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Originally Posted by chuff me dizzy
Niamh you really must watch series 2 ,you are not seeing the "evidence" on which Avery was charged and found guilty on being ripped to shreds
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It's certainly worth watching the episode that focusses on the Manitowoc coroner and the interview with her, there can be no real doubt that something dodgy has gone on after seeing that. The basics are; she was shut out of the case from the start and wasn't allowed to do her job, she was blocked from doing things by people who are actually
below her in the pecking order - they wouldn't comply with her requests completely ignoring due process (it is the coroner and ONLY the coroner who is supposed to establish cause of death. They didn't let her do it.)
When she tried to push the issue she was bullied, had her livelihood threatened, and was eventually deliberately intimidated and then when she said all of this in the initial trial she was ignored, and she ended up essentially being bullied out of her job and took early retirement. A total mess.
Like I said above, I don't know if Steven Avery killed Theresa or not - he may well be the one who did it - but the official version of events / timeline that the police put forward plus Brendan's statement are total BS (thus, the majority of circumstantial evidence is unclear) AND a huge chunk of the physical evidence is suspect too, due to at best incompetence and mishandling by the investigators, and at worst some deliberate evidence tampering.
So my personal thoughts are I'm not confident in saying that Avery definitely didn't kill her, it's quite possible that he did, and either way I don't believe the police dept. think they're framing an innocent man - THEY believe he did it - but they were lacking evidence and frustrated that he seemingly "keeps getting away with things" in their eyes so they altered evidence and pressured the Dassey confession because they wanted to be sure Avery would go down for something they were "pretty damn sure" he did.
Basically for me the interest in the story isn't really what happens to Avery - I think it would be a push to describe him as a sympathetic character. And Brendan Dassey again the actual sequence of events aren't all that relevant to me when it comes to him, his case has been horrendously mishandled no matter what the truth of the matter is, he should never have been put on trial as an adult with full capacity because he clearly isn't even now, let alone as a teenager.
But where the interest is... is that I do think that there is SUBSTANTIAL evidence of corruption and other extremely dodgy practices in the investigation that I would love to see explored and exposed.