Manitowoc has that small town mentality and it seems like everyone knows everyone, so Teresa and her ex being friends doesn't seem odd at all to me. Many people date and break up and then maintain friendships. While I understand why people want to make sure the ex Ryan and brother Mike are looked at, I think those two are by far the furthest from the mark. If one of them did kill her, how and why in the world would they pick the Avery lot and Steven's trailer to plant evidence. How would those guys have gotten their hands on Steven's blood to plant it? Unless you think the police and Mike and or Ryan conspired to kill Teresa, including shooting her, and then burning her. It really has no basis whatsoever in logic. The sad reality of this entire case is that Steven Avery is one sick twisted individual and because he was wrongly imprisoned, the world literally cannot allow themselves to consider his culpability because we're so stuck in victim-mode. I think it's a real problem with our society - people feeling sorry for themselves, and by extension, identifying with other people who are down on their luck as well.
I am not considering his initial wrongful conviction in anyway, except the fact that officials in that county were facing a $36 million civil suit.
I'm just as disappointed in the the handling of the original case as everybody else, and people like Judy Dvorak and Tom Kocourek should be ashamed of themselves. Regardless, I can still separate the original case from the second case and evaluate each one individually. I think we have to be careful not to get caught up in the emotion of the original law enforcement misconduct, and look at the new evidence piece by piece. I for one plan to read the whole trial transcript from 2005, as soon as I can, to get the real scoop on ALL of the evidence.
I am not considering his initial wrongful conviction in anyway, except the fact that officials in that county were facing a $36 million civil suit. I also am not of the opinion that if Ryan had anything to do with her death that he and her brother would have done the actual work of framing SA. I do however have my doubts about him because of the phone and voicemail tampering done by the two of them. Add the fact that Teresa had been having issues with someone bothering her by phone, which her co-workers admitted was happening, gives me pause. If the person who was bothering/stalking her had been SA, I'm sure she would have told her boss when he asked her about it. Instead, she told him not to worry about it. That sounds like it was someone personal, such as an ex.
I cannot say that SA did not murder her as I was not there. I also am not going strictly by the doc, as I watched it quite awhile ago, and have been researching it everywhere I can since then. I do not, however, believe that SA should have been convicted as the whole investigation and trial was a joke. And Brendan should not even have been charged at all since all they had on him was that messed up confession. They had absolutely
NO circumstantial or physical evidence that Brendan had been on the crime scene. I also plan on reading the 2005 transcripts, but I have no doubts that the police planted things to make sure SA went down for this. That is the one thing that the documentary showed me. I saw, along with most people who actually watched it, the shadiness that was going on with the key, blood in van, bullet, and even the bones. I mean, the coroner was even walled off and not permitted on the site. That doesn't scream shady to you? As I said I do plan on reading the transcripts as well, as I am not certain of SA guilt or innocence. However there are many more characters in this saga that I feel the same way about. Too bad LE decided to fixate ONLY on SA. In my opinion, there are many possibilities on who actually killed her, Ryan is most definitely on that list, but I have no doubts after what I have seen from the raw footage that the doc displayed, that it is very possible that LE found her murdered and decided to take care of the massive (36 Mil) Avery problem once and for all.
Btw, I live in a small town, so I know how the dynamics of a small town works. That is also what makes this documentary so scary. It very well could happen to me or someone I love one day if someone in LE decides they have a problem with us. That is the emotion you spoke about, that I think most are coming away from this feeling.
