A Brief Summary Of Scene Seven Of Making A Murderer By William Avery

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Episode seven of Making a Murderer begins with Steven Avery’s father, Allan Avery exclaiming: “They set him up!” Ironically, there is a decent amount of evidence to prove that—in this case—the “good guys” may not be so good. Due to the Avery lawsuit against Manitowoc County Police Department, Manitowoc police were not supposed to be on the Avery premises. But they were, and that car key in Steven Avery’s bedroom was found by police that were not supposed to be there. Sergeant Andrew Colburn and Lieutenant James Lenk were the officers in that bedroom. They were both involved in the prior Avery case. I find this quite unsettling, considering the key that they found (Teresa Halbach’s) had none of her DNA on it. They weren’t supposed to be there, and Lenk has no record that shows how long he searched. Investigators were supposed to sign in and sign out, but Lenk slipped through that system for the sign in. He signed out, though, so he couldn’t deny that he was there. …show more content…

There was a hole in the stopper, which was very abnormal. If the blood had been from the vial, it would have the preservative EDTA in it. The State decided to have it tested. Just before the prosecution got to rest its case, the FBI got done testing Steven Avery’s blood that was found in Halbach’s car. Two “experts” testified. The FBI “specialist” testified that it was Steven Avery’s blood; that there was no way that it came from the vial. There was no EDTA found in the sample. The other specialist claimed that, because the testing was so new, the EDTA may not have been detected at all, but not because it wasn’t there; maybe the test wasn’t really accurate. It was thought of as experimental at the