Now, my feelings of the doc as a whole: I enjoyed it immensely, although I found the last two episodes to drag a little, especially as compared to the phenomenal editing and step-by-step explanation of the facts that preceded. And when I say "facts", I fully realize that this series was made to help exonerate Steven Avery. It is very one-sided, although I feel that the evidence shown and discussed speak for itself. In saying this, I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that there was an incredible failing of the justice system and that Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey are completely innocent of the crimes for which they are currently imprisoned.
Why do I feel this way? Well, three words, words that I have heard others say but have not fully been explained by the prosecution of this case, nor the jury that convicted Avery or Dassey....."WHERE'S THE BLOOD???????". It seems so obvious to me, yet the reasoning in the documentary, or the interviews or stories released since, are never fully talked about, and I have no idea why! So let's dissect this a bit. Brendan Dassey, a scared, mentally challenged young boy, was manipulated....yes, MANIPULATED...into describing a terrible rape scene inside Avery's trailer house. He was, as was Avery, convicted on the description of this poor woman, Teresa Halbach, being tied up, raped and having her throat cut on Avery's bed. She was then taken to the garage and shot in the head before, apparently, being burned behind the garage in the fire pit. Let's just assume that this happened as described by an easily manipulated child, being fed the details by the investigators. WHERE'S THE BLOOD???? Is it possible, even for the most brilliant minds, never mind the minds of two people with a combined IQ of 140, to get rid of every molecule, every freaking atom, of blood evidence?? The sheets and mattress would be soaked in blood. OK, let's assume that they got rid of the sheets and mattress. Would there not be any trace of blood anywhere else? The walls? The carpet? Their own clothes? None, NONE, was found in that trailer home. And when the victim was supposedly taken to the garage where she was shot in the head, would there not be blood on the thousands of junk items in that garage at the time of the murder. Once again, not one molecule of Teresa's blood was found in that garage. There was not even any evidence of bleach, something that no doubt would have been used to clean the blood. According to the prosecutors, this is the way Teresa Halbach died. The lack of physical evidence in both of those places should have been enough to, at the very least, hang this jury. These facts are the very definition of "reasonable doubt"!
But let's go a bit further. Let's assume that Avery and Dassey actually had some way of getting rid of every bit of blood evidence for the two rooms. Maybe they covered everything with plastic drop clothes, just like Dexter did. Maybe they have some way that the best investigators in the city, state, country don't know about to get rid of the blood. If the two of them were that brilliant, why wouldn't they get rid of Teresa Halbach's truck? Let's run this scenario...Avery calls to specifically have Halbach come to his place to take pictures of a truck he wants to sell. He, at some point, without anybody hearing or seeing, gets Halbach to go into his trailer where he overwhelms her and eventually ties her to his bed. The rape and murder occur, and then he uses her own truck to move her to his backyard??? Which was steps away?? And then he decided to park her truck in his own salvage yard and hastily cover it with a few sticks?? Without getting rid of any other blood evidence??? He was able to get rid of, what, gallons of blood from his trailer, but left five or six little blood specks in the truck of the woman he just killed??? And why park the truck when he had access to a machine that could completely crush the damn thing?!?!? If we are asked to believe he was savvy enough to get rid of all the blood evidence, why are we asked to believe he was dumb enough to not get rid of her truck when he had all the capabilities to do so?
All of this just doesn't make sense to me. Never mind the call Officer Colborne made about Halbach's missing truck BEFORE she was ever reported missing. Never mind the finding of her truck's keys in Avery's bedroom by a member of the Sheriff's department that Avery was in the process of suing for a wrongful conviction, and missed by all other investigators on at least two other occasions. Never mind the obviously tampered blood vile that, in my mind, was used to plant Avery's blood in that truck. There are so many holes in the prosecution's story, and yet two people continue to sit in jail for a murder that, I'm convinced, they couldn't have committed. Still, there are people that say that we don't know the whole story, that the makers of the documentary manipulated the facts to serve their, and Avery's, purposes. OK, fine. Grab a camera, get your "facts" together and present them to the world. I'm tired of hearing how Avery killed a cat. Yes, that is disturbing and has been linked to the beginnings of evil minds, serial killers in the making. That does not PROVE that Steven Avery killed Teresa Halbach. Not in the least.
Listen, I'm sure there is more to this story that we, the general public, haven't heard. Avery, for instance, did not take the stand during the trial. It's probably because he has something to hide that may have been revealed during cross-examination. Maybe, who knows. But what seems to be clear is that these two men, Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, were deemed guilty before this trial ever started. They were not granted a fair trial, and whether the Manitowoc County's Sheriffs Department planted evidence and tried to railroad Avery and Dassey is not really the issue here. The issue is everybody, EVERYBODY, is entitled to a fair, impartial trial...and that is definitely not what Avery and Dassey got.
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