Post by Jax on Aug 7, 2018 12:20:26 GMT -6
Steven & Lori divorced in 1988.
Chuck Avery charged & acquitted of second-degree sexual assault in 1988. In 1998 he was found guilty of disorderly conduct following a family altercation. Less than a year later he was charged w raping & attempting to strangle his wife w a telephone cord. The couple agreed to defer judgment pending further violence by Chuck & charge was finally dismissed in 2003. The couple divorced.
Earl Avery was arrested after his wife claimed he beat & choked her during a drunken argument. He pleaded no contest to battery & was sentenced to 10 days in jail & 18 months probabtion. 3 years later he was charged w sexual assault of a child. He pleaded no contest to fourth-degree assault & battery & spent 45 days in jail & 3 years on probation.
Barb Janda was charged for possession of marijuana in 2005 & pleaded no contest.
Steven Avery was arrested for violating a disorderly conduct ordinance after an altercation w Jodi in 10/ 04. The court ordered him to stay away from her for 72 hours & pay a fine of $243.
Alleged Crime was 10/31/ 05
Brendan was booked on 3/1/06
1st Degree Intentional Homicide
Rape
1st Degree Sexual Assault
Pregnancy
Bodily Harm
Mutilating a Corpse
4/13/07
1st Degree Intentional Homicide
Rape
1st Degree Sexual Assualt
Pregnancy
Bodily Harm
Mutilating a Corpse
12/24/15 - Informational
Threats
Harrasment
Stalk
12/25/15 – Informational
Suspicious Person
1/6/16 – Informational
Suspicious Person
1/19/16 – Informational
Threats
Harassment
Stalk
Brendan’s Trial begins 4/16/07 Ends 4/25/07
3 Charges – 1st Degree Intentional Homicide, Mutilating a Corpse, 1st Degree Sexual Assault
Kratz claims premeditated beginning at 8:12am 10/31/05 when Steven Avery called Auto Trader
DEFENSE: Brendan & Blaine get off the bus at 3:45pm on 10/31/05. Barb comes home & makes dinner for them at 5pm. Blaine leaves at 5:20/ 5:30 with his friend Jason to go Trick or Treating. Barb leaves around 5:30 to go w Scott to Green Bay to visit his mom in the hospital. Blaine’s boss calls at 5:45pm. Brendan used to work for him too. SA calls BD shortly after that & asked him to come watch a bonfire. 15 minutes later SA calls again & asked what is taking so long. BD was changing his pants & putting on a sweatshirt cuz it’s chilly. Brendan gets there around 7ish. They drive around in Delores Avery’s golf cart picking up debris. When they’re done SA asks if he wants to help clean the mess in the garage. After about a half hour they go out to the fire & SA gets a call on his cell from Barb. She wanted to know if BD was there. She reminds SA to tell BD he needs to be home before 10 & make sure he has a sweatshirt on.
They watch the fire & then at 9:30/ 9:45 Brendan goes home.
Scott Tadych says he saw a fire at 7:30-7:45pm on 10/31/05
Teresa’s Boss Tom Pearce called Karen Halbach around 1pm on 11/3/05 that she didn’t show up for work Tue or Wed. He was worried cuz her VM was full & that was unusual for TH cuz that was her business phone also. KH called Mike & Tim to ask if they heard from TH. She also called Auto Trader to ask when was the last time they heard from TH & didn’t get an answer so then she called Calumet County Sheriff’s Dept.
Mike Halbach got into TH’s cell phone records & knew her last call was Monday. They used her cellphone records to retrace TH’s steps.
They put out posters on 11/03/05 & 11/04/05. Ryan Hillegas planned to get a group together at TH’s house on 11/05/05 to do an organized search in Manitowoc where TH was last seen.
Teresa reported missing at 5pm on 11/3/05
RAV4 found 11/5/05 at 10:30am by Pam Sturm, Karen Halbach’s husband’s first cousin. It was about 350 feet from a car crusher.
The box TH had for her Palm Pilot said it was a Palm Zire 31 brand.
Katie Halbach testified she gave TH the blue lanyard the key was on.
Investigators become actively involved in the search at 2pm on 11/5/05. Detective Jacobs asks if SA is in custoday.
11/6/05 Brendan denied any knowledge of TH death
Firearms & garage searched on 11/6/05
11/7/05 volunteers help search the 40 acres of 40,000 cars
.22 caliber Marlin Glenfield Semi-Automatic rifle
11/7/05 They find male blood in 6 locations in RAV4 & female blood in the back.
11/7/05 Burn Barrels
11/8/05 Colborn removes all contents of SA’s nightstand. No evidence is discovered.
11/8/05 SA Trailer Search & Lenk finds a key
11/8/05 RAV4 plates found by volunteer fireman William Brandes kind of on the path on the way to trailers
11/8/05 Burn Area
Human bone fragments were found but claimed they couldn’t examine or recover the area because of a German Shepherd.
11/9/05 They declare the bones as human & female
11/9/05 – SA arrested for weapons charge. They find cut on his hand & take a swab of his saliva
11/10/05 They recover more bones
11/10/05 They find DNA on the key
11/11/05 The blood found in cargo area match a soda can TH had in front of the car.
11/29/05 Scott Tadych says he arrived home at 3:15pm & went hunting
12/6/05 SA Preliminary trial begins
12/6/05 Judge Patrick Willis decides enough evidence exists to hold SA over for trial
12/20/05 SA accepts a settlement from MCSD for $400,000
1/16/06 SA pleads innocent
1/19/06 FBI says cremains in burn pit belong to TH
2/20/06 Wiegert reinterviews Avery’s family & Kayla says BD has been acting up lately
2/27/06 Wiegert & Fassbender go to BD’s school & take him out of class. Brendan then reinterviewed after 10pm in a resort hotel in Mishicot. Wiegert & Fassbender take BD to his trailer to get his jeans that had bleach stains on them. They also took Barb’s handcuffs & leg irons.
3/1/06 Brendan interviewed again & they got a search warrant for the garage. BD is arrested
3/1/06 They find 2 bullets in the garage & Culhane claims TH’s DNA is on one of them.
3/2/06 Kratz press conference
3/3/06 BD charged & bail set at $250,000. Len Kachinsky appointed.
3/6/06 They find 11 separate .22 caliber shell casings
3/6/16 Jodi released from jail
3/7/06 Wiegert reinterviews Kayla & gets statement of BD’s involvement in TH’s murder
3/8/06 Kratz adds Kidnapping, False Imprisonment & Sexual Assault w a Dangerous Weapon to SA from BD’s statement
3/17/06 SA pre-trial begind & Judge Willis ups his bond from $500,000 to $750,000
4/3/06 They take a q-tip & swab the hood latch & Culhane gets a full profile that is SA’s sweat.
4/27/06 Kachinsky emails O’Kelly & tells his plans to use BD to help convict SA
5/9/06 O’Kelly emails Kachinsky outlining how he will coerce a confession from BD
5/12/06 Judge Fox said BD’s statements were voluntary & admissible
5/12/06 O’Kelly manipulates Brendan
May –
Jodi is caught drinking & spends 5 nights in jail. She is issued a no contact order from SA
Judge Willis forbids MCSD from any involvement in SA trial. It’s moved to Calumet County
Judge Willis rules that the Defense cannot suggest to the jury any suspects by name except BD
Judge Fox denies BD a new attorney
June Colborn files his report about his interaction w SA from 11/03/05 [8 months earlier]
6/30/06 Brendan writes letter to Judge Fox recanting his confession. Fox dismisses Kachinsky
8/31/06 Jodi ends her relationship w SA
1/29/07 Judge Willis dismisses 2 of 3 charges against SA – Kidnapping & Sexual Assault – cuz State won’t indicate if BD will testify in SA case
1/30/07 – Judge Willis denies State’s motion to exclude blood vial. The State asks the judge to allow the FBI to develop a chemical test to prove blood not planted & Judge allows it. A test like this has not been done in over 10 years
2/12/07 SA trial begins in Chilton, WI
3/16/07 Richard Mahler dismissed from jury
3/18/07 SA found guilty of 1st degree intentional homicide & possession of a firearm. Not guilty on mutilation of a corpse.
4/16/07 – BD trial begins
4/25/07 BD found guilty of 1st degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse & 2nd degree sexual assault
6/1/07 SA sentenced to life in prison wo possibility of early release
8/2/07 BD sentenced to life w possibility of early release in 2048.
1/15/10 Steven Drizin, Co-Founder of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth is defending BD & claims Kachinsky did not have BD’s best interests in mind so should be granted a new trial.
1/21/10 Drizin shows OKelly was only interested in convicting SA regardless on what that would do to BD. He said since Kachinsky was dismissed for allowing BD to be interrogated wo an attorney present then the phone calls that resulted from that should be inadmissible.
September 2010 Press finds out about Kratz’s sexts
October Kratz resigns
12/12/10 Judge Fox denied BD’s motion for a new trial
8/24/11 WI Court of Appeals upholds Judge Willis’ denying SA a new trial
December WI Supreme Court refuse to review SA’s case
6/5/12 SA requests his files to represent himself
1/30/13 WI Court of Appeals upholds Judge Fox’s decision denying BD a new trial
8/1/13 WI Supreme Court refuses to review BD’s case
12/18/15 Netflix releases MaM
Brendan hears screaming in the trailer. He knocks on door. SA answers & is “sweaty”. SA tells BD he raped the woman he has in his bedroom. Kratz then claims Brendan said this on 10/31/05. Brendan sees TH tied up. Shacked w handcuffs & leg irons. SA asked BD if he wants to have sex w her. BD says yes. BD threatens TH w a weapon & rapes her. After the rape SA praises BD. They discuss if they should kill her & how. BD tells SA he will help him. SA stabs TH & then gives the knife to BD who then cuts TH’s throat. They take her unclothed to the garage & place her on the floor. She isn’t dead yet. BD waits w her while SA gets the .22 caliber Marlin Glenfield Semi-automatic rifle & shoots her about 10 times. At least twice in the head including the left side of her head. She is now dead & they load her into the cargo area of the RAV4 & decide how to dispose of her body. SA says they should burn the body. BD helped. They carried her to the bonfire in the back of the garage & throws TH on the fire. They throw a car seat on the fire.
Kratz reminds the jury here to put in their notes that this was a 2 person job & not a one man job.
Kratz claims BD told them he & SA drove her car to the pit area & concealed it w branches & a car hood & removed the plates. SA for some reason went under the hood of the RAV4. They then went back to the garage & cleaned it w bleach, gas & paint thinner. Brendan gets a big bleach stain on his jeans.
SA took the key & put it in his bedroom & threw TH’s clothes in the fire. They recovered 5 of 6 rivets of TH’s Daisy Fuentes jeans in the fire pit. Kratz claims a zipper & other clothing were found as well.
Her Motorolla V3 RAZR cellphone & PowerShot A310 digital camera burned in the burn barrel earlier in the day.
Kratz claims the proof TH was in the trailer is the Auto Trader magazine & bill of sale.
Kratz tells jury again it had to be a 2 person job to pick up the hood & put it against the RAV4.
Sherry Culhane got 180 items of evidence which they claimed was the largest submission of evidence ever at the WI State Crime Lab.
Kratz claimed that blood was flung on the back cargo door.
TH blood was on the rear tailgate, door handle & on the soda can.
SA blood positively matched on the rear passenger door, near the ignition & the cd case on the front passenger seat.
One of the bones still had some tissue on it. Muscle tissue, Culhane developed a DNA profile & positively matched the leg bone to the exemplar of Teresa Halbach. Kratz claims there was no doubt it was w 100% certainty TH.
Kratz says TH was killed on 10/31/05
Jodi calls SA at 5:36pm & 8:57pm on 10/31/05
SA used a different name, B. Janda, when he called Auto Trader
TH calls Barb Janda at 11:43am saying she will be out some time after 2pm.
TH is at Schmits residence at around 1:30pm.
Sometime between 2 & 2:30 at Zipperer’s
Auto Trader, Dawn Pliszka, talks to TH at 2:27pm & TH says she is on her way to the Avery brothers.
Kratz says Avery is less than 10 minutes from Zipperer. [It’s more like 15]. So he says TH got to Avery around 2:27 or 2:40.
Kratz says her family & friends become concerned on 11/3 & retrace her steps. On the 4th they do aerial searches, look at financial transactions & check out her cellphone records to see what cell towers she pinged off of.
Chuck Avery charged & acquitted of second-degree sexual assault in 1988. In 1998 he was found guilty of disorderly conduct following a family altercation. Less than a year later he was charged w raping & attempting to strangle his wife w a telephone cord. The couple agreed to defer judgment pending further violence by Chuck & charge was finally dismissed in 2003. The couple divorced.
Earl Avery was arrested after his wife claimed he beat & choked her during a drunken argument. He pleaded no contest to battery & was sentenced to 10 days in jail & 18 months probabtion. 3 years later he was charged w sexual assault of a child. He pleaded no contest to fourth-degree assault & battery & spent 45 days in jail & 3 years on probation.
Barb Janda was charged for possession of marijuana in 2005 & pleaded no contest.
Steven Avery was arrested for violating a disorderly conduct ordinance after an altercation w Jodi in 10/ 04. The court ordered him to stay away from her for 72 hours & pay a fine of $243.
Alleged Crime was 10/31/ 05
Brendan was booked on 3/1/06
1st Degree Intentional Homicide
Rape
1st Degree Sexual Assault
Pregnancy
Bodily Harm
Mutilating a Corpse
4/13/07
1st Degree Intentional Homicide
Rape
1st Degree Sexual Assualt
Pregnancy
Bodily Harm
Mutilating a Corpse
12/24/15 - Informational
Threats
Harrasment
Stalk
12/25/15 – Informational
Suspicious Person
1/6/16 – Informational
Suspicious Person
1/19/16 – Informational
Threats
Harassment
Stalk
Brendan’s Trial begins 4/16/07 Ends 4/25/07
3 Charges – 1st Degree Intentional Homicide, Mutilating a Corpse, 1st Degree Sexual Assault
Kratz claims premeditated beginning at 8:12am 10/31/05 when Steven Avery called Auto Trader
DEFENSE: Brendan & Blaine get off the bus at 3:45pm on 10/31/05. Barb comes home & makes dinner for them at 5pm. Blaine leaves at 5:20/ 5:30 with his friend Jason to go Trick or Treating. Barb leaves around 5:30 to go w Scott to Green Bay to visit his mom in the hospital. Blaine’s boss calls at 5:45pm. Brendan used to work for him too. SA calls BD shortly after that & asked him to come watch a bonfire. 15 minutes later SA calls again & asked what is taking so long. BD was changing his pants & putting on a sweatshirt cuz it’s chilly. Brendan gets there around 7ish. They drive around in Delores Avery’s golf cart picking up debris. When they’re done SA asks if he wants to help clean the mess in the garage. After about a half hour they go out to the fire & SA gets a call on his cell from Barb. She wanted to know if BD was there. She reminds SA to tell BD he needs to be home before 10 & make sure he has a sweatshirt on.
They watch the fire & then at 9:30/ 9:45 Brendan goes home.
Scott Tadych says he saw a fire at 7:30-7:45pm on 10/31/05
Teresa’s Boss Tom Pearce called Karen Halbach around 1pm on 11/3/05 that she didn’t show up for work Tue or Wed. He was worried cuz her VM was full & that was unusual for TH cuz that was her business phone also. KH called Mike & Tim to ask if they heard from TH. She also called Auto Trader to ask when was the last time they heard from TH & didn’t get an answer so then she called Calumet County Sheriff’s Dept.
Mike Halbach got into TH’s cell phone records & knew her last call was Monday. They used her cellphone records to retrace TH’s steps.
They put out posters on 11/03/05 & 11/04/05. Ryan Hillegas planned to get a group together at TH’s house on 11/05/05 to do an organized search in Manitowoc where TH was last seen.
Teresa reported missing at 5pm on 11/3/05
RAV4 found 11/5/05 at 10:30am by Pam Sturm, Karen Halbach’s husband’s first cousin. It was about 350 feet from a car crusher.
The box TH had for her Palm Pilot said it was a Palm Zire 31 brand.
Katie Halbach testified she gave TH the blue lanyard the key was on.
Investigators become actively involved in the search at 2pm on 11/5/05. Detective Jacobs asks if SA is in custoday.
11/6/05 Brendan denied any knowledge of TH death
Firearms & garage searched on 11/6/05
11/7/05 volunteers help search the 40 acres of 40,000 cars
.22 caliber Marlin Glenfield Semi-Automatic rifle
11/7/05 They find male blood in 6 locations in RAV4 & female blood in the back.
11/7/05 Burn Barrels
11/8/05 Colborn removes all contents of SA’s nightstand. No evidence is discovered.
11/8/05 SA Trailer Search & Lenk finds a key
11/8/05 RAV4 plates found by volunteer fireman William Brandes kind of on the path on the way to trailers
11/8/05 Burn Area
Human bone fragments were found but claimed they couldn’t examine or recover the area because of a German Shepherd.
11/9/05 They declare the bones as human & female
11/9/05 – SA arrested for weapons charge. They find cut on his hand & take a swab of his saliva
11/10/05 They recover more bones
11/10/05 They find DNA on the key
11/11/05 The blood found in cargo area match a soda can TH had in front of the car.
11/29/05 Scott Tadych says he arrived home at 3:15pm & went hunting
12/6/05 SA Preliminary trial begins
12/6/05 Judge Patrick Willis decides enough evidence exists to hold SA over for trial
12/20/05 SA accepts a settlement from MCSD for $400,000
1/16/06 SA pleads innocent
1/19/06 FBI says cremains in burn pit belong to TH
2/20/06 Wiegert reinterviews Avery’s family & Kayla says BD has been acting up lately
2/27/06 Wiegert & Fassbender go to BD’s school & take him out of class. Brendan then reinterviewed after 10pm in a resort hotel in Mishicot. Wiegert & Fassbender take BD to his trailer to get his jeans that had bleach stains on them. They also took Barb’s handcuffs & leg irons.
3/1/06 Brendan interviewed again & they got a search warrant for the garage. BD is arrested
3/1/06 They find 2 bullets in the garage & Culhane claims TH’s DNA is on one of them.
3/2/06 Kratz press conference
3/3/06 BD charged & bail set at $250,000. Len Kachinsky appointed.
3/6/06 They find 11 separate .22 caliber shell casings
3/6/16 Jodi released from jail
3/7/06 Wiegert reinterviews Kayla & gets statement of BD’s involvement in TH’s murder
3/8/06 Kratz adds Kidnapping, False Imprisonment & Sexual Assault w a Dangerous Weapon to SA from BD’s statement
3/17/06 SA pre-trial begind & Judge Willis ups his bond from $500,000 to $750,000
4/3/06 They take a q-tip & swab the hood latch & Culhane gets a full profile that is SA’s sweat.
4/27/06 Kachinsky emails O’Kelly & tells his plans to use BD to help convict SA
5/9/06 O’Kelly emails Kachinsky outlining how he will coerce a confession from BD
5/12/06 Judge Fox said BD’s statements were voluntary & admissible
5/12/06 O’Kelly manipulates Brendan
May –
Jodi is caught drinking & spends 5 nights in jail. She is issued a no contact order from SA
Judge Willis forbids MCSD from any involvement in SA trial. It’s moved to Calumet County
Judge Willis rules that the Defense cannot suggest to the jury any suspects by name except BD
Judge Fox denies BD a new attorney
June Colborn files his report about his interaction w SA from 11/03/05 [8 months earlier]
6/30/06 Brendan writes letter to Judge Fox recanting his confession. Fox dismisses Kachinsky
8/31/06 Jodi ends her relationship w SA
1/29/07 Judge Willis dismisses 2 of 3 charges against SA – Kidnapping & Sexual Assault – cuz State won’t indicate if BD will testify in SA case
1/30/07 – Judge Willis denies State’s motion to exclude blood vial. The State asks the judge to allow the FBI to develop a chemical test to prove blood not planted & Judge allows it. A test like this has not been done in over 10 years
2/12/07 SA trial begins in Chilton, WI
3/16/07 Richard Mahler dismissed from jury
3/18/07 SA found guilty of 1st degree intentional homicide & possession of a firearm. Not guilty on mutilation of a corpse.
4/16/07 – BD trial begins
4/25/07 BD found guilty of 1st degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse & 2nd degree sexual assault
6/1/07 SA sentenced to life in prison wo possibility of early release
8/2/07 BD sentenced to life w possibility of early release in 2048.
1/15/10 Steven Drizin, Co-Founder of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth is defending BD & claims Kachinsky did not have BD’s best interests in mind so should be granted a new trial.
1/21/10 Drizin shows OKelly was only interested in convicting SA regardless on what that would do to BD. He said since Kachinsky was dismissed for allowing BD to be interrogated wo an attorney present then the phone calls that resulted from that should be inadmissible.
September 2010 Press finds out about Kratz’s sexts
October Kratz resigns
12/12/10 Judge Fox denied BD’s motion for a new trial
8/24/11 WI Court of Appeals upholds Judge Willis’ denying SA a new trial
December WI Supreme Court refuse to review SA’s case
6/5/12 SA requests his files to represent himself
1/30/13 WI Court of Appeals upholds Judge Fox’s decision denying BD a new trial
8/1/13 WI Supreme Court refuses to review BD’s case
12/18/15 Netflix releases MaM
Brendan hears screaming in the trailer. He knocks on door. SA answers & is “sweaty”. SA tells BD he raped the woman he has in his bedroom. Kratz then claims Brendan said this on 10/31/05. Brendan sees TH tied up. Shacked w handcuffs & leg irons. SA asked BD if he wants to have sex w her. BD says yes. BD threatens TH w a weapon & rapes her. After the rape SA praises BD. They discuss if they should kill her & how. BD tells SA he will help him. SA stabs TH & then gives the knife to BD who then cuts TH’s throat. They take her unclothed to the garage & place her on the floor. She isn’t dead yet. BD waits w her while SA gets the .22 caliber Marlin Glenfield Semi-automatic rifle & shoots her about 10 times. At least twice in the head including the left side of her head. She is now dead & they load her into the cargo area of the RAV4 & decide how to dispose of her body. SA says they should burn the body. BD helped. They carried her to the bonfire in the back of the garage & throws TH on the fire. They throw a car seat on the fire.
Kratz reminds the jury here to put in their notes that this was a 2 person job & not a one man job.
Kratz claims BD told them he & SA drove her car to the pit area & concealed it w branches & a car hood & removed the plates. SA for some reason went under the hood of the RAV4. They then went back to the garage & cleaned it w bleach, gas & paint thinner. Brendan gets a big bleach stain on his jeans.
SA took the key & put it in his bedroom & threw TH’s clothes in the fire. They recovered 5 of 6 rivets of TH’s Daisy Fuentes jeans in the fire pit. Kratz claims a zipper & other clothing were found as well.
Her Motorolla V3 RAZR cellphone & PowerShot A310 digital camera burned in the burn barrel earlier in the day.
Kratz claims the proof TH was in the trailer is the Auto Trader magazine & bill of sale.
Kratz tells jury again it had to be a 2 person job to pick up the hood & put it against the RAV4.
Sherry Culhane got 180 items of evidence which they claimed was the largest submission of evidence ever at the WI State Crime Lab.
Kratz claimed that blood was flung on the back cargo door.
TH blood was on the rear tailgate, door handle & on the soda can.
SA blood positively matched on the rear passenger door, near the ignition & the cd case on the front passenger seat.
One of the bones still had some tissue on it. Muscle tissue, Culhane developed a DNA profile & positively matched the leg bone to the exemplar of Teresa Halbach. Kratz claims there was no doubt it was w 100% certainty TH.
Kratz says TH was killed on 10/31/05
Jodi calls SA at 5:36pm & 8:57pm on 10/31/05
SA used a different name, B. Janda, when he called Auto Trader
TH calls Barb Janda at 11:43am saying she will be out some time after 2pm.
TH is at Schmits residence at around 1:30pm.
Sometime between 2 & 2:30 at Zipperer’s
Auto Trader, Dawn Pliszka, talks to TH at 2:27pm & TH says she is on her way to the Avery brothers.
Kratz says Avery is less than 10 minutes from Zipperer. [It’s more like 15]. So he says TH got to Avery around 2:27 or 2:40.
Kratz says her family & friends become concerned on 11/3 & retrace her steps. On the 4th they do aerial searches, look at financial transactions & check out her cellphone records to see what cell towers she pinged off of.