that blood. did it to the best of his ability. bleach, paint thinner, it cleans up blood. teresa s friend said when she heard the details about her final moments she was heart broken. i remember crying and hoping she was who she was and fought because she was a very strong person. ken kratz charged can brendan dassey 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. 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, saying they didn t prove anything about teresa s murder. and avery was never charged with assaulting his ex fiance or with raping the teen. to this day he denies all of the allegations. and those handcuffs and
dateline he believes steven avery set his sights on teresa halbach in the weeks leading up to her murder. as we move closer towards october 31st we see steven s behavior changing. as kratz got auto trader s records he learned teresa had actually made five earlier visits to the avery salvage yard to take photos, some at steven avery s request. he starts making calls directly to teresa halbach rather than going through auto trader . and kratz determined the day before teresa s visit he purchased these handcuffs and shackles. he answered the door wearing a small white towel. teresa we know is creeped can out by that behavior. she tells friends and co-workers about that. kratz believes avery s behavior shows signs of a sexual obsession with teresa that led to murder. why would steven avery do
this when he was on the verge of getting a big windfall, potentially millions of dollars. that s a great question. i don t know. we know that he s a psycho path. we know he has do we know that? let s say i allege that, okay. i believe that deep down. kratz discovered more in avery s past. 18 years before teresa s murder, avery wrote this letter to his estranged wife from prison saying, i will kill you. and a former fiance told police he had physically abused her, and kratz says he learned something even more disturbing. this 2006 police report shows a teen abc giccused avery of rapir a year after his release from prison. it all came together for kratz. he believes avery had developed a deep resentment of women which started with his wrongful conviction and had only grown over the years. he has no remorse for his behavior, feels incredibly
precisely the areas that make him vulnerable to the kind of tactics that the police officers used in this case. the attorneys say that the investigators manipulated dassey with coaxing statements like these from fastbender who was seated just off camera. i am your friend right now. it is all right. you are doing the right thing. they should never have made those kinds of suggestions that they wanted to comfort him, that all would be well. those kinds of tactics when used on a kid like brendan are a recipe for false confessions. and they say the investigators manipulation of the teen escalated far beyond simple coaxing. the officers needed brendan to provide information that only the real killer would know, and they knew what they wanted him to say. they accuse the investigators of planting details about the crime in dassey s mind to get the answers they wanted. for example, remember steven avery s dna found on the car
exoneration in that rain rape case. i told him manitock wasn t done with him. why did you think they weren t done with him? something just told me they weren t going to hand steve avery $36 million or any kind of money, that they were gist going to be watching him and look what happened. avery ended up settling that lawsuit for $400,000 before his trial. the county did not acknowledge any wrong doing. he used the money to hire his defense attorneys dean strain and jerry buting. we knew going through it would be a difficult defense. we spoke to buting in early 2016. we had a tough defense because nobody wants to try to use as a defense the police tried to plant evidence or frame somebody. it goes against society. those people are there to help us, the police. right.