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Old 11-13-2005, 04:08 PM
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Theresa Halbach was a 25-year-old photographer who went missing on October 31. On that day she had several assignments, including one for Auto Trader, where she photographed some vehicles at a junkyard. The junkyard is owned by the family of Steven Avery, who was imprisoned for 18 years for sexual assault. In 2003 Avery was exonerated based on DNA evidence and the University of Wisconsin Law School's Innocence Project. Avery currently has a $36 million lawsuit in federal court against the county in which he was convicted.

After concentrating their search for the missing woman at the Avery property, the police, after a couple of days, found Halbach's Toyota Rav4. Following a search of Steven Avery's bedroom, they found a couple of shotguns and issued firearms charges against Avery. They also demanded DNA samples from Avery and several of his family members.

His lawyers were outraged, and both they and Avery made several statements to reporters alleging the police were targeting Avery on account of his civil suit against the county.

Shortly thereafter the police revealed they'd also found the keys to Halbach's vehicle in Avery's bedroom. Finally, on November 10, police announced they'd found some human teeth and several charred pieces of bone they identified as those of an adult female, in addition to blood in her vehicle and at several other locations including buildings on the property. The search also turned up handcuffs, leg irons, "sexual devices," and porn.

At that point a missing person case became a homicide investigation and Avery's lawyers withdrew from his criminal defense, citing conflicts of interest with the civil litigation. Avery had been arrested on charges of wrongful possession of firearms by a felon but he's expected to be charged with the murder of Halbach on Tuesday. So within a couple of years Steven Avery will have been both exonerated and charged with murder based on DNA evidence.
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Old 11-13-2005, 05:50 PM
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Doooooh. :doh:

Wonder why they had to ask for a DNA sample from Avery though; presumably the state already has one...?!


ETA: speaking of DNA... my dad sent me a link to this article this morning. My first thought was, what kind of a dumbass voluntarily submits a sample of his DNA to a registry? I mean, who knows how that could ultimately be used against you!!! :foilhat:

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Old 11-13-2005, 06:16 PM
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So ... presumably he wasn't guilty of the assault that put him in prison for 18 years ... so when he was released he promptly went out and got guilty.

Of course, I feel bad for the guy's victim and her family. But I also feel bad for all the efforts put in by the organization that was trying to do a good thing. I can hear the backlash now: "If someone's incarcerated for something they didn't do, who cares? They're probably guilty of something else anyway. Or soon would have been."
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Old 11-14-2005, 02:48 AM
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although the guy was probably messed up to begin with, if he wasnt, 18 years in prison would make anyone into a crazed nut.

I just checked on the net, the Innocence Project has gotten 163 people out of prison, and I can't find this stat, but I seem to recall a news story that about 100 of them were off of death row.

In my op, the American Justice system needs to eliminate having prosecutors elected, there is too much incentive for them to throw people in jail to get re-elected. They also need a separate system for non-violent criminals and eliminate the wasteful and illogical death penalty.

On the other end, I think that anyone that is a serial killer or rapist should have an auto life sentence with no parole. I don't think those people can be rehab'd
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Old 11-14-2005, 03:41 PM
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Wonder why they had to ask for a DNA sample from Avery though; presumably the state already has one...?!
I guess because if the state does have an older sample, it's nonetheless empowered to demand a new one from Avery for the purposes of the current investigation. As far as I know the DNA evidence at issue in Avery's exoneration was that of the real perp, which was found on the victim's body upon its subsequent reexamination.

Avery is still insisting that the state planted evidence all over his property, and that Theresa Halbach "wasn't his type": too thin.
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In the latest twist to this case, the state has now charged Avery's 16-year-old nephew, who allegedly participated in the rape, the killing, and the disposal of the body:

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Halbach's screams for help became louder as he approached, [the D.A.] said. After knocking, the boy waited until Avery came to the door. His uncle, covered in sweat, then asked the youth if he wanted to participate in raping Halbach, Kratz said.

Walking into the trailer, he saw the young woman shackled to the bed, and heard her again begging for her life, Kratz said.

Avery directed his nephew to rape the woman, the prosecutor said. Dassey did so, while Avery watched from a doorway. The older man then complimented the 16-year-old.
Sick shit.

Avery's nephew charged with rape, murder
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In the latest twist to this case, the state has now charged Avery's 16-year-old nephew, who allegedly participated in the rape, the killing, and the disposal of the body:
This case was the subject of the Netflix documentary Making a Murderer, filmed over a ten-year period. Both Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, the 16-year-old nephew, were convicted. The most disturbing aspect of the case was how egregiously the pigs manipulated Dassey during their interviews. The state's appellate courts have not a single, solitary fuck. The Wisconsin Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court declined to hear the case.

Back in August, though, a federal trial court granted Dassey's request for a writ of habeas corpus, ruling that:

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[W]hen viewed collectively, various assertions and assurances the investigators repeatedly made to Dassey amounted to false promises that he would not be punished. These false promises, when considered in conjunction with the fact that Dassey was only 16-years old, had significant intellectual deficits, had no prior experience with law enforcement aside from this investigation, was alone with the investigators without the benefit of an attorney or other allied adult, as well as other factors, rendered Dassey’s confession involuntary under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.
The state has appealed the federal trial court's habeas ruling. Today the trial court ordered Dassey released pending the outcome of the appeal. (Link to today's order appears in the article linked above.)
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