Personal Narrative: Making A Murderer

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you got arrested and questioned for a crime you didn’t commit? You get taken back into the interrogation room for hours on end. They’re trying to get you to say you committed that crime. You’re tired, thirsty, and bored. You just want to go home but they told you they can’t release you until you tell them what you did; instead of telling the investigators you didn’t commit the crime, you tell them that you did. You tell them the details of the crime you knew nothing about, just making up more details as you go, digging a hole for yourself deeper each time you say something; not knowing that later they would potentially use that in court to incriminate you. People make false confessions based on a …show more content…
The police had access to his trailer for three days and they didn’t find anything until the third and final day when they found a key and he was then arrested and taken into custody; a juvenile named Brendan Dassey, also his nephew, was in school when two private investigators came into Brendan Dassey’s classroom, pulled him out, took him to the station, and interrogated him for more than three hours! Brendan Dassey was in the interrogation room without an adult there with him. Brendan also has an IQ of 69 total, so it would make sense that the investigators could easily manipulate Brendan into saying what they wanted to hear. They finally got Brendan Dassey to say what they wanted when he finally said that he went to get the mail, brought Steven his mail over to the trailer when he heard a woman screaming, and so he walked into the trailer where he saw Teresa bound and tied up, Brendan also admitted that he helped his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and murder her and then helped Steven burn the body in the burn pit behind Stevens trailer. The investigators most likely thought that Brendan was an easy target because he was in the room without an adult to vouch for him, helping him into telling the actual truth and not what the police told him to say. They asked Brendan specific questions to the point where Brendan could just answer yes or no to, during the the last couple trials Brendan Dassey’s cousin, Kayla, went on the stand. She previously told a school counselor that she was concerned about Brendan, then she was questioned by the police and she also stated that he was crying all the time, lost at least 40 lbs and she told the counsellor that Brendan told her that he’d seen teresa pinned down and saw body parts in the fire. When she went on the stand in 2007, she told everyone in the room that she had lied about what she