craig melvin: the story gripped the nation in the series making a murderer. so many americans have learned about it. laura nirider: it s being heard by people around the world. craig melvin: steven avery and his nephew, convicted of murder and the haunting killing of a young photographer. but were they really innocent? andrea canning: did you have any kind of vendetta against steven avery? absolutely not. craig melvin: for the first time on television, a lead investigator defends his interrogation which led to a conviction overturned. andrea canning: this was seen by many as a false confession. i feel it was a real confession. he knew right from wrong. laura nirider: those officers wanted that information in the worst way, and they got it in the worst way. craig melvin: the prosecutor fights back with an explosive book. people are going to hear the other side of the story. craig melvin: and a promise from steven avery s high-powered, new attorney. andrea canning: do you thi
avery in for an investigation. the key is in your bedroom. you know the key is it because you put the key there. that s the only way the key gets there. no. yes, steve, yes. a tour was defined and claimed cops were framing him, planting evidence. that s the way it is. the evidence, the cops got the evidence. last thunder and wiegert weren t buying. it and placed steven avery under arrest. we re not mad at you, okay? somebody is doing a good job on me. investigators were convinced they had their man. still, they didn t know how or why teresa had been killed. coming up, shackles, handcuffs, strange behavior. teresa is creeped out. could something in his past have led him to murder? when dateline continues. why hide your skin if dupixent has your moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis under control? hide my skin? not me.
after teresa s disappearance he and his partner brought avery in for an interview. date hine filed a freedom of information request to obtain the video. you know the key is there because you put the key there. that s the only way the key gets there. no. avery was defiant and even claimed cops were framing him, planting evidence. they weren t buying it and placed steven avery under arrest. i didn t do it. somebody s doing a good job on me. investigators were convinced they had their man. still, they didn t know how or why teresa had been killed. coming up, shackles, handcuffs, strange behavior. teresa s creeped out. could something in his past have led him to murder? why would steven avery do this? we know that he s a psychopath. we know that he has do we know that?
is it possible that he s easily manipulated? it s possible. he sounded confused at times. quite possibly. he didn t know what was up and down. i don t know, just watching it. i don t know about that. my thought is, he had a million things going on in his head at that time. fassbender resists charges that he and his partner inappropriately planted ideas in dassey s head, like in that exchange about the hood latch. what did he do under the hood, if that s what he did? what did brendan say? he agreed that steven had gone under there. you used word agreed. yeah. so you brought it up first. i believe so. that s one of the areas that you came under fire for. yes. that you were planting things in his mind. yes, that s what they said. and there were instances that we did ask him specifically about things, yes. and that can happen in an interview. can we take that as a reliable answer given it was
it was tested, yes. teresa s dna was on that bullet and the bullet was shot from steven s rifle, the one above his bed. do you now believe 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 cleanup all that blood? bleach, paint thinner, it cleans up blood. teresa s friend kim said when she heard the details about teresa s final moments she was heartbroken. i remember crying and just hoping she was who she was and fought because she was a very strong person. krats charged brenden dassie as a coconspirator 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 dassie recanted his statements. just before avery s trial the