MANITOWOC COUNTY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Denied. That’s what happened eleven days after Steven Avery’s attorney requested new testing of bones in the Teresa Halbach murder case, in another effort to exonerate Avery.
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals denied Kathleen Zellner’s request Friday.
She said the testing would, “…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.”
As of Saturday evening, Zellner’s last tweet was Wednesday, Dec. 26.
Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, are serving life prison terms for the 2005 murder of Halbach.
So far, all of Avery’s appeals have been denied. Dassey’s most recent appeal, to the United States Supreme Court, was also denied.
