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You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking
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Killers in True crime History and the authors that have
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written about him Gasey Bundy, Dahmer, The Night Stalker VTK
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every week another fascinating author talking about the most shocking
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and infamous killers in true crime history. True Murder with
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your host journalist and author Dan Zufanski, Good Evening.
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Convicting a Murderer unveils the shocking truth behind one of
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the most controversial criminal cases in history. In Netflix's Making
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a Murderer, which had one hundred million viewers, Stephen Avery
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was portrayed as an innocent victim of corrupt law enforce Smith.
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But there's more to the story than what we were shown.
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Convicting a Murderer is narrated by Candice Owens, who sets
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the record straight by exposing the hidden evidence in the
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murder of Teresa Halbach. Convicting a Murderer is a ten
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part documentary series available on Daily Wire Plus. Joining Me
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Now is Convicting a Murderer. Producer Brenda Schuler and director
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Sean reck Welcome to the program.
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Thank you for having us, Thank you, thank.
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You very much. First off, for people, what is the
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focus of this ten part documentary series Convicting a Murderer?
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What's it all about.
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Well, back in twenty fifteen, Netflix is Making a Murderer
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was the biggest crime docuseries of all time. We believe
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over one hundred million people watched it worldwide. Yes, we
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watched it and both became obsessed with it. I largely
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believed it and found out pretty quickly through print media
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that I was duped that a lot of information was
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left out, a lot of information was edited, like unethically edited.
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We allege and you know, we came to a conclusion
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based on bad info. So, as a documentary filmmaker who
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benefited from it because I had another series out that
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became more popular because it was similar to Making a Murderer.
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So I benefited from Making a Murderer. I thought, well,
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somebody's going to come correct the record at some point
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and I can't wait to watch it. That never happened,
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and a couple of years later, some of the people
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involved in law enforcement who were considered themselves victimized by
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Making a Murderer approached us and said, we trust you
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to tell this story because of your first film, which,
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in their words, exposed what they call the innocence industry.
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So we set out to make an answer or retort
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to Making a Murderer that included all the information and
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showed law enforcement point of view. And it took six
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and a half years. But that's what Convicting Your Murderer is.
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It's a ten part, ten hour docuseries that you can
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see on the Daily Wire Plus and it's out now.
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Brenda, as producer of Convicting a Murderer, tell us how
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you became involved and why.
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Yeah, Ashley, I watched Making a Murder, just like everyone
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else brings it over the holidays. I live about an
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hour from match Walk, so I was a little more
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local and I knew about the case beforehand, but had
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never really involved myself to any degree up until Making
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a Murder. After watching Making a Murder, I became obsessed.
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It's the best way I can describe it. Kind of
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went on a journey to figure out the truth. Prior
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to Making a Murder, I believe Stephen was guilty. Watching
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Making a Murder made me have some doubts and within
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probably a couple of days, I was back to he's
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guilty in a nutshell, so but I still wanted to know.
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I wanted all my questions answered that arose from making
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a murderer. So I kind of went on a mission.
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I reached out to the assistant district attorney from management,
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Michael greasback ended up kind of doing some fact checking
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for him on his book that connected me with Andrew Colburn,
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the officer from making a murder, that controversial officer from
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making murder. And at that point, then Michael's book was
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released and I met up with Tom Fosspender, the lead detective,
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who talked to me just about helping the prosecutor of
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the Avian Dacy trials if ken krat if I would
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help him fact.
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Check his book.
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So that's kind of how I became involved. Early on,
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just kind of inserted myself to be honest because I
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wanted the truth, and reached out to people. And then ultimately,
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as Sean said, law enforcement went to Sean and his
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partner and touch base with them on maybe a possibility
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of something happening or doing some type of series or film,
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And that's kind of how I became involved. I just
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worked with Sean and his team and got something together
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and it just took a lot then I expect to.
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But that's really my story in a nutshell.
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I was really an early retired woman from Wisconsin, working
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previously in an insurance industry for twenty some years, never
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watched True Prime or anything, and something about this chase
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just drew me in And apparently I'm still drown in.
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So here we are. But that's my story.
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Let's talk about the major issues that are examined in
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this documentary series. In the trailer, it is mentioned just
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some of the things that are going to be revealed
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in the documentary series unedited phone call, shocking unedited phone calls.
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But other than that, what are the major issues examined
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in this documentary series.
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I think that the biggest problem I have with the
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series is the fact that they edited courtroom testimony and
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they edited depositions. They changed the meaning of what people said,
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They changed people's reactions to questions to make the audience
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more skeptical, and questioned body language and things like that
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wasn't even their body language at the time that they
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were answering the question. And to me, as a filmmaker,
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if somebody takes the time to do that, they've got
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a dog in this race, and it's an advocacy piece.
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At least it's propaganda. And it was portrayed as just
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a fly on the wall watching What's Happening documentary and
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it wasn't. So a lot of the issues are They
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left a lot of things out. They said it was
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for brevity, and it's true, you can't include everything in
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the documentary, but when everything that ends up on the
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cutting room floor would have made Stephen Avery look worse,
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you have to question their motives. And that's really doing
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is questioning the filmmaker's motives and Netflix motives.
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I was just going to say, I want to kind
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of say what Sean's saying exactly too. I think the
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thing that alarmed me not being in the industry was
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that documentaries I always believed were truly like sixty minutes,
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you know, they were documents of truth.
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There were news.
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So when I first started looking into this and looking
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at these tiny little edits that I couldn't really understand
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why they didn't seem to be for brevity, and in
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the long run ended up learning that it was like
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Death by a thousand edits, as Candace says in the film,
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all of these little tiny edits that were done to
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me to form a narrative that was false, and quite frankly,
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I'm so glad that Sean did this film because it
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really needed to come forward about how people can be
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fooled and take a gregious.
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Action as a result of that.
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I mean, there were a lot of lives affected by this,
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a lot of lives, and I think that's where my
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passion comes from, is just really setting the record straight.
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So I just wanted to add that on top of
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Seawan's answer, Let's.
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Talk about Candace Owen's participation and why she's involved and
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why it's important she's involved.
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We were very very much blackballed in Hollywood when we
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thought we had to finished product. A lot of buyers
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they don't know where they're going to want to work
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in two or three years, and they don't want to
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be the ones to new co Netflix when they may
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want to work there someday. So when we originally spoke
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with the Daily Wire, we thought we were speaking with
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Fox Nation because of the because of who the buyer was,
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we didn't realize he was working with a Daily Wire.
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It ended up being quite a blessing that they were
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the ones who took this film and that Candice is
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the one who fronted it, because you have to have
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very thick skin, and you have to you have to
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be fearless to take on this. This group of they
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call themselves truthers, people who think Stephen are is innocent.
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They're a vicious bunch. This is very personal to them.
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I liken it to a religion, and I think they're
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the perfect partners to have. But the fact is we
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only had one other offer from a women's crime network
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that I did not want it on. So the Daily
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Wire was was really a perfect partnership it and it's
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not this is this series isn't limited to the Daily Wire,
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but it is. You know, if you want to watch
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it this year, that's where you watch it. And at
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this point you can you can just pay for one
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month and binge all ten episodes.
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At this point, let's get to what Daily Wire provides
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in terms of the freedom to make the kind of
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doc documentary that you want, or you've already made a
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documentary that you wanted, but these are the people that
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will distribute it and as you say, go up against
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this behemoth of truthers. But also is there not some
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blowback or resistance from Netflix itself.
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No, nothing from Netflix. They've I think they've benefited. I
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know that Making a Murderer went back on their top ten,
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so people are going back and rewatching it. So I
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guess it helped them. They're a company that in the
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past they when they've made mistakes, or even when they
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didn't make mistakes, but they were in the middle of
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a controversy like the Chappelle controversy, which was really between
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Dave Chappelle and Comedy Central. They've taken steps to do
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the right thing. I don't think that. I don't think
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Netflix is a very clinical company. They're analysts more than
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their artists, and I think that they probably enjoy the
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attention that this brought. You know, they already won their
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lawsuit over this case, so they're no real ramifications other
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than people learning that they have to question what they want.
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They can't trust documentaries. So there hasn't been really been
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any blowblack from Netflix. And I don't think Netflix told
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people to not buy our film. I think that people
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were just it's just acts of self preservation for people
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who may want to work there one day and that's
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really the problem we had in Hollywood.
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To be honest with you, Candace Owens has made some
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public statements, we'll say on Russell Brand's podcast, What to
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her does this documentary series demonstrate, as she's mentioned about
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police the attitude?
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I think that, first of all, you know, the police
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aren't always wrong. The news loves to highlight when there's
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a tragedy such as you know, George Floyd, but you know,
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they don't point out that these are these are literally
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soldiers who go out and lay their life in the
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line every day for our protection. So I think that
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that Candice is cognizant in that, and she of course
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can speak for herself, but I'm just paraphrasing her views.
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I believe, and I think that she also believes that,
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you know, this is just a ten hour piece of
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fake news. To put it quite frankly, that making a murderer,
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that Hollywood got away with a ten hour piece of
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fake news, and somebody has to correct the record. And
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I think that's why she enjoyed being involved.
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You mentioned the term the innocence industry, and this documentary series,
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the second part features somebody that claims to be just
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an advocate for the innocent, and she's a very very
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strong character and leading character in this documentary Making a Murderer.
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What about Kathleen Zelner? What about this documentary series? What
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do they theorize or have to say about Kathleen Zelner in.
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This Believe It or Not? We don't touch on that attorney.
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On Kathleen Zelener. She was in season two and we
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pretty much focus on season one of Making a Murderer.
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Kathleen Zelner is the best at what she does. I
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think that a lot of what she laid out in
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season two of Making a Murderer is a stretch. I
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think she's in a kind of a tough position representing
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someone I think is probably guilty. But if Stephen Avery
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he won one hundred million dollars in the lottery and
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went to twenty legal experts and said, who do I
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get as my attorney, he would not change attorneys. They
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would tell him he needs Kathleen Zelener. So he's got
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the best he could possibly have in this business. And
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she's done miracles with people who are innocent. So we
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don't touch on her in the first season of Convicting
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a Murderer. That doesn't mean we won't eventually our series.
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I'm not sure we even mentioned her in our ten hours. Wow.
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Okay, let's get to some specifics about what is examined
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in this docu series.
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In this documentary series, if you're referring to evidence pretty
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much everything, we go through the blood viol and just
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would an agregious that that was in making a murder?
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How the whole environment nothing And I think a lot
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of people figured that out pretty soon if they had
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any relationship to Phlebotomus, who would easily explain that. But
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the tape that you know, why the seal was broken
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was because in the nineteen or the two thousand and
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three they needed to collect some samples. So it was
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literally Stephen's attorneys and the state were presidently unsealed that.
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So the blood file, we kind of go through every
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piece of evidence that making a murder covered and just
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go through from another perspective. And was there anything in particular, Dan,
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that you were wondering about, like the bullets, the blood
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in the grund Brendan's role, and we touched on all
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of that.
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Yes, Well, I mean the thing is you mentioned in
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the trailer, it is mentioned that one of the keys
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is the key, so blood on the key.
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Right, the key that was found in Stephen's bedroom.
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That is probably the most controversial piece of evidence from
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a planting perspective. A lot of people still to this day,
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even people that believe in is guilt, think, well, it's
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possible the police could have still planted that. But the
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one thing that isn't shown in making a murder is
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a better explanation of how it possibly could have gotten there.
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So it's not like we're saying, oh, here's what happened.
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I think we're showing from the perpet that it's probable
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that it could have happened this way. But you were
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never given that opportunity because making a murder never share
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that information. So, for instance, there was a gap in
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the back of the bookcase and you never saw that.
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So when the officers were explaining how they were putting
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the binders back that they weren't collecting, they were actually
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there to collect his computer and his porn collection. So
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when they were shoving the binders back that they weren't
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collecting for evidence, it kind of got stuck and they
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jammed it in real hard, and it was theorized that
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the back of the bookcase popped open. And however the
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key was tucked in back there kind of bounced oll it,
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which from an amateur perspective of experimenting, No, we never
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went and tried to test that with anyone who who
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could prove that, But there were a lot of amateurs
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online doing that and showing videos of it, and it
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actually didn't work like that. Of course we didn't include that,
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but just from a perspective of how deep the got
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into this, everybody was doing these amateur experiments offline too.
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But so to recover the key, Andy Colburn talks about
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that in the series. He explains what he believed we
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showed the back of a bookcase and how it is
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possible that it could have happened the way Colburn described
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and the other officers described. There were three of them
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in the in the room. There's pretty much no way
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that an officer could come in and stand at the
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doorway and toss the key on the floor without the calling.
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You met officer sitting on the bed literally two feet
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away and say, oh, look there's a key, So you'd
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have to guess. My perspective on it has always been
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if you were going to plant that key, and you're
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the officer that planted.
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You're the one that's doing it. You're not going to
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be the one to find it.
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You're not going to have it found that way when
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they've already looked at that bookcase the priorate Saturday. So
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my perspective on it was you're going to have the
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calumet officer find it or someone else find And as
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far as the blood on the key, it was actually
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Stephen Avery's DNA on it and it was proven.
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To be not blood, non blood.
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Kathleen's owner did prove that it was skin cells, and
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we said in the film was testimony from one of
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the prosecutors talking to a prime lab expert just basically
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explaining that well, if somebody had the key and there
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was blood on it and he wiped it off, obviously
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you know it's got blood on he wiped it off,
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but then continued to touch it with his bare hands,
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could that explain how that got on there? He stated, yes,
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it would have eliminated anyone else's DNA on it because
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blood is very strong, and then when he touched it
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would have only shown his DNA. So that's kind of
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how we explain the key. Kind of a nutshell overall.
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How they found it, and why there was only Stephen
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Avery's DNA on it not Teresa's.
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What about the blood spatter evidence itself and the experts
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used at Avery's trial, Well.
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It depends on which blutch better. You're referring to a
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referring to the rat okay for to teresa vehicle. Okay,
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So Stephen's blood was found in the vehicle in six
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different locations, planted in three different ways. So if you
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have a planter that's going into the vehicle and he's
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using a cue tip to paint on the blood by
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the ignition in this certain way, and there's little smears
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around it, which you don't see in making your murd
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and there's little dots around it. The amount of detail
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that was in that stain For someone to plant it,
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I think we proved pretty well, would be very, very
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difficult to plant with the coagulation timeline of blood.
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Then you have the blood on her CD case, which
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is a smear.
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You have blood on the black back passenger door on
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the inside doorframe of it, and then.
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Of course you have Teresa's blood in the back of
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the vehicle.
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One of the things that came from I believe it
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was season two I just throw that out there, is
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why weren't they mixed? If there was blood in the vehicle,
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Steven's blood and Teresa's blood, why are they not together?
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Right?
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And I thought, well, that doesn't make any sense. Why
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would they be together. They didn't bleed at the same time.
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He was in his vehicle more than once. Obviously he
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had to put it in the garage to hide it,
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let's say, and then he had a drive that put
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it where it was found, and then when he put
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trace in the vehicle wouldn't have been the same time,
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So why would they be mixed?
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So that always just made me wonder. I just wanted
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to throw that out there.
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But the blood spotter, to me, was very convincing and
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honestly probably the most difficult for.
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Anyone to debunk that it wasn't Steve it actively bleeding.
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And the other thing we point out is he bled
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in his own vehicle in similar patterns, So he had
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blood dripping on the console in his very own vehicle.
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So how do you explain It's it's not likely that
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he bled in the rav four, but he bled in
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his own vehicle and that is his blood, So we
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point that out too. It's like, just okay, let's look
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at Akham's rais or what's more likely. And I think
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if you do that with every piece of evidence, you
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find pretty quickly that Okham's raiser will completely prove to you.
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The much easier way of doing this would be Stephen
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actively blood in the vehicle is faith in this series?
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Do you point out the major deceptive film techniques that
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they use that you spoke.
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About, Yes, we do.
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We compare them side by side with actual testimony, just
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like what they eliminated and what we believe the reason
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was to why they eliminated it.
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So I'll give you one example real quick.
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Down there's a call in the beginning where the narrative
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is that the police framed Avery to save thirty six
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million dollars in this lawsuit, right, so they targeted him
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im media.
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And there's a phone call the morning that the vehicle
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was found.
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Trees's vehicle was found on the salvage yard, and in
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that phone call, the caliumet officer is saying to the
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manage WAC officer again, remember this is missing person. At
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this point, she had three appointments prior to that. The
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last two were Steven Avery and George Ziphyr. So that morning,
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the two officers are talking about what they're going to
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do for that day in this missing person investigation, and
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they had already interviewed the two appointments, and they wanted
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to go back over and interview both of them again
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because they had interviewed them later at night and they
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just had more information now they wanted to go reinterview
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the last two people they believe saw Teresa on that Monday.
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So they when they play the recording and making a burner,
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they play the boss wants us to go back over
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and interview Steven Avery again.
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So of course the.
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Narrative around that is that police are right away going
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after Steven. They're focusing right on him, and the car's
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not even found yet, they're focusing on him. But what
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they cut off and this is what I meant by
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death by a thousand little edits. They cut off at
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the end of that and Zipper. So they say, the
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boss wants us to go back over and interview or
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reinterview Stephen Avery and Zipper again, and then the Manu
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TAC officers says, oh man, he's not going to be
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very happy about that. So they're talking about Zipper and
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how they're clearly not focusing on avery. They do these
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little sleights of hand on almost that show why they
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did it. It was like the it's clear the narrative
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was we want people to believe Steven Navy was Frank
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and how they do that is by removing these little
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in zipper type edits adding those in. And that was
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one of them that I actually thought, well, why did
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they remove that? I mean, those were her last two appointments.
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That doesn't make any sense. But as we researched more,
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we found that more and more things like that, And
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there's of course more agree just once than matter or
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more deceptive, I should say than that one. But that's
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just the quick exit in pull. And we show them.
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We show them side by side so you can actually
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see what making a murder did. We play a voice
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message from making a murder and then we played the
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actual voice message. So I think we did a really
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good job of kind of showing clearly to the audience
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what specifically was removed or omitted from making a murder.
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And then we hope that obviously the audience will be
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able to come to their own conclusion on why they
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possibly did that.
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What can you theorize either one of you, producer and director.
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What can you theory as to the reason other than
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to keep their narrative as they initially had envisioned. But
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is there more to this deception in your mind?
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In my opinion, I think that they painted themselves into
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a corner. They spent years of their lives telling a
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story that and as they slowly realized this guy's probably guilty,
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they probably went into denial because they had spent their
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life savings making a movie. That's really all I can
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as a businessman. That's how I look at it. Maybe
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Brenda has a different idea.
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The only thing from just listening to phone calls, so
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many phone calls, Dan was I do believe that they
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chose the case going into it from the standpoint exactly
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as Sean said. I think they read this article. The
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article talked about this man who was recently exonerated two
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years prior, is now being charged with the murder of
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a twenty five year old photographer. So I do believe
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they exactly what they said. They said, this is it,
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this is the story we want to go follow. And
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I think they came here and they were pushed away
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from everyone because obviously nobody could talk. The investigators couldn't talk,
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the prosecutors couldn't talk, and I think that every family
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was willing to listen. And I know from phone calls
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that Avery and his family were very skeptical of them,
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very skeptical. So I think that they did paint themselves
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into a corner is that they maintain this very close
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relationship with Steven and his family, and I think we
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portrayed that pretty well in at the end of episode nine,
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we play a phone call where the filmmakers.
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Are talking to Steven and it's so telling.
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They say to him, it almost feels like they're talking
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strategy about their film, and they say to Stephen on
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a phone call, there's a truth, and then there can
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be a full truth, and then there can be what
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actually happened, and then a little more you know, interjected
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in there, and then we end it with would it
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be enough for people to believe innocent? And to me,
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that phone call is the one that I went to
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Sean and I say, oh, my gosh, they literally knew
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what they were doing. And that was that moment that
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I kind of realized, Wow, they did have this story
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that they were following and they were kind of in
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a rock and a hard place, and I think they
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went too far with it. I think they could have
496
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still told the story fairly. I think they could have
497
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shown both sides of it from a fair standpoint, and
498
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they didn't have to go to the media afterwards and
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state to the media that, oh, we were just letting
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this story unfold and we pointed the camera.
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That's honest to me. That is not what I heard
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in the phone calls behind the scenes.
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And shocked me because I think it's okay to do that,
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and I think Sean would totally admit that and say this.
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You can be an advocate, you can make an advocacy piece,
506
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but you need to say that.
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You need to say that this is what we're doing.
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You know, we believed in Stephen.
509
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We feel that he was wrongly convicted or he was
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wrongly convicted, and we're telling the story and that's what
511
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we're doing. But then don't go to media and just say, oh,
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we're following the story. Is it unfolded. That's not at
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all what I believe happened. But that's just my opinion too.
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I mean from listening to many many phone calls.
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Yeah, they went out they went out to the media
516
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and actually said, hey, we didn't care how it went
517
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either way, and it was very very clear from their
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prison phone call, So that was a lie.
519
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Making a murderer tries to theorize that there are other
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people involved and try to point to those people in
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this documentary Esewn there does it in the second season.
522
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But what about Bobby Dacy and Brendan Dacy. What does
523
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this Convicting a Murderer documentary series.
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Have to say?
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Well, sonswer Dan, we don't get too much into Bobby
526
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Dancy or it's more of Zeller's theory. But I'll tell
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you one thing that I've said in another podcast too,
528
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is that when Kathleen took the case, I want to
529
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just point this out for people that are underware, and
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these aren't her words exactly. And I think she then
531
00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:01.039
said the same season too, but I heard it on
532
00:27:01.119 --> 00:27:04.759
the interview she did. Stephen Avery was writing along with
533
00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:07.920
his fiance at the time, Sander Greenman. They were writing
534
00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:11.799
to Kathleen Zohler for a while prior to Making a
535
00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:15.880
Murder Right, and I think she rejected him. Was maybe
536
00:27:16.039 --> 00:27:18.160
his last letter to her was maybe around a couple
537
00:27:18.279 --> 00:27:22.960
months before making murder aired, and Kathleen and her team
538
00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:27.079
turned down taking that case because she felt that there
539
00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:29.319
was too much evidence that they wouldn't be able to
540
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you know, she didn't say it was guilty or anything,
541
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but she just said there was too much evidence that
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it didn't meet their criteria. They had like a little
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you know, algorithm or whatnot that they would calculate if
544
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this was a case that could be won. And after
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making a murder within days, she was tweeting and reached
546
00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:49.359
out to Sander Greenman and said I want this case,
547
00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:51.680
and in return, of course, that's how that all came about.
548
00:27:51.799 --> 00:27:54.440
But she had never even met with Stephen. She had
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00:27:54.519 --> 00:27:57.880
never met with him prior to publicly stating she's taken
550
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the case. And I remember thinking, well, how yeah, I've
551
00:28:01.400 --> 00:28:03.440
been studying this at this point for quite a while,
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not that long, but I've been studying this. I'm just
553
00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:08.680
kind of curious on what she could have found that quickly.
554
00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:11.279
So I was a little bit shocked after that, but
555
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I think that's something she says publicly, so I'm not
556
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afraid to share her thoughts on that. But as far
557
00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:20.839
as Bobby Dascy, he was the second person after her
558
00:28:20.920 --> 00:28:25.799
first allegation was against Ryan Hiligas, and in another podcast,
559
00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:27.519
like I said, I pointed out some of the things
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that were in her initial filing of Ryman Hiligas, and
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one of those was that he had scratches on his
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hands and that the expert and expert filed an AFFI
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David On behalf of that evidence that she had these
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scratches on her hand, or he had these scratches on
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his hand, and they would have been defense wounds, and
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Teresa Hallback's fingernails would have been the right link to
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cause wows and long the whole that turns out to
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be writing on his hands.
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So I was able to find news footage proved that
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that was handwriting.
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He wrote on his hands, and literally in the affidavit
572
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from an expert was saying that these were defensive wounds
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from the victim. And that was evidence that was used
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in her brief to try to get evidentry hearing for
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00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:19.319
you know, Ryan Hilligas and for Stephen Avery and Ryan
576
00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:23.640
Hiligis was this potential suspect. So that alarms me. That
577
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alarmed me simply because I don't know how the defense
578
00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:30.799
system works. You have to represent your client zealously. I
579
00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:33.440
understand that, but I didn't realize it could cross into
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things like that. So I was very much taken them
581
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back by things like that. But then when it went
582
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to Bobby, look at all the damage that caused Ryan Hilligos.
583
00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:44.839
So that frustrated me that you can just throw off
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00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:47.279
these people and basically have all these people and even
585
00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:51.519
today blaming Ryan Hilligas and coming up these crazy theories
586
00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:54.319
and now, oh, we just moved on to Bobby Dassy.
587
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By the way, it has never had a criminal thing
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00:29:57.079 --> 00:30:00.480
in his life. He's married, and so what I don't
589
00:30:00.519 --> 00:30:03.640
understand is they're blaming all this computer stuff on Bobby.
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What I also pointed out is that how did Stephen
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Avery know what was on that computer?
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Because Dan, we don't talk about this in the film,
593
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but on the day that the officers went to collect
594
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Barb's computer, the Dasy computer, Stephen called Barb and said,
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are my attorneys there?
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And she said, no, they're left.
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They're gone, he's gone, he's up by mas or they're
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00:30:28.799 --> 00:30:31.960
gone or whatever gone from her house. And he said,
599
00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:34.519
did they take the computer? And she said no, the
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other assholes got it, meaning the officers.
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So what happened.
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After doing all this research, I found that Stephen actually
603
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told Dean Strang about the computer Barb's computer and he
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sent them there to get it. And there are other
605
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phone calls that represent that Stephen knew exactly what was
606
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on that computer. So my feeling on it is, well,
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how do you know what's on that computer? And how
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can you say that those are all Bobby Dacies searches
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And you can't.
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You can't.
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There's been intensive studies on that, and I'm not going
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to get into that because I don't want to share
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anything that hasn't been proven yet or hasn't been shared yet.
614
00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:15.519
But there has been studies that can actually prove that
615
00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:18.680
Bobby Dassy was not the only one that could have
616
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:21.519
been doing those searches at that time. So I also
617
00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:24.720
think it's dangerous to what's happening to Bobby Dassy to
618
00:31:24.920 --> 00:31:28.799
just throw these allegations all it just to get you
619
00:31:28.839 --> 00:31:31.519
don't have to do as much as has been done,
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and I'm very skeptical of where it's going to go.
621
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But she's representing her client the way she's required and
622
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is able to, so we'll see where it goes. But
623
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I do have a lot of feelings on it, but
624
00:31:43.400 --> 00:31:45.839
I won't get into those obviously right now because she
625
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is a great tourney she knows what she's doing and
626
00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:52.240
I'm not so my opinion probably doesn't mean much in
627
00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:54.839
that aspect, but I just, like I said, the Ryan
628
00:31:54.920 --> 00:31:58.039
thing just kind of hurts. It breaks my hired that
629
00:31:58.160 --> 00:32:01.079
somebody can be blamed and then they're the new flavor
630
00:32:01.240 --> 00:32:03.400
or the old flavor. Now we're moving on to the
631
00:32:03.440 --> 00:32:06.200
new flavor, and I don't think it's going to go anywhere.
632
00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:10.240
She really has nothing left. The person that has the
633
00:32:10.359 --> 00:32:14.279
most recent appeal right now that is sitting well, they're
634
00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:17.400
waiting for her. She requested to have more time, and
635
00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:19.640
I think it's middle of December or something. I could
636
00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:22.000
be wrong on that, but middle of December this year
637
00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:26.160
she has to add something. And my understanding is that
638
00:32:26.319 --> 00:32:29.359
it's the only thing left is these two people that
639
00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:33.920
supposedly saw Bobby right pushing the rat right, and one
640
00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:38.200
of them in this guy's first statement in twenty sixteen,
641
00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:41.680
this guy that saw this his first email that was
642
00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:44.799
apparently sent to the innocents team or his attorneys at
643
00:32:44.839 --> 00:32:47.279
the time, whoever this guy sent him to.
644
00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:49.599
I'm not going to say his name, but you can
645
00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:51.839
figure out who the person was.
646
00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:55.359
I don't want to alligate anything, but this person said
647
00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:59.240
that he saw Bobby pushing the rat, right, that's what's
648
00:32:59.240 --> 00:33:01.200
in the fi David and this other guy. But his
649
00:33:01.319 --> 00:33:03.720
original statement, he didn't even know what day it was,
650
00:33:04.599 --> 00:33:07.480
and he also didn't know who the person was, and
651
00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:10.960
he never saw the passenger. So then once he went
652
00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:14.720
to Zelner and Zehner's f A David's stated that now
653
00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:17.160
he did know what day it was, and it was
654
00:33:17.319 --> 00:33:20.400
Bobby Dassy because he recognized him from making a murder too,
655
00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:23.519
and that the second person who he just said he
656
00:33:23.640 --> 00:33:26.599
never saw before, the second person in the vehicle was
657
00:33:26.680 --> 00:33:29.119
actually you know, an older man or something, or it
658
00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:31.680
was something like that like he described the second passenger.
659
00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:38.119
So there's there is conflicting information in original statements and
660
00:33:39.079 --> 00:33:42.559
what's being filed, right, So that's where the research comes
661
00:33:42.599 --> 00:33:46.400
in and looking into all of that. So I do
662
00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:49.720
have concerns, but that's what's left right now of her filing.
663
00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:52.519
And then this other person that apparently saw Bobby Gassy
664
00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:54.599
driving the rab and he just remembers his years and
665
00:33:54.680 --> 00:33:59.640
years later, has no connection to avery supposedly was seen
666
00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:05.000
at a rally, and there's text messages is just showing
667
00:34:05.079 --> 00:34:10.400
that he supported Stephen. So now he's out these rallies
668
00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:15.199
and for Stephen Avery, and he's on video supporting Stephen Avery,
669
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:18.000
but yet you have no connection to him in the
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Saffiday there.
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Let's use this as an opportunity to stop for a
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second to hear these messages.
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Now you're speaking about the best strategy for Zell there
683
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as an attorney trying to get this post conviction reversal
684
00:35:02.599 --> 00:35:06.159
for her client and doing so, as you say, she
685
00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:10.800
just will accuse somebody like Ryan Hilligis of being involved,
686
00:35:11.320 --> 00:35:13.880
because that's the best strategy, said, she mentions it. This
687
00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:16.960
is the best strategy for her as an attorney. Yes, Now,
688
00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:21.440
with this narrative of this film, Sean, you're the director, Brenda,
689
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you're the producer. You're not going to resort to the
690
00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:29.480
same strategy. You're not advocating for a particular person. But
691
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what is the narrative overall in this docuseries?
692
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Well, I think the narrative is that Well, I think
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that the takeaway is, you know, don't trust anything you see.
694
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Won't even trust us. Check it out, go to backup sources,
695
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do your own research, because while it's implicit that you're
696
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watching facts when you watch a documentary or a docuseries,
697
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you're not. People can have a point of view, could
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have been paid for by somebody. I think that my goal,
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my end goal was for our industry to create a
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set of voluntary, the cool standards by which we abide
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so that we don't lose credibility. Is our business is
702
00:36:05.400 --> 00:36:07.400
in a pretty good place. Documentaries are a lot more
703
00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:09.199
popular than they used to be. But we're going to
704
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mess it up for ourselves if we don't tell the truth.
705
00:36:12.119 --> 00:36:15.440
And when this series was announced, a lot of people
706
00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:19.320
who were subjects of other series approached us and said, hey,
707
00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:22.159
this was done to us by so and so, and
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00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:23.960
they wanted us to turn this into a kind of
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like you know, mentioning five six seven projects and we
710
00:36:26.760 --> 00:36:28.760
decided not to do it. But there's a lot of
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00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:32.079
this going around in which people feel very very much
712
00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:35.159
victimized by serious that they participated in.
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Let's talk about those voluntary ethical standards that you propose. Specifically,
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give us an example.
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If it's an advocacy piece, as Brenda said earlier, say
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00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:47.880
it's an advocacy piece, so you know, we think Stephen
717
00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:51.599
Avery and Brendan Dassy didn't do this, and we're setting
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out to show you why if it's not the case
719
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with this film. But if somebody funded the film, who's
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involved in the issue in any way, that has to
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be disclosed. If you pay subjects, that has to be disclosed.
722
00:37:03.480 --> 00:37:05.840
We did pay some of the subjects in this film
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for exclusivity, so they wouldn't do any other projects. Those
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are the things that I think warrant a fore warning
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when you're watching a series, so that you know it's
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very clear and transparent to people what you're setting out
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to do.
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Not that.
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What we point out in our docuseriies is that the
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first documentary ever made nan Nuke of the North, which
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has made you know, one hundred and ten years ago
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was a fraud. It was fake. So, as Patricia Afterraheide,
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a professor from American University, says, the history of documentaries
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and docuseries is shot through with these ethical problems, and
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we need to fix it by telling the truth when
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we start.
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You talked about that you couldn't get this film made
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through ordinary channels, and you talked about why. But tell
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us again what their criticism was, and if you've had
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any criticism so far with the series.
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We would deal with a buy like a major streamer,
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and they'd say this isn't for us or nobody cares
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about this case anymore, which is not true. Over one
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hundred million people watch this I've been flown to Oslo, Norway,
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just to give an update on this case. You know,
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the people all over the world care about this case.
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A great deal. We were very close to a deal
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with a major competitor of Netflix and they and they
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don't care about upsetting them. But they were like, yeah,
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we feel like this is their brand. We feel like
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we're nipping their brand, so we're not going to do it.
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That was another criticism we got. But you know the
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fact is they weren't going to tell the truth. They
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weren't going to implicate themselves in this, but we allege
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as a lie, so somebody else had to air it.
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So that's the sort of thing we ran into almost everywhere.
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I met with an agent, a huge documentary agent in
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Los Angeles, and he said his exact quote was, dude,
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I have to work in this town.
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Wow.
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You know.
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And my longtime agents in New York who represented everything
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I've done, they co produce Netflix all the time. They
764
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wouldn't even talk about this project with me. They don't,
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you know, this is all about self preservation. So it
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just I'm not trying to pat myself on the back,
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but I'm saying it takes some strength and some courage
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to tell this sort of a story. And then that's
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what the Daily Wire had. They had the courage to
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take this on. They couldn't care less about criticism from Hollywood.
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What are the biggest things featured in this We talked
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about that, of course, blood is so important. You talked
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about the mixing. They said, well, well it wasn't mixed.
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What are some of the featured things, the biggest featured
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things in this docu series.
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I'll start with this. A lot of people don't know
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Stephen Avery's background, and if you understood his history, it
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would paint a little bit different picture on whether it's
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plausible that he could do this, whether he can actually
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want to do something like this. If you understood his
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history with violence, his history with women, is inability to
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control himself sexually, you'd have a a little more background
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on whether someone would be capable of committing this crime. Also,
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you know, why would someone throw away millions of dollars
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of settlement money by taking this sort of risk. You're
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going to see a person who has the inability to
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differ gratification. And we paint that picture. It doesn't mean
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that doesn't mean he murdered somebody, Okay, but you need
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to at least be informed, yes, of who he actually is.
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It's not Stevie stole a cheese sandwich and five dollars.
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That wasn't the real history of Steven Avery. And that's
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the way the filmmakers and Making a Murderer portrayed him.
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It just wasn't true. So we dedicate like two and
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a half episodes to that, And I think it's very
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important to have that background and that backdrop when considering
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who this person is.
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What do the filmmakers of making a murderer specifically the
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biggest thing that they omit in their films?
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Go ahead, Brenda, I think the biggest thing, and that's
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hard to say because there's some pretty big edits, but
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as I said, most of them are all these slics
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of hand. But I think though one of the biggest
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act comes up is probably Andy Colburn's dispatch. Paul. I
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don't know if you're were of that down, but in
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a nutshell, one of the officers made this call and
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they alleged that he had found her vehicle, and of
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course Cancrat subjects to it, but they never see that.
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And I'm gonna just say this too now.
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You know, Andy Colburn filed a lawsuit and that was
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one of the main reasons was because they changed his
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answer to a question that was never or was never answered.
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There was an objection, right.
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So when we obtained the trial footage through the licensing
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license and the child footage, we noticed and again this
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had been found online a little bit already, but they
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didn't have access to all the trial footage. So when
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we were going through and looking at the tilefoodage and
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comparing it and saw these different reaction shots we were
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shot that they were inserting these the same shot three
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different times, and that edit, along with other things that
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were said in Making a Murder, caused Andy Colburn to
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receive a lot of threats and for manas Quack also,
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So we call out that as probably the biggest edit
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or the most impactful edit the Andy Colburn. But of
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course there's many other little things not Making Your Murders
826
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showed about Andy Colburn that we also go through. But
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I would say of the film overall, is probably that one,
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but there are several other larger ones like that. One
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of them is the bullet. They took a sentence and
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spliced it into another sentence because you didn't hear in
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Making a Murder that the gun that the bullet came
832
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from La Teresa's DNA on matched the bed or the
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gun hanging up of Steven Avery's bed, and it matched
834
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it to the exclusion of all other guns in the world,
835
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so it was legitimately that gun. And they edited the
836
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vc I agent's testimony to say that they found this
837
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bullet and it was damaged basically or flattened. And I
838
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alleged when we were going through these edits that the
839
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reason they did that is because they didn't want to
840
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address ballistics testing, because ballistics testing was done and ballistics
841
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testing showed it was that Gune hanging above is that.
842
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So that was kind of my theory on why they
843
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didn't want that. But they literally had him say, well,
844
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the bullet was nearly intact. They inserted the information from
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a different bullet they found that said it was a
846
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flattened bullet, it was too damaged basically, so things like that.
847
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But that's how they were able to omit key evidence
848
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and it added to testimony to be able to do
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that well.
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And that's just really dishonest to me because you can
851
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see the edit.
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I mean, it's literally obvious you're taking words that say
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something completely opposite. So that was another one that stood
854
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out to me. But again there's a lot of ones
855
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that you really don't catch. Oh oh in another one too,
856
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Manuchwac's role in this. Everybody makes this big deal about
857
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MANUFAC being involved. Do I think they should have been?
858
00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:15.360
Heck no, I think we wouldn't be here today if
859
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they weren't.
860
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Absolutely not.
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But you know, I think we explained that pretty well,
862
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and I think some of the officers even probably would
863
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say yeah, you know, I find people back in time
864
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not want to be there, but they did what they
865
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believed they needed to do. And everybody thinks that you
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have all these resources like Candace site, you have all
867
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these resources, it's are really small charfs departments and caliu
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Met is tiny. The lead investigation unit is really small
869
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compared to Manuswac County. So they they're touched rual people.
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I mean that's what they are mainly. And the officers
871
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from Mantuac they have investigators, they have detectives.
872
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It's several of them, so of course they're going to
873
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bring them in.
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But conflict of interests the perception of it, we're going
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to ensure that DCI is with them or a Calumet
876
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officer at all times.
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So that's how they prevented that. But what people don't
878
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realize when they talk about, oh the coroner was pushed away,
879
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she wasn't allowed. Well, she was a Manutwac person, so
880
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of course she's going to be. But then why would
881
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she not allow the Colburn and Length work. Well, because
882
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they're not elected officials.
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Anybody that was an elected official and a boss, the
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prosecutor the sheriff, the corporate council. They all recused themselves.
885
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No one told them they had to do that. They
886
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made that decision. If they were going to frame Avery,
887
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hey let's just keep the investigation. Why would we hand
888
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it over? It was their choice. And there's press conferences
889
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that we show in convicting that making the murder just
890
00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:51.519
showed the one, you know resources, we used them for equipment.
891
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There's other press conferences prior to that that include Manutwac
892
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and Calumet's investigation.
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So we play each of those clips of books or
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can kind of see that?
895
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I mean, really, I think the whole thing overall it
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was like you're giving a piece of evidence, and I
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could tell you how it was portrayed there and what
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the real evidence show us. If every piece there was
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something done to every piece of evidence to make you
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Brenda Schuler and you the director Sean Reck. I want
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to thank you very much for one more time. How
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do people find out and get involved with this docu series.
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We have a presence on on Twitter hashtag convict a Murderer.
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There's a Facebook page for the project. You can go
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to Transition Studios dot com and reach us through there,
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and uh, stay tuned for more news on other ways
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You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking
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Killers in True crime History and the authors that have
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written about him Gasey Bundy, Dahmer, The Night Stalker VTK
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and infamous killers in true crime history. True Murder with
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your host journalist and author Dan Zufanski, Good Evening.
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Convicting a Murderer unveils the shocking truth behind one of
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the most controversial criminal cases in history. In Netflix's Making
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a Murderer, which had one hundred million viewers, Stephen Avery
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was portrayed as an innocent victim of corrupt law enforce Smith.
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But there's more to the story than what we were shown.
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Convicting a Murderer is narrated by Candice Owens, who sets
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the record straight by exposing the hidden evidence in the
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murder of Teresa Halbach. Convicting a Murderer is a ten
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part documentary series available on Daily Wire Plus. Joining Me
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Now is Convicting a Murderer. Producer Brenda Schuler and director
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Sean reck Welcome to the program.
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You very much. First off, for people, what is the
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focus of this ten part documentary series Convicting a Murderer?
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What's it all about.
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Well, back in twenty fifteen, Netflix is Making a Murderer
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was the biggest crime docuseries of all time. We believe
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over one hundred million people watched it worldwide. Yes, we
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watched it and both became obsessed with it. I largely
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believed it and found out pretty quickly through print media
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that I was duped that a lot of information was
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left out, a lot of information was edited, like unethically edited.
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We allege and you know, we came to a conclusion
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based on bad info. So, as a documentary filmmaker who
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benefited from it because I had another series out that
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became more popular because it was similar to Making a Murderer.
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somebody's going to come correct the record at some point
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and I can't wait to watch it. That never happened,
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and a couple of years later, some of the people
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involved in law enforcement who were considered themselves victimized by
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Making a Murderer approached us and said, we trust you
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to tell this story because of your first film, which,
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in their words, exposed what they call the innocence industry.
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to Making a Murderer that included all the information and
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showed law enforcement point of view. And it took six
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and a half years. But that's what Convicting Your Murderer is.
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It's a ten part, ten hour docuseries that you can
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see on the Daily Wire Plus and it's out now.
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Brenda, as producer of Convicting a Murderer, tell us how
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you became involved and why.
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Yeah, Ashley, I watched Making a Murder, just like everyone
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local and I knew about the case beforehand, but had
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a Murder. After watching Making a Murder, I became obsessed.
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to Making a Murder, I believe Stephen was guilty. Watching
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guilty in a nutshell, so but I still wanted to know.
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a murderer. So I kind of went on a mission.
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I reached out to the assistant district attorney from management,
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the officer from making a murder, that controversial officer from
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making murder. And at that point, then Michael's book was
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released and I met up with Tom Fosspender, the lead detective,
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who talked to me just about helping the prosecutor of
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the Avian Dacy trials if ken krat if I would
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wanted the truth, and reached out to people. And then ultimately,
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as Sean said, law enforcement went to Sean and his
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partner and touch base with them on maybe a possibility
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of something happening or doing some type of series or film,
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previously in an insurance industry for twenty some years, never
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just drew me in And apparently I'm still drown in.
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this documentary series. In the trailer, it is mentioned just
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some of the things that are going to be revealed
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in the documentary series unedited phone call, shocking unedited phone calls.
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I think that the biggest problem I have with the
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series is the fact that they edited courtroom testimony and
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they edited depositions. They changed the meaning of what people said,
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more skeptical, and questioned body language and things like that
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wasn't even their body language at the time that they
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were answering the question. And to me, as a filmmaker,
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if somebody takes the time to do that, they've got
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a dog in this race, and it's an advocacy piece.
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a fly on the wall watching What's Happening documentary and
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it wasn't. So a lot of the issues are They
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left a lot of things out. They said it was
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for brevity, and it's true, you can't include everything in
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the documentary, but when everything that ends up on the
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cutting room floor would have made Stephen Avery look worse,
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you have to question their motives. And that's really doing
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is questioning the filmmaker's motives and Netflix motives.
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I was just going to say, I want to kind
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of say what Sean's saying exactly too. I think the
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thing that alarmed me not being in the industry was
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that documentaries I always believed were truly like sixty minutes,
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you know, they were documents of truth.
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at these tiny little edits that I couldn't really understand
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why they didn't seem to be for brevity, and in
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the long run ended up learning that it was like
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all of these little tiny edits that were done to
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me to form a narrative that was false, and quite frankly,
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I'm so glad that Sean did this film because it
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really needed to come forward about how people can be
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a lot of lives, and I think that's where my
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passion comes from, is just really setting the record straight.
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why it's important she's involved.
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We were very very much blackballed in Hollywood when we
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thought we had to finished product. A lot of buyers
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they don't know where they're going to want to work
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want to work there someday. So when we originally spoke
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Fox Nation because of the because of who the buyer was,
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we didn't realize he was working with a Daily Wire.
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the ones who took this film and that Candice is
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the one who fronted it, because you have to have
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very thick skin, and you have to you have to
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be fearless to take on this. This group of they
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call themselves truthers, people who think Stephen are is innocent.
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I liken it to a religion, and I think they're
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the perfect partners to have. But the fact is we
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only had one other offer from a women's crime network
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that I did not want it on. So the Daily
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not this is this series isn't limited to the Daily Wire,
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but it is. You know, if you want to watch
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it this year, that's where you watch it. And at
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in terms of the freedom to make the kind of
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doc documentary that you want, or you've already made a
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documentary that you wanted, but these are the people that
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will distribute it and as you say, go up against
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this behemoth of truthers. But also is there not some
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blowback or resistance from Netflix itself.
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know that Making a Murderer went back on their top ten,
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so people are going back and rewatching it. So I
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guess it helped them. They're a company that in the
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past they when they've made mistakes, or even when they
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their artists, and I think that they probably enjoy the
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attention that this brought. You know, they already won their
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lawsuit over this case, so they're no real ramifications other
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than people learning that they have to question what they want.
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any blowblack from Netflix. And I don't think Netflix told
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people to not buy our film. I think that people
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public statements, we'll say on Russell Brand's podcast, What to
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her does this documentary series demonstrate, as she's mentioned about
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aren't always wrong. The news loves to highlight when there's
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a tragedy such as you know, George Floyd, but you know,
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they don't point out that these are these are literally
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soldiers who go out and lay their life in the
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line every day for our protection. So I think that
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that Candice is cognizant in that, and she of course
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can speak for herself, but I'm just paraphrasing her views.
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you know, this is just a ten hour piece of
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fake news. To put it quite frankly, that making a murderer,
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that Hollywood got away with a ten hour piece of
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fake news, and somebody has to correct the record. And
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an advocate for the innocent, and she's a very very
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strong character and leading character in this documentary Making a Murderer.
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do they theorize or have to say about Kathleen Zelner in.
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This Believe It or Not? We don't touch on that attorney.
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season two of Making a Murderer is a stretch. I
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think she's in a kind of a tough position representing
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someone I think is probably guilty. But if Stephen Avery
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he won one hundred million dollars in the lottery and
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went to twenty legal experts and said, who do I
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get as my attorney, he would not change attorneys. They
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would tell him he needs Kathleen Zelener. So he's got
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the best he could possibly have in this business. And
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she's done miracles with people who are innocent. So we
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a Murderer. That doesn't mean we won't eventually our series.
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much everything, we go through the blood viol and just
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any relationship to Phlebotomus, who would easily explain that. But
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the tape that you know, why the seal was broken
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literally Stephen's attorneys and the state were presidently unsealed that.
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So the blood file, we kind of go through every
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piece of evidence that making a murder covered and just
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go through from another perspective. And was there anything in particular, Dan,
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that you were wondering about, like the bullets, the blood
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in the grund Brendan's role, and we touched on all
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of that.
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Yes, Well, I mean the thing is you mentioned in
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the trailer, it is mentioned that one of the keys
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is the key, so blood on the key.
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Right, the key that was found in Stephen's bedroom.
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That is probably the most controversial piece of evidence from
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a planting perspective. A lot of people still to this day,
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even people that believe in is guilt, think, well, it's
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possible the police could have still planted that. But the
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one thing that isn't shown in making a murder is
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a better explanation of how it possibly could have gotten there.
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So it's not like we're saying, oh, here's what happened.
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I think we're showing from the perpet that it's probable
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that it could have happened this way. But you were
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never given that opportunity because making a murder never share
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that information. So, for instance, there was a gap in
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the back of the bookcase and you never saw that.
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So when the officers were explaining how they were putting
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the binders back that they weren't collecting, they were actually
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there to collect his computer and his porn collection. So
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when they were shoving the binders back that they weren't
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collecting for evidence, it kind of got stuck and they
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jammed it in real hard, and it was theorized that
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the back of the bookcase popped open. And however the
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key was tucked in back there kind of bounced oll it,
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which from an amateur perspective of experimenting, No, we never
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went and tried to test that with anyone who who
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could prove that, But there were a lot of amateurs
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online doing that and showing videos of it, and it
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actually didn't work like that. Of course we didn't include that,
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but just from a perspective of how deep the got
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into this, everybody was doing these amateur experiments offline too.
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But so to recover the key, Andy Colburn talks about
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that in the series. He explains what he believed we
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showed the back of a bookcase and how it is
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possible that it could have happened the way Colburn described
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and the other officers described. There were three of them
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in the in the room. There's pretty much no way
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that an officer could come in and stand at the
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doorway and toss the key on the floor without the calling.
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You met officer sitting on the bed literally two feet
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away and say, oh, look there's a key, So you'd
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have to guess. My perspective on it has always been
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if you were going to plant that key, and you're
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the officer that planted.
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You're the one that's doing it. You're not going to
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be the one to find it.
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You're not going to have it found that way when
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they've already looked at that bookcase the priorate Saturday. So
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my perspective on it was you're going to have the
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calumet officer find it or someone else find And as
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far as the blood on the key, it was actually
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Stephen Avery's DNA on it and it was proven.
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To be not blood, non blood.
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Kathleen's owner did prove that it was skin cells, and
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we said in the film was testimony from one of
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the prosecutors talking to a prime lab expert just basically
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explaining that well, if somebody had the key and there
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was blood on it and he wiped it off, obviously
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you know it's got blood on he wiped it off,
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but then continued to touch it with his bare hands,
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could that explain how that got on there? He stated, yes,
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it would have eliminated anyone else's DNA on it because
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blood is very strong, and then when he touched it
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would have only shown his DNA. So that's kind of
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how we explain the key. Kind of a nutshell overall.
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How they found it, and why there was only Stephen
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Avery's DNA on it not Teresa's.
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What about the blood spatter evidence itself and the experts
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used at Avery's trial, Well.
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It depends on which blutch better. You're referring to a
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referring to the rat okay for to teresa vehicle. Okay,
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So Stephen's blood was found in the vehicle in six
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different locations, planted in three different ways. So if you
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have a planter that's going into the vehicle and he's
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using a cue tip to paint on the blood by
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the ignition in this certain way, and there's little smears
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around it, which you don't see in making your murd
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and there's little dots around it. The amount of detail
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that was in that stain For someone to plant it,
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I think we proved pretty well, would be very, very
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difficult to plant with the coagulation timeline of blood.
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Then you have the blood on her CD case, which
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is a smear.
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You have blood on the black back passenger door on
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the inside doorframe of it, and then.
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Of course you have Teresa's blood in the back of
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the vehicle.
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One of the things that came from I believe it
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was season two I just throw that out there, is
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why weren't they mixed? If there was blood in the vehicle,
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Steven's blood and Teresa's blood, why are they not together?
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Right?
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And I thought, well, that doesn't make any sense. Why
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would they be together. They didn't bleed at the same time.
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He was in his vehicle more than once. Obviously he
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had to put it in the garage to hide it,
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let's say, and then he had a drive that put
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it where it was found, and then when he put
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trace in the vehicle wouldn't have been the same time,
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So why would they be mixed?
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So that always just made me wonder. I just wanted
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to throw that out there.
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But the blood spotter, to me, was very convincing and
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honestly probably the most difficult for.
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Anyone to debunk that it wasn't Steve it actively bleeding.
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And the other thing we point out is he bled
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in his own vehicle in similar patterns, So he had
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blood dripping on the console in his very own vehicle.
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So how do you explain It's it's not likely that
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he bled in the rav four, but he bled in
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his own vehicle and that is his blood, So we
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point that out too. It's like, just okay, let's look
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at Akham's rais or what's more likely. And I think
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if you do that with every piece of evidence, you
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find pretty quickly that Okham's raiser will completely prove to you.
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The much easier way of doing this would be Stephen
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actively blood in the vehicle is faith in this series?
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Do you point out the major deceptive film techniques that
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they use that you spoke.
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About, Yes, we do.
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We compare them side by side with actual testimony, just
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like what they eliminated and what we believe the reason
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was to why they eliminated it.
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So I'll give you one example real quick.
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Down there's a call in the beginning where the narrative
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is that the police framed Avery to save thirty six
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million dollars in this lawsuit, right, so they targeted him
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im media.
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And there's a phone call the morning that the vehicle
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was found.
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Trees's vehicle was found on the salvage yard, and in
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that phone call, the caliumet officer is saying to the
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manage WAC officer again, remember this is missing person. At
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this point, she had three appointments prior to that. The
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last two were Steven Avery and George Ziphyr. So that morning,
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the two officers are talking about what they're going to
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do for that day in this missing person investigation, and
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they had already interviewed the two appointments, and they wanted
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to go back over and interview both of them again
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because they had interviewed them later at night and they
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just had more information now they wanted to go reinterview
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the last two people they believe saw Teresa on that Monday.
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So they when they play the recording and making a burner,
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they play the boss wants us to go back over
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and interview Steven Avery again.
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So of course the.
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Narrative around that is that police are right away going
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after Steven. They're focusing right on him, and the car's
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not even found yet, they're focusing on him. But what
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they cut off and this is what I meant by
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death by a thousand little edits. They cut off at
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the end of that and Zipper. So they say, the
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boss wants us to go back over and interview or
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reinterview Stephen Avery and Zipper again, and then the Manu
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TAC officers says, oh man, he's not going to be
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very happy about that. So they're talking about Zipper and
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how they're clearly not focusing on avery. They do these
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little sleights of hand on almost that show why they
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did it. It was like the it's clear the narrative
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was we want people to believe Steven Navy was Frank
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and how they do that is by removing these little
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in zipper type edits adding those in. And that was
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one of them that I actually thought, well, why did
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they remove that? I mean, those were her last two appointments.
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That doesn't make any sense. But as we researched more,
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we found that more and more things like that, And
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there's of course more agree just once than matter or
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more deceptive, I should say than that one. But that's
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just the quick exit in pull. And we show them.
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We show them side by side so you can actually
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see what making a murder did. We play a voice
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message from making a murder and then we played the
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actual voice message. So I think we did a really
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good job of kind of showing clearly to the audience
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what specifically was removed or omitted from making a murder.
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And then we hope that obviously the audience will be
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able to come to their own conclusion on why they
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possibly did that.
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What can you theorize either one of you, producer and director.
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What can you theory as to the reason other than
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to keep their narrative as they initially had envisioned. But
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is there more to this deception in your mind?
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In my opinion, I think that they painted themselves into
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a corner. They spent years of their lives telling a
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story that and as they slowly realized this guy's probably guilty,
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they probably went into denial because they had spent their
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life savings making a movie. That's really all I can
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as a businessman. That's how I look at it. Maybe
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Brenda has a different idea.
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The only thing from just listening to phone calls, so
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many phone calls, Dan was I do believe that they
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chose the case going into it from the standpoint exactly
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as Sean said. I think they read this article. The
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article talked about this man who was recently exonerated two
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years prior, is now being charged with the murder of
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a twenty five year old photographer. So I do believe
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they exactly what they said. They said, this is it,
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this is the story we want to go follow. And
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I think they came here and they were pushed away
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from everyone because obviously nobody could talk. The investigators couldn't talk,
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the prosecutors couldn't talk, and I think that every family
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was willing to listen. And I know from phone calls
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that Avery and his family were very skeptical of them,
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very skeptical. So I think that they did paint themselves
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into a corner is that they maintain this very close
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relationship with Steven and his family, and I think we
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portrayed that pretty well in at the end of episode nine,
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we play a phone call where the filmmakers.
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Are talking to Steven and it's so telling.
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They say to him, it almost feels like they're talking
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strategy about their film, and they say to Stephen on
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a phone call, there's a truth, and then there can
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be a full truth, and then there can be what
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actually happened, and then a little more you know, interjected
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in there, and then we end it with would it
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be enough for people to believe innocent? And to me,
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that phone call is the one that I went to
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Sean and I say, oh, my gosh, they literally knew
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what they were doing. And that was that moment that
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I kind of realized, Wow, they did have this story
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that they were following and they were kind of in
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a rock and a hard place, and I think they
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went too far with it. I think they could have
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still told the story fairly. I think they could have
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shown both sides of it from a fair standpoint, and
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they didn't have to go to the media afterwards and
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state to the media that, oh, we were just letting
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this story unfold and we pointed the camera.
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That's honest to me. That is not what I heard
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in the phone calls behind the scenes.
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And shocked me because I think it's okay to do that,
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and I think Sean would totally admit that and say this.
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You can be an advocate, you can make an advocacy piece,
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but you need to say that.
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You need to say that this is what we're doing.
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You know, we believed in Stephen.
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We feel that he was wrongly convicted or he was
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wrongly convicted, and we're telling the story and that's what
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we're doing. But then don't go to media and just say, oh,
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we're following the story. Is it unfolded. That's not at
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all what I believe happened. But that's just my opinion too.
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I mean from listening to many many phone calls.
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Yeah, they went out they went out to the media
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and actually said, hey, we didn't care how it went
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either way, and it was very very clear from their
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prison phone call, So that was a lie.
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Making a murderer tries to theorize that there are other
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people involved and try to point to those people in
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this documentary Esewn there does it in the second season.
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But what about Bobby Dacy and Brendan Dacy. What does
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this Convicting a Murderer documentary series.
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Have to say?
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Well, sonswer Dan, we don't get too much into Bobby
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Dancy or it's more of Zeller's theory. But I'll tell
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you one thing that I've said in another podcast too,
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is that when Kathleen took the case, I want to
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just point this out for people that are underware, and
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these aren't her words exactly. And I think she then
531
00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:01.039
said the same season too, but I heard it on
532
00:27:01.119 --> 00:27:04.759
the interview she did. Stephen Avery was writing along with
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his fiance at the time, Sander Greenman. They were writing
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to Kathleen Zohler for a while prior to Making a
535
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Murder Right, and I think she rejected him. Was maybe
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his last letter to her was maybe around a couple
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months before making murder aired, and Kathleen and her team
538
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turned down taking that case because she felt that there
539
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was too much evidence that they wouldn't be able to
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you know, she didn't say it was guilty or anything,
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but she just said there was too much evidence that
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it didn't meet their criteria. They had like a little
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you know, algorithm or whatnot that they would calculate if
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this was a case that could be won. And after
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making a murder within days, she was tweeting and reached
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out to Sander Greenman and said I want this case,
547
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and in return, of course, that's how that all came about.
548
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But she had never even met with Stephen. She had
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never met with him prior to publicly stating she's taken
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the case. And I remember thinking, well, how yeah, I've
551
00:28:01.400 --> 00:28:03.440
been studying this at this point for quite a while,
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not that long, but I've been studying this. I'm just
553
00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:08.680
kind of curious on what she could have found that quickly.
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So I was a little bit shocked after that, but
555
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I think that's something she says publicly, so I'm not
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afraid to share her thoughts on that. But as far
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as Bobby Dascy, he was the second person after her
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00:28:20.920 --> 00:28:25.799
first allegation was against Ryan Hiligas, and in another podcast,
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like I said, I pointed out some of the things
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that were in her initial filing of Ryman Hiligas, and
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one of those was that he had scratches on his
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hands and that the expert and expert filed an AFFI
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David On behalf of that evidence that she had these
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scratches on her hand, or he had these scratches on
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his hand, and they would have been defense wounds, and
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Teresa Hallback's fingernails would have been the right link to
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cause wows and long the whole that turns out to
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be writing on his hands.
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So I was able to find news footage proved that
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that was handwriting.
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He wrote on his hands, and literally in the affidavit
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from an expert was saying that these were defensive wounds
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from the victim. And that was evidence that was used
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in her brief to try to get evidentry hearing for
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you know, Ryan Hilligas and for Stephen Avery and Ryan
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Hiligis was this potential suspect. So that alarms me. That
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alarmed me simply because I don't know how the defense
578
00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:30.799
system works. You have to represent your client zealously. I
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understand that, but I didn't realize it could cross into
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things like that. So I was very much taken them
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back by things like that. But then when it went
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to Bobby, look at all the damage that caused Ryan Hilligos.
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So that frustrated me that you can just throw off
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these people and basically have all these people and even
585
00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:51.519
today blaming Ryan Hilligas and coming up these crazy theories
586
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and now, oh, we just moved on to Bobby Dassy.
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By the way, it has never had a criminal thing
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in his life. He's married, and so what I don't
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understand is they're blaming all this computer stuff on Bobby.
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What I also pointed out is that how did Stephen
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Avery know what was on that computer?
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Because Dan, we don't talk about this in the film,
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but on the day that the officers went to collect
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Barb's computer, the Dasy computer, Stephen called Barb and said,
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are my attorneys there?
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And she said, no, they're left.
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They're gone, he's gone, he's up by mas or they're
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gone or whatever gone from her house. And he said,
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did they take the computer? And she said no, the
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other assholes got it, meaning the officers.
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So what happened.
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After doing all this research, I found that Stephen actually
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told Dean Strang about the computer Barb's computer and he
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sent them there to get it. And there are other
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phone calls that represent that Stephen knew exactly what was
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on that computer. So my feeling on it is, well,
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how do you know what's on that computer? And how
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can you say that those are all Bobby Dacies searches
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And you can't.
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You can't.
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There's been intensive studies on that, and I'm not going
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to get into that because I don't want to share
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anything that hasn't been proven yet or hasn't been shared yet.
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But there has been studies that can actually prove that
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Bobby Dassy was not the only one that could have
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been doing those searches at that time. So I also
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think it's dangerous to what's happening to Bobby Dassy to
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just throw these allegations all it just to get you
619
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don't have to do as much as has been done,
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and I'm very skeptical of where it's going to go.
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But she's representing her client the way she's required and
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is able to, so we'll see where it goes. But
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I do have a lot of feelings on it, but
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I won't get into those obviously right now because she
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is a great tourney she knows what she's doing and
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I'm not so my opinion probably doesn't mean much in
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that aspect, but I just, like I said, the Ryan
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thing just kind of hurts. It breaks my hired that
629
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somebody can be blamed and then they're the new flavor
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or the old flavor. Now we're moving on to the
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new flavor, and I don't think it's going to go anywhere.
632
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She really has nothing left. The person that has the
633
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most recent appeal right now that is sitting well, they're
634
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waiting for her. She requested to have more time, and
635
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I think it's middle of December or something. I could
636
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be wrong on that, but middle of December this year
637
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she has to add something. And my understanding is that
638
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it's the only thing left is these two people that
639
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supposedly saw Bobby right pushing the rat right, and one
640
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of them in this guy's first statement in twenty sixteen,
641
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this guy that saw this his first email that was
642
00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:44.799
apparently sent to the innocents team or his attorneys at
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the time, whoever this guy sent him to.
644
00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:49.599
I'm not going to say his name, but you can
645
00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:51.839
figure out who the person was.
646
00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:55.359
I don't want to alligate anything, but this person said
647
00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:59.240
that he saw Bobby pushing the rat, right, that's what's
648
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in the fi David and this other guy. But his
649
00:33:01.319 --> 00:33:03.720
original statement, he didn't even know what day it was,
650
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and he also didn't know who the person was, and
651
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he never saw the passenger. So then once he went
652
00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:14.720
to Zelner and Zehner's f A David's stated that now
653
00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:17.160
he did know what day it was, and it was
654
00:33:17.319 --> 00:33:20.400
Bobby Dassy because he recognized him from making a murder too,
655
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and that the second person who he just said he
656
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never saw before, the second person in the vehicle was
657
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actually you know, an older man or something, or it
658
00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:31.680
was something like that like he described the second passenger.
659
00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:38.119
So there's there is conflicting information in original statements and
660
00:33:39.079 --> 00:33:42.559
what's being filed, right, So that's where the research comes
661
00:33:42.599 --> 00:33:46.400
in and looking into all of that. So I do
662
00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:49.720
have concerns, but that's what's left right now of her filing.
663
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And then this other person that apparently saw Bobby Gassy
664
00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:54.599
driving the rab and he just remembers his years and
665
00:33:54.680 --> 00:33:59.640
years later, has no connection to avery supposedly was seen
666
00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:05.000
at a rally, and there's text messages is just showing
667
00:34:05.079 --> 00:34:10.400
that he supported Stephen. So now he's out these rallies
668
00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:15.199
and for Stephen Avery, and he's on video supporting Stephen Avery,
669
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:18.000
but yet you have no connection to him in the
670
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Saffiday there.
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Let's use this as an opportunity to stop for a
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second to hear these messages.
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Now you're speaking about the best strategy for Zell there
683
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as an attorney trying to get this post conviction reversal
684
00:35:02.599 --> 00:35:06.159
for her client and doing so, as you say, she
685
00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:10.800
just will accuse somebody like Ryan Hilligis of being involved,
686
00:35:11.320 --> 00:35:13.880
because that's the best strategy, said, she mentions it. This
687
00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:16.960
is the best strategy for her as an attorney. Yes, Now,
688
00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:21.440
with this narrative of this film, Sean, you're the director, Brenda,
689
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you're the producer. You're not going to resort to the
690
00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:29.480
same strategy. You're not advocating for a particular person. But
691
00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:33.440
what is the narrative overall in this docuseries?
692
00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:36.119
Well, I think the narrative is that Well, I think
693
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that the takeaway is, you know, don't trust anything you see.
694
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Won't even trust us. Check it out, go to backup sources,
695
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do your own research, because while it's implicit that you're
696
00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:49.800
watching facts when you watch a documentary or a docuseries,
697
00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:52.000
you're not. People can have a point of view, could
698
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have been paid for by somebody. I think that my goal,
699
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my end goal was for our industry to create a
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set of voluntary, the cool standards by which we abide
701
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so that we don't lose credibility. Is our business is
702
00:36:05.400 --> 00:36:07.400
in a pretty good place. Documentaries are a lot more
703
00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:09.199
popular than they used to be. But we're going to
704
00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:11.880
mess it up for ourselves if we don't tell the truth.
705
00:36:12.119 --> 00:36:15.440
And when this series was announced, a lot of people
706
00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:19.320
who were subjects of other series approached us and said, hey,
707
00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:22.159
this was done to us by so and so, and
708
00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:23.960
they wanted us to turn this into a kind of
709
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like you know, mentioning five six seven projects and we
710
00:36:26.760 --> 00:36:28.760
decided not to do it. But there's a lot of
711
00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:32.079
this going around in which people feel very very much
712
00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:35.159
victimized by serious that they participated in.
713
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Let's talk about those voluntary ethical standards that you propose. Specifically,
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give us an example.
715
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If it's an advocacy piece, as Brenda said earlier, say
716
00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:47.880
it's an advocacy piece, so you know, we think Stephen
717
00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:51.599
Avery and Brendan Dassy didn't do this, and we're setting
718
00:36:51.639 --> 00:36:53.880
out to show you why if it's not the case
719
00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:56.920
with this film. But if somebody funded the film, who's
720
00:36:57.000 --> 00:36:59.320
involved in the issue in any way, that has to
721
00:36:59.400 --> 00:37:03.360
be disclosed. If you pay subjects, that has to be disclosed.
722
00:37:03.480 --> 00:37:05.840
We did pay some of the subjects in this film
723
00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:09.079
for exclusivity, so they wouldn't do any other projects. Those
724
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are the things that I think warrant a fore warning
725
00:37:11.719 --> 00:37:14.400
when you're watching a series, so that you know it's
726
00:37:14.519 --> 00:37:17.039
very clear and transparent to people what you're setting out
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to do.
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Not that.
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What we point out in our docuseriies is that the
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first documentary ever made nan Nuke of the North, which
731
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has made you know, one hundred and ten years ago
732
00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:32.199
was a fraud. It was fake. So, as Patricia Afterraheide,
733
00:37:32.280 --> 00:37:37.239
a professor from American University, says, the history of documentaries
734
00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:41.840
and docuseries is shot through with these ethical problems, and
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we need to fix it by telling the truth when
736
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we start.
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00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:48.920
You talked about that you couldn't get this film made
738
00:37:49.199 --> 00:37:52.840
through ordinary channels, and you talked about why. But tell
739
00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:56.360
us again what their criticism was, and if you've had
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00:37:56.400 --> 00:37:58.800
any criticism so far with the series.
741
00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:01.639
We would deal with a buy like a major streamer,
742
00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:05.360
and they'd say this isn't for us or nobody cares
743
00:38:05.400 --> 00:38:08.039
about this case anymore, which is not true. Over one
744
00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:12.079
hundred million people watch this I've been flown to Oslo, Norway,
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00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:14.360
just to give an update on this case. You know,
746
00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:16.599
the people all over the world care about this case.
747
00:38:16.719 --> 00:38:18.840
A great deal. We were very close to a deal
748
00:38:18.920 --> 00:38:22.000
with a major competitor of Netflix and they and they
749
00:38:22.079 --> 00:38:24.679
don't care about upsetting them. But they were like, yeah,
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we feel like this is their brand. We feel like
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we're nipping their brand, so we're not going to do it.
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That was another criticism we got. But you know the
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fact is they weren't going to tell the truth. They
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weren't going to implicate themselves in this, but we allege
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as a lie, so somebody else had to air it.
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So that's the sort of thing we ran into almost everywhere.
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I met with an agent, a huge documentary agent in
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Los Angeles, and he said his exact quote was, dude,
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I have to work in this town.
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Wow.
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You know.
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And my longtime agents in New York who represented everything
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I've done, they co produce Netflix all the time. They
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wouldn't even talk about this project with me. They don't,
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you know, this is all about self preservation. So it
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just I'm not trying to pat myself on the back,
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but I'm saying it takes some strength and some courage
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to tell this sort of a story. And then that's
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what the Daily Wire had. They had the courage to
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take this on. They couldn't care less about criticism from Hollywood.
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What are the biggest things featured in this We talked
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about that, of course, blood is so important. You talked
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about the mixing. They said, well, well it wasn't mixed.
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What are some of the featured things, the biggest featured
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things in this docu series.
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I'll start with this. A lot of people don't know
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Stephen Avery's background, and if you understood his history, it
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would paint a little bit different picture on whether it's
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plausible that he could do this, whether he can actually
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want to do something like this. If you understood his
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history with violence, his history with women, is inability to
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control himself sexually, you'd have a a little more background
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on whether someone would be capable of committing this crime. Also,
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you know, why would someone throw away millions of dollars
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of settlement money by taking this sort of risk. You're
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going to see a person who has the inability to
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differ gratification. And we paint that picture. It doesn't mean
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that doesn't mean he murdered somebody, Okay, but you need
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to at least be informed, yes, of who he actually is.
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It's not Stevie stole a cheese sandwich and five dollars.
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That wasn't the real history of Steven Avery. And that's
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the way the filmmakers and Making a Murderer portrayed him.
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It just wasn't true. So we dedicate like two and
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a half episodes to that, And I think it's very
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important to have that background and that backdrop when considering
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who this person is.
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What do the filmmakers of making a murderer specifically the
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biggest thing that they omit in their films?
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Go ahead, Brenda, I think the biggest thing, and that's
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hard to say because there's some pretty big edits, but
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as I said, most of them are all these slics
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of hand. But I think though one of the biggest
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act comes up is probably Andy Colburn's dispatch. Paul. I
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don't know if you're were of that down, but in
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a nutshell, one of the officers made this call and
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they alleged that he had found her vehicle, and of
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course Cancrat subjects to it, but they never see that.
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And I'm gonna just say this too now.
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You know, Andy Colburn filed a lawsuit and that was
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one of the main reasons was because they changed his
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answer to a question that was never or was never answered.
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There was an objection, right.
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So when we obtained the trial footage through the licensing
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license and the child footage, we noticed and again this
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had been found online a little bit already, but they
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didn't have access to all the trial footage. So when
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we were going through and looking at the tilefoodage and
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comparing it and saw these different reaction shots we were
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shot that they were inserting these the same shot three
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different times, and that edit, along with other things that
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were said in Making a Murder, caused Andy Colburn to
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receive a lot of threats and for manas Quack also,
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So we call out that as probably the biggest edit
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or the most impactful edit the Andy Colburn. But of
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course there's many other little things not Making Your Murders
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showed about Andy Colburn that we also go through. But
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I would say of the film overall, is probably that one,
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but there are several other larger ones like that. One
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of them is the bullet. They took a sentence and
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spliced it into another sentence because you didn't hear in
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Making a Murder that the gun that the bullet came
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from La Teresa's DNA on matched the bed or the
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gun hanging up of Steven Avery's bed, and it matched
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it to the exclusion of all other guns in the world,
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so it was legitimately that gun. And they edited the
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vc I agent's testimony to say that they found this
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bullet and it was damaged basically or flattened. And I
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alleged when we were going through these edits that the
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reason they did that is because they didn't want to
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address ballistics testing, because ballistics testing was done and ballistics
841
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testing showed it was that Gune hanging above is that.
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So that was kind of my theory on why they
843
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didn't want that. But they literally had him say, well,
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the bullet was nearly intact. They inserted the information from
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a different bullet they found that said it was a
846
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flattened bullet, it was too damaged basically, so things like that.
847
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But that's how they were able to omit key evidence
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and it added to testimony to be able to do
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that well.
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And that's just really dishonest to me because you can
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see the edit.
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I mean, it's literally obvious you're taking words that say
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something completely opposite. So that was another one that stood
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out to me. But again there's a lot of ones
855
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that you really don't catch. Oh oh in another one too,
856
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Manuchwac's role in this. Everybody makes this big deal about
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MANUFAC being involved. Do I think they should have been?
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Heck no, I think we wouldn't be here today if
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they weren't.
860
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Absolutely not.
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But you know, I think we explained that pretty well,
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and I think some of the officers even probably would
863
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say yeah, you know, I find people back in time
864
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not want to be there, but they did what they
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believed they needed to do. And everybody thinks that you
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have all these resources like Candace site, you have all
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these resources, it's are really small charfs departments and caliu
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Met is tiny. The lead investigation unit is really small
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compared to Manuswac County. So they they're touched rual people.
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I mean that's what they are mainly. And the officers
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from Mantuac they have investigators, they have detectives.
872
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It's several of them, so of course they're going to
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bring them in.
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But conflict of interests the perception of it, we're going
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to ensure that DCI is with them or a Calumet
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officer at all times.
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So that's how they prevented that. But what people don't
878
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realize when they talk about, oh the coroner was pushed away,
879
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she wasn't allowed. Well, she was a Manutwac person, so
880
00:45:14.400 --> 00:45:16.360
of course she's going to be. But then why would
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she not allow the Colburn and Length work. Well, because
882
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they're not elected officials.
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Anybody that was an elected official and a boss, the
884
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prosecutor the sheriff, the corporate council. They all recused themselves.
885
00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:33.599
No one told them they had to do that. They
886
00:45:33.760 --> 00:45:36.559
made that decision. If they were going to frame Avery,
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00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:40.039
hey let's just keep the investigation. Why would we hand
888
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it over? It was their choice. And there's press conferences
889
00:45:43.639 --> 00:45:47.079
that we show in convicting that making the murder just
890
00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:51.519
showed the one, you know resources, we used them for equipment.
891
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There's other press conferences prior to that that include Manutwac
892
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and Calumet's investigation.
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So we play each of those clips of books or
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can kind of see that?
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I mean, really, I think the whole thing overall it
896
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was like you're giving a piece of evidence, and I
897
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could tell you how it was portrayed there and what
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the real evidence show us. If every piece there was
899
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something done to every piece of evidence to make you
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believe it was anybody but Steven Avery.
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ways to watch this series, but right now, the Daily
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I want to thank you both for coming on and
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talking about this new series Convicting a Murderer, You producer
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Brenda Schuler and you the director Sean Reck. I want
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to thank you very much for one more time. How
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do people find out and get involved with this docu series.
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We have a presence on on Twitter hashtag convict a Murderer.
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There's a Facebook page for the project. You can go
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to Transition Studios dot com and reach us through there,
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and uh, stay tuned for more news on other ways
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you can watch it in the future.
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Oh, thank you very much for coming on and talking
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about Convicting a Murder. Brenda Schuler and Sean Reck, thank
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you so much for this interview, and you have a
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great night and good night. Thanks Dan, Thank you, Dan,
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thank you.