GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – One of the members of the media interviewed for the now controversial “docu-series” “Making a Murderer” says he felt the producers had an agenda.
That Steven Avery was wrongfully convicted in the murder of Teresa Hallbach in 2005.
“I see it as someone who had a conclusion already in mind”
Mike Kinzel, longtime radio news director at WCUB in Manitowoc, and WHBL in Sheboygan, says a rape case against Avery, back in 1985, may have had an element of less than thorough police work.
Avery had a number of run-ins with police in Manitowoc County and investigators may not have looked at other suspects very closely.
“We’re going to get this guy now and kind of put the blinders on”
He was released from prison in 2003 when DNA evidence proved his innocence.
Kinzel believes Avery, and Brendan Dassey, killed Hallbach.
But the flaws in the rape case made it easier for the movie producers to paint Steven Avery in a more sympathetic light.
If he had to do it again Kinzel says he would still do the interview with the producers, but would have done a better job expressing his belief the jury got it right in the Avery-Dassey murder trial.
