BREAKING: Bomb threat called in to Manitowoc County Sheriff's Office, police say
This case has got to me on soooo many levels...Before I saw this documentary, I considered myself to be a level-headed, logical person with an open mind who tried to see the world from all perspectives. While I realized that corruption in LE and the judicial system existed on some levels (because they essentially are human beings and some can be flawed), I naively thought that that was just a small percentage and that it probably would never effect me. I know that is a selfish way to think now, but I am just one person and would have no idea how to bring about the change that is needed. Then I sat down to Netflix and watched this show with my mouth on the floor for 10 hours. I felt like I had spent my whole life up to this point with my eyes shut tight, and this film shot them wide open.
You have the first conviction where they literally trace SA's mugshot to make the sketch in order to convict him, completely ignore his 16 alibi's and receipts that prove he couldn't have done it. They knowingly sit on evidence that could have exonerated him for 8 years.
Then we came to the second conviction and I look at all the things that were done wrong. First, and foremost, the fact that the very county that had so maliciously framed him the first time and that he was suing for $36 million were such an integral part of the discovery of so much of the "damning evidence" that was found. They publicly stepped back from the investigation, so as to take away even the APPEARANCE of conflict of interest, yet the two officers that made it a point to be smack dab in the middle of it all had just recently been deposed for his civil suit. WHY WERE THEY THERE? I am yelling that part because I still cannot see a logical reason for why they didn't stay as far away from that investigation as possible as they said they were going to. I have seen recent statements from Sheriff Hermann that in hindsight, Lenk and Colburn should have stayed away, but that does not answer the glaring question of "WHY WERE THEY THERE?"
Next, we come to the APPALLING way that the actual victim was treated in this investigation. At no point did they actually try and discover what happened to that poor girl. They had their story (actually 2 stories, as she was shot in the garage for Steven's trial and raped, tortured, throat slit, shot for Brendan's) and they were BY GOD going to have it go down that way for the record. The most unthinkable for me is the way that the cremains were treated. First, a small voice in head question's if those bones were even Teresa's because Sherry Culhane (the DNA specialist who sat on SA's hair for a year before testing it, and also has been known to contaminate her own tests but breaks protocol because she was told to place TH in that garage) is the one to match the DNA to TH. Anyway, that is just a small voice, so I ignore it. But I have a really loud voice that screams in my head every time I think about how they recovered and examined those bones. They did absolutely no documentation of the recovery, and would not allow a coroner or medical examiner ON SITE to properly recover them. They took NO film or video of the bones in situ. They just shoveled them up in buckets (probably smashing them more than they already were) and then, most unbelievable of all, eventually delivered the bones in a box to the medical examiner's office. Stop and think about that for a minute! THEY DELIVERED HER BONES IN A BOX TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE!!!! And her family seems to be all for all of this. I don't get it.
Then we come to Brendan. We have a 16 year-old kid who does not seem to be socially or intellectually capable of dealing with everything that is happening to him. We have 2 LEO's intimidating and twisting things so that he says what they need him to say. We see him get a defense lawyer who is against him from the beginning before even meeting with him. His own defense team essentially get the goods to convict him before being, basically, fired AND THEY STILL USE THAT EVIDENCE TO CONVICT HIM! Both of these cases completely blow my mind, and I never would have believed them possible, except that I saw it with my own eyes from the raw footage that the docu-series shows.
I am sorry about the long ramble, but I just wanted to explain WHY I say this case is driving me crazy. I have never considered myself a "conspiracy theorist" and never ever would have thought I was one of those "tin foil hat" people. But now, after all I have read about and seen from LE in this county, I now sit here typing with my aluminum crown FIRMLY sitting on my head. I read about bomb threats being made in Manitowoc and three thoughts flutter around in my head.
1. The first one is that the caller is hurting the situation more than they are helping because while change DOES need to be made, it needs to be done in the proper way and not at the expense of people who have nothing to do with these cases.
2. My second thought is that maybe the caller is that crazy dude from Oregon who thinks RH is the murderer. The same one who tried to spend the Christmas holiday with the Avery's and ended up having to be forcibly removed by the sheriff's dept. Also, the same man who is video taping himself wiping down the door handles of Ken Kratz's car.
3. And, finally, my third thought (and the one that gets my crown vibrating) is that right now Manitowoc is feeling BLISTERING heat from the court of public opinion, so it seems very convenient that with crazy stuff like this going on they can now be a victim in this saga too. Who's to say that someone in the system hasn't decided that they have had enough of the international outcry, and decided to do something that will take some of this heat off of them.
And I hate the fact that I am now so cynical that that third thought even crossed my mind. As I said at the beginning...I am now crazy. :crazy:
