What Was Left Out Of Making A Murderer

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What Was Left Out Of Making A Murderer

Every day more and more people are watching Making a Murderer and some come away feeling like they only received half the information and everything was about Steven Avery being framed and one sided.

Well, this post that was made a few weeks ago by devisan with the help of other Redditors will show how much was left out on the defense side. There is a lot more evidence that points to Steven Avery being framed that a lot of people aren’t aware of.

Read below and you’ll see what was left out and see if it changes your opinion

Much has been said about MaM leaving out prosecution evidence, but here’s a list of defense evidence it also left out. If you know of other tidbits, please share them, with sources if possible, and I’ll add them to the list.

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• Dean Strang recalled that one of the investigators involved in finding DNA under the hood of Halbach’s car admitted to not changing gloves after handling evidence inside her car. Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SGwXEJ_0X2A Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/MakingaMurderer/comments/3ztcch/wow_investigator_didnt_change_gloves_after/

• Remember Sherry Culhane, the expert who testified about Halbach’s DNA being on the bullet, except she contaminated her control sample, but since she’d used the whole sample (leaving nothing for the defense to test), they went ahead and treated it as conclusive? In 1985, she testified in the Penny Beernsten case that a hair “consistent with” Penny’s was found on Steven’s shirt. Source: http://www.law.virginia.edu/pdf/faculty/garrett/innocence/avery.pdfand http://lacrossetribune.com/news/state-and-regional/wi/dna-expert-who-helped-exonerate-avery-testifies-in-murder-trial/article_5dc71915-0a95-5438-bf29-e168b655a855.html and http://www.convolutedbrian.com/testimony-notes-26-feb-2007.htmland http://www.convolutedbrian.com/the-poster-child-effect.html

• “Buting showed that Culhane delayed the DNA test that freed Avery for a year” and “Culhane’s error rate was shown to be the highest of her group although her analysis time was seventy percent of the other analysts. She explained this by stating she did more samples than others.” Source: http://www.convolutedbrian.com/testimony-notes-26-feb-2007.html

• Investigators never dusted the Toyota key (with Steven’s DNA) for fingerprints. http://fox6now.com/2016/01/07/march-7-2007-search-for-steven-averys-fingerprints-crime-lab-expert-testifies/

• Strang said Manitowoc County Coroner Debra Kakatsch would testify that she was “walled off entirely” from the crime scene by Calumet County authorities. By state statute, she should have been allowed to investigate early reports of possible human bones being found outside of Avery’s trailer, he said.

• Strang said the coroner had also received calls from the Manitowoc County executive and the county’s top attorney not to investigate the case. Source: http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/witness-says-she-saw-victim-later-b99642985z1-363818721.html

• Culhane testified that the amount of Avery’s DNA on Halbach’s hood latch (which could have been blood) was very small, similar to what you would get from rubbing Avery’s toothbrush on it, or from the unchanged gloves of the tech who handled blood evidence inside the car and then touched the hood. https://www.reddit.com/r/MakingaMurderer/comments/406qfo/it_was_not_proven_that_the_dna_on_the_hood_latch/

• Buting wanted to show jury anonymous letter mailed to MTSC, found in Green Bay Post Office, which claimed a body had been burned in the smelter at 3:am on Friday. Sources: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1683&dat=20070308&id=UuMqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pEUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6227,3242420&hl=en and http://fromwhisperstor.fr.yuku.com/topic/22752/Steven-Avery-Murder-Trial-John-Lees-Trial-Blog#.Vo7kgR7DPIU (Note that this last link comes from a website that, irritatingly, replaces every instance of “ass” with “DorkFish“, so Fassbender comes out “FDorkfishbender. Why, website, why???)

• Clerk Lynn Zigmunt testifies that she had a log everyone was supposed to sign when they went into the evidence room, but “some people were making exceptions for people. We’ve tightened up on that.” Source: http://fox6now.com/2016/01/07/march-6-2007-who-cut-the-evidence-tape-that-should-have-sealed-steven-averys-blood/

• Blaine Dassey testified that his brother, Bobby, was asleep when he got home from school around 3:40pm, contradicting Bobby’s testimony that he got up at 2:30pm and saw Teresa headed towards Steven’s trailer. Source: http://fox6now.com/2016/01/07/february-27-2007-another-nephew-of-steven-avery-takes-the-stand/

• Dean Strang says Steven’s jail conversations were taped for 16 months and he never implicated himself, and this – along with the fact that in his experience, people “mentally equipped as Steven is” always end up confessing or implicating themselves – makes him think Steven may be “stone cold innocent.” Source: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/01/08/making-a-murderer-attorney-dean-strang-reveals-what-sparked-horrible-sense-steven-avery-may-be-stone-cold-innocent/

• Now Sheriff (then “under sheriff”) Robert Hermann is president of another salvage company in the region, and was working at it before he went into law enforcement in the 80s. http://cleveland-auto-sales-salvage.cleveland.wi.amfibi.directory/us/c/18826455-cleveland-auto-sales-salvage and http://www.htrnews.com/story/news/local/2014/07/01/sheriff-robert-hermann-recalls-career-highlights-changes/11944007/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=. Also, Hermann also attended the FBI Academy in Quantico in 1995, where he “made some great law-enforcement contacts.” Could explain why they got the FBI to fabricate an EDTA test and do it pronto for them. http://www.htrnews.com/story/news/local/2014/07/01/sheriff-robert-hermann-recalls-career-highlights-changes/11944007/

• Dean Strang stated they had a forensic anthropologist at trial who testified that an open fire wouldn’t have generated enough heat to burn a body in the way that those bones were destroyed, but it didn’t make the documentary. Dean Strang on Megyn Kelly, the Kelly File 1/5/2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIBAoe8hNPk

• In between 3:30 – 4PM, A propane delivery truck driver (John Leurquin) saw a green SUV leaving the Avery property at but couldn’t identify driver or if it was a male or female. He delivers propane for Valders Co-op. Usually fuels up near Avery property at 3:30 for about half an hour http://www.wsaw.com/news/headlines/6386482.html

• “Police said she was wearing blue jeans, a white button-down shirt and a summer jacket when she was last seen. Schmitz would indicate that Halbach was at his residence at approximately 1:30 p.m. Was there for approximately ten minutes. Was wearing a white shirt, waist — waist-length jacket, and blue jeans. (Day 4 of Dassey Trial) Zipperer would indicate that Halbach was at her residence between approximately 2 to 2:30 p.m. Was there for approximately ten minutes. Was wearing a white top, waist-length jacket, and blue jeans. (Day 4 of Dassey Trial) Bobby Dassey said when he saw Teresa Halbach photographing the van Avery was selling Oct. 31, 2005, she was wearing a knee-length coat and slacks. http://fromwhisperstor.fr.yuku.com/topic/22752/Steven-Avery-Murder-Trial-John-Lees-Trial-Blog#.VpLqvJMrLq2 and http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8ob2esw3Gd4J:archive.postcrescent.com/article/99999999/APC0101/511060418/Car-missing-woman-found&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1&vwsrc=0

• Steven filed an interesting post-conviction document naming other suspects the police should have looked into. Please do not take this as Steven actually accusing any of these men; it’s just meant to show a judge that there were other viable suspects besides Steven, and that should create reasonable doubt. http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/wkow/newsdocs/avery%20document%20page%2023%20+.pdf

• William Newhouse, a gun expert with the Wisconsin State Crime Lab, said he couldn’t conclusively link a bullet found in a crack in Avery’s garage to a .22-caliber rifle seized from his bedroom. (He could only confirm that it was definitely a bullet from a .22 caliber rifle). There was no DNA on the gun, no blood blow back that you’d get from shooting someone at that close range and no blood mist / spatter around the garage that would also be present had someone been shot in the garage.  http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/prosecutors-link-gun-found-in-room-to-bullet-with-halbachs-dna-b99643001z1-363819121.html

• Strang proved and Bobby Dassey agreed that the joke about hiding a body that Steve supposedly said to Bobby Dassey and Mike Osmundson on Nov 3 before Teresa was reported missing couldn’t have been made on Nov 3, because Bobby Dassey was working that night. If it did happen, it could have only been made Nov 4 after Teresa’s disappearance was public. http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/testimony-unclear-on-timing-of-joke-b99643032z1-363820361.html The documentary showed Steven’s defense team questioning the date of the alleged joke but left out the evidence of why it couldn’t have been heard by Dassey and Osmunson before Teresa’s disappearance was public.

• The defense eliminated as many problematic jurors as the law allowed, but they still ended up with a MCSD sheriff’s father and a county clerk’s husband. http://www.people.com/article/steven-avery-juror-says-two-jurors-related-county-employees

• On the ‘Kelly Files’ interview, Dean Strang mentioned that there were little drops off deer blood all over Averys garage, essentially debunking the theory that they could have cleaned all the blood evidence out of the garage, since had they cleaned it that thoroughly, there wouldn’t have been any deer blood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIBAoe8hNPk [RES ignored duplicate link]

• Colborn testified that he “roughly” shook the bookend table when the key fell out, yet if you look at the photo, there is a remote and some paper sitting on top and things sitting neatly inside. https://imgur.com/a/vgV9B 

• Manitowoc County Public Safety minutes for 12-6-05 show 744 Hours + $2,800 of Sheriff time billed in first month of Halbach investigation. 744 hours/24 hours = 31, which means during a month Manitowoc was supposed to be recused from the investigation, they are saying they put in the equivalent of someone working every single minute on this investigation. Plus, DA Mark Rohrer is in these meetings, discussing the case when they’re supposed to have turned it over to Kratz. Source: http://www.co.manitowoc.wi.us/upload/3/PublicSafetyMinutes12-6-05.pdf

• On the leg irons/handcuffs from Avery’s house. They tested those for DNA and found a mixture of DNA from 2 or more people. They confirmed Avery to be a source of one of the matches. Most importantly, they excluded Teresa’s DNA as a match. https://www.dropbox.com/s/6pjd6kpq5o5mx40/Dassey%20Trial%20Transcript.pdf?dl=0 Day 4/8/07.

• Brendan describes how he couldn’t shoot Teresa because his mom’s ex-boyfriend once had to put down one of their sick cats by shooting it, and he couldn’t watch. 3/01/06 Interrogation Transcript Pages 589 and 590, https://www.docdroid.net/ZSo3Oc1/01mar2006transcript.pdf.html

• In one interrogation, Brendan says he see’s SA hide the key. At this point where the location where the key was found was public. When he’s first asked he says SA put it under the dresser. After he was immediately asked again he then says it’s in a drawer – “Like the second one down, like in the middle row.” Looking at the picture however, that dresser doesn’t even have drawers. Dresser: https://imgur.com/a/vgV9B [RES ignored duplicate link] Source: http://convolutedbrian.com.s3.amazonaws.com/dassey/01Mar2006/01Mar2006Transcript.pdfThe exact lines come at the end of page #602 and the top of page #603. The actual page of the pdf excerpt is 77-78.

• 24 tooth fragments were found among the remains believed to be Halbachs. Interestingly, the crowns – the hardest part to destroy, and best part for identification – were gone. From Brenda’s trial: “They were all burned. They were all charred. Uh, they were very brittle. Um, again, they didn’t look like normal tooth like we would normally see, and essentially, the crowns were all gone. (emphasis is mine). What we were looking at was just the root structure, which was, um, part of the tooth that’s buried in the bone. There was one portion of a crown, um, but that portion was from a — cuspid or an eyetooth and was not able to be identified.”” https://justiceforbradcooper.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/analysis-of-evidence-in-the-teresa-halbach-investigation-making-a-murderer-documentary/ Be sure to follow the links on that page for more info about how teeth disintegrate.

• The Rav4 key that was found in Steven’s bedroom is not the primary/master key for that vehicle. It’s a valet/subkey. The master key and subkey are differentiated by the shape of the key’s bow as shown in 1999 Toyota Rav4 owner’s manual. http://i.imgur.com/WDjuJ99.jpg http://i.imgur.com/b9Pn5GC.png http://www.ownersmanualsforcars.com/manuals.item.3690/Toyota-RAV4-Owners-Manual-1999.htmlhttps://www.reddit.com/r/MakingaMurderer/comments/3z8pwn/summary_of_discussion_on_the_rav4_key/

• Jerry Buting: “The other thing that wasn’t covered in the documentary is, we presented an expert who’s from Canada, and he had never testified for anybody but the Crown, the prosecution, before. He was really a world expert on finding cremains outside and in various locations [where one might] try to hide and dispose of a body. And he testified consistently with what we had found in the literature, which is: to burn a body takes either extremely high heat, or a very long, sustained, moderate medium-high type of heat, and it would be very difficult to burn a body in an open pit — an open fire — particularly to the degree that these bone fragments showed. At a crematorium, for instance, they use extremely high heat, and it still takes several hours. Here, you would have had to continually stoke a fire over, and over, and over for 12, 14, 16 hours — something like that — in order to produce this [type of effect]. And there was no evidence that any fire [like that] had [taken place]. There was a bonfire, but there was no evidence that there was any intense fire like that for such a long, sustained period of time.” http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/making-a-murderer-steven-averys-lawyer-on-the-evidence-left-out-20160115#ixzz3xMDLUsgQ

• Jerry Buting: “…the fragments that were found in the barrel came from all over the body. They had a diagram of the skeleton. They came from the shoulder, the toe, the leg, the arm — it was a complete mix. It was more consistent with what we thought had happened, which is that the body was burned elsewhere, scooped up into this barrel, dumped on Avery’s property, most of it, but then some remained in the muck — sort of just a mix of bone.” http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/making-a-murderer-steven-averys-lawyer-on-the-evidence-left-out-20160115#ixzz3xME62vic

• Kratz was also accused of sexual assault by three women. “Three women, including the woman in the 2009 incident, claimed Kratz had sexual contact with them. One of the women declined to provide any information about an alleged 1989 incident. The third woman said the contact, which allegedly occurred in 1999, was “theoretically” consensual because she agreed because Kratz said he could help her regain custody of her children. Kratz was Calumet County’s district attorney for 18 years.” and “The Office of Lawyer Regulation found merit in the allegation, however, citing Kratz for two ethics violations related to the incident, according to an 11-count complaint filed late last month…The DOJ investigated the incident and several others involving Kratz but concluded in March that criminal charges were not warranted.” Source: http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/disgraced-former-da-kratz-cited-by-regulators-for-alleged-sexual/article_4602156e-236a-11e1-b8b2-001871e3ce6c.html

• There is a “questionable stain”, that tested positive for blood, recovered from the quarry. A DNA profile was developed that matched a male and it did not match SA, Bryan Dassey or Alan Avery (why only those three?). The stain is labelled as item CX. You can find it in Exhibit 313. A full DNA profile was developed. The following image displays the DNA profile, location found and the fact it tested positive for blood (DNA profile top left in picture). XY in the bottom row means it is a male. http://imgur.com/EJDW4ce  Here is the result stating that identifies it as not belonging to SA. http://imgur.com/dtqP78E 

• A WSCL fingerprint examiner testified at SA’s trial that the “mystery print” did not match Steven Avery, Avery’s mom or dad, Avery’s brothers, his mother, Avery himself, the three Dassey brothers, Barb Janda, or Scott Bloedorn. Apparently when he was asked whether the print matched Scott Tadych, the State objected on the basis of relevancy, the objection was sustained, and the examiner never testified as to whether the print matched Scott Tadych’s print. I’ve linked to the article below. The article itself misses quite a bit, but the excerpt I’ve provided below is at the end of the article. http://onmilwaukee.com/movies/articles/makingamurderertouchdna.html

What do you think? That’s A LOT of information that was left out in the docu-series but people aren’t aware of it.

After reading this, a lot of people will then realize that it is even more plausible that Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey are innocent and were framed.

Let me know your thoughts by sending me a message and if you knew about a lot of what was left out!

-TID

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