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and do you now believe that teresa was shot in that garage? yes. one strange thing, though, when they searched the garage for blood, they never found a drop. how could you clean up all that blood? well, he did it to the best of his ability, i guess. bleach, paint thinner. that cleans up blood. teresa s friend, kim, said when she heard the details about teresa s final moments, she was heart broken. i remember crying and just hoping she was who she was and fought because she was a very strong person. ken kratz charged brendan dassey as a co-conspirator in her murder. i intend to hold each of these defendants accountable for the rape, the torture, and the murder of teresa halbach. but not so fast. dassey recanted his statements. just before avery s trial, the judge dismissed the rape charge against him and didn t allow any of those allegations about avery s treatment of women,
didn t contain the chemical, it couldn t have come from the vial. and he notes that a nurse was prepared to testify she had made that hole in the vial as part of her usual routine when she drew blood from avery. so the fact that there was a hole in the top of the vial is normal. and regarding teresa s car key, not found until the seventh search of avery s trailer why was that key missed during the other searches? primarily because of where it was located in a small bookcase that wasn t searched. and if it was, it was just kind of looked at. why not do the thorough search earlier? i guess part of it is because we didn t lock and load on steven avery. we went in there, did that first search, but we had 12 more buildings and four more residences to search. so we had a lot to do. still, it wasn t just when the key was found that has avery supporters skeptical. it s who found it. these two men.
she joined the case not long after making a murderer came out. she paid a visit to avery in early 2016. million-dollar question, do you think you have new evidence that could free steven avery? we do, yeah. reporter: zellner invited dateline into this war room she created in her office outside of chicago, all dedicated to the avery case. do we know if that was tested? and she even showed us this rav4 she bought to get a better understanding of teresa s vehicle. and in 2016, she filed a motion in manitowoc court to get a retesting of the evidence. ari melby is legal analyst for msnbc. she is basically trying to
opinion, which is all right. because that s the system. are you okay if we walks free? i m not okay if the family s not okay. i believe brendan was involved in this. that he was there and he was involved in it. the wisconsin attorney general also believes brendan was involved in teresa s murder. he appealed the judge s order for release, asking a full panel of federal judges to review the case. in september of 2017, that request was granted. the seventh circuit u.s. court of appeals heard evidence about whether dassey s confession was coerced. nine weeks later, the seven-judge panel upheld the state court s finding that dassey s confession was voluntary, meaning the young man will remain in prison. dassey s lawyers have vowed to appeal the decision to the u.s. supreme court. coming up he told me to watch dateline. how a 6-year-old dateline