MANITOWOC COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) – The attorney for Steven Avery said in a series of tweets on Monday that she’s seeking new testing of bones in an effort to exonerate Avery in the Teresa Halbach murder case.
Avery, along with his nephew Brendan Dassey, are serving life prison terms for the 2005 murder of Halbach.
Testing with a new form of DNA analysis is being sought by attorney Kathleen Zellner in regards to bones found in a Manitowoc County gravel pit.
“This will prove the murder and mutilation occurred in the Manitowoc County Gravel Pit and the bones were planted in Mr. Avery’s burn pit to frame him,” she tweeted. “It would refute the State’s entire theory that she was killed on the Avery property in Avery’s garage and burned in his burn pit. That type of evidence reverses convictions This would be such a huge development that we would expect that a new trial could be granted outright.”
Online court records do not show a motion was filed as of Monday afternoon and it wouldn’t be due until Thursday.
All of Avery’s appeals have been denied to this point and Dassey’s most recent appeal to the United States Supreme Court was also denied.
