by the police. by someone. it was not found, you know, in six or seven earlier entries to the trailer. and we are talking about a trailer. it didn t add up. co-lead investigator tom fastbender worked alongside the local county sheriff s deputies but was employed by a different agency, the wisconsin department of justice. this is the first time he has responded publicly to the accusations against him and his law enforcement colleagues. did you have any kind of vendetta against steven avery? absolutely not. i didn t know steven avery. i didn t know his family, never been there. fastbender bristles at the idea the local investigators could have done anything unethical. the people that were there that i worked with from manitock can county were hard working. they only wanted to do the right thing and to do this investigation the right way. is it possible that that blood could have been planted? no. everything, all of the evidence says no. fastbender notes a chemical cal
dassey speaking to his mother. i never did nothing or something. did you? huh? not really. what do you mean, not really. doing it to my head. huh? at the first moment brendan gets outside the influence of those interrogators he says, no, this is not true, they got to my head. but tom fastbender, the interrogator himself, sees it all very differently. coming up this was seen by many as a false confession. i feel it was a real confession. he knew right from the start. brendan was involved in this. when dateline continues. so probably take it at night. and if you have any questions, the instructions are here in spanish as you requested. gracias.
you? looking at the whole picture, absolutely. and that picture came into sharper focus when fastbender s team found another clue, teresa s key inside avery s bedroom. the toyota key with the little fob connector to it. this is huge. yes, it s huge. especially when the crime lab later 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 fastbender says that rav 4 would later tell investigators one last thing. we tested the hood latch and found dna matching steven on the hood latch. fastbender believed avery had explaining to do. nine days after teresa s disappearance he and his partner brought avery in for an interview. dateline filed a freedom of information for the video.
entitled. but as he continued to investigate the case, kratz had a problem. you still didn t know how she was killed, exactly where she was killed. was that bothering you? yes, but sometimes, you know, you have what you have. it was all coming together in bits and pieces. he and his team kept digging until they got a big lead. just have a seat, brendan. in march 2006, four months after teresa s murder, tom fastbender and his partner spoke with the 16-year-old nephew brendan dassey in a series of highly-scrutinized interviews. what was her first impression of brendan dassey? a shy kid, somewhat introverted. but once he opened up, the details he revealed would stun investigators. what else did he do to her? raped her. did he tell you that? fastbender says dassey described a brutal scene. on that halloween afternoon his
would you apologize to brendan dassey? well, i would apologize to him for not being at that interview. so there were mistakes made? oh, sure, there were mistakes, but none contributed to the verdict in dassey s case. there are people who disagree with that. oh, sure. but as dassey s attorneys delved further into the stunning statements the teen made they came to believe something more disturbing, that investigators tom fastbender and mark weieger coerced the teen into making a false confession. these officers took advantage of a disabled youth and got him the say what they wanted him to say. don t lie to us now, okay. what happened there? you re just hurting yourself if you lie now. he s got severe learning disabilities, inability to respond in a narrative type answers, and they re in