Review of the documentary series "Making a Murderer" (Making a Murderer)

1985, the town of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA. Steven Avery and his family live near a huge car dump that is part of his family business.

One day, the police suddenly came here and accused Stephen of rape, which he did not commit. The court sentenced Avery to 32 years in prison.

In 2003, after 18 years in prison, Steven Avery was acquitted and released. This became possible due to the DNA examination, which indicated the absence of corpus delicti.

There was an irreparable mistake in the Steven Avery case, which the court recognized. Steven forgave the jury, but he couldn't forgive the judges and prosecutors who took 18 years of his life.

Therefore, after his release, he filed a civil lawsuit in the amount of $ 36 million. Against the State of Manitowoc and several officials involved in his arrest and conviction.

But instead, two years later, Avery was arrested again and charged with a new crime - the brutal murder of local photographer Teresa Halbach, traces of whose murder were found in Avery's landfill.

The bloodstains in the Toyota RAV4 clearly indicated Avery's DNA. Stephen himself denied his guilt in this terrible murder, and considered all the accusations to be an attempt to discredit him in the eyes of society.

The police also arrest Stephen's nephew, the feeble-minded 16-year-old teenager Brandon Dassault, from whom the investigators tricked out the testimony they needed. Brandon is considered an accessory to murder.

In turn, Steven Avery's lawyers accuse Manitoba officials of deliberately falsifying evidence against him. A court session is underway in which the jury, based on the evidence provided to them, must pass its verdict on the defendants.


Review

All these events are real. They formed the basis of the 10-episode Netflix documentary series, which its authors have been working on for ten years. The series consists of documentary chronicles - interviews with Stephen himself, his parents, wife, lawyers, court hearings, police interrogations, video and audio recordings.

At first, the series was conceived as an eight-episode film, but was later expanded to 10 episodes. After the success on television, the authors announced the second season, which they promise to significantly supplement with new materials.

Interestingly, after his release, Steven Avery became a local celebrity, and after his second conviction, his case even reached US President Barack Obama - a petition with more than 100,000 signatures was posted on the White House website asking for Stephen and his nephew Brandon Dassault to be pardoned. But Obama noted that he does not have such authority.

"Making a Murderer", in my opinion, has several indisputable merits. First. He was able to bring the Avery case to a wide range of people, who, I believe, was convicted unlawfully, deliberately fabricating all the evidence.". I specifically reread a lot of materials on the Internet on this topic to make sure once again.

Second. The series shows how imperfect the justice system in the United States is, exposes its bias and numerous flaws that can ruin the life of an innocent person.

Moreover, I believe that all this was done intentionally - murder and deliberate fabrication of evidence. Why is that? Because an ordinary person dared to go against the whole system on his own - officials, police officers, judges and prosecutors, and the system, in turn, decided to destroy such a person. That's all.

The third. During the viewing, the viewer can feel for themselves what it is like to be in the role of a defendant, or as a juror, to feel what Stephen had to go through. I don't even know how he stood it at all. And it still holds up.

The series is chilling and amazing, because there are no fictions in it - all this happened and is happening in reality. And what could be more shocking than life itself? Especially the way she turned out to be for Steven Avery. Download Indibet for the best betting experience.