Since the documentary hit Netflix, it has convinced many that Avery is innocent and sparked a number of petitions seeking a pardon for him. He was again arrested in 2005 for the murder of Teresa Halbach; the 10-part Making a Murderer series documenting his subsequent trial has riveted viewers and mobilized thousands to call for his release since its debut. She also alleges that she has received further threats from Avery from prison in the form of letters.
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Stachowski says she hasn’t watched the Netflix documentary because she believes it’s all lies.
She said she wanted to recant the her claim in the documentary that investigators put pressure on her to turn against Avery saying “they were just trying to get to the truth”.
Law enforcement in Manitowoc County is calling her story credible. She said she believes he is guilty of the crime because he threatened to kill her and others in her family.
She also alleged he had written her threatening letters from prison. “I ate two boxes of rat poison just so I could go the hospital… and get away from him, and ask them to get the police to help me”, she says, noting his history of his domestic abuse against her, which Nancy Grace producer Natisha Lance says is proven in police records.
Avery was convicted of first-degree intentional homicide in Halbach’s death a decade ago. During a hefty lawsuit with the police department, and within two years of being freed, Avery was accused of a murder, with the same department building the case.
WISN radio reporter Dan O’Donnell was in the courtroom during Steven Avery’s now-infamous murder trial. Zellner has long worked on exonerating the wrongfully convicted, as explained in this Chicago Lawyer Magazine profile that named her Lawyer of the Year in 2014. Zellner could not be reached for comment.
On Wednesday, WBAY reached out to Zellner as well as Avery’s former counsel Dean Strang.
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Strang’s law firm Strang Bradley has retained the Milwaukee public relations firm Mueller Communications.
