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  • Teresa Halbach Will Have Her Story Told In Book Written By Ex-Prosecutor

    Teresa Halbach was the victim of a gruesome murder, yet people don’t seem to know much about her story. Thanks to the Netflix docu-series Making a Murderer, people have more insight on the story of her alleged killer, Steven Avery. The prosecutor who handled her case has released a statement that he is going to write a book to tell Halbach’s side of the story.

    Former District Attorney Ken Kratz says he will honor Halbach’s memory in his book as he feels the victim’s story has not received the attention it deserves.

    In an interview with local Wisconsin news channel WBAY, Kratz said he is “grateful to tell the whole story” because “the one voice forgotten to this point is Teresa Halbach.”

    Kratz apparently wrote a letter to Avery’s camp in an attempt to get a confession out of their client but Avery’s legal representative Kathleen Zellner shared the alleged letter on Twitter, saying the ex-prosecutor wanted to profit from a tell-all confession.

    Avery served 18 years in prison after a wrongful conviction of rape. Two years since his release, he was charged with the death of Teresa Halbach, a 25-year-old photographer. Avery was convicted of first-degree intentional homicide as a result of her death. Scenes from Making a Murderer hinted on the possibility that the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Department planted evidence to implicate Avery.

    But the question remains: Who really killed Teresa Halbach?

    Viewers of the docu-series came up with theories about how the young Halbach died. Some speculate that it was not Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey who committed the crime, but instead Brendan’s brother Bobby Dassey, and stepfather Scott Tadych.

    Other avid viewers claim she was killed by her ex-boyfriend Ryan Hillegas. Hillegas previously testified that he guessed Halbach’s password and hacked into her voicemail after she went missing. Some of the messages were deleted from Halbach’s phone after she disappeared.

    Some say one of Avery’s relatives could be the suspect as his brothers were previously charged with sexual assault. Teresa Halbach might have been a victim of serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards, who was known for framing other people for his crimes. Still, some firmly believe Avery was framed by police who neglected to investigate other suspects.

  • Teresa Halbach Is Still Alive, Says Mother Of Man Charged With Her Murder

    Ten years after the brutal murder of Wisconsin native Teresa Halbach, her killer, Steven Avery, still maintains his innocence and insists that he had been framed.

    Prior to his conviction for Halbach’s murder, Avery was charged with first-degree sexual assault and attempted murder of 36-year-old Penny Beerntsen in 1985. With the help of the Wisconsin Innocence Project and advancements in DNA testing, Avery was exonerated in 2003.

    Because of the wrongful conviction that put him in jail for 18 years, Avery filed a $36 million lawsuit against the county, which sparked the creation of a criminal justice reforms bill named after him.

    Two years later, 25-year-old professional photographer Teresa Halbach disappeared on the day she was set to meet Avery to take photos of his sister’s minivan for an ad in Auto Trader Magazine.  Avery was soon charged with Halbach’s murder after the police discovered her car and burnt remains at his salvage yard.

    Avery has been vocal about his alleged innocence, claiming that his conviction was a deliberate retaliation of federal authorities for the case he had filed against them.

    The recent broadcast of the Netflix documentary series, Making a Murderer, has gotten people’s attention on the death of Teresa Halbach and the story of Steven Avery. However, Halbach’s family and friends are said to be enraged by the “one-sided” portrayal of her killer.

    According to Halbach’s relatives, the filmmakers used an angle that suggests that the murder of Teresa Halbach was fabricated by authorities to frame Avery.

    Avery’s former fiancée Jodi Stachowski denounced the innocent image in which Avery was portrayed, and revealed that he was violent and abusive towards her throughout their two-year relationship.

    On the other hand, Avery’s mother Dolores believes that Teresa Halbach is still alive and that the charred remains were never really confirmed to be hers.

    In a radio interview with TMZ, Dolores declared that Teresa Halbach might be involved in a conspiracy against her son.

    “I don’t think she’s even dead,” she said on the radio show. “How do you know if they were her bones?”

    Meanwhile, the memory of Teresa Halbach is revived by the people who got to know her when she was still alive. A feature by People magazine gives readers a closer look at Halbach’s life as related by her friends and family.

  • Teresa Halbach, Whose Death Was Chronicled In Netflix’s ‘Making A Murderer’, Still Missed By Family and Friends

    Teresa Halbach, Whose Death Was Chronicled In Netflix’s ‘Making A Murderer’, Still Missed By Family and Friends

    It has been eight years since Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey were convicted in the brutal murder of 25-year-old Teresa Halbach. Much talk has surrounded the guilt or innocence of the two men after the release of Netflix’s Making a Murderer, and less attention has been afforded the young woman who lost her life at the age of 25 that fateful 2005 Halloween night.

    Today, friends of the young photographer say there isn’t a day that goes by that they don’t think about Halbach, including a friend who studied with Teresa at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

    “She made me feel like I fit in,” Beth, who asked that her last name not be used, told People magazine. “Honestly, it was her smile. She made you feel like you belonged just by her nature. She had a very adventurous spirit, and she made you want to come along with her.”

    In order to return the attention to Teresa to ensure that her life isn’t overlooked by the growing controversy surrounding her convicted killer, Steven Avery, who claims he was framed for the crime, friends and family are speaking out about the woman who lost her life at such a young age.

    “She went out of her way to make you feel special,” says Tina Mills, 35, another former college classmate. “People were inspired by her and people wanted to be like her. She just had a way of listening that made you feel comforted and at ease. She made people love her, and obviously she had a lot of love to give away, too.”

    She adds: “Caring, loving, any good quality you could come up with, that was Teresa.”

    Pastor Andy Behrendt, who worked with Halbach at the university’s student newspaper in 2001-2002 when Teresa was a staff photographer, said it is difficult to again remember losing his friend.

    “She just radiated happiness and life,” he said. “Even after she died so tragically – and here we are again, faced with this awful, awful tragedy 10 years later – I still can’t picture her without a smile on her face. In the end, nothing can take that away.”

    “She was always very positive,” says Katie Uttech, for whom Halbach served as a bridesmaid at her wedding in 2004. “I don’t ever remember her being mad about anything. She just had this positivity about herself. She didn’t have a bad bone in her body. She just enjoyed life, she enjoyed new experiences.”

    Uttech said she refuses to watch the Netflix documentary out of respect for her friend.

    “I try not to think of the story of what happened to her,” says Uttech, who has made a choice not to watch the Netflix series. “This Netflix thing is not something that’s made up,” she says. “This is somebody’s sister and somebody’s daughter and somebody’s friend and somebody’s cousin. This is real.

    “It’s really easy for somebody to watch this show and come up with opinions, and everybody’s entitled to their opinions,” she says. “I can’t do anything but say who Teresa was, and she was a really great person I just miss her not being around and not being able to make more memories together.”