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In december 2015, netflix released making a murderer and it ignited a bonfire over the convictions of avery and dassey. 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 didn t have to pay nothing out. did they plant evidence? sure they did. kim du cott is avery s cousin. she said she predicted something bad might happen to him after he was exonerated in the rape case. remember, 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 did you think they weren t done with him? something told me they weren t going to hand steve avery $36 million or any kind of money, that they were going to be watching him and look what ....
Happened. avery ended up settling that lawsuit for four $000 before his trial. the county did not acknowledge any wrongdoing. 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. it s very difficult. 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 for a huge conflict of interest and for possible mischief at the crime scene. what i can say from the evidence i ve looked at, i think he was innocent, is innocent. preparing for trial, butting ....
in the steven avery case, how a of-year-old dateline led to a brand-new attorney. i said that s the woman that s going to get steven out of prison. when return to manitowoc county continues. itowoc county continues. ....
Avery in for an interview. dateline filed a freedom of information request to obtain the video. you know the key is there because you put the key there. that s the only way the key gets there. no. yes, steve, yes. avery was defiant and even claims cops were framing him, planting evidence. the cops have evidence. fassbender and wiegert weren t buying it and placed him under arrest. i didn t do it. somebody s doing a good job on me. investigators were convinced they had their man. still, they didn t know how or why teresa had been killed. coming up shackles, handcuffs, strange behavior. teresa s creeped out. could something in his past have led him to murder? when dateline continues. why would steven avery do this? we know he is a psychopath. we know that he has do we know that? when return to manitowoc county continues. ues.d ice mint. ....
he was gentle and loving. sandy greenman is avery s long-time friend and one-time fiancee. convinced of his innocence, she says she searched for years to find the right attorney to take on his complicated case. during a call from prison, avery told her to watch dateline. he had heard that there was going to be this ryan ferguson case on dateline. so he told me to watch it, just to see the lawyer. that dateline program, told the story of ryan ferguson, a young man sitting in prison for a murder he said he didn t commit. attorney kathleen zellner was determined to get him out. nothing is as riveting as this. when the trial has been lost, everything s been lost, and you got somebody in there is innocent. it s like the ultimate challenge, i think. i said that s the woman that s going to get steven out of prison. zellner specializes in wrongful conviction cases and ....