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He maintained his innocence, and family members gave him an alibi for the time of the crime. The victim, Penny Beerntsen, identified him from a photo lineup (with some assistance from authorities, the series says), and a forensic examiner testified at the trial that a hair recovered from her shirt was consistent with Avery's.

Years later, Avery was exonerated after DNA evidence linked a hair found on the victim to Gregory Allen, a convicted felon who bore a resemblance to Avery.

The Netflix series investigates how Avery's arrest came after other run-ins with local authorities, which included his threatening a female cousin who was married to an law enforcement officer.

Beerntsen recently told The Marshall Project that she offered Avery an apology, to which he responded, "It's OK, Penny. It's over."

"One of the things that really troubled me is that I was one of the only people who apologized to Steve," she said. "It would have been nice if the prosecutor and sheriff had said, 'Actually, we all got it wrong.' I felt like I was the only one taking any responsibility."

Avery filed a $36 million civil suit for wrongful incarceration; he was later arrested and charged with murdering Teresa Halbach.

Avery was released in 2003 and filed suit against Manitowoc County for wrongful conviction and imprisonment.

Two years later, he was arrested for the death of car photographer Teresa Halbach, who had visited his family's auto salvage yard.

The prosecutors laid out their case: Halbach's Toyota RAV4 (which had blood in it, including Avery's) was found on the Avery family's lot. Tissue and bone fragments that matched Halbach's DNA profile were found outside Avery's mobile home. In addition, Avery's then-16-year-old nephew, Brendan Dassey, confessed to authorities that he had assisted his uncle in raping and killing her.

He settled the lawsuit for $400,000. Both men were sentenced to life in prison and remain incarcerated.

Many viewers believe that Avery and his nephew were railroaded.

Dassey recanted his confession, and Avery has insisted that he was framed for the murder by authorities angry over his lawsuit. "Making a Murderer" documents many of the elements of the case that have bothered observers.

For example, Dassey, who has a low IQ, was questioned without his mother present and appeared to be eager to tell sheriff's officers what they wanted to hear. Some viewers believe that the sheriff's office planted evidence to frame Avery for the crime.

The Steven Avery Case is a classic example of how anything and everything can go wrong

when an overzealous and blind prosecution convinces a court that garbage evidence is

The DNA evidence is a classic example of a lack of police training, and or deliberate

One of the most shocking examples is the "dna found under the hood" which infers that

Steven Avery was a murderer when the DNA could have accidently or deliberately or

accidently on purpose, could have been placed at that location to fabricate evidence.

The facts are that in the USA, state authorities and or state funded organizations are paid

Canada is not far behind but with just as strong motivations by police to fabricate evidence.

Steven Avery was to the police public enemy Number one, an unpopular person which

means that if he was in Ottawa Ontario, the Ottawa Police would have been equally tempted

to fabricate evidence to gain a conviction or more likely, to Fabricate Evidence NOT

to charge the real murderer because the real murderer was female or a person in favour of the

Do not live or visit the City of Ottawa Ontario where Rotten Ottawa cops fabricate evidence on a daily

basis and have "rubber stamp" judges of both levels of court to gain convictions and or prevent appeals

The Superior Court of Ontario in Ottawa is riddled with corrupt fascist judges who have a pathological

hatred of fathers and who have no conscience when it comes to putting in jail and keeping in jail

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