‘Making a Murderer’ filmmakers, prosecutor respond to evidence claims
The Netflix docu-series “Making a Murderer,” the true-crime 10-part story about the murder trials of Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey and their legal battles, has become a national obsession after many viewers were left with more questions than answers.
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Filmmakers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi spent 10 years working on the documentary starting in 2006 when they moved to Wisconsin to begin filming Avery’s trial for the murder of 25-year-old freelance photographer Teresa Halbach.
“We were there because we wanted to ask bigger questions about the system,” Ricciardi told “Nightline.”
The defense argued that the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s department had it in for Avery and planted evidence to frame him, as well as Dassey’s confession to the crime had been coerced. In 2007, both Avery and Dassey were convicted of murdering Halbach.
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