Surprised they did a second season after so much criticism over leaving out facts in S1

Thanks. I just watched the first episode again. They only mention one piece of evidence that was left out, but not why it was left out. I wanted to see that addressed, as well as why they left out a lot of other things and tried to paint Avery as some kind of kindly teddy bear who'd been wronged. He had been wronged, without a question, in the first trial and following imprisonment, but there was more to his story than that, and they left it all out.

Did you do more than watch the first season? Did you do any research on this?

I'll comment on your points one by one.

"Averys blood found in multiple places around the car but no fingerprints or other samples of DNA are found. You can't say he was smart enough to clean all his fingerprints away but leave the very visible blood, surely?"

There was non-blood DNA supposedly found on the hood latch, so it wasn't only blood, but what other kind of DNA would you expect there to be? It takes someone touching a specific type of surface with their fingertips to leave fingerprints, so not finding them isn't that surprising.

"The key magically appearing in the trailer with only Stevens DNA on it? Not Theresa's of course, who the key belonged to..."

As I replied to someone else, it was her spare key. I don't know about you, but I rarely even touch my spare key, so there's probably none of my DNA on it either. I am, though, suspicious of how the key was found. Could it have happened the way LE said it did? Yes, but it's clumsy.

"Bones found in the barrel the day after nothing was found in that same barrel..."

This issue I'm going to have to watch the episode that covers it again, so can't comment yet, and don't remember it well enough from S1.

"Where she was supposedly cremated (beside Averys property), an expert claims it would have been impossible to cremate her due to the pit and lack of evidence of a source of fuel for the fire. Yet bones were found there, somehow."

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Ditto this (cremation site), except I do remember in addition to the tires, there was fire accelerant found. I believe gasoline.

"The high levels of Averys DNA found on the hood latch, yet when Zellner tested it multiple times, the level of DNA was nowhere near as high as it was when it was originally tested. "

Zellner's experiments didn't wash with me. She had him simply hold a key for 12 minutes? Really? That proves nothing. It's stuff like this that spoils her credibility for me.

"Teresa's car was spotted on the roadside two days before it was found on Averys property. "

There was one witness who says that and, more concerning, he says the officer he told about it was Colbern.

"Her ex-boyfriend claiming the light was broken before her murder and also him being in possession of her planner really makes me question why he wasn't a prime suspect."

The fact that he said she'd filed an insurance claim about it, yet now it's been proven she didn't, plus his having that page of Teresa's day planner, when she wrote in it while she was on the road that day, yes, these things bother me. LE may not have known she'd written that entry about her friend while she was on the road. I don't know.

I've been rewatching a few episodes and have to correct myself on the part about Ryan H. While Zellner *says* that's what he said, if you read the document they show onscreen, that isn't what he said.

He said he'd checked with friends and family, and *they* said the damage to the light was done prior to the murder, and she'd filed an insurance claim on it.

So where did that come from? Did he check with her friends and family, and is that what they told him? Or did he make that up? It's anything but clear, and I dislike all of this misleading Zellner and the "documentary" are doing.

All we do know is she did not file an insurance claim on it, despite it being significant damage.

"Zeller said the contents of the hard drive belonged to Bobby Dassey, but in reality it was a shared computer by all the Dassey family -- something she happily omitted. How do you, or does anyone else, know who searched for what was found on that drive?"

It seems to me you didn't watch the second series at all. Katz sad and had written in a report that it was "Brendan's computer" whereas it was a family computer, and that's what Kathleen pointed out. She was also smart enough to give a credible theory why he did that. It was in order to further hide the fact that the horrible staff (pictures of torture and mutilations of women, who often even resemble Theresa) found on Bobby's computer was not reported to the defence nor jury. It is a travesty that that guy was not even a suspect.
There is a detailed report about what was found on Bobby's computer signed by one of the worst cops, I think one of the Brendan's interogators. It's all shown in one of the last episodes.

I gather you're not very familiar with what happened.

11/4 SA gave LE permission to search his trailer. This is before the RAV4 was found, or anything was found on the property. LE were focussed on looking for Teresa or possibly her body; it wasn't a thorough search for evidence.

11/5 The RAV was found.

11/6 Several homes on the compound were searched. The focus was not on SA at this point.

11/7 Searches in the homes on the property continued.

11/8 Late in the day the key was discovered in SA's trailer.

How is this magically appearing?

I will give you that, as far as I know, those two MC LE officers shouldn't have been there, although there's some question about that.

No comment on the rest of my post?

And not any two cops, but the very ones who were to be deposed because of his first arrest. Colborn is the worst. He's the one who didn't report a call from a neighbouring precinct that they might have an innocent man in prison.