Filmed over a 10-year period, the documentary follows Steven Avery, a DNA exoneree who, while in the midst of exposing corruption in local law enforcement, finds himself the prime suspect in a grisly new crime.
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Due to suspicious circumstances, alternative and untapped suspects, unabashed coercion, and seemingly corrupt officials, there are even two petitions circulating that call for President Obama to give Avery and Dassey presidential pardons.
Fans of Making a Murderer who believe Avery deserves clemency should consider signing this petition addressed to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, which has so far been signed by just 1,033 people.
The show is about the case of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man serving life in prison for the murder of a 25-year-old photographer, Teresa Halbach, in 2005.
Making a Murderer, which was filmed over the span of a decade and uses no voiceover narration, puts the audience directly in the courtroom.
If there was ever a way to spend the coldest days of January, it’s camped on your couch binge-watching Making a Murderer on Netflix. They were convicted in 2007 and sentenced to life in prison.
The petition had gathered more than 170,000 signatures as of Monday morning.
Now, the juror tells the filmmakers that they went along with the guilty decision because they “feared for their personal safety”, Ricciardi said.
Similar petitions on the White House’s site have 19,300 and 13,300 signatures.
NetflixSteven Avery from Netflix’s 10-part documentary “Making a Murderer”.
“Steven Avery should be exonerated at once by presidential pardon, and the Manitowoc County officials complicit in his two false imprisonments should be held accountable to the highest extent of the US criminal and civil justice systems”, the Change.org petition states. While I don’t believe Avery killed anyone, I acknowledge that the documentary was laying out the case for his innocence.
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A year later, Avery and Dassey were accused of killing Halbach. “You don’t want to muddy up a perfectly good conspiracy movie with what actually happened”, said prosecutor Ken Kratz.
