The people behind Making a Murderer are hinting there might be a second series of the Netflix documentary. The film makers investigating Avery’s plight, Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, certainly seem to have uncovered a stunning miscarriage of justice – though there have been challenges to the evidence they present. Avery sued authorities in Manitowoc county for $36m for wrongful imprisonment, but was arrested again in 2005, along with his 16-year-old nephew, for the murder of a photographer, Teresa Halbach. It’s now on a national scale where the media is demonizing this man. Whatever you’re referencing now wasn’t relevant to our process at all.
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Demos replied to a question that suggested Making a Murderer is “advocacy journalism”: “We do not consider this advocacy journalism”.
Ricciardi added, “We did not take up Steven Avery’s biography. We don’t have a stake in his character, his innocence or guilt, that was not the question we were raising”. We are ready… if there are significant developments, we will be there.
Yet prosecutors – who the filmmakers say declined their request to participate in “Making a Murderer” – have claimed the film omits physical evidence against Avery.
Entering the fourth week after the series premiered on Netflix on December 18, Ricciardi said they have not returned to Wisconsin since, but they have been in touch with Avery, who recently filed another appeal for his conviction.
She said she believed Mr Avery was capable of murder because of threats she claims he made against her, her family and a friend.
“This story is ongoing, these cases are open, but it’s real life”, she said. “He asked the warden and his social worker whether he would be able to see it and his request was denied”.
Its safe to say that the internet has been alive with conspiracy theories about the case and who or who may not be innocent in the death of Teresa Halbach.
The directors said that they were expecting to receive some criticism for the documentary due to its controversial nature but insisted it was not one-sided.
The Netflix docuseries about the trial of Steven Avery has been taking #teens and #millennials by storm.
Ricciardi explained that they felt there was “no other way” to do the documentary without leaving out some evidence.
“I can’t say why Jodi [Stachowski] is saying what she’s saying”, director Laura Ricciardi said during Sunday’s Television Critics Association Press Tour. We showed all of his priors and information to the extent that we could accurately fact-check it, and we had multiple sources for it. Just because someone is coming forward now with a narrative, their interpretation doesn’t make it factual, doesn’t make it truth.
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“We’ve said before, this is a documentary”.
