Steven Avery.Photo: netflix
Avery and his other nephew,Brendan Dassey, are currently serving life sentences after being found guilty of murderingTeresa Halbachin October 2005. Both maintain they are innocent.
After authorities found the RAV-4 on the same day and identified it as Halbach’s vehicle, Sowinski “realized the significance of what he observed and immediately contacted the Manitowoc Sheriff’s Office” to report what he saw, according to the filing.
Sowinski said in his affidavit that an officer told him, “We already know who did it,” and investigators never contacted him about the case after he left his name and phone number with authorities.
Teresa Halbach.Halbach Family/Herald Times Reporter/AP Photo
“In the absence of the suppressed evidence presented in Mr. Sowinski’s affidavit, Mr. Avery did not receive a fair trial,” according to the document.
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Zellner joined Avery’s legal team after part 1 ofMaking a Murdererpremiered and became a key character in the second part of the docuseries, which was released in 2018.
“I have one goal,” she said in the docuseries, “and that’s to overturn the conviction of Steven Avery.”
In Sept. 2019, Zellner and her team posted a $100,000 reward for information leading to the “arrest and conviction of the real killer of Teresa Halbach,” it said.
source: people.com
