"Making a Murderer" on Netflix

niamibunni wrote: »

I watched every episode, then did Google searches. They left out some important information, which would have fewer people requesting that he be pardoned.

as some of you mentioned upthread, it would've been impossible to present everything that the prosecution is now crying about having been left out...but if you follow all the online discussion about this, and read the articles where they make their case about the things that were glossed over by the documentary, i don't see where any of it is anywhere near as important as the stuff that they DID include in the film.

there's a lot of post-game damage control being done here.

that said, i come away from all of this feeling like society isn't exactly suffering from the loss of the contributions of Steven Avery because of his incarceration...but there are just too many giant WTF moments that are cataloged, summarily, by the facts presented by the film. i also don't hear any of the apologists for Manitowoc refuting or calling any of the facts presented by the film into question...only saying they were presented in a manner sympathetic to the defendant.

Here's the one thing I can't seem to figure out...help me out, fans.

Assuming he didn't kill Halbach, and that the body and/or personal effects were planted on the Avery property, how on earth did they know in advance that there'd be a bonfire on Halloween night that would both "destroy the body" (shady notion, in that the heat generated by the bonfire would not have reached the necessary temperature to incinerate human remains to that effect) and her personal effects (purse and cellphone) that were found in the barrel in the vicinity of the bonfire?

The timing of the fire, in conjunction with the timing of Avery's arrest and the timing of Colburn's call to dispatch to run the plates of Halbach's RAV-4 (on November 3rd, two days before it was found on the Avery property), is all pretty puzzling to me.

april27kelli wrote: »

I said I really only wanted to know if Brendan got to see WrestleMania, but... is no one else going to mention the fact that Steven Avery didn't even OWN underwear?

there's a lot about that guy and his family that just plains creeps me the f&(k out, to be certain. folks like to think that you only encounter those types below the Mason-Dixon line, but it's not really a north/south thing.

and i think that they earned their sordid reputation in the local community, too, for sure...all the stuff reported in the first episode of the series is just a primer.

but - stupid redneck tricks aside - it's still gotta be one of the sloppiest attempts to put somebody away ever. all witch-hunt and no investigation.

the one thing i have learned...or should i say, has been reinforced...by this whole thing is a life lesson that we'd all benefit from:

don't read the comments.

if you happen to see an article come up in your news feed about the series or the trial, don't read the comments.