Making a Murderer
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Making a Murderer |
 | |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| year | 2015 |
| Production company |
Synthesis Films |
| length | 47-66 minutes |
| Episodes | 20 in 2 seasons |
| genre | Documentary series , court series |
| idea |
Laura Ricciardi Moira Demos |
| production | Laura Ricciardi Moira Demos Lisa Nishimura Adam Del Deo |
| music |
Kevin Kiner Gustavo Santaolalla |
| Initial release | December 18, 2015 (US) on Netflix |
First publication in German |
December 18, 2015 on Netflix |
Making a Murderer is a US documentary - series of US video-on-demand -Anbieters Netflix from the year 2015 . The series, which was produced over a period of 10 years, describes the events of Steven Avery from the US state of Wisconsin , who was innocently imprisoned for 18 years. After his release from prison in 2003, he sued those responsible for his conviction for $ 36 million in damages . A short time later, he was accused of the murder of 25-year-old Teresa Halbach in 2005 and found guilty, although he again pleaded innocent. He has been sentenced to life imprisonment and is currently in Waupun Correctional Prison (as of December 2015).
The Avery case has been the subject of controversy in Manitowoc County (where the case took place), and domestically and internationally , especially after the Netflix series aired , as the evidence used to convict Avery is dubious.
action
The series consists of recordings from court cases and interviews as well as video recordings of police interrogations and calls from prisons. The story is told by Steven Avery from Wisconsin, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for rape in 1985 , despite the fact that he pleaded innocent and gave evidence against his guilt. In 2003, after 18 years in prison, Avery's DNA analysis proved him to be innocent, and he was released from prison. Avery subsequently sued Manitowoc County and others responsible for its convictions.
On October 31, 2005, 25-year-old Teresa Halbach came to the Avery junkyard property to meet with Steven Avery and take photos of a minivan for sale . Halbach was not seen alive after that. Avery was subsequently charged with the rape and murder of Halbach and arrested on November 11, 2005. Avery reaffirmed his innocence and accused the authorities of framing him for the murder in order not to have to pay him damages.
In the course of the investigation, Avery's 16-year-old nephew, Brendan Dassey, was interrogated by police in the absence of his lawyer or mother, Barb Tadych. Dassey said he raped, murdered and burned Halbach with his uncle. Dassey later retracted his confession and claimed to have told the police what they wanted to hear. In a telephone conversation with his mother, Dassey stated that "he had guessed the answers during interrogation, because that's how he would do it at school". When he asked if he could go home after a confession, the police answered yes.
Len Kachinsky, the Public Defender of Dassey, let his investigators another confession from Dassey wrest - instead Dasseys innocence to prove. Dassey then applied to Judge Patrick Willis to have a new public defender served. This refused. Only after a second request was Kachinsky released from his job.
Based on Dassey's confession, Avery was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2007 with no early release option. Dassey was sentenced to 32 years in prison.
Dassey's first attorney, Kachinsky, was summoned to court by Dassey's new attorneys Steven Drizin, Robert Dvorak and Laura Nirider on charges that he had failed to fulfill his lawyer duties. Drizin, Dvorak and Nirider tried - in the meantime successfully (as of January 2016) - to bring the case to a federal court and to reopen the Dassey case .
In August 2016, a Milwaukee judge ordered Dassey to be released within 90 days unless the state objects. He justified this with the interrogation of the investigating officers and the promises that had subsequently led to a confession. Steve Avery himself was convicted on this very confession.
Depicted people
Avery family
- Steven Avery - Chief Defendant
- Allan Avery - Steven Avery's father
- Dolores Avery - Steven Avery's mother
- Brendan Dassey - co-defendant, Steven Avery's nephew
- Bobby Dassey - Brendan Dassey's brother
- Barb Tadych - Brendan Dassey's mother and Steven Avery's sister
- Scott Tadych - Brendan Dassey's stepfather, Barb Tadych's husband
Victim
- Penny Beernsten - Rape victim, conviction and later acquittal for Steven Avery
- Teresa Halbach - Murder Victim, Sentencing for Steven Avery
Defense lawyers
- Len Kachinsky - attorney, Brendan Dassey's first attorney
- Dean Strang - Attorney for Steven Avery
- Jerry Buting - Attorney for Steven Avery
- Steven Drizin - Attorney for Brendan Dassey (post-trial)
- Robert Dvorak - lawyer for Brendan Dassey (follow-up trial)
- Laura Nirider - Lawyer for Brendan Dassey (follow-up hearing)
- Kathleen Zellner - Attorney for Steven Avery
Prosecution attorneys
- Ken Kratz - Special Prosecutor and District Attorney of Calumet County, Wisconsin
- Denis Vogel - Manitowoc County District Attorney
- Peg Lautenschlager - Wisconsin Attorney General
Judge
- Patrick Willis - Averys and Dasseys judge
- Fred H. Hazlewood - Judge in the Halbach murder case
police
- James Lenk - Lieutenant in the Manitowoc County Sheriffs Department
- Andrew Colborn - Sergeant in the Manitowoc County Sheriffs Department
- Kenneth Peterson - Manitowoc County Sheriff during the Half-Ax murder case
- Tom Fassbender - Wisconsin Department of Justice investigator
- Mark Wiegert - Sergeant in the Calumet County Sheriffs Department
- Gene Kusche - Manitowoc County Chief Deputy Sheriff
- Tom Kocourek - Manitowoc County Sheriff in the 1980s
- Judy Dvorak - Deputy, Manitowoc County Sheriffs Department
Further
- Gregory Allen - perpetrated the rape for which Steven Avery was innocently convicted in 1985
production
The 10-part series was written and filmed by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, who made their recordings over a period of 10 years.
In 2005 the couple, who were 45 (Ricciardi) and 42 (Demos) years old at the time and were graduate students from Columbia University, read an article about the Steven Avery case in the New York Times . Then they decided to make a documentary about it. Instead of making a 90-minute film that could be shown at a film festival or crime conference, the two wanted to create a documentary series. They offered this to HBO , PBS, and other television channels, all of which turned it down. In 2013 they were able to convince Netflix to produce an 8-part series (later it became 10 parts).
By the end of the documentary, Ricciardi and Demos had made over 500 hours of interviews and footage, to which were added 180 hours of footage from the trials. The two filmmakers interviewed Steven Avery's parents, his sister Barb Tadych and their son Bobby Dassey (Brendan Dassey's brother) and Teresa Halbach's brother. Ken Kratz, Special Prosecutor and District Attorney of Calumet County, Wisconsin, ignored several interview requests. The filmmakers could only conduct interviews with Steven Avery by telephone; They were not allowed an on-site appointment by the sheriff and prison authorities on the grounds that there was a security risk.
All ten episodes were first aired on December 18, 2015. Steven Avery has not yet and probably never will see the series, as Netflix does not air in prison and a DVD containing the series is not permitted to him.
Reviews
Overall, the criticism was positive. On Rotten Tomatoes (were evaluated 114 reviews) to 96% were positive.
"Filmed over a 10-year period, Making a Murderer is an unprecedented real-life thriller about a DNA exoneree who, while in the midst of exposing corruption in local law enforcement, finds himself the prime suspect in a grisly new crime.
Filmed over a period of 10 years, Making a Murderer features an unprecedented real-life thriller about a person acquitted through DNA analysis. He finds himself in the middle of a corrupt local police department as the main suspect in a horrific new murder case. "
"The series presents the two popular explanations for Mr. Avery's seemingly counterintuitive story. Assuming that he was indeed innocent of the first crime, did the many years he spent wrongfully imprisoned change him into someone who would commit a brutal murder? Or was he made into a murderer - in other words, framed - by the law enforcement officials of Manitowoc County, Wis., Who were angered and embarrassed by his exoneration and a subsequent lawsuit he filed against them?
The series presents two popular explanations for Mr. Avery's seemingly obscure story. The question arises as to whether he was convicted of what appeared to be innocent and whether his imprisonment turned him into a brutal murderer? Or whether the murder of him a murderer made - in other words by the police department and employees of Manitowoc County, Wiscounsin, constructed was because they were angered by the a-days the innocent convicted Avery and the associated action for damages come and embarrassed "?
On the other hand, there were also critical voices that the producers had not correctly reproduced the story and the trial of Steven Avery. According to the former Calumet District Attorney, Avery's first-ever animal cruelty conviction was downplayed on the series. Avery claimed he threw a cat over a campfire and it caught fire in the process. In reality, he dipped the animal in gasoline and then threw it into the fire.
Petitions
We The People (White House)
An online petition has been running on petitions.whitehouse.gov since December 20, 2015, calling for a pardon for Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey. On January 6, 2016, 17 days after the petition began, the required 100,000 signatures were reached for the White House to respond . By January 7, 2016, nearly 130,000 people had signed the petition, to which the White House responded through its We The People team. It was pointed out that President Barack Obama can only grant a pardon in cases against the United States . Avery's case, however, lies in the judiciary of the state of Wisconsin.
Change.org
A petition to President Obama and Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, has been running on change.org since December 2015 . So far, over 536,713 people (as of June 2017) have signed it.
Web links
- Making a Murderer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Making a Murderer on Rotten Tomatoes
- Official Netflix website
- Netflix documentary "Making a Murderer". Spiegel Online , accessed December 29, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Review: 'Making a Murderer,' True Crime on Netflix. New York Times, accessed December 29, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d Netflix documentary "Making a Murderer". Der Spiegel Online, accessed on December 29, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c Making a Murderer: An American Horror Story. theatlantic.com, accessed December 29, 2015 .
- ↑ We Spoke to 'Making a Murderer' Prosecutor Ken Kratz. maxim.com, accessed January 4, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Chicago-Based Lawyers Await Judge's Decision on 'Making a Murderer' Case. nbcchigaco.com, accessed January 6, 2016 .
- ^ Report of the judge's decision on the release of Dassey. NBC, Aug 16, 2016
- ↑ a b c d e f Behind 'Making a Murderer,' a New Documentary Series on Netflix. New York Times, accessed January 4, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Netflix series brings worldwide spotlight to Steven Avery case. Journal Sentinel, accessed January 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Making a Murderer. In: www.rottentomatoes.com. Rotten Tomatoes, December 18, 2015, accessed January 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Review: 'Making a Murderer,' True Crime on Netflix. In: www.nytimes.com. New York Times, December 16, 2015, accessed January 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Alison Dirr: Seven details left out of 'Making a Murderer' . In: USA Today . Retrieved February 5, 2016.
- ↑ Lesley Messer: 5 Things to Know About Steven Avery From 'Making a Murderer' . In: ABC News . Retrieved February 5, 2016.
- ↑ a b A response to your petition on the Teresa Halbach murder case. (No longer available online.) We The People (White House), archived from the original on January 8, 2016 ; accessed on January 7, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Free Steven Avery. change.org, accessed June 9, 2017 .
