'Making A Murderer' News: Steven Avery's Prosecutor Slams Netflix Show For Portraying Him As Villain
The Netflix documentary series, "Making a Murderer," has angered some quarters, according to the news reports. After seeing the show, some people thought the judicial system failed Steven Avery.
Steven Avery, who was wrongfully sent to prison for 18 years in 1985 due to sexual assault and released in 2003, is the center of the show and everyone thought he is the victim.
So who is the villain? To the eyes of those who sympathize with Avery, basically everyone who prosecuted him.
Is that really how "Making a Murderer" want people to see in the show, that the authorities deliberately put him in the jail? Ken Kratz, one of the prosecutors for Avery's case, thinks that is what happened.
"In the Making a Murderer documentary, they include a media clip about '5 women coming forward,'" he told The Mirror Online.
"They don't tell you that all of those, with the exception of the texting incident (which I self-reported) were fabrications. They never happened. Why don't they tell the viewers those were all untrue?"
Kratz also questioned the Netflix series "Making a Murderer," saying he has been neutral about the case since investigations started. But the news reports following the show were anything but.
"So, the filmmakers knew those allegations were all dismissed," he said. "In fact should have known that I was considering a defamation claim against one of the complainants who went on TV saying I had made sexually explicit messages with her that later was determined to be blatantly made up by her. Just to get her face on TV."
He also demand from the show's producers to justify the way they portrayed prosecutors.
"So here's the question: the filmmakers know those are untrue allegations, but they include them in their movie anyway in furthering their attempts to cast me as a villain. How do they justify that?"
Kratz is just one of many people who slammed the Netflix series, "Making a Murderer." Residents of Manitowoc Area where the case took place were also displeased with the attention they are getting. They think they are already done with it.
"We lived through this 10 years ago," Jason Ring, the president of the Manitowoc Area Visitor and Convention Bureau, said of the Netflix series, "Making a Murderer," according to the news article by the New York Times.
"We made our judgment, and the trial came to an end, and locally most people were in support of that," he continued. "Now it's back - by no choosing or no doing of anyone in this community."