Yeah, I don't know why everyone insists the only alternative to Avery committing the murder is the police committing the murder. I'm more inclined to believe that Officer Colborn found her with the truck and realized the opportunity he had, that he could help make a conviction against Avery stick.

I'm very curious about what Penny Beernsten thinks about the doc, too, after listening to this podcast from a couple years ago. She talks about how the murder conviction made her question her judgement, that she'd been wrong about Avery not once, but now twice:

They do know from the skull fragments that she was shot in the head. The fact that her blood was found in the back of the Rav4 as a contact stain from hair supports this. Everything else came from Brendan's "confession."

Especially since O'Kelly was supposed to have been defending Dassey, and it turns out there is the very huge conflict of interest that he had attended church with Halbach. Taken in tandem with that disgusting email about the Averys being evil and a family tree that needs to be chopped down, I felt O'Kelly must have…

Hannibal wasn't a cannibal in the novel Red Dragon. It wasn't until Silence of the Lambs that he was identified that way.