The hottest Netflix series right now is a documentary called Making a Murderer. It’s a slanted propaganda piece that has people largely falling into 3 camps. I’m in a camp. I’ll let you know which one after my rant.
In 1985 this woman was running along the beach when she encountered a man for the 2nd time that day. She thought that a guy wearing a black leather jacket in the heat was strange. She was right. On her jog back the man was standing at the shoreline. She decided to run into the shallow water to go around him. He ran into the water and got her, and raped her.
Penny Beerntsen was the kind of citizen Manitowoc County Wisconsin wanted more of. Steven Avery, the man arrested for the rape, was not. Avery came from an ill-educated family who ran a salvage yard. Steve Avery was a constant problem.
He was accused of public masturbation, he drove his accuser (his cousin) off the road and brandished an unloaded weapon, he once doused his own cat in gas and oil and threw him in a fire pit “to see what would happen,” and he had other run-ins with the law over stealing sandwiches and money from a local store.
He wasn’t well-liked. He was a typical guttersnipe.
Based on the eyewitness testimony of the rape victim, Avery spent 18 years in jail. He was released after a DNA test performed by the Innocence Project exonerated him.
Gregory Allen (on right) 
is believed to be the man who raped Beernsten.
Wisconsin offered a settlement for unlawful imprisonment, something in the neighborhood of $25,000 a year. Avery lawyered up and was pursuing 36 million dollars. It was learned that prosecutors were well aware that Gregory Allen was a good suspect (he had committed other sexual assaults that fit this profile) but they suppressed their findings and focused on Avery instead.
Just days after Avery was deposed for his lawsuit (in addition to the suppressed evidence, he alleged that he was railroaded by the police because his cousin was married to law enforcement and they had a vendetta stemming from the public masturbation charge) Avery was arrested for a murder.
Where Avery goes, trouble follows.
His defense will allege that the police set him up because Avery was a constant thorn in their side and there was no way they’d allow him to cash in on the unlawful detention suit.
Let’s look at the facts of this murder:
Teresa Halbach worked as a freelance photographer
for the local Auto Trader. She had been to Avery’s yard before, but she was creeped out by him. He once answered the door in only a towel.
On Halloween, 2005, she had three appointments to take car photos, one of them being at the Avery property. Steven had specifically requested Teresa when he called the Auto Trader. He fooled the Auto Trader by making them believe it was his sister who would be waiting for Teresa.
After her appointment at the Avery Auto Salvage she was never seen again.
A search of his yard by Missing Persons volunteers turned up her Rav 4 hidden under brush and hoods of other cars.
Blood was found inside the car. Human bones were found in a burn barrel. Avery was arrested.
Teresa’s PDA and camera, one of her teeth, the contents of her purse, and a rivet from the Daisy Fuentes jeans she was last seen wearing were also in the burn barrel.
A flattened bullet which was fired from his gun was found on the garage floor. Teresa’s keys were found in the garage. his bedroom.
Avery’s DNA, from sweat, was found under the hood and inside the car.
4 months later, Avery’s slow-witted cousin, 16 year-old Brendan Dassey, confessed to taking part in Teresa’s rape and murder.
Pretty much a slam dunk. The most damning part being the DNA from sweat found on the hood latch. A conspiracy theorist could say that blood could have been planted, but how does the police get Avery’s sweat?
The documentary does a good job of pointing out some irregularities in the investigation, reminding one of the OJ trial.
A tech did admit to contaminating Avery’s sample with her own during DNA testing. This is incompetence, but not evidence of malfeasance.
The car keys were found after 2 searches of the garage bedroom, in a place that was already searched. This might have been an effort to goose the evidence against Avery, but you’d have to believe that driving the RAV 4 to the property wasn’t good enough for the railroaders, they just had to plant the keys as well.
A radio call from a police officer to a dispatcher sounds like he could have found the victim’s car in another location 2 days before it was found on Avery’s property. But that radio call might not mean that at all. When you listen to it it is up to one’s interpretation.
All very interesting, but there isn’t enough reasonable doubt here to cast aside the evidence that does exist – the car on his property. The burnt body on his property. The victim’s possessions on his property. His past creepiness towards her. His request that she be the photographer to show up that day. His DNA on the car. His cousin’s confession. It’s a lot.
Many people are in the “He’s Innocent!” camp, signing petitions and asking Obama for clemency. (FYI, presidents cannot overturn a state conviction, only a federal one.) This is absurd. You’d have to believe the police found the real murder scene and decided to move it all to the Avery yard, without knowing if Avery had a solid alibi or not. Pretty risky. Why such an elaborate complicated scheme? Just kill him after a traffic stop and say he went for the gun. Isn’t that what all the cops do?
My camp?
I think the cops might have goosed some evidence against Avery, but I think he did it. And I think his half-wit cousin helped.
All in all, the documentary is very well done, and the propaganda has obviously worked on a lot of people that I think can be easily swayed. (Moving a crime scene to another in order to frame someone is extremely risky, and not really worth the effort considering the alternatives available for people who would do such a thing. The cops could have simply killed him themselves.)
Look for it and watch it. I’d like to hear some reader’s opinions.
Governor Walker has denied clemency-
http://www.people.com/article/petition-pardon-steven-avery-now-requires-white-house-response
OK, maybe I missed something. Avery was convicted of raping Ms. Beernsten, served 18 years. andd was sprung by a bunch of bleeding heart liberals. So why was he not convicted for the murder of Teresa Halbach? or was he? i’m confused.
It’s on My List on Netflix, haven’t had a chance to see it yet.
He was sprung after DNA proved he didn’t commit the rape. We are on Episode 8 right now. It’s pretty interesting—my wife and I (she happens to be an attorney, albeit not one who works in criminal law) have tried to watch this with open minds (and eyes) knowing that the film would be prejudiced in Avery’s favor. At first, I was half convinced that Avery DIDN’T murder Miss Halbach, while my wife found it extremely difficult to believe that the burn pile could be “staged.” Some of the facts of the investigation, such as the Avery’s being kept off their property for 8 days, are reeeeaaaalllyyy questionable to me (I admit I’ve never been the focus of a murder investigation LOL), but I just don’t see it as that difficult to stage the crime, especially when some of these cops may have had the motivation. I think Avery probably did it—but I wish I could have been in the courtroom to actually hear ALL of the evidence, not just the stuff the filmmakers wanted me to hear. The county next to mine in Ohio had a sheriff’s department in the 60s and 70s that was notorious for framing people, intimidating hostile witnesses, and other forms of corruption, so while I am generally inclined to support law enforcement, I’m aware of the bad apples, too…
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19781108&id=eX9IAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PW0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=2675,1652443&hl=en
I hate to have confused you, BUT, technically anyone watching the documentary (it’s in installments) haven’t gotten to the “end” part yet.
Anyone can google the story and you’ll see that
SPOILER ALERT********
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Avery and his cousin were both convicted and serving life sentences.
His victim was chained to a bed. To her right, near the bed, was a dirty double pane window. Outside the window was an old shed like building, maybe 30 feet away. It has pealing white paint and may of been an old garage at one time.You can see it clearly from the bedroom where she was bound and beaten.
Bleeding from her face, Teresa Halbach said to her killers; “you don’t have to do this”…….
….The younger nephew stopped, frozen for a moment of natural human repentance . He paused and then he punched her in the head until unconscious, He couldn’t concede the torture in her face,while Steven Avery urged him forward to assist the murder of the young woman. A fantasy Avery held close in his darkest secrets that he once revealed to a fellow prisoner prior to his release from the first rape case.
The two men took her outside, reduplicated their butchery of the corpse and burned the body.
May Teresa rest in peace.
Mork,
There is no way on earth police will conspire to frame a guy for murder in this manner.
Simple evidence tampering carries a 20 year sentence and/or a fine. It will kill your career and your pension.
I’m not sure this is the wise way of punishing Avery.
They’d have to risk being seen driving a car, a car that is being looked for, onto someone else’s property. (The very property that was the last time she was seen.)
Very, very risky. Not worth it.
They’d have to transport the burnt body, and the contents of the purse and the camera and the PDA and put it in a burn barrel where witnesses could testify that the contents of the barrel might not make sense because (for example) the family used the barrel the night before and didn’t see bones in it.
Really, really risky.
Additionally, to frame someone you have to be absolutely sure you know the person’s whereabouts.
For example, the charge that the police framed OJ was ludicrous.
The police would have no idea if OJ was even in the country when they attempted to place evidence to show he did it.
They’d look awful stupid setting up a guy who was in Europe the entire week.
The police would have to know Avery was even available to commit this crime before setting him up.
Putting his DNA on a car when he’s in Michigan hunting would raise a few eyebrows, no?
Avery did it.
God help her family and friends who have to deal with this horror all over again thanks to 2 morally bankrupt film makers.
They are no different then the ones who wanted to exonerate Robert Franklin Stroud a killer, aggressive queer and pedophile who tormented child victims from prison. he too was glamorized as the Bird Man of Alcatraz yet was a putrid sick criminal.
The nephew’s confession was over 3 and 1/2 hours long and very detailed including a description of scrubbing the garage with bleach. He also provided his bleach stained/splashed clothing and on and on.
During the interview with his defense attorney, the attorney told at least one bald-faced verifiable lie.
These film makers are victimizing Teresa’s family all over again. I hope they meet up with an Avery in real life and get a good dose of reality.
If you can convince people to vote for Obama twice. Convincing people that a convicted murderer was framed is a slam dunk.
The film was made by Columbia University. ’nuff said.
I actually think that they titled the doc “Making a Murderer” not because they think he’s being framed, but because they secretly know he did it and they’re saying his 18 year false imprisonment is the reason he couldn’t cope on the outside and raped and killed this women.
The state “made a murderer.”
Thanks for posting this.
The past week TV talk shows, Rush, and all of talk radio is referencing this show.
Hard to glean what was going on since people are worried about divulging spoilers.
Off topic but will Firefox browser ever work with iotwreport again?
The past week it locks up immediately.
It sucks, I imagine many people simply quit visiting the site.
I know my visits have been cut by 80%.
Avery and Dassey did it. They’ve had there chance to appeal their trials, heck they could file an appeal anytime they for a review of their trials if there was any real grounds for an appeal.
Rot in Waupun.
by the same logic you have used to say Avery could have done it so could the police. your assumption of police always being innocent is the same reason they can get away with murder.
I do not know who did it but it did appear that the county insurance was not going to back the county, prosecutor or judge who initially sentenced Avery. There is the motive. They had all the evidence needed to frame Avery. There is the means.
In the documentary there was criminal wrongdoing in his original conviction.
I would not put it past the sheriff’s department in this case and the independent prosecutor seemed particularly sleazy in the documentary, like someone who was putting one over and knowing he was going to get away with it.
I still like Fur’s earlier comment, or a relevant variant: “Apple should develop a kill button that, when depressed, will put to death someone that outraged us through a story we read over our bagel and coffee.”
Hi Loco, I use Firefox and I have never had a problem with this site unless it was a system wide problem that Fur was aware of and working on fixing. However, my computer is kind of old and I am still using Windows XP, that may have something to do with it if you are using a different operating system.
I’m using firefox without any trouble, smooth and fast, but when I have a problem I have to delete IOTW cookies.
Hey there BFH,
For the sake of playing Devil’s (or Avery’s) Advocate, if you remember from Avery’s first case, the Sheriff’s Dept. or Manitowoc Police had the guy who actually raped that poor woman under DAILY surveillance because of existing reports that he was behind some other sexual attacks, and somehow the day of that crime he wasn’t being watched. I have no doubt imagining that after his release they could also have been keeping a close eye on Avery, who was Public Enemy #1 due to the embarrassment he caused the department, the subsequent lawsuit, and the fact that he also has a pretty shitty history. I have no trouble at all believing that they wanted to get this guy for “something,” and the facts are pretty clear that Avery is one creepy asshole.
But just the fact that the Manitowoc Sheriff’s Dept. was announced at the beginning of the investigation as not being involved (supposedly only providing “resources”) and yet it being their people who found key evidence AFTER places had been searched several times raises questions with me, and what the hell are they doing poking around at night months later? I’m not a bleeding heart by any stretch; if Avery did it then just drop him in the middle of Lake Michigan and forget him. I don’t see any parallels with OJ—I don’t remember any real motivation to frame him other than some phantom racism crap dreamed up by Johnnie Cochran.
That link I provided before regarding the Richland County, Ohio sheriff and his deputies only showed the tip of the iceberg in that case. The corruption there was deep and wide. That sheriff and his top deputies ran Richland County like a fiefdom. The sheriff who succeeded him also got busted for tampering with evidence a few years later, and the sheriff who succeeded HIM also got in trouble for various corruption-based crimes in the 90s. That doesn’t have a single thing to do with Avery’s case, I’m just using it to explain why I have a certain skepticism toward law enforcement. That and the fact that I’ve been given bullshit speeding tickets ?. Anyway, sorry for the long posts. Crime shows fascinate me as much as politics.
I think that in every criminal case that goes to court the police and the prosecution ‘goose’ some of the evidence and hide things that would be troublesome. Every case all the time. Justice might be blind but the police and prosecution are not and they want to win, period.
I found this series right after it came out and watched it from beginning to end just before Christmas. Your description brought up a few details I didn’t hear in the series, specifically the sweat, request for and past creepiness toward Teresa.
What really gets to me about all of this, Steven was at the top of his game when the murder of Teresa took place. He was suing for millions and likely to win, he was traveling the country, standing next to big wigs, got a new woman, etc. Then he just ditched it all for a couple hours of fun with a photographer that he knows will leave a trail right to him. Steven has an IQ of about 70, but he’s not that stupid.
On the evidence. The only key that was found was in Steven bedroom. It was found days into the investigation and it was found by the Manitowoc County Sheriff which wasn’t supposed to be on the property at all! In fact just about all the damning evidence found on the property was found by Manitowoc Sheriffs (like the single bullet in the garage) days into the property being secured. Nothing substantial was found by the neighboring Calumet Sheriffs who was in charge of the investigation.
Next, the rape, beating, etc. supposedly took place in Steven’s bedroom, the subsequent shooting before burning supposedly took place in the garage, she was shot 11 times. NOT A SINGLE SHRED of Teresa’s DNA was found inside Steven’s home or bedroom or the garage, prosecutors argued Steven cleaned up the scene. So now a guy with an IQ of 70 can clean up a crime scene so well in 2 days that even the cops with 10 days of access to the property can’t find her DNA. There was no blood spatter in the garage, they even broke up the garage floor looking for Teresa’s DNA. Instead they found everyone’s DNA on the garage floor besides Teresa’s. So now not only is a guy with an IQ of 70 able to clean up DNA perfectly, he can do it without disturbing the surrounding DNA.
Teresa’s charred bones were not only found on Steven’s property but also at a quarry something like 8 miles away. Further the state had a tampered vial of Steven’s blood and very little of Steven’s DNA was recovered in the investigation, a couple of well placed smears.
In all I think there’s some evidence Teresa was killed on the Avery property, but I don’t think Steven had anything to do with it. Instead I think the kid, Brenden, who was an awkward teen with girl issues at the time took the opportunity when he got home from school. He was a big kid, had lots of open space and later tried to cover up the evidence. However considering Steven’s past, the cops started barking up the wrong tree and that afforded Brendan the opportunity to take another role in the crime.
After watching the whole series, you may come away thinking Steven is potentially innocent. Especially when it is considered that the jury found him guilty of murder but not guilty of mutilation to a corpse. Well then who the hell burned the body if he killed her?
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We have tens of thousands of readers per day, all coming here with different platforms, OS, settings, and experiences.
I pass along every comment made by a reader to our vendors.
They hate me.
They do.
I’ll probably end up being dropped by them because they think I obsess too much over each and every comment.
Most often, the issues readers are having are with their own settings. Usually firewalls, cache and cookie issues. (I have to yield to the people who have responded saying that they are on Firefox with no issue. Myself included.)
Ad companies are doing what they can to combat adblockers and sometimes it raises issues with the reader experience.
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They should go right to jail.
Let me know if the issue continues (via email) and we can try and sort it out.
Yes, I went back and saw that I said “key in the garage”, which was wrong. It was the bedroom.
My review included things that were not in the film. I couldn’t help it because it’s hard for me to remember what was in the film and what is stuff I learned through my own research.
You didn’t hear about the sweat because the Columbia grad “documentary ” makers left it out of the film. They left out lots of evidence because this was not a documentary, it was a propaganda film.
Their excuse for leaving it out was that it was a “complicated film and there were time constraints, and decisions were made so as not to confuse the story.”
?????????????
You’re buying that?
This film was made with one mission – to make it seem like Avery is innocent and the cops should be in jail.
The sweat was left out because it is way too damning a piece of evidence. And to leave this out because of “time constraints” in a 12 part documentary that includes sub-narratives like Jodi breaking up with Avery and finding out by his dad via a phone call (all meant to tug on our heartstrings) should tell you what kind of doc you are watching.
Here’s another tidbit that was left out that might make you wonder if you’re being duped or not. Eugenia alluded to it.
…When Brendan Dassey returned to his own home, his mother, Barb Janda, who is Steven Avery’s sister, noticed bleached-out splotches on her son’s jeans and asked how that had happened. Dassey told her that he had been helping his uncle clean the floor of his garage. […] State DNA expert Sherry Culhane testified that no traces of Teresa’s DNA were found on Dassey’s clothing, but she also pointed out that his clothes had extensive bleach stains as a result of the garage cleaning that Dassey and his uncle had performed. Bleach, Culhane said, destroys DNA.
Source: http://truecrimecases.blogspot.com.br/2012/08/steven-avery.html?m=1
Why wasn’t this hammered away in the film? This is very very damning to the Avery case.
>>>Steven was at the top of his game when the murder of Teresa took place. He was suing for millions and likely to win, he was traveling the country, standing next to big wigs, got a new woman, etc. Then he just ditched it all for a couple hours of fun with a photographer that he knows will leave a trail right to him. Steven has an IQ of about 70, but he’s not that stupid.>>>
All you’re doing is describing the backstory of thousands and thousands of people who have committed murder that had lots to live for. And many of these people didn’t spend 18 years in jail (something that can warp a mind and make coping on the outside very difficult.)
Was OJ down on his luck?
He lived in a mansion and had pelt (pelts) a lot finer than Jodi at his beck and call.
Why did he murder?
The OJ case is very relevant because this was the seminal case that put crime scene investigation , and every procedure no matter how insignificant, on trial in order to make it seem like the client was innocent.
It makes for a nice case up until a certain point where some key evidence cannot be explained away.
In OJ’s case it was improbable for the police to have planted OJ’s blood in a trail along the left side of the bloody shoes walking away, a decision that would have to have been made BEFORE they found out that poor ol’ bad luck OJ had a deep cut to his left knuckle.
Case CLOSED. All the other bullshit gets swept away with this one damning piece of evidence.
In the Avery case, you can have all the theories in the world as to how the police framed him – that the police found a crime scene and decided to transfer the entire thing to Avery’s property in order to frig him out of a lawsuit – you cannot explain away that Brendan confessed and told investigators about the bleaching of the garage floor. Brendan’s mother told investigators that she asked Brendan about his pants and how they were bleach stained and he told her he helped Avery bleach the garage.
Case Closed.
Also, lack of evidence does not prove lack of crime when there is other evidence.
You can’t say, no DNA was found at point A, so DNA at point B becomes moot, he’s innocent.
It doesn’t work that way.
And the DNA on the hood latch of the RAV 4 is pretty devastating considering it wasn’t DNA from blood (which the police had access to) but DNA from sweat.
I also don’t buy into this kind of reasoning –
“Hiding the car on the property under brush and car hoods is so stupid considering Avery had a car crusher. The car must have been planted by police.”
Who are the stupid ones? The police or Avery?
Criminals are caught because they are stupid.
I saw a forensic files where a kid tried to make it look like his dad was murdered in a bedroom he couldn’t get access to because it was locked.
He called 911 and when asked by the dispatcher if he thought the father was dead he said, “I don’t know, but there’s blood coming out of his mouth.”
The dispatcher asked how he would know this if the door was locked.
I’ll call this the Avery-effect.
hell im exhausted just reading the damn story
Goodness, use Opera. Fast and more better.
No. There were 3 burn sites. A pit behind the garage. A burn barrel near his house and a quarry pit about 1000 yards or so from his house. Nothing was 8 miles away.
https://i.imgur.com/yyUuhNU.jpg
People are thinking of this backwards.
They are assuming that the body was burnt away from the Avery house and police took the bones and planted them at the Avery house to frame him.
No.
What most likely happened is that Avery decided to burn her body after he cut her up. The burn barrel had an implement in it that could have been used to cut off her extremities and head. A full body would not fit in the barrel anyway. So, there were 2 burn locations.
The bones were found in the quarry pit because Avery took her bones there and dumped them in the pit that was used to burn animals in order to hide them.
Human bones were found in the quarry pit, but no animal bones were found in the burn pit behind the garage or the burn barrel near his bedroom.
Logic tells you the bones were moved from Avery house to quarry pit, not the other way around.
The police did not move the bones to frame Avery. Avery moved the bones to get them away from his house and mix them with animal bones to hide them.
>your assumption of police always being innocent is the same reason they can get away with murder.
Where did I say police are always innocent?
I’m saying that in this particular case Avery is guilty, and I’m acknowledging that police could have goosed some evidence in order to assure that he didn’t get away, (like planting the Rv 4 car key.)
That is inexcusable, and if it can be proven the cops should go to jail.
But the facts are that Avery did this, and not because the police moved an entire crime scene to his house.
The evidence shows that the bones were moved from Avery’s house to the quarry pit a half mile from his house, and not the other way around.
He was moving the bones to get the evidence away from him. (How do we know this? There were no animal bones found in the burn barrel and burn pit on his property. Simple logic.)
I find it amazing that mere days after his deposition a woman who was last seen at Avery’s house was murdered.
What luck for the police that they didn’t have to frame him for a murder that took place in a neighboring town, or out of state.
They actually were fortunate enough to have one fall in their lap. Such bad luck for Avery.
A woman who said she didn’t like going to the Avery Salvage yard to take pictures of his cars because the guy was creepy ( a guy that in the past public masturbated in front of his cousin) and created inappropriate situations (like wearing just a towel) was duped into showing up again because Avery made it seem like it was his sister making the appointment.
Records on Avery’s cell phone show that he used *67 to mask his phone number on 2 calls to Teresa.
She is never seen again.
The last known sighting of the woman was by Avery’s cousin who said she was walking towards his trailer.
Her camera, her PDA, her tooth, her bones, her purse and parts of her pants are found in a burn barrel on his property.
Her car is found on his property. His DNA is on and in the car.
His cousin says he raped her and helped kill her and that she was shot in the head in the garage.
A flattened bullet, fired from his rifle, is found on the floor of the garage.
The cousin says he helped clean the garage with bleach. The cousin’s mother says she remembers asking him about his messed up jeans with bleach stains. He said that he was helping his cousin bleach the garage.
The cousin draws a picture of how she was raped, complete with chains showing her strapped to the bed.
Chains are found in Avery’s house.
Avery says it was for sex with his girlfriend Jodi.
Jodi says she never participated in any sex with chains.
Avery tells an inmate that his fantasy is to build a rape room under his property. He tells him that bleaching is the best way to hide DNA.
Burning is the best way to dispose of a body.
This certainly sounds like a case of where the cops were concerned with Avery’s lawsuit.
C’mon.
Don’t be foolish.
I hear what your saying, especially the production side of things. I was bored at times watching replays, dramatization of known details and some useless backstories. Like watching something on Discovery, they lead you up to a nail biter and then it’s commercial time. When the advertising is done, they replay all the events leading up to the nail biter before switching to another side of the island. It’s the reason I can only watch about 15 minutes of shows like Gold Rush, Deadliest Catch, Pickers, etc. The producers of the Avery series definitely had plenty of time to provide additional evidence throughout.
I obviously didn’t get all the facts in the case and I too searched for more information, but found nothing of the bleaching or sweat. I did watch the series about 2 days after it was released, so it’s possible my analysis at the time didn’t find later compositions on the story where additional evidence was provided.
In any event, the only people who really know the truth are Teresa, Steven and Brendan. However I have many doubts about the cops and prosecution related to the gathering of and handling of evidence. Especially considering the lopsided guilty verdict when you consider Teresa was killed and mutilated. Of all the charges between Brendan and Steven who are convicted of her murder, nobody was ever charged with mutilating the corpse, yet it was mutilated.
Bottom line is you can’t form an opinion of this case based on this documentary. It is ridiculously one-sided.
If you never heard of this case before and I made a documentary that showed all the evidence against Avery but he walked, everyone would be signing petitions to have him retried.