From what I read, there's a lot of Avery's back story and supporting evidence for the presecution that I don't think was included in the series (I haven't watched episode 10 yet).
Whether or not it's all true, the documentary seemed to omit:
- Avery had been requesting Halbach to take photos of his vehicles for sale for Auto Trader and would greet her nearly nude when she arrived
- DNA on the RAV 4 keys was from perspiration, not blood
- Avery would call Halbach from blocked numbers (*67)
- Avery molested his nephew
- Avery s e xually assaulted a nephew's girlfriend
- Forensic evidence proved the bullet with Halbach's DNA was fired from Avery's gun
- Avery soaked an animal in oil/gasoline and threw it into a bonfire
- Avery talked about torturing, raping, and killing women to other inmates during his first prison sentence
- I have also heard that parts of Brendan's testimony/admission are not nearly as coerced as the documentary made it seem, but there was obviously very selective editing going on
This is where Kratz (the DA is being a douche again and misleading people), cuz that's what they does.
1. One time from reports he opened the door in a towel. He's a hillbilly...hillbillies do weird things like mow lawns in their underwear, and answer doors in towels. Co-worker testified that they joked about it, laughed, and she said, "ewwwww." It isn't quite the terrifying bit of information it sounds like when taken in context - he makes it sound like she was scared to go there. Co-worker presented it as a funny interaction.
2. You cannot prove that it's sweat. Even the DNA expert (not included in video, but you can find it) that it could very well have gotten there from her NOT changing gloves after testing various bits of evidence. Which is just stupidity. On cross she admitted it could have been from lots of things - a toothbrush rubbed against it, for example.
3. Eh, his lawyers said this wasn't unusual behaviour for him to do that...not sure what it proves regardless, or if you want to believe his lawyers. He had an appointment with her. What would he be hiding by blocking his number? Everyone knew she was going to his house.
4. Not sure about this...would have to check.
5. I'm fairly certain every single person on that car graveyard has sexual assaults against them - except I think Avery. The shady alibi guy Tadych has some serious ones. They called that girl in, they went fishing, she denied being assaulted (or something like that).
6. What? That's not true - they proved it came from the same type of gun. Not quite the same.
7. Like two decades ago.
I would be happy with him going to jail for life just for that though. I love cats. He's a sick **** for that alone.
8. You're going to call that evidence though? They showed his crazy ass prison letters to his ex-wife...seems plausible to me fwiw. But, still not sure it matters considering the source.
9. No, it is as coerced as it seems. People often reference one time where Dassey seems to give the story without prompting. I was tricked by that one too!!! Except he was given all those answers earlier that day at the school and then made to repeat them at the station. He's just regurgitating the story he was fed hours earlier back to them - and still getting crap wrong. You can read those transcripts if you want proof. They're all over the place.
Things left out that would help the defense, I suppose...
A couple members of the jury had all sorts of ties to the PD...one was one of the cops dad, or something like that.
Woman testing the hood didn't change her gloves - possibly introducing DNA onto hatch of hood (admitted in court).
The lady that introduced the "inconclusive" test as evidence, and had a note from a detective telling her to place him at the scene, found a hair on the woman's body that helped convict him of the rape twenty years earlier. How'd she manage that? She also is the most error-prone tech in the world!!!!
No, they had proof of that...okay, maybe in the state. I'd have to look again.
The only person they did bar from the crime scene was the county coroner, who, by statute, should have been the one examining the burn remains. Sooo, the one person that should have been there was barred, the people who they barred were allowed to go in and out as they pleased...makes sense.
Person that monitors evidence room testified that they didn't actually keep a log even though they were supposed to, but have since tightened up on that rule.
Forensic anthropologist testified that the burn site couldn't have possible generated enough heat to burn a body to that extent.
The lying Dassey that acted as an alibi for Tadych (the Uncle that tried selling a 22 shortly after the murder) said he saw Hallbach enter Avery's home....he got her outfit all wrong though.
The gun expert from the crime lab, couldn't find anything on the gun, which you would expect from a close range shot. Said it came from the same make/model of gun, but more or less had to admit that he couldn't tell anything.
One of the lawyers, not sure if this was brought up at trial, said there was deer blood all over the garage. So, somehow they managed to clean all of Hallbach's blood up...and her DNA, but not a deer's or their own.
Some of that is stuff from trial, some stuff isn't...obviously Dassey wasn't used at Avery's trial, I don't think the deer blood was in trial - not sure though. I heard that in an interview.
There are lots of angles on both sides about the evidence not presented in the documentary...point still remains, dude got railroaded.