“Steven Avery” is a name millions of people are becoming familiar with due to the airing of the Netflix documentary “Making a Murderer”, created by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos through Synthesis Films. In this ten part series, the atrocities committed by the Manitowoc Sheriff Department were revealed, as well as their apparent disregard for human life. Steven Avery and his family were essentially outcasts in the Manitowoc community. Avery worked on a scrapyard on the outskirts of town that has been in his family for a considerable amount of time and lived in a trailer with other relatives. People nearby were off-put by Avery, who is not your typical Wisconsin local, as he was considerably uneducated, only having an IQ of seventy, and was
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He was barred from having visitors or permission to use the phone, all of which is illegal. His name was also withheld from the jail list, preventing his lawyer from being alerted to the situation. It took a call from Avery’s wife to find out that he was being held in jail. At this point in the case, there was not a bit of physical evidence that linked Avery to this crime. There was another individual, however, that fit the initial description given by Beernsten and had an extensive criminal record. This individual, one Gregory Allen was apparently operating rather openly in the Manitowoc area to the point where he was under constant surveillance by the City of Manitowoc Police Department. However, on the day of Beernsten’s attack, surveillance on Allen was suspended for most of the day as the department needed reinforcements for other investigations. An officer from the police force, Thomas Bergner, approached Sheriff Kocourek concerning this suspension and the possibility of correlation to Beernsten’s attack, but Kocourek dismissed it and insisted that they had their perpetrator in custody. Three other women working under District Attorney Denis Vogel also discussed the possibility of the actual criminal being Allen, due to their familiarity with his record, but he also ignored them. The most glaring error made in this investigation was the fact that the entire team overlooked or blatantly …show more content…
Teresa Halbach, a professional photographer, visited the Avery Salvage Yard to take pictures of a Dodge Caravan for Auto Trader magazine. After this, the timeline gets hazy, but the most important part was the fact that after her visit to the Avery property, Halbach was not seen again. Search parties were organized as the media followed the case. One day during a searches, one Pamela Sturm called in to the Department describing a vehicle akin to the one Halbach drove to Avery’s house the day she disappeared. Once she gave them part of its VIN number, Calumet and Manitowoc felt that they had cause to search the Avery residence for eight days without any of the Averys present despite the fact that the Rav4 was blue as opposed to the green media had been describing. The worst part is that technically Manitowoc should not have had access to the investigation due to the ongoing lawsuit against them. The investigators felt the need to add the last few digits to the number to get a warrant even though the ten would have been
He was barred from having visitors or permission to use the phone, all of which is illegal. His name was also withheld from the jail list, preventing his lawyer from being alerted to the situation. It took a call from Avery’s wife to find out that he was being held in jail. At this point in the case, there was not a bit of physical evidence that linked Avery to this crime. There was another individual, however, that fit the initial description given by Beernsten and had an extensive criminal record. This individual, one Gregory Allen was apparently operating rather openly in the Manitowoc area to the point where he was under constant surveillance by the City of Manitowoc Police Department. However, on the day of Beernsten’s attack, surveillance on Allen was suspended for most of the day as the department needed reinforcements for other investigations. An officer from the police force, Thomas Bergner, approached Sheriff Kocourek concerning this suspension and the possibility of correlation to Beernsten’s attack, but Kocourek dismissed it and insisted that they had their perpetrator in custody. Three other women working under District Attorney Denis Vogel also discussed the possibility of the actual criminal being Allen, due to their familiarity with his record, but he also ignored them. The most glaring error made in this investigation was the fact that the entire team overlooked or blatantly …show more content…
Teresa Halbach, a professional photographer, visited the Avery Salvage Yard to take pictures of a Dodge Caravan for Auto Trader magazine. After this, the timeline gets hazy, but the most important part was the fact that after her visit to the Avery property, Halbach was not seen again. Search parties were organized as the media followed the case. One day during a searches, one Pamela Sturm called in to the Department describing a vehicle akin to the one Halbach drove to Avery’s house the day she disappeared. Once she gave them part of its VIN number, Calumet and Manitowoc felt that they had cause to search the Avery residence for eight days without any of the Averys present despite the fact that the Rav4 was blue as opposed to the green media had been describing. The worst part is that technically Manitowoc should not have had access to the investigation due to the ongoing lawsuit against them. The investigators felt the need to add the last few digits to the number to get a warrant even though the ten would have been