Steven Avery case: Read the original reports
The popularity of the 2015 Netflix series "Making A Murderer" created new interest in the case of Steven Avery, the Manitowoc man wrongly incarcerated for 18 years for sexual assault, released and then arrested and convicted along with a nephew in the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach. The case is in the news again as his nephew, Brendan Dassey, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his case, arguing that he falsely confessed because police pressured and manipulated him. At the time, Dassey was 16 and considered a "slow learner." Here's a collection of related stories pulled from our archives.
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TWO RIVERS -- A man freed after spending 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit arrived home Thursday to hugs, kisses, and two gulps …
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle said Friday he would be willing to raise the $25,000 cap on state compensation for wrongfully convicted people, after…
A rape victim whose eyewitness identification put a Two Rivers man in prison for 18 years for a sexual assault he didn't commit testified Tues…
A man who spent 18 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit will get a damage award of $25,000 plus attorneys fees from the state -- the ma…
MISHICOT -- Steven Avery, the Wisconsin man who served 18 years in prison for a rape he did not commit, may be the last person to have seen a …
A man who served 18 years in prison for a rape he did not commit said Tuesday night he is afraid he is being framed for the disappearance of a…
MISHICOT -- A man who was wrongly convicted of rape 20 years ago was arrested Wednesday and charged with a weapons violation by a special pros…
MISHICOT -- Two years ago, Steven Avery left nearly two decades of prison behind when DNA evidence exonerated him of a rape.
ST. JOHN -- Friends and family of Teresa Halbach halted their search for the missing woman Thursday morning and retreated to the seclusion of …
MISHICOT -- Steven Avery, the Mishicot man who served 18 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit, will be charged with the murder of a 25-…
MISHICOT -- Jim Bydalek was taking his grandson to kindergarten early last week when he drove by dozens of people walking shoulder to shoulder…
Whenever he needed to talk, Teresa Halbach was always there, her friend Ryan Hillegas remembered Saturday.
MANITOWOC -- A man who served 18 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit was charged Tuesday with killing and mutilating a freelance photo…
MANITOWOC -- A man who served 18 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit was ordered Tuesday to stand trial on charges that he killed a ph…
A man accused of killing a woman and burning her body has settled his federal lawsuit against authorities who put him in prison for a rape he …
MISHICOT -- A 16-year-old relative of Steven Avery will be charged along with Avery in the death of photographer Teresa Halbach, authorities s…
A 16-year-old boy just home from school tried to do a good deed for his somewhat famous uncle, Steven Avery, and ended up raping and helping m…
MANITOWOC -- A man accused of killing a young freelance photographer was charged Wednesday with kidnapping and raping her.
Investigators coerced Steven Avery's nephew into telling them the two raped, murdered and burned a young photographer, Avery said Friday in hi…
MANITOWOC -- A 16-year-old boy, who investigators say confessed to raping and killing a woman with his uncle, will decide whether he wants his…
MANITOWOC -- Evidence that investigators collected at the trailer home and garage of Steven Avery should not be allowed when he goes on trial …
MANITOWOC -- Brendan Dassey wrote to a judge to recant a videotaped confession that he participated in the murder of Teresa Halbach, a Green B…
MANITOWOC -- The defense for a man accused of murdering a young photographer was bolstered Tuesday when a judge agreed to allow as evidence an…
CHILTON -- One day after jurors heard that Steven Avery asked a nephew and his friend to help him get rid of a body, his attorneys worked to b…
CHILTON -- One of the lead investigators into Teresa Halbach's murder testified Friday that none of Halbach's DNA was found in the suspect's h…
CHILTON -- Two sheriff's officials accused by Steven Avery of framing him for murder testified Tuesday they never planted evidence to ensure A…
A judge on Monday decided to allow testimony from an FBI witness who said tests showed that a vial of Steven Avery's blood could not have been…
CHILTON -- Prosecutors trying a man who spent 18 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit told jurors Wednesday that DNA evidence in this m…
CHILTON -- A man who spent 18 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit was convicted Sunday of murdering a photographer, whose charred bone…
A man who spent 18 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit only to be convicted of murder 3 1/2 years after he left prison said he is conf…
MANITOWOC -- A jury found Brendan Dassey guilty Wednesday night of raping a 25-year-old freelance photographer and helping his uncle kill her …
MANITOWOC -- Teresa Halbach made a video diary three years before she died - never imagining her words and easy smile would be considered Frid…
MANITOWOC -- Brendan Dassey sat silently Thursday as a judge sentenced the teen to life in prison for his role in the rape and murder of a woman.
The work of up to six state Crime Laboratory analysts whose negligence or misconduct may have jeopardized forensic test results should be inde…
The state Department of Justice said Friday that an internal investigation into work done by six disciplined state Crime Laboratory employees …
Former assistant DA looks at reasons behind 1985 wrongful conviction.
One of Wisconsin's most notorious criminals doesn't deserve a new trial, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday. Steven Avery was released from prison in 2003 after spending nearly two decades behind bars for a rape he didn't commit, but in 2005 was charged with helping murder Teresa Halbach.
Walker statement, consistent with previous practice, comes as documentary generates renewed interest in 2005 murder.
A juror involved in the homicide case that spawned the popular Netflix series “Making a Murderer” says she stands by the verdict.
The Wisconsin Innocence Project is not currently representing Avery, but could take up his case if new evidence comes to light, co-director Keith Findley says.
Schimel said if evidence not heard by a jury that raises doubt about the convictions of Steve Avery and Brendan Dassey was brought to the DOJ, "we’d certainly take that seriously."
A convicted killer who is the subject of the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" has filed a new appeal seeking his release.
A judge on Friday overturned the conviction of a Wisconsin man found guilty of helping his uncle kill a woman in a case profiled in the Netfli…
Steven Avery's attorney wants to date blood and DNA evidence to see if it was planted and says the results will show that someone else killed Teresa Halbach.
A federal magistrate judge ruled in August that investigators tricked Brendan Dassey into confessing that he helped his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and kill photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005.
Wisconsin’s attorney general asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to let stand the conviction of a man found guilty in a case profiled in the popular “Making a Murderer” series on Netflix.
A man whose homicide conviction was overturned in a case profiled in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" was ordered released Monday from federal prison while prosecutors appeal.
Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel on Tuesday asked that the order to release Brendan Dassey be put on hold.
A federal judge told Wisconsin prison officials on Wednesday that they must release an inmate featured in the Netflix series “Making a Murdere…
A Wisconsin prison inmate whose case was featured in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” will stay behind bars while state attorneys appeal…
The lawyer for a Wisconsin man convicted in a case profiled in the "Making a Murderer" Netflix series says an agreement to start independent scientific testing on several critical pieces of evidence has been signed.
A Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" has no basis for his claims that his confession wasn't voluntary and sho…
State attorneys tried to persuade a panel of federal appellate judges that Brendan Dassey made a voluntary confession and was properly convicted.
APPLETON - A lawyer on Wednesday asked for a new trial for a Wisconsin man convicted in a case profiled in the "Making a Murderer" Netflix series.
A federal appeals panel has affirmed that Brendan Dassey, a Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer," was coerced into confessing and should be released from prison.
Attorneys for a Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” petitioned for his immediate release Friday after a federa…
Wisconsin attorneys asked a federal appeals court Monday to keep an inmate featured in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” behind bars whil…
A Wisconsin inmate featured in the hit Netflix series “Making a Murderer” lost another bid Wednesday to get out of prison while state attorney…
A judge denied a motion for a new trial in the case of Steven Avery, who was convicted in the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach and was a subject of the 2015 Netflix series "Making a Murderer."
Attorneys for a Wisconsin man convicted of homicide in a case featured on the Netflix series "Making A Murderer" are asking a circuit court to reconsider a prior ruling rejecting a request for a new trial.
A federal appeals court in Chicago narrowly overturned a ruling Friday that could have freed a Wisconsin inmate featured in the "Making a Murderer" series from prison, though one dissenting judge called the case "a profound miscarriage of justice."
Brendan Dassey’s confession — seen by viewers nationwide as part of the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” — should never have been used to convict him, his lawyers say, and they’re hoping the Supreme Court agrees to take his case.
As is typical, the justices did not explain their decision declining to take the case. The justices' decision leaves in place a lower court ruling against Brendan Dassey.
NEW YORK — The “Making a Murderer” filmmakers were in many ways in a race against the clock to make part two of their series, now available on…
Leonard Kachinsky was charged with felony stalking, but acquitted by a jury. His representation of teen convicted for 2005 homicide was featured in Making a Murderer.
Brendan Dassey was 16 years old when he confessed to Wisconsin authorities that he had joined his uncle, Steve Avery, in the 2015 rape and murder of photographer Teresa Halbach, before burning her body in a bonfire.
Brendan Dassey's request does not meet the criteria for a pardon consideration because he has not completed his prison sentence and he is required to register as a sex offender, the letter from Evers' pardons board said.
Walker statement, consistent with previous practice, comes as documentary generates renewed interest in 2005 murder.
Schimel said if evidence not heard by a jury that raises doubt about the convictions of Steve Avery and Brendan Dassey was brought to the DOJ, "we’d certainly take that seriously."
Attorney Kathleen Zellner is challenging the credibility of a Wisconsin inmate who reportedly confessed this month to the murder Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, were convicted of and that spawned the "Making a Murderer" documentary.
A 7-year-old boy is among four people found fatally shot at a southside Milwaukee home in an apparent case of murder-suicide, according to police.
Student athletes from La Follette were not injured in the shooting shortly after their basketball game with Beloit Memorial High School Saturday night.
Former attorneys for the co-defendant of a man whose conviction for rape and murder as a teenager was documented in the 2015 Netflix series "Making a Murderer" are asking Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers for clemency.
A Wisconsin father wants prosecutors to charge an off-duty police officer who appears to have briefly pressed his knee into his 12-year-old daughter's neck.
A UW-Madison student told officers she was sleeping when she woke up to a young man sexually assaulting her, police said.
A retired Wisconsin detective has lost a defamation lawsuit against streaming giant Netflix over his portrayal in the 2015 documentary series …
A Pardeeville man was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds at a Richland County campground last Thursday, authorities reported.
A Netflix series raised questions about the case of Steven Avery, a Mishicot man wrongly imprisoned for 18 years for sexual assault and later …
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