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Steven Avery (right) with his parents Allan Avery and Dolores Avery in a still from "Making a Murderer: Part 2."(Photo: Netflix)

Spoil alert! This story contains details of "Making a Murderer Part 2", which debuted on Netflix on Friday, October 19th.

"Making a Murderer" did not end after its abandonment of Netflix in 2015.

The "second part" of the explosive documentary series arrived Friday on the streaming service, revealing a wealth of new information on the affairs of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, after the two men were convicted of the murder of Teresa Hallbach in 2007.

The new episodes of the documentary are spending a lot of time with Steven's lawyer, Kathleen Zellner, who is thoroughly investigating not only the evidence against her client, but also the murder.

Zellner discovers a host of new evidence that she believes should help overturn Steven's conviction. Here are the greatest revelations of the documentary in the case of Avery (the part of the series devoted to Brendan is less focused on the evidence than on the legitimacy of his confessions). Anyone who has already followed the news may already know what the documentary reveals.

Inconsistencies in forensic evidence

Zellner has used incredible resources to present almost every piece of forensic evidence against Steven in great detail, with many new experts. She is conducting tests that suggest that the blood splash in Teresa's car did not get through as the prosecution said. She says that Steven's blood was planted there, not in the vial of his rape case, as his original defense attorneys argued, but from splashed blood in his bathroom. trailer. She questions the ballistics on the bullet fragments found in Steven's garage. She also identifies bone fragments found on the Avery property that were not brought to light during the trial.

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New witnesses

A man from Manitowoc County contacted Zellner to give him information on the case, claiming that he had seen Teresa's car near the Avery property during his search. He also claimed to have met Andrew Colbun at a gas station and informed him of it. Colburn was one of the police officers that Avery's trial lawyers accused of having provided evidence. The same witness said that he knew Brendan's father-in-law, Scott Tadych, and texted him after watching "Making a Murderer", in the hope that Scott would put him in touch with the lawyers. from Brendan. Scott has never acted on it.

Coroner Debra Kakatsch was also questioned during the latest episode, claiming that Manitowoc County officials had prevented her from investigating the Hallbach case, apparently because of the action. Steven's lawsuit against the county. She was prevented from testifying at Steven's trial to explain this and then left her position.

New suspects

Zellner mentions several potential suspects in the case, which she drops off after she has been exonerated, according to her criteria. The most compelling suspects that she suggests are members of the Avery family: Bobby Dassey and Scott Tadych.

Zellner recounts things she finds on Bobby's computer, including images and research of violent pornography, child pornography, bestiality and other violence against women. . The witness who says he saw Teresa's car after his disappearance places her next to Tadych's caravan. The documentary then shows footage of the trial's proceedings, demonstrating that Tadych and Bobby's alibis are related to each other.

After Zellner's theory of Bobby and Scott appeared in the press, she uses the statements that Scott made to Steven on the phone and displays Barbara Tadych (Brandon's mother and Scott's wife) on Facebook to add arguments to its cause. These statements suggest that the Tadys knew that information had been concealed and that Bobby had lied in Avery's lawsuit. Bobby is later questioned again by law enforcement but denies having done so.

But for now, cases are blocked

Despite all the efforts of Brendan and Steven's lawyers, both cases stalled after the conviction. In June of this year, the Supreme Court refused to hear Brendan's case, thereby upholding his conviction.

Also in June, the Wisconsin Court of Appeal referred Steven's case to the lower court judge for all necessary hearings and concluded whether the elements of the evidence provided by Bobby's computer had been unduly concealed from the defense. Zellner has not yet reacted in this case, but says she's still determined to exonerate her.

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