Teresa Halbach

Aria — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:50:00 GMT

The telephone rang and my mother answered it. She talked for a while, and gasped a time or two, lowing her voice so my siblings and I could not hear as well. When she hung up, I asked her what was going on. She said it was my grandma that had called, and that someone was missing. "Well, maybe they will find her.." I said. She looked at me, hopeful.

My mother's cousin had left for the auto salvage yard on Halloween, 2005, in her Toyota Rav 4, to take pictures for the Auto Trader Magazine of Steven Avery's vehicles. She'd been there at least 15 times before, and, though she knew of his previous wrongful conviction, she didn't feel worried.

Steven Avery had been convicted in 1985 of raping Penny Beerntsen, 36, as she jogged along the beach of Lake Michigan. She picked him out of a photo line-up, and a live line-up. He was sentenced to 32 years in prison. Eighteen years later, new DNA results proved Steven's innocence. Gregory Allen was the true rapist. He had been spending 60 years in jail for another crime at the time of the new evidence. He was released from jail and got great support from the public. I remember seeing him on TV during his release, his long reddish beard flowing.. I was cheering him on, like the rest of the state. He filed a $36 million lawsuit against Manitowoc County for wrongful conviction. My tears of joy would soon sour to tears of hate and anger. He was a cruel man. He once was charged with cruelty to animals for dousing a cat with gasoline and oil, throwing it in a bonfire, and watching it die.

Two years after his release, on Halloween of 2005, Teresa Halbach, a wonderful photographer and even better person, made her way to his business to take pictures of a vehicle he had for sale. Three days later, on November 3, her mother called the police to report that she hadn't been heard of since Halloween. We are all very connected here, and call members of our family all the time. It was very unusual for someone to be out of touch with a family member.

Volunteers were already searching for her and retracing her steps. On November 5, they found a Toyota Rav 4 similar to Teresa's. It was locked and partially covered in branches and debris. The volunteers called the police immediately and a search warrant was issued.

As the police searched his home, they found "dried red substance which appeared to be blood" in the bathroom, as well as "pornographic material" and "items of restraint," which included leg restraints and hand cuffs.

The next day Deputy Dan Kucharski continued to search and found, in Avery's bedroom, a .22 semi-automatic rifle and a .50 black-powder muzzleloader, with masking tape and the name "Steve" written on it. On the detached garage floor, they found "eleven spent .22 caliber long rifle shell casings."

On the third day, they found the key to her car in his bedroom. Her vehicle, as well as the key, had traces of blood on them.

November 8. That was the day we got the next phone call. My mom was crying after that one. I asked her what happened. She simply told me that they hadn't found her yet. I said, "well, maybe they still will. Maybe she's still alive." I will never forget the look she gave me when she shook her head, saying my name, and replying, "No, they found her teeth and cell phone in a burn barrel. She's dead."

That was when my hatred began. People know me to be a calm person, but hardly anyone knows that I hate many people, and given the chance to bite and mangle them, I probably would. Hardly anyone knows I go on DR. Many people think I'm weird because I have mental issues, but they don't know they rest.

That was as much as my mom would tell me. I had to find the rest out on my own.

Steven Avery felt that the state had set him up. That they had placed all the evidence there.

A conversation:

"Mr. Avery," Nancy Grace (a TV show thing to try to prove he was innocent) asked, "do you feel that you're being framed in any way?"

"Yes," Avery replied.

"Why?"

"Because every time I turn around, the county's out here doing something to me...I'm being set-up because of my lawsuit and everything else."

He said that his property was rarely locked, and that anyone could just come in, leaving the option open that someone else could have murdered her on his property.

In a telephone interview with the Associated Press from Calumet County Jail in Clinton, Wisconsin, Avery said that he believed that Manitowoc County had set him up so that they wouldn't have to pay damages on his lawsuit if he prevailed in court. He singled out former Manitowoc County Sheriff Tom Kocourek, who had been sheriff when Avery was arrested in 1985, as one of his main persecutors. Referring to county investigators, Avery said, "They know what they look for so they know what they can plant and where they can plant it."

His older brother Chuck later sympathized with that sentiment. "If they found anything there, it's a big setup," he told the Associated Press. "It was all planted."

Their mother, Dolores Avery, believes her son is innocent. "I don't know why the hell they do that stuff," she said, referring to county officers. "They must like wrecking people's lives."

But Steven Avery's uncle, Arland Avery, a retired Manitowoc County sheriff's deputy, told the Journal Sentinel that DNA evidence would be hard to plant and hoped that his nephew would confess if he was truly guilty. "At least give both families a little piece of mind," he said.

He said there wasn't any way he could kill someone.. that it would be "too hard."

An excerpt from a new article:

"As investigators continued to probe for answers in the death of Teresa Halbach, the events that immediately lead up to her death and the details of the crime itself remained sketchy, and Steven Avery staunchly maintained his innocence. Among the many people Calumet County detectives had interviewed was Avery's 16-year-old nephew, Brendan Dassey, who lived in a house on the same sprawling property as Avery. On Feb. 27, 2006, detectives interviewed Dassey again, and something he said caught their attention. "We believed Brendan knew more than he was telling us," Calumet County Sheriff Jerry Pagel later told a news conference.

Detectives interviewed Dassey again on March 1, and this time he confessed to participating with his uncle in the rape, torture, and murder of Teresa Halbach.

According to the criminal complaint against Dassey, the teenager claimed that on Oct. 31, 2005, at around 3:45 p.m., he got off the school bus and walked to his home, which is next door to Steven Avery's trailer. He then rode his bicycle to the mail box to get the mail and found a letter for his Uncle Steven. As he rode back to Steven Avery's residence to deliver the letter, he passed a "burn barrel" and stopped to look inside. He saw a cellphone and a camera. As he approached Avery's trailer, he heard a female voice inside screaming "Help me!"

Dassey knocked on the door and waited several minutes before his uncle answered it. Steven Avery was "covered in sweat." He invited his nephew to come into the kitchen. Once inside Avery asked Brendan if he wanted to "get some of that stuff," indicating the bedroom. Avery then led his nephew into the bedroom where he saw Teresa Halbach naked on her back, "restrained to the bed with handcuffs and leg irons."

According to the criminal complaint against Dassey, Steven Avery told his nephew that he had already raped Teresa Halbach and wanted to "keep doing it." He "encouraged" his nephew to do the same. Teresa pleaded with Dassey through her tears, begging him not to do it, to let her go, and to get Avery to stop the ordeal, but instead Dassey mounted her and had "sexual intercourse" with her "for approximately five minutes" while his uncle watched.

Dassey and Avery then went into the living room and watched television for "10 to 15 minutes." "That's how you do it," Avery said to his nephew, telling the teenager that he had done a good job and was proud of him. While the TV played, Avery talked about killing Teresa and burning her body.

Avery went to the kitchen and got a knife with a blade "between six and eight inches long," then he and Dassey went back into the bedroom. Avery announced to Teresa that he was going to kill her and then stabbed her in the "stomach area." Avery handed the knife to Dassey and told him to "cut her throat." Dassey obeyed.

Avery then told Dassey to cut off some of her hair, and Dassey complied.

After that, "Avery went over to Teresa and put his hands around Halbach's neck and strangled her for approximately two to three minutes."

Avery and Dassey took off the shackles and tied her with rope, then carried her to her car. They placed her in the trunk and drove her to Avery's garage. Dassey believed that she was dead by this time, but Avery fetched a .22-caliber rifle and shot Teresa "approximately 10 times." According to Dassey's confession, Avery shot her one to three times in the left side of the head and then shot her in her midsection.

According the complaint against Brendan Dassey, he told detectives that he and Steven Avery threw Teresa Halbach's body onto a fire pit that had already been burning when Dassey returned from school earlier that afternoon. They put "tires and brush on top of her" to accelerate the fire. While her body burned, they drove her car to a remote area of the property and concealed it with "branches and a car hood." They returned to the garage and cleaned Teresa's blood off the concrete floor with "gasoline, paint thinner, and bleach." Avery noticed that his finger was bleeding and covered it with a Band-aid that he got from his trailer when he went inside for the bleach.

Later that evening when Brendan Dassey returned to his own home, his mother, Barb Janda, who is Steven Avery's sister, noticed bleached-out splotches on her son's jeans and asked how that had happened. Dassey told her that he had been helping his uncle clean the floor of his garage.

Dassey told the detectives that Avery later informed him that he had broken up some of Teresa's remaining bones with a shovel and buried them elsewhere on his property.

Dassey's great uncle, Arland Avery, a retired Manitowoc County sheriff's deputy, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Dassey was "a little slow."

"I don't think he [Dassey] could do anything on his own," Arland Avery said. "He doesn't have the initiative or the ability to do anything on his own. He had to be told what to do.""

Wisconsin doesn't have a death penalty. Steven Avery keeps trying to have another trial, and all it is doing is hurting us more.

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