I've watched the first 9 episodes over the last few days. I am in shock and haven't fully processed everything. There seems to be a lot of unanswered questions, and a whole lot of stuff that doesn't make any sense. I need to think about this for a few more days. Just posting to follow along at this point.
haha - yeah
It's a story being presented to us, so I do genuinely wonder how many details are left out (intentionally or not).
While watching the show, I kept thinking there must be an episode where these shitty cops and investigators get a chance to speak. But the fact they declined to be interviewed makes me feel like they had more to hide.
Also, while I'm rambling --- I did initially think it was surprising that Steven Avery did not testify. But then I think maybe the lawyers suggested he not go on stand since he's not the smartest guy and they could probably easily confuse him up there.
It was a several week murder trial. Tons of stuff was necessarily left out. To include every possible detail that was presented to the jury would have turned it into a several hundred hour documentary. I just watched an interview with Ken Kratz and he raised some objections of evidence left out:
1. Steven Avery's DNA found on the hood latch of her car
2. The bullet that was found in his garage was in fact fired from his personal gun
3. Brendan's confession went into detail about how they cleaned up the garage with bleach, and police did confiscate a pair of Brendan's pants with bleach stains
1. I don't know how convincing this is. DNA could have been transferred from the blood in the vehicle (or some other source) and incidentally placed there when an officer attempted to open the latch of the car. That was the rebuttal offered by Dean Strang at least.
2. This isn't surprising and honestly seems like an irrelevant detail if you buy the story that it was planted evidence in the first place. Seems entirely plausible that if you were going to plant DNA on a bullet, it just makes sense to use one of the thousands of bullets you would surely find on his property. I mean they had 40 acres, plenty of guns, and used the guns all the time. They never hid that fact. I never had any doubt that the bullet originated from a gun that was on the property.
3. I also have bleach stained clothing in my house. It was not from cleaning up a murder scene though. I find it hard to believe that those two were able to stab, slit her throat, cut off her hair, and shoot her 11 times in the garage, and then meticulously sanitize every last trace of DNA from the garage. While at the same time leaving bone fragments in multiple locations, his own blood all over the inside of the car, which was parked on his own property and not crushed like the thousands of other cars he crushed (they own a 40 acre salvage lot and had tons of crushed vehicles), and left the key just chilling on his bedroom floor. It seems totally inconsistent to me that were able to sanitize the garage so thoroughly that no DNA was ever recovered (although I was led to believe there was a plethora of deer and human DNA in the garage, just none of Teresa's (except on the bullet)) like some kind of forensic experts, but they totally neglected all of the other evidence that pointed to them. They are simultaneously criminal mastermind forensic experts, and totally inept mentally handicapped yokels.
Speaking of being inept mentally handicapped yokels, the entire family seemed mentally handicapped. Just about every member of the family, as well as spouses and girlfriends associated with the family all seemed to be severely mentally handicapped.