen some articles say that he only left first initial). Halbach calls back and leaves a message to his sister asking for the address. Avery calls her twice after this from his phone but uses *67 in doing so.

Sure seems like he didn't want her to know he was calling.

 
4. He calls and calls and calls the victim until she shows up on his property. Her body is discovered later on, in his burn pit cremated and hacked. Her cell phone discovered in a tin bin not 20 feet from the front door of Steve Avery. He was known to answer the door in a towel and this woman had been there before and told Autotrader she never wanted to go back, she was afraid of Avery.
She called the Avery's first and left a message. They had an appointment together. He was returning her call. And there were 2 calls, like half hr apart.

Also, her "body" was discovered in several (3) locations

Her co-workers testimony regarding her attitude towards Avery was, "ew"... and that's it. Pretty sure the fear thing was heresay... LMK if you know who's testimony that was though.
You have the facts wrong. Not one single bone was missing of the 270 in the human body if that number I said is accurate. All of her in pieces was found in his pit.
X

Found in three places.

Did you even watch it?

 
4. He calls and calls and calls the victim until she shows up on his property. Her body is discovered later on, in his burn pit cremated and hacked. Her cell phone discovered in a tin bin not 20 feet from the front door of Steve Avery. He was known to answer the door in a towel and this woman had been there before and told Autotrader she never wanted to go back, she was afraid of Avery.
She called the Avery's first and left a message. They had an appointment together. He was returning her call. And there were 2 calls, like half hr apart.

Also, her "body" was discovered in several (3) locations

Her co-workers testimony regarding her attitude towards Avery was, "ew"... and that's it. Pretty sure the fear thing was heresay... LMK if you know who's testimony that was though.
You have the facts wrong. Not one single bone was missing of the 270 in the human body if that number I said is accurate. All of her in pieces was found in his pit.
Bones or bone fragments were found in three places: the burn pit (where partial fragments were found of all bones below the neck), burn barrel number two, and a nearby quarry pile (not confirmed to be Halbach's, but not suspected to be anybody else's).
MT, let's not deal with little fragments, I'm telling you that not one bone of the 270 including the pinky finger was missing. You want to get into small chunks of bone. Her body, all of it hacked into pieces was found in that pit burned and interwoven with tires from the pit so she was burned right there, not dragged from somewhere else.

You're a good lawyer, I don't want to stop anyone from enjoying the entertainment value to this but there is absolutely no doubt in my mind this guy murdered a woman for S&G and thought he had a fool proof way to cover it up. You're free to feel otherwise.

 
I was as furious as anyone during Episode 1. And I watched the next 9 unfold but then when you find out they left out important information in the film, it quickly becomes a circus and more TV than reality for me. I wanted to believe they framed him twice, I really did. Hard to overlook the DNA and the ballistics evidence IMHO.

 
4. He calls and calls and calls the victim until she shows up on his property. Her body is discovered later on, in his burn pit cremated and hacked. Her cell phone discovered in a tin bin not 20 feet from the front door of Steve Avery. He was known to answer the door in a towel and this woman had been there before and told Autotrader she never wanted to go back, she was afraid of Avery.
She called the Avery's first and left a message. They had an appointment together. He was returning her call. And there were 2 calls, like half hr apart.

Also, her "body" was discovered in several (3) locations

Her co-workers testimony regarding her attitude towards Avery was, "ew"... and that's it. Pretty sure the fear thing was heresay... LMK if you know who's testimony that was though.
You have the facts wrong. Not one single bone was missing of the 270 in the human body if that number I said is accurate. All of her in pieces was found in his pit.
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Found in three places.

Did you even watch it?
You make it sound like they found a leg in one place, arm in another, head over yonder...just foolish talk.

 
4. He calls and calls and calls the victim until she shows up on his property. Her body is discovered later on, in his burn pit cremated and hacked. Her cell phone discovered in a tin bin not 20 feet from the front door of Steve Avery. He was known to answer the door in a towel and this woman had been there before and told Autotrader she never wanted to go back, she was afraid of Avery.
She called the Avery's first and left a message. They had an appointment together. He was returning her call. And there were 2 calls, like half hr apart.

Also, her "body" was discovered in several (3) locations

Her co-workers testimony regarding her attitude towards Avery was, "ew"... and that's it. Pretty sure the fear thing was heresay... LMK if you know who's testimony that was though.
You have the facts wrong. Not one single bone was missing of the 270 in the human body if that number I said is accurate. All of her in pieces was found in his pit.
Bones or bone fragments were found in three places: the burn pit (where partial fragments were found of all bones below the neck), burn barrel number two, and a nearby quarry pile (not confirmed to be Halbach's, but not suspected to be anybody else's).
MT, let's not deal with little fragments, I'm telling you that not one bone of the 270 including the pinky finger was missing. You want to get into small chunks of bone. Her body, all of it hacked into pieces was found in that pit burned and interwoven with tires from the pit so she was burned right there, not dragged from somewhere else.
If you don't want to deal with fragments, they did not find 270 bones in the burn pit. They found zero bones in the burn pit. (All they found in the pit were bone fragments, not whole bones. And there were fragments in two other locations as well.)

 
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From the trial:

A: There were no entire bones that were found, but at least a fragment or more of almost every bone below the neck was recovered in that burn pit.

Q: Did you find evidence of any human bone identified as being collected from a site other than the burn pit behind the defendant's garage?

A: Human bone also was collected from what was designated "burn barrel number two."

Q: Now, you did offer an opinion that you believe the location for the primary burning episode was the burn pit behind the defendant's garage, is that correct?

A: That is correct.

Q: There was a third site, was there not?

A: Yes.

Q: And this would be the quarry pile.

A: Yes, sir.

Q: You found in the material from the quarry pile two fragments that appeared to you to be pelvic bone.

A: That's correct.

Q: You suspected them of being human pelvic bone.

A: That's correct.

Q: The charring and calcined condition that you saw was essentially consistent with the charring and the calcined condition in the Janda burn barrel and behind Steven Avery's garage.

A: That is correct, sir.

Q: Nowhere did you find evidence that you were looking at bone fragments from more than one body.

A: That is correct, sir.

Q: So what you conclude is that by human agency, bone fragments here were moved. Some bone fragments identified as human had been moved.

A: That's correct.

 
More facts for those who care...

-His blood is found in 6 different places in her car.

If any gun owners want to chime in on this next bit be my guest but to my knowledge ballistics are like a fingerprint. Only one gun make a particular mark as a bullet travels down a barrel. With that in mind...

-DNA on bullet fragment in his garage

-Bullet fired from gun hanging on his bedroom wall

-All her bones were found in the pit.

-Weapon used to hack her up was in the pit as well

-Camera and phone were burned as well.

-Avery had a deep gash on his finger presumably from the weapon he used to hack her up

-Her remains were interwoven with steel belt radial tires of the tires in the fire, that proves that is where they were burned. Her body was not burned elsewhere and brought there, that's just bananas.

The evidence is stacked deep against Avery. I don't know how any rational person can look at the evidence and point to anyone else but Avery and the cousin who confessed they did it.
Holy crap! KP. Hacked MOP account

at least I hope, if not stop hijacking the tread and actually bring some facts. ie: read the transcripts and watch the doc.

 
This is actually a pretty good, slightly lengthy overview of the whole story:

Netflix's Making a Murderer: the case of Steven Avery, explained
Updated by Alex Abad-Santos and German Lopez on January 23, 2016, 3:15 p.m. ET
Worth the read IMO.
Interesting. Nothing new in that one really, that hasn't been covered in other articles, except for the interview with the makers, which I hadn't seen. Interesting bit about the juror that contacted them. A juror that had initially voted innocent and still believed Steven was framed. When asked why they changed their vote, they said because they feared for their physical safety.
Looks like they slightly changed the link for that article, here is the good one now

Another new thing (to me) was this statement by the film makers about Jodi's claim that she asked to not be in the documentary: "We had her permission to use all the footage. It's not true that she asked us not to be part of the documentary."

 
More facts for those who care...

-His blood is found in 6 different places in her car.

If any gun owners want to chime in on this next bit be my guest but to my knowledge ballistics are like a fingerprint. Only one gun make a particular mark as a bullet travels down a barrel. With that in mind...

-DNA on bullet fragment in his garage

-Bullet fired from gun hanging on his bedroom wall

-All her bones were found in the pit.

-Weapon used to hack her up was in the pit as well

-Camera and phone were burned as well.

-Avery had a deep gash on his finger presumably from the weapon he used to hack her up

-Her remains were interwoven with steel belt radial tires of the tires in the fire, that proves that is where they were burned. Her body was not burned elsewhere and brought there, that's just bananas.

The evidence is stacked deep against Avery. I don't know how any rational person can look at the evidence and point to anyone else but Avery and the cousin who confessed they did it.
Holy crap! KP. Hacked MOP account

at least I hope, if not stop hijacking the tread and actually bring some facts. ie: read the transcripts and watch the doc.
If someone does not agree 100% with the 10 episode Netflix Entertainment Series then they shouldn't try to post in this thread? I gave a fairly lengthy post and feel comfortable with my position. If you all want to believe something else that's your call. I watched the Netflix series but I doubt many of you have searched out the missing facts not put in the Netflix series.

Props to Netflix, they got folks talking.

Then there's the car we would need to address which was parked at the salvage yard. That usually happens where a person goes on someone's property and never leaves it alive, the 2 folks in question just happen to be there, one of them confesses they did it, but hold the phone let's start blaming the police. The idea they put the car on the property or planted this much evidence...this would dwarf anything they tried to whip up in the OJ Simpson trial which just so happens to be heading for TV in a new drama.

 

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