Making a Murderer

***Making a Murderer*** is an American documentary series created by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos. It premiered on Netflix on 15 December 2015. It chronicles the arrests, trials and convictions of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey for the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach.

The 10-episode first season begins with Steven Avery’s 1985 conviction of assaulting a woman on a beach. It later turned out he was innocent of this crime. After his release from prison in 2003 he filed a suit against the county, the county's sheriff and the district attorney. In 2005 Steven Avery was convicted of murdering photographer Teresa Halbach. He had to settle his lawsuit to be able to afford lawyers.

On 19 October 2018 a second season was released on Netflix.

In 2018 Transition Studios announced it was working on an unofficial sequel, or response, to *Making a Murderer*, called *Convicting*. The documentary aims to show both sides of the story. Something that *Making a Murderer* hadn't done, according to Transition Studios.

## Summary

*Making a Murderer* details the life of Steven Avery, a man whose family owns a salvage yard in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. In the 1980's Avery was convicted of threatening a woman at gunpoint and a sexual assault. 18 years later he was cleared of the latter crime due to DNA evidence pointing to another perpetrator.

Avery filed a civil lawsuit against Manitowoc County and two officials, seeking a compensation of a minimum of $1,000,000 to a maximum of $36,000,000.

Two years later a photographer goes missing after last being seen at Avery's Auto Salvage for an appointment with Avery. Several days later her Toyota RAV4, her remains, and other pieces of evidence are found on the Avery property. Avery is arrested, but claims law enforcement has set him up again. He settles his lawsuit for $ 400,000 and hires two lawyers for his upcoming trial. His attorneys accuse law enforcement of evidence tampering. At the end of the trial the jury decides Avery is guilty and he is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The second season introduces Kathleen Zellner, Avery's new attorney who specializes is post-conviction cases and who had exonerated 17 innocent men previously. The season follows Zellner as she obtains several pieces of evidence from the 2007 trial and gets to subject them to contemporary forensic testing, effectively chronicling the events leading up to Zellner's Motion for Post-conviction Relief, filed in June 2017, the Judge's decision to deny the requests in the motion and Zellner's plan to appeal the decision.

## Promotional material

*Making a Murderer* official Twitter*Making a Murderer* official Twitter*Making a Murderer* official Twitter*Making a Murderer* official Twitter*Making a Murderer* official Twitter*Making a Murderer* official Twitter*Making a Murderer* official Twitter*Making a Murderer* official Twitter*Making a Murderer* official Twitter*Making a Murderer* official Twitter*Making a Murderer* official Twitter*Making a Murderer* official Twitter*Making a Murderer* official Twitter*Making a Murderer* official Twitter
## See also

* Steven Avery
* Kathleen Zellner
* *Convicting a Murderer*
* Evidence not in *Making a Murderer*