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For when you can't sit through all 10 episodes by October 19.
After Halbach went missing, her voicemail box became full and couldn't hold any new messages. But later, there was room in her voicemail, indicating that some messages had to have been deleted — and by someone who knew her password.
Both Halbach's brother and ex-boyfriend admitted to hacking into her voicemail, but denied erasing any messages.
The roommate apparently gave the woman who found Halbach's car his only camera before she set out to find the Toyota 99 Rav4. Despite this strange coincidence, neither Halbach's roommate or ex-boyfriend were ever asked for an alibi.
When the dispatcher identified it as Halbach's car, the officer responded, "99 Toyota, right?" This was two days before the car was uncovered in the Avery salvage yard.
Curiously, the officer was Sgt. Andrew Colborn, who was deposed during Avery's first case in which he was wrongly imprisoned.
Lt. Lenk was the one who found the car keys, and later, a flattened bullet on the floor in Avery's garage. Like Colborn, he was also deposed on Avery's previous case.
While the bullet had come in contact with Halbach's DNA, a DNA analyst said she had accidentally contaminated it with her own during the testing process. She then claimed there was only enough DNA for one test, so it could not be redone.
Weirdly, the defense also found that in the analyst's notes from a phone call with prosecution investigators, she was clearly instructed to "put [Halbach] in the garage or house."
The bones expert said she couldn't conclude whether the bone fragments were damaged in transport to the testing facility or, as the defense suggested, onto the Avery property.
Scott Tadych — Dassey's step-father — claimed that Halbach was gone at 3 p.m. on October 31, the day of her murder. However, the bus driver said she dropped Dassey off at the Avery property around 3:30 p.m. and Halbach was still there taking pictures.
Should the stability of her daily schedule overrule Tadych's claim then?
He said that he didn't think it was wrong of him to search Avery's home — unsupervised — despite having been deposed on Avery's previous case. Again, Lenk was the one who found both the car keys and the flattened bullet.
They reasoned that if Avery's blood found in Halbach's car tested positive for EDTA, then it would have to be blood taken from his case file sample. So basically, it would confirm Avery's blood was planted by authorities.
The FBI found no EDTA in the blood.
Kayla, 14, stated that shortly after Halbach's murder, Dassey started acting out and lost a noticeable amount of weight. She said that Dassey told her that he saw Halbach "pinned up" in Avery's bedroom, and later saw her body parts in the fire.
Once Kayla got on the stand, she started crying and said that she had made her statement up.
The prosecution blamed this on family collusion.
Dassey claimed that he first saw Teresa when she reported missing on the news, and that he got all the graphic scenarios of killing Halbach from a book called Kiss the Girls.
(Note Sgt. Colborn on the left.)
Avery was sentenced without the possibility of early release, and Dassey was sentenced with a possibility of release in 2048.
O’Kelly was even quoted in writing this about the Avery family: “This is a one-branch family tree. We need to end the gene pool here.”
Moreover, Kachinsky and O’Kelly set Dassey up to be interrogated again the day after he was interrogated by O’Kelly — and with Kachinsky absent, no less.
Five other women then came forward with allegations of everything from receiving inappropriate text messages from Kratz, to even being invited on a date to an autopsy.
Because of the scandal, Kratz resigned from office in October 2010. This ended his involvement in Avery and Dassey's cases.
Without the help of a lawyer, Avery researched, wrote, and filed a 38-page motion for post-conviction relief.
Dassey's lawyers petitioned the Supreme Court, but their petition was denied.