telling swipe of blood near the ignition switch of the vehicle. tests showed that blood was steven avery s, taking him from person of interest to prime suspect. you believe you can explain the blood from steven avery? well, yes, absolutely. steven avery had a cut on his right hand, middle finger that was freshly scabbed over. if you took that key and put it in that ignition switch, it lined up perfectly with a contact pattern swipe. how did he explain that cut? i m not sure i remember. i think he claimed he cut in the junkyard doing work on vehicles fassbender feared the worst, and after four days of searching, his team found something disturbing in a fire pit near avery s trailer. what appeared to be bone fragments. human bones. most interesting because family members told investigators steven avery built a bonfire hours after teresa had been at the yard that day.
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at the center of it all, steven avery. then the investigators fought back, two sides, one truth. who will you believe? the mystery of what happened here in the sprawling fields of rural wisconsin has captivated the country. we the jury find the defendant steven a. avery guilty. in 2015 the netflix series making a murderer convinced many viewers that they both convicted of murder had been railroaded by law enforcement. it s a case dateline has been following for more than a decade match as their lawyers worked
kratz, who prosecuted both steven avery and brendan dassey says he is undaunted. are you afraid of kathleen zellner? no. i m not involved in the case anymore. i shouldn t be afraid of anything. my involvement concluded. she could unravel your work if what she s saying has some weight to it. you don t think she has a chance? i don t. she is so confident. why are you so confident? because we spent 18 months putting this case together. this wasn t just thrown together. it wasn t a bunch of keystone cops. it was done very professionally, have very well. kratz has have personal regrets. he says he is ashamed he sent sexually suggestive texts to a domestic violence victim two years after avery s trial, a scandal which led to his resignation. while he still takes issue with making a murderer, he says he is
in december 2015 netflix released making a murderer and inignited a bonfire of controversy over the convictions of steven avery and brenden dassie. now many viewers believe the claim he was making all along, that he was framed by law enforcement. who would want to set you up in something like this? so they didn t have to pay nothing out. did they plant evidence? sure they did. kim is avery s cousin. she says she had predicted something bad might happen to him after he was exonerated in that earlier rape case. remember he had recently filed a lawsuit against his local sheriff s department for his wrongful conviction. i did tell him manitowoc want done with him. why did you think they weren t done with him?