11 Dec Making A Murderer: US Court Upholds Brendan Dassey’s Conviction

When Making A Murderer premiered on Netflix in December 2015, hordes of people became overnight detectives. It depicted the turbulent life of convicted felon, Steven Avery, who is currently serving life imprisonment for first-degree murder.

While the evidence against the 55-year-old salvage yard worker was certainly plentiful, there were also several elements of the story that did not add up, and that’s exactly what made it into a mystery which the world could not resist trying to solve.

Immediately after the series became a global success, there were calls for Steven Avery, and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, who had also been sentenced to life imprisonment for the same murder, to be released. A petition sent to the White House calling for the pair to be pardoned garnered more than 128,000 signatures, but it was ultimately rejected.

Dassey, who was 16-years-old when Teresa Halbach was murdered in 2005, was charged with first-degree murder, second-degree sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with eligibility for parole in 2048.

However, since Making A Murderer came to the public’s attention, there have been many calls to have the now-28-year-old exonerated.

Dassey, who had originally been represented by two public defenders, was alleged to have assisted his uncle with the murder of 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005.

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