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>> how could you clean up all that blood? >> well, he did it to the best of his ability, i guess. bleach, paint thinner. >> teresa's friend kim said when she heard the details about teresa's final moments, she was heart broken. >> i remember crying and just hoping she was who she was and fought. because she was a very strong person. >> ken kratz charged brendan dassey as a co-conspirator in her murder. >> i intend to hold each of these defendants accountable for the rape, the torture, and the murder of teresa halbach. >> but not so fast. dassey recanted his statements. just before avery's tria...

Wrongful conviction cases and says she's freed 18 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 the correctional institute when she paid a visit to avery in 2016. >> million dollar question. do you think you have new evidence that could free steven avery? >> we do, yeah. >> zellner invited "dateline" into this war room she created in her office outside chicago. all dedicated to the avery case. >> do we know if that was tested? >> and she even showed us that rav4 she bought to get a bett...

He's never shared before. for one thing, kratz tells "dateline" he believes steven avery had set his sights on teresa halbach in the weeks leading up to her murder. >> as we move closer to october 31st, we see steven's behavior changing. >> as kratz got auto trader's record, he learned teresa had made five earlier visits to the salvage yard to take photos, some at steven avery's request. >> he starts making calls directly to teresa halbach. >> and kratz determined on the day before one of these visits, avery purchased these shackles and handcuffs. >> when teresa arrives -- >> he answers the do...

He used the money to hire his defense attorneys, dean strang, and jerry butting. >> we knew going in it was going to be a difficult defense. >> we spoke to butting in early 2016. >> we had a very tough defense in this case, because nobody wants to try and use as a defense that the police deliberately tried to plant evidence or frame somebody. >> it goes against society. those people are there to help us, they're the police. >> right. but it's where we thought the evidence pointed. >> avery's attorneys believed the fact that officers from the county he was suing were part of the search, made fo...

Up perfectly with a contact pattern sweep. >> how did he explain cut? >> i'm not sure if i remember that. i think he claimed he cut it in the yard doing work on vehicles. >> reporter: fassbender feared the worse. after four days of severance his team found something disturbing. >> what appeared to be bone fragments. >> reporter: human bones. most interesting, because family members told investigators that steven avery had built a bonfire hours after theresa hadn't been at the yard that day. >> huge bonfire. flames from the edge of the roof on the garage. >> reporter: was it all making sense to...