You’re scaring me a bit.

So pretty. So dumb.

Yeah. It is important to remember that someone died. I think the corollary to that is that when the justice system screws up, either by accident or by intent, then the wrong person gets punished for the original travesty. That further compounds the horror of the situation.

Yeah - I got the impression that the filmmakers didn’t think Avery was innocent, just that what happened was a total and undeniable load of bullshit. And that’s what they focused on with it - they weren’t interested necessarily with who was guilty or not, but instead were presenting a pretty shocking expose on how…

Can I just say, bless you Mindymoo. Commenting everywhere. I did this for about a week after watching the documentary...repeating the same stuff over and over. Spent hours responding to people about all the issues with the prosecution and the investigation. I can’t even imagine what it’s like for Avery and Brendan and…

And I sound like a broken record in these MAM articles, but I am one of the most ambivalent, indecisive people you’ll meet, and I have NO reason to believe Brendan was involved, regardless of Avery’s guilt or innocence. I don’t care if it’s plainly obvious Avery did it, there is still a second person sitting in prison…

For me, it was the treatment of the nephew that made me doubt the case against Avery. I don’t understand how you can argue one scenario in one case, after “confessed” statements are shown to be entirely inconsistent with physical evidence, then go and argue a completely different one in another case. For Avery, they…

Right. The side that can’t decide if she was killed by a gunshot or a throat slit? The side that said she was killed in the bedroom, I mean the garage? The side that called in about the car before she was even reported missing?

I am shocked by all of the people crying out about the other side. The lying side? We need to have their side?

Absolutely!

I’m not sure either. I think he should be retried, without the evidence that Manitowoc detectives “discovered”, like the key and bullet that magically appeared after the other detectives who searched the place multiple times came up empty-handed. The prosecutor even said “so what if the key was planted?”

She definitely deserves justice. But planting evidence on someone suing the county for $36 million and coercing a developmentally delayed teenager with an IQ of 72 into a false confession is not justice. If you saw the interrogation of that boy, it would make you want to throw up.

Yeah, Jez has decided to take the ‘he is guilty and that is all that matters’ approach largely to go against the grain. Again.

Okay! Remember that police officer who found Theresa’s car 2-3 days before her body? What was the deal with that? He had the licence plate, but not the car OR what what what is going on??????????????

I think it’s absolutely ridiculous that the people who make a documentary (which is not exactly the same as journalism as documentaries often have bias) are being held to a higher standard than the prosecutor and police had.

I have no problem believing prison did something to him. He might be guilty but they didn't go about it in the right way.

He may be guilty, but there was planted evidence that the prosecutor even acknowledged during his closing arguments! This case had so much reasonable doubt it is insane.

Here’s the thing, though- they reached out to Halbach’s family to try to talk to them for the documentary, and they flat out refused to participate. So did the prosecution and the police. The only people who agreed to participate were the Averys. So of course it’s going to focus on that part of the story when those…

That’s about the size of it. Especially when at the outset of the deliberations, seven people were voting not guilty, two were undecided, three were for guilty, some jurors had connections to the police department, and they ended up convicting him of the murder but not of the corpse desecration charge. There was fucky…

“A jury doesn’t deliberate twenty-some hours over three or four days if the evidence wasn’t more complex.”