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Was freed a wrongfully convicted man welcomed back into society with open arms and looking for justice of his own. >> oh god! >> reporter: were you aware he filed a lawsuit against the local sheriff's department. >> i heard that. >> reporter: avery hoped winning the $36 million lawsuit would help him get back on his feet. >> he had an opportunity to make something of his life and was headed in tra direction. >> reporter: now two years after being released from prison this poster boy was back in the news and not in a good way. >> i hope she comes back so she can go back to her family. >> report...

Now many viewers believe the claims avery had been making all along, that he was framed by law enforcement. >> who would want to set you up in something like this? >> the only thing i can think of it manitowoc county with the money, so they wouldn't have to pay nothing out. >> did they plant evidence? sure they did. >> kim is avery's cousin. she said she predicted something bad might happen to him after he was exonerated in the rape case. he had recently filed a lawsuit against his local sheriff's department for his wrongful conviction. >> i did tell him, manitowoc wasn't done with him. >> why...

To murder. >> why would steven avery do this when he was on the verge of getting this big windfall, potentially millions of dollars? >> that's a great question. you know, i don't know. we know he's a psychopath. we know that he has -- >> do we know that? >> well, i -- let's say, i allege that. i believe that, deep down. >> kratz discovered more in avery's past. 18 years before teresa's murder, avery wrote this letter to his estranged wife from prison, saying, i will kill you. and a former fiancee told police he had physically abused her. and kratz said he learned something even more disturbing...

Sheriff's deputies but was employed by a different agency -- the wisconsin department of justice. this is the first time he's responded publicly to the accusations against him and his law enforcement colleagues. >> did you have any kind of vendetta against steven avery? >> absolutely not. i didn't know steven avery, didn't know his family. never been there. >> fassbender bristles at the idea the local investigators could have done anything unethical. >> the people that were there that i worked with were hard-working. they only wanted to do the right thing and to do this investigation the right...

>> he has no remorse for his behavior, feels incredibly entitled. >> but as he continued to investigate the case, kratz had a problem. >> you still didn't know how she was killed, exactly where she was killed. was that bothering you? >> yes, but sometimes you have what you have. it was all coming together in bits and pieces. >> he and his team kept digging until they got a big lead. >> have a seat. >> in march, 2006, four months after teresa's murder, tom fassbender spoke with avery's 16-year-old nephew in a series of highly scrutinized interviews. >> what was your opinion of brendan dassey? >...