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>> and he regrets about that? bringing it up yourselves, putting that news head? >> there is always things that you can improve on. there are instances, because of brandons personality, that we had to talk to him and ask more specifically spit certain questions and that happens. >> what do you say to those people who made you a part of this discussion about false confessions, who are yelling at their tvs because they did not like the job that you did? >> it is easy to armchair quarterback. it is...

Was overloaded. now back to dateline. s overloaded now back to dateline welcome back to deadline, i am craig melvin. investigators deny they frame steve avery in the murder of teresa halbach, after all brandon did confess. but did he tell detectives the truth, or what he thought they wanted to hear. here with more of our story is andrea can. >> all the renewed attention in the stephen avery saga has shed light on the other defendant in the case, brandon dassey. the teenager had been convicted of...

>> but as dallas east turns delve further into those stunning statements the teen made, they came to believe something more disturbing. investigators fassbender and weaker had goers to teen into making a false confession. >> these officers took advantage of a disabled youth and got him to say what they wanted him to say. >> do not lie to us now. what >> youre distorting yourself if you live now. >> he has got severe learning stability, an inability to respond in narrative type answers. and they ...

Controversial investigation. why are you sitting here today? >> i finally realized that someone needed to speak out, to report the truth on what happened. >> so, what did happen here? our story begins with a woman at the heart of this case. a 25-year-old photographer from wisconsin, named teresa halbach. >> she loved being behind the camera. >> the became friends with teresa in college, both working at the same studio in green bay. kim says teresa had a special way with her suspects. she really ...

You do not think she has a chance? >> i dont. >> if she so confident, why are you so confident? >> we spent 18 months putting this case together. it was not just thrown together, it was not a bunch of keystone cops, it wasnt very professionally, very well. >> crowds does have personal regrets. in his book, he admits to passed prescription drug abuse, and he is ashamed that he sent sexually suggestive texts to a domestic violence victim. while he still takes issue with making a murderer, he is mo...

Planted? >> kathleen zellner is known as an aggressive defense attorney. >> chief legal correspondent for msnbc. >> she is looking for new evidence to argue the entire case was done the wrong way. shes basically trying to put the state on trial. >> in her 45-page legal motion, zellner attacks law and for some, and tries to poke holes in the prosecutions case and raises new questions. >> she notes that teresas cell phone pinged off a tower 13 miles away later that day. suggesting maybe she left t...

>> i said, thats the woman thats going to get steven out of prison! >> zellner specializes in wrongful conviction cases and says she is freed many defendants, including ryan ferguson. sandy contacted her, and she joined the case not long after making a murderer came out. we caught up with zellner at a correction no correctional institution when she paid a visit to a bring in 2016. >> million dollar question, do you think you have new evidence that could free steven avery? >> we do, yes. >> zelln...

Zellner notes mr. kratz says no qualifications which would allow him to diagnosed mr. avery as a psychopath. mr. avery has never been diagnosed as a psychopath. kratz, who prosecuted both steven avery and brendan dassey, says hes undaunted. >> are you afraid of kathleen zellner? >> no, im not involved in the case anymore. i shouldnt be afraid of anything. my involvement -- >> she could unravel your work, if what shes saying has some weight to it? you dont think she has a chance? >> i dont. >> if...

>> you use the word agreed, so you brought it up first? >> yes, i believe so. >> thats one of the areas you came under fire for. >> yes. >> you are planting things in his mind? >> yes, thats what they said. and there are instances that we did ask in specific about things, yes. and that can happen in an interview. >> can we take that as a reliable answer, given how it was fed to him? >> i would argue no and say based on the entirety of the interview, i would say, yes. >> as for that other moment ...

They worked for a number of wrongfully convicted defendants. what they learned about dasseys a standard them. >> no one was ins a corner. at the moment, he needed help the most. >> beginning, they say, with this man. >> give me one word to describe len kachinsky? >> unbelievable. >> unconscionable. >> kachinsky came on board to defend dassey after that interrogation god averys nephew arrested. they discovered the attorney made legal mistakes that caused him to be removed from the case. he faced ...