#Making a Murderer

(ROCKFORD ADVOCATE) – Although “Making a Murderer” subject Steven Avery has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, he has only experienced mild symptoms of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the infection. According to…

By Jim Hagerty Editor ROCKFORD - A new true-crime documentary series due to air in April will explore an old theory that a serial killer killed Teresa Halbach in 2005, not Steven Avery, the Manitowoc, Wisconsin, subject of "Making a…

By Jim Hagerty Reporter (ROCKFORD ADVOCATE) - "Making a Murder" lawyer Jerry Buting gave Manitowoc County Sheriff's Lt. Andrew Colborn a snarky retirement sendoff on Twitter. Buting, who, at trial, strongly suggested that Colborn and…

By Jim Hagerty Editor OSHKOSH. Wis. - Former Brendan Dassey lawyer Len Kachinsky denies allegations that he harassed his court clerk last year. The clerk, on Tuesday, January 30, was granted a temporary order of protection against…

By Jim Hagerty Editor (ROCKFORD ADVOCATE) - Fans of the Netflix docu-series Making a Murderer are expected to be “glued” to a 13-part podcast about the 21-year-old murder of a French filmmaker. The murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier…

By Jim Hagerty Editor As Kathleen Zellner, post-conviction attorney for Making a Murderer subject Steven Avery, awaits a ruling about whether he’ll be granted an evidentiary hearing in circuit court, she’s released what she claims is…

(ROCKFORD ADVOCATE) - Making a Murderer subject Brendan Dassey won’t be home for Christmas, and he’ll miss WrestleMania again after the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a 2016 ruling that the confession he gave in the 2005 murder…

(ROCKFORD ADVOCATE) - Although Steven Avery’s post-conviction attorney claims a bullet found in his garage never passed through bone, the man who prosecuted him, and Brendan Dassey, say he never made such an assertion. The bullet in…

(ROCKFORD ADVOCATE) - While Steven Avery claims that he and nephew Brendan Dassey had a bonfire behind his garage the evening of October 31, 2005, it wasn’t the alibi he gave police during the Teresa Halbach missing person’s investigation.…

(ROCKFORD ADVOCATE) - Charges against "Making a Murderer" subjects Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey are being discussed again, drawing questions about links to Teresa Halbach and how investigators theorized that she had been sexually…