We may have finished binge-watching Netflix docuseries Making A Murderer a while ago, but we’re all still pretty much obsessed with it.
Theories about the guilt or innocence of convicted murderer Steven Avery have done the rounds across social media, even if Avery himself has remained relatively silent.
Family members have spoken out, while Avery’s new attorney, Kathleen Zellner, has confidently claimed the 53-year-old could be free in a matter of months.
And now Zellner claims she and her legal team have identified a number of potential other suspects for the 2005 murder of photographer Teresa Halbach, but there is a reason why names have not been disclosed.
“We have a couple [of suspects],” Zellner is quoted as saying by Newsweek.
“I’d say there’s one, leading the pack by a lot. But I don’t want to scare him off, I don’t want him to run.”
Avery’s only option at present is the discovery of new evidence capable of exonerating him – “kind of a high hurdle to jump,” Zellner says – but the lawyer has hinted at the capabilities of new forensic procedures to help her client.
“They used forensic science to convict [Avery], and I’d be using it to convict them of planting the evidence,” she said.
“We can jump [the hurdle] with the new technology. With someone who’s innocent, you can definitely jump that hurdle.”
