MANITOWOC, WI (WTAQ) – Steven Avery’s attorney on Friday filed a motion looking for DNA testing on a host of items and forensic evidence.
Kathleen Zellner says experts from around the world have agreed to take part in retesting, at the expense of the defense.
“We’re using scientists, from Stockholm, Sweden, Vienna, California, Illinois, we got a large number of scientist, that will be doing the testing,” Zellner said, according to FOX 11.
This comes nearly a decade after Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey killed Teresa Halbach at the Avery Family Auto Salvage Yard. Halbach was last seen on Halloween 2005. Dassey, earlier this month, had his conviction overturned by a federal judge.
The 154-page document includes a list of items being requested for testing, some which were not initially tested.
- Click here to read the motion for more tests
Those items include a blinker light, hood prop, and battery cable from Halbach’s RAV-4. Her SUV was found on the Avery property.
Zellner says she believes the testing will reveal the actual person responsible for Halbach’s death.
The key test outlined in the court papers is for radiocarbon and DNA methylation, which Zellner says would prove if the blood in the SUV was planted from Avery’s previous case file.
“So what’s great about this case is all the testing is out there, it’s all developed, it’s all validated, so we can take the mystery out this mystery, and we think we know what the answer will be, “said Zellner.
Once those test results are collected, the next step in this process would be to officially file the post-conviction petition.
In order for the testing to take place, the state has to respond, and at this time it is unclear when or if that will happen.
Zellner also filed a motion with the state court of appeals which she says is separate from the motion filed in Manitowoc.
- Click here to read the motion to hold the appeal
The murder conviction gained national attention after Netflix released its series titled “Making a Murderer.”
