In 2007, Steven Avery was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Teresa Halbach and the details of his case were later documented in the 2017 Netflix series, "Making a Murderer." Five years after the release of that popular docu-series, further evidence has presented itself leading to Avery's lawyer pushing for a new trial.
Halbach, the woman whose murder landed Avery behind bars, was a photographer who visited his home to take pictures of a minivan that was to be sold on the website Autotrader. When she disappeared on October 31, 2005, police followed her timeline back to Avery's house, and adjoining auto salvage yard, where they found her car and fragments of what appeared to be human bones in a nearby fire pit, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Blood found within Halbach's vehicle turned out to be a match to Avery's, but it was suggested by Avery's defense that the evidence had been planted.
