What You Should Know About Netflix’s ‘Making a Murderer’

2. But Just When Avery Thought Things Were Going His Way…

In 2005, Avery filed a $36 million lawsuit against Manitowoc County, its former sheriff, and its former district attorney. At the same time, a photographer for Auto Trader Magazine named Teresa Halbach went missing on the same day she was scheduled to meet with Steven Avery at his home. Ten days later, Avery was arrested after Halbach’s car was found on his property and fragments of her bones were found in a ‘burn pit’ in his backyard. Avery maintained that the charge was an attempt to frame him as a means of undercutting his pending civil suit. Manitowoc County authorities asserted that the circumstances of Halbach’s disappearance combined with evidence found at the scene made the ex-convict a prime suspect.