Netflix announces premiere of Making A Murderer Part 2
MANITOWOC COUNTY, Wis. (WBAY) - Netflix says the second part of their Emmy Award-winning series detailing the cases of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey will premiere Oct. 19 on the streaming service.
Making A Murderer Part 2 will follow Avery and Dassey as they appeal their convictions for the 2005 murder of freelance photographer Teresa Halbach. Investigators said Halbach disappeared after photographing a vehicle for a magazine at the Avery property in Manitowoc County. Investigators say Halbach's remains were found in a burn pit on the property.
A short teaser trailer for Part 2 was released on social media Tuesday morning. The series contains 10 episodes.
The filmmakers followed Brendan Dassey as he appealed his conviction to the United States Supreme Court. Dassey was 16 at the time of his interrogation. It was determined he had a low IQ. Attorneys claimed detectives used improper interrogation techniques to get a confession out of Dassey. The Supreme Court did not take up the case.
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Dassey's attorneys have vowed to continue fighting for him. Making A Murderer's first season showed the interrogations videos.
"Brendan was a sixteen-year old with intellectual and social disabilities when he confessed to a crime he did not commit. The video of Brendan's interrogation shows a confused boy who was manipulated by experienced police officers into accepting their story of how the murder of Teresa Halbach happened," attorney Laura Nirider said.
Filmmakers also followed Steven Avery and high-powered attorney Kathleen Zellner as they continue the appeals process. Zellner, who has a series of high profile wrongful conviction victories, claims prosecutors withheld evidence from a search of the Dassey family computer that could have changed the outcome of the trial.
Evidence found in the first analysis of the computer includes thousands of images of sexual violence against young women, including torture and mutilation.
Zellner says knowledge that the computer was primarily used by another person in the Dassey household would have given Avery's defense opportunity to present a third-party suspect in Halbach's murder.
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circuit court judge recently ruled that the evidence was not withheld from the defense. Zellner is appealing the case to a state appeals court.
Avery and Dassey are serving life sentences for the murder of Teresa Halbach. Dassey has the opportunity to request parole