List of quotations of Zellner in Wrecking Crew

The following is a **list of quotations by Kathleen Zellner from the book *Wrecking Crew***. Kathleen Zellner was interviewed by the book's author, John Ferak, in August 2018, while in the process of finishing the book. Below is a list of all the times Zellner was quoted from her August 2018 interview in *Wrecking Crew*.

*Wrecking Crew* is a book written by journalist and author John Ferak and contains a *Making a Murderer* season 2 inspired narrative.

## List

### Chapter 10 - RAV4

* “I went to the old dam with Mr. Rahmlow and my investigator. He is absolutely telling the truth about seeing the Halbach vehicle. He is also telling the truth about the Cenex station missing poster in the window regarding Ms. Halbach and her vehicle.”

### Chapter 13 - Two cars

* “The tree branches on the RAV show that it was planted by the cops.”
* “The branches and random car hood were placed on the vehicle so Kratz could argue that the flyover would not pick up the RAV because it was covered. The other tell that the cops and not the killer planted the RAV is that the vehicle was locked. The killer would not waste time locking the vehicle.”

### Chapter 22 - The crime

* “We have received several tips about Tadych being very careful not to leave anything with his DNA on it so that someone could retrieve it. He refused to give us blood for a DNA methylation experiment. Tadych’s reluctance to provide his DNA has only increased our suspicion of him. Mr. Avery’s complete willingness to have further testing performed has solidified my view that he is 100 percent innocent.”
* “I couldn’t care less about the opinions of those who think I am trying to free a murderer. All of the individuals I have exonerated were believed to be guilty until they walked out of the prison gates. I have not read a single article, social media post, or book from a ‘guilter’ that is not riddled with factual inaccuracies, legal misperceptions, or profound ignorance.”
* “The Achilles heel of this group is their leader, a discredited and disgraced prosecutor whose unethical behavior has exceeded anything my legal experts have encountered in any other post-conviction case in the country.”

### Chapter 26 - Fantasy life

* “Bobby has been described by family members as being a very quiet, socially awkward teenager who never dated. He spent a great deal of time on the computer, which was in his bedroom. Our experts have developed a profile of the individual doing the computer searches for violence pornography. The individual was obsessed with inflicting sexual violence on young females and displayed a strong interest in viewing deceased, mutilated female bodies. My experts believe the individual is very disturbed and seems to hate women.”
* “According to Mr. Avery, Bobby became increasingly obsessed with Ms. Halbach in the few months before her death,” Zellner said. “Mr. Tadych (Bobby’s step-father) has a history of domestic violence. Bobby and Mr. Tadych have told multiple lies about the events of October 31, 2005. The police reports demonstrate that Bobby and Mr. Tadych went out of his way to try to get the police to charge Steven. As early as November 5, 2005, Bobby tried to implicate Steven in the murder. Mr. Tadych talked obsessively about the case at work during the investigation. Both Bobby and Mr. Tadych changed their stories to fit the State’s narrative. I believe Bobby in particular completely duped the cops, planted the bones and blood to frame Mr. Avery and willingly and enthusiastically became the State’s star witness.”

### Chapter 28 - Avery's brain

* “One of the biggest breakthrough moments was when Mr. Avery was so adamant about wanting all of the additional forensic testing done on the RAV4 and any other items we wanted to test.”
* “The second breakthrough moment was the discovery of the wood and paint on the bullet, but no bone. I knew the State’s entire theory about FL was false. The third breakthrough moment was the cumulative effect of not being able to replicate any of the State’s forensic evidence. All of it was flawed.”

### Chapter 29 - Bobby's garage

* “We have recently Luminoled the Dassey garage and collected buccal swabs for DNA testing because the police failed to do this.”
* “There was a blood drop collected between the Dassey garage and house which was never tested. The most damning evidence linking Bobby Dassey to the crime, in addition to the multiple lies he has told, is the presence of Halbach’s bones in the Dassey burn barrel which Bobby used frequently to burn deer remains.”
* “Ms. Halbach was dismembered and burned in a burn barrel according to Dr. John DeHaan and Dr. Steven Symes. The timing of the crime makes the Dassey garage a place of interest that has to be considered as the site of the murder and mutilation of Ms. Halbach.”

## Notes

1. ↑ MaM Wiki notes: with this quote it's not clear if it is a continuation of the previous quote (from Ferak's interview with Zellner), or a quotation of a motion by Zellner.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ferak, J. *Wrecking Crew*, page 101
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ferak, J. *Wrecking Crew*, page 302
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ferak, J. *Wrecking Crew*, page 133
4. ↑ Ferak, J. *Wrecking Crew*, page 249
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ferak, J. *Wrecking Crew*, page 250
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Ferak, J. *Wrecking Crew*, page 329
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Ferak, J. *Wrecking Crew*, page 348