Could you elaborate on making a murderer? I guess I’ll never be able to see this hulu thing anyway. I’m in Europe.
Sure... About 10 years ago
Making a Murderer came out on Netflix. It was about Steven Avery, who was exonerated by DNA for rape after spending 18 years in prison. A couple years later, he's arrested for the murder of Teresa Halbach, and later on, his nephew, Brandon Dassey, was also arrested after being interrogated. Both were convicted. The documentary made it seem like they were framed for the murder by cops that were inept and/or corrupt, and that Dassey was convicted based solely on a forced confession wherein he gave false details about the crime scene. The series was a sensation and the country was in an uproar; there was even a petition to have pardon them (unfortunately for them it was a STATE crime, not federal, and the pardon would have to come from the Wisconsin governor, not the president). The creators of the doc won Emmys. For the record, I would only go as far as to say they should get a new trial, convinced that there has been misconduct or incompetence but leaving open the possibility that we weren't being told something that implicated them in the murders. Over time, journalists would find various issues with the evidence as it was presented in the documentary, but the public was extremely slow to take notice; after several years, the calls for them to be exonerated mostly vanished, and while the general consensus might not have been that they were definitely guilty, the public was no longer convinced that they were innocent or that police misconduct had occurred. Finally, recently, Candice Owens came out with a docuseries called
Convicting a Murderer that completely ripped the original series to shreds. Not only did the documentary leave out damning evidence that implemented both in the murder, but it was extremely deceptive in how it presented the evidence... Splicing questions with answers to to completely different questions, suggesting that a pinhole in a blood vial was evidence that blood had been removed (if you've ever had your blood drawn, you'll notice that the pinhole is how blood goes INTO the vial, not out), editing Dassey's interrogation to make it look forced when it was actually HIM that began divulging ACCURATE details of the crime scene to THEM when he wasn't even on their radar as a suspect, omitting that Avery basically stalked this woman prior to her murder, etc.
Hence why I'm hesitant to jump to conclusions in this case. I just finished the Hulu series and it still seems obvious that this was a murder, because the number and location of the stab wounds makes suicide seem absurd. So if there actually is evidence that makes suicide seem plausible... I'm all ears.