this was the first time that he responded publicly to the accusations against him, and his former law enforcement colleagues. did you have any kind of vendetta against even avery or his family? absolutely not. i did not know his family, never met the man. fassbender bristles that the idea that the local vested caters could ve done any and thing unethical. the people that i worked with from manitowoc county, they only want to do the right thing and do the investigation in the right way. is it possible that blood could ve been planted? no. all of the evidence says no. fassbender notes that a chemical called eta had been used to preserve avery s blood in the vile, and that a trial test showed no presence of edva of the blood found in the suv. there is no eta in the vehicle. fassbender s argument, that since the blood found in the
especially when the crime lab found avery s dna on it, it would become a highly controversial clue in this case. the evidence was stacking up against steven avery, and fassbender says that that rav4 would later tell investigators one last thing. we have tested the hood latch, and found dna matching stephen on the hood wretch. they believe that avery had some explaining to do, so nine days after the disappearance, brought avery in for an interview. dateline filed a freedom of information request for the video. avery was defiant, and even claimed cops were framing him, planting evidence. fassbender and uyghur were not buying, it and play stephen avery under arrest.
until they got a big lead. in march 2006, four months after teresa s murder, tom fassbender s partner spoke with avery 16 year old nephew, brandon debris, in a series of now highly scrutinized interviews. what was your first impression of brandon dassey? a sky kid, somewhat introverted. once he opened up, the details that he revealed would stun investigators. fassbender said that dassey described a brutal scene. on that halloween afternoon, his uncle asked him to come over to his trailer. dempsey said that they each sexually assaulted teresa in avery s bedroom, and avery later shot her in her s garage burning the body in the bonfire. it is a game-changer. the stuff that we were not really where, of like teresa
assignment for auto trader magazine, when she disappeared. my heart just kind of dropped, knowing that it was somebody that i knew. what do you do at that moment? i felt helpless, because you want to deny it. you want to try to get in touch with her. did you try to call her? i tried to texture, but no response. wisconsin police quickly launched a massive chart, hosted by a team of volunteers. after two days a big break. they had found teresa s vehicle. in a salvage yard. tom fassbender was a special agent with the wisconsin department of criminal investigation hustled over to the 40 acre stretch of land in the county, only to the salvage yard and auto mechanic, stephen avery. had you heard his name before? only through the immediate. stephen avery was a big story. he had been convicted of rape in 1985. 18 years later, dna evidence
brandon dassey, now seen by millions, tom fassbender has come under fire for a court and online. this was seen by many as a false confession. do you see it as a false confession or a real confession? i feel it is a real confession. were you ever trying to extract a false confession? absolutely not. fassbender tonight is that his expressions of sympathy for dallas we were manipulative. i legitimately was concerned for him. that was not staged, it was not strategy. why do you think people took at the other way? the more sinister way. that you are taking advantage of him? i think that is easy to do. it is a cynical approach so to speak, watching tv watching movies, how.