Steven Avery’s Innocence May Be Proved By New ‘Making A Murderer’ Fan Evidence

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We've all spent hours watching true crime documentary Making A Murderer on Netflix, but I can guarantee you're not as big a fan of the show as those hardcore obsessives who have devoted their life to figuring out what really happened with the crime featured in the show.

A group of very loyal fans have been meticulously going over every transcript and photo from the Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey trials to figure out what really happened to murder victim Teresa Halbach.

And now a new discovery from this group comes from an analysis of the bone fragments pulled from the fire pit the trial's prosecutors accused Steven Avery of using to burn Halbach's body.

During his trial, the prosecution claimed his backyard bonfire burned so hot it obliterated her remains, leaving nothing but tiny bone fragment remains that contained no traces of DNA.

However, when fans have taken a closer look at the 'human' fragments collected, something stood out. Property tag 7955 included a bone that they believe is clearly the carpometacarpus of a bird, rather than a human.

Image credit: Case file.

The defence in the case claimed that Avery's burn pit was regularly used to dispose of deer, rodents, and fowl remains after they had been hunted. Which makes me wonder how many of the bone fragments collected and attributed to Halbach were just burnt animal remains?

The defence in Steven Avery's trial said during the case: "It is unclear whether some, all, or none of the fragments had been previously determined by the state's forensic anthropologist to be human or not. In short, the defence has no way of knowing from this cryptic report what was sent to and examined by the FBI Lab."

As with many of the key pieces of evidence in the Making A Murderer case, there's a lot of controversy surrounding the burn pit.

Steven Avery's guilt was assumed by the public because news reports said Teresa Halbach's remains were found in his back yard. But that claim, made by prosecutor Ken Kratz during Avery's trial, wasn't backed up by much science.

What does that mean, well I'll let you amateur sleuths draw your own conclusions...

Words by James Dawson

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Topics: Steven Avery, Making A Murderer, Netflix

James Dawson

James Dawson is a Journalist at LADbible. He has contributed articles to LADbible’s ‘Knowing Me, Knowing EU’ series on the EU referendum, the 'Electoral Dysfunction' series on the 2017 general election, the ‘U OK M8?’ series tackling mental health amongst young men, and for its ‘Climate Change’ initiative in partnership with National Geographic.

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