Indefensible Quotes

“additional evidence, probably insufficient alone to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, still points directly in Dassey’s direction. It’s uncontroverted that he was standing side by side with Avery at a raging fire in a pit in Avery’s backyard on the night of the murder— the pit where he admitted he saw part of a human body and where Halbach’s charred remains were located by police. He spent time that night with Avery wiping up an apparent bloodstained area on the floor of Avery’s garage in the same location he told police that Avery shot her, explaining later to his mother that this was how his pants became stained with bleach. And in a recorded phone call from the jail, he admitted to his mother— in a tone evidencing guilt—that he did some of what he told the police.”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

“Later, Barb told investigators that Brendan had helped her brother Steven clean up his garage the evening Halbach disappeared and his jeans had been stained with bleach.”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

“I remembered hearing the message that Halbach left for someone that viewers could only assume was Steven. In reality it was left on his sister Barb’s answering machine.”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

“series’ portrayal of how Halbach’s appointment with Avery came about that day. His eight-twelve a.m. phone call requesting a photo shoot from “that same girl they sent out last time” was omitted; as was any hint that if she knew it was Avery who had called for the appointment that day, she probably would have never gone to the salvage yard. There was no mention that Avery’s sister, Barb, owned the van, or that Barb didn’t even want to sell it, or that he used the name “B. Janda” when he set up the appointment and gave Barb’s home phone number instead of his own.”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

“Avery had purchased leg irons on October 9, the day before he called Halbach and then met her wearing only a towel.”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

“the blood in the vial contained EDTA, while his blood in the RAV4 did not. With no other source of his blood available to the police, Steven Avery must have been bleeding inside Teresa Halbach’s car”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

“the blood in the vial contained EDTA, while his blood in the RAV4 did not.”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

“It’s my opinion that the bloodstains that were collected from the RAV4 could not have come from the EDTA tube that was provided to us in this case,” LeBeau replied.”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

“Dennis Ernst, the man who writes the national standards for blood draws, told Dateline that dried blood between the stopper and the vial is to be expected”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

“Marlene Kraintz was the prison nurse who withdrew Avery’s blood specimen on January 2, 1996, during his second appeal. She told prosecutors and was prepared to testify that she put the hole in the vial with the syringe while filling the tube with his blood in the ordinary course of her job.”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

“There was nothing unusual about the hole on the stopper of the vial. What would be unusual, instead, would be its absence, because that’s how blood gets into a vial.”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

“By repeatedly showing video clips of the key in plain view on the floor, with books inside the cabinet and items on top, and by carefully editing testimony from Deputy Kucharski and altogether omitting the details from Colborn and Lenk, they convinced Netflix viewers worldwide—beyond a shadow of a doubt—that Colborn and Lenk had planted the key.”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

“it would be difficult to drive Halbach’s RAV4 to where they allegedly hid it on the salvage yard without being seen by a passerby or being noticed by one of the many family members who live there.”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

“Colborn had provided a reasonable explanation for calling in the plates that the filmmakers took great pains to prevent me and millions of other viewers from knowing.”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

“Routinely, if not understandably, overlooked by most of the media accounts, from the moment Steven Avery was exonerated until this very day, he would have served six of the eighteen years in prison for his wrongful conviction even if he had not been wrongly convicted.”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

“Steven Avery even confessed. Yes, he rammed his car into Mrs. Morris’s car. Yes, he pointed the gun at her. And yes, he planned to force her into his vehicle.”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

“She came to a stop on the side of the road, thinking that someone had lost control and hit her accidentally. Before she got out of her car, she looked up and saw Steven Avery walking toward her. He was pointing a rifle at her head. He ordered her to get into his vehicle, but she motioned to her daughter on the front seat, and told him that her baby would freeze to death if she left her alone. He then looked inside the car and told her she could go.”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

“The police report stated that Avery took a cat, poured gas and oil on it, threw it in a bonfire, and then watched it burn until it died. A friend who was present at the time told police that the cat jumped out of the fire, and Avery caught it and poured more gasoline on it before the animal died.”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

“He would get up early, grab his field glasses, and peer down the road to see when Morris was leaving. Then he’d wait for her to drive past and, depending on how messed up he was that day, he’d either rub himself on the hood of the car or expose himself. One time he was wearing nothing but his shoes.”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

“The police report stated that Avery took a cat, poured gas and oil on it, threw it in a bonfire, and then watched it burn until it died. A friend who was present at the time told police that the cat jumped out of the fire, and Avery caught it and poured more gasoline on it before the animal died. Thousands”
― Michael Griesbach, Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer