‘Making a Murderer’ Prosecutor Emails Us 9 Reasons Steven Avery Is Guilty
- Avery’s past incident with a cat was not “goofing around”.
- Avery targeted Teresa.
- Teresa’s phone, camera and PDA were found 20 ft from Avery’s door, burned in his barrel.
- While in prison, Avery told another inmate of his intent to build a “torture chamber” so he could rape, torture and kill young women when he was released.
- The victim’s bones in the firepit were “intertwined” with the steel belts, left over from the car tires Avery threw on the fire to burn, as described by Dassey.
- Also found in the fire pit was Teresa’s tooth (ID’d through dental records), a rivet from the “Daisy Fuentes” jeans she was wearing that day, and the tools used by Avery to chop up her bones during the fire.
- Phone records show 3 calls from Avery to Teresa’s cell phone on Oct 31. One at 2:24, and one at 2:35–both calls Avery uses the *67 feature so Teresa doesn’t know it him…both placed before she arrives.
- Avery’s DNA (not blood) was on the victim’s hood latch (under her hood in her hidden SUV).
- Ballistics said the bullet found in the garage was fired by Avery’s rifle, which was in a police evidence locker since 11/6.
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Comment: TBH, even though I, personally, think SA is very likely guilty, I am not seeing anything that screams "
beyond a reasonable doubt."
That is, there's a great deal of hearsay. For example, the claim that Teresa was terrified of Avery, that he planned to build a torture chamber. The latter coming from another inmate.
Additionally, the hint that the bones belonged to more than one person is quite odd. If true, shouldn't they be trying to find out who?
That the rifle was in the police evidence locker (
was this the same evidence locker that contained his blood from the previous trial?) since 11/6 actually supports the planting theory as opposed to refuting it.
Eta ~ excellent "
rebuttal" in the comments section, by Alex Sharp (
who appears to be an attorney).
All these things have been noted before, and discussed. But most of it is highly questionable to many given they believe police planted evidence.
#7 is by no means proof, but everything regarding why teresa was there that day and the phone calls , messages, change in her routine (she left an empty bill of sale), etc is suspicious. I no doubt believe she'd been there before and so in that respect it was business as usual. But did all this other stuff go on every time she came there :
Avery calls to Auto Trader and sets appointment for B.Janda (barb janda) and requests halbach. Not by name, but "that girl who's been out here before".
Halbach calls Barb Janda and leaves message that she cannot come to the property unless she makes contact with her. This is because the process is she takes the pic and gets PAID. She isn't taking pictures unless she gets paid.
Avery calls halbach -- So we know he has her phone number. Likely because she had called on a previous day to make that same phone call about
I need to make contact to set appt.
Avery uses *67 to call halbach on several of the calls. I do agree that this is odd. I think *67 is a deliberate thing, it's not something someone does normally imo. But open to hearing an explanation as to why.
Avery obviously made contact and reset the appointment for himself personally, but at this point the Auto Trade would still only know that she was going to see B. Janda not Steve Avery.
Auto Trader and empty bill of sale is found on the computer desk. A normal transaction, given her process at last 2-3 clients , was to get paid, leave a current auto trader, and a bill of sale for the transaction - ie filled out with $40 payment and other information. So in this case, we find the auto trader, but an empty bill of sale which prosecution will say meant
they never got to the payment part of their appointment
Yes, I believe that getting paid is indeed the critical point that someone would want to see, to believe that Teresa left.
So I openly admit that NONE of this is proof of guilt. However, it is suspicious to me, and I think it should be suspicious to anyone being objective about this information.
There could be perfectly good explanations for each and every thing. But to me personally, it's just plain suspicious until I hear the explanations from Steve Avery. My opinion on why the defense hasn't addressed any of this or tried to explain it, is because the explanations would seem like alot to swallow for one afternoon. Steve chose not to testify, but certainly they could have cross examined Auto Trader employees and friends/family about how things like this happen everyday in the process of doing her job. for example - People sometimes likely set appointments in a hurry and make honest mistakes or call multiple times to change appt details - hey, I'm going to be home 15 minutes later than I expected, can you wait ? Those are explanations. But the more explanations you hear for a given afternoon where someone was murdered, the more suspicious you SHOULD become. Nothing damning as I said, but very suspicious imo.
So while I have reasonable doubt of avery being guilty, this whole chain of events is something I keep coming back to in my mind. Without this part, I would be far more likely to be even more suspicious of Chuck/Earl or even someone completely unrelated to the junkyard. jmo
But the rest of the list, for the most part, are things that I kind of peeled away as unreliable for one reason or another. Not saying they conclusively are false, but there is reason to believe they might have been
planted by police or done by someone other than avery -- for example Strang brought up the moved bones theory, which I haven't heard the prosecution explain satisfactorily, as experts seemed to say it was consistent with bones being moved. Not definitive, but consistent. -- personally, I think it's more than likely they were moved.
Maybe avery trial transcripts will change my mind.
