NBC’s "Dateline" will dug deeper into the mystery of "Making a Murderer" in a one-hour special that aired Friday.
Did you miss it? We've got you covered. Here's a breakdown of the episode:
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UPDATE: 9:58 p.m.
Kathleen Zellner, who is now representing Steven Avery, told Dateline that she has purchased the same car Teresa Halbach had.
"I want to understand the hood latch, battery cables, where the blood was found in the car," Zellner said in her first on-camera interview since taking up the case.
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UPDATE: 9:51 p.m.
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Steven Avery's lawyer Jerry Buting said blood was seen between the stopper and the top of a vial of blood, meaning it had been tampered with. Buting said that evidence was not in the Netflix documentary.
Authorities said the idea it had been tampered with was unfounded.
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Update: 9:37 p.m.
Steven Avery's lawyer Jerry Buting said the DNA found on the hood latch of Teresa Halbach’s car “was sort of a red herring.”
Buting said he believes Avery’s DNA was transferred on the hood by a technician at Avery’s compound.
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Update: 9:28 p.m. CT
After being exonerated of the sexual assault of Penny Beerntsen, Avery once again finds himself in hot water.
Former prosecutor Ken Kratz said Avery told detectives that he didn’t touch photographer Teresa Halbach’s SUV.
However his blood was found in the vehicle and his DNA was found on the hood latch of the car.
Avery still denied the allegations that he murdered Halbach on his property.
“I would never do nothing like that,” Avery said to NBC affiliate WGBA in a rare interview.
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Update: 9:16 p.m. CT
After Steven Avery was sentenced, Penny Beerntsen told Dateline that she heard there was a suspect who looked like Steven Avery.
"I knew I identified the wrong person,” Beerntsen said.
She told Dateline the moment she discovered that she had identified the wrong person in her rape was worse than the attack itself.
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Update: 9:09 p.m. CT
The Dateline special — entitled "The State of Wisconsin vs. Steven A. Avery — began with an interview with Penny Beerntsen, the woman Steven Avery was convicted of raping in 1985.
Avery spent 18 years behind bars over the case before being exonerated by DNA evidence in 2003.
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The one-hour special — entitled "The State of Wisconsin vs. Steven A. Avery" — examined the case of Avery, a Wisconsin resident who spent 18 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit and was later convicted of murdering 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach.
Avery's nephew, Brendan Dassey, was also convicted of murder in connection with the case. Dassey was 16 at the time. His attorneys argued Dassey's low IQ made him easily swayed by investigators who coerced a confession.
Avery and Dassey are currently serving life sentences for the murder of Halbach, whose bones and belongings were found burned near Avery's trailer. Only Dassey is eligible for parole — in 2048.
