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Was Steven Avery Framed By… a Serial Killer?! (‘Making a Murderer’)
I’m a Netflix junkie, and watched the entirety of “Making a Murderer” the week it was released.
I’m also a sucker for shit like “Forensic Files,” so “Making a Murderer” was a 10-hour long dream come true.
Having seen docs like “Capturing the Friedmans” and “Dear Zachary” (I implore you to avoid this devastating documentary that will make you feel like you’ve never felt emotions before), I’m not quick to judge, and attempt to be as impartial as the doc is supposed to be.
Those keeping tabs on the heap of escalating developments now know that filmmakers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi are anything but impartial in their depiction of the Steven Avery case that’s now become a National phenomenon.
The full transcript of the Brendan Dassey confession changes the complexion of the interrogation, nearly flipping it on its head. And other evidence left out of the documentary all point to Avery being the actual killer.
Putting all of the pieces together, one could easily form quite a few scenarios. Could the police have framed Steven Avery unbeknownst to them that he was truly, actually the killer? Was it the ex-boyfriend that quietly vanishes from the documentary? Did Dassey commit the murders with the ex-boyfriend and frame Avery, while the police were also framing him?
It’s fucking crazy. Shit, movies aren’t even this twisted.
So, what if I told you there’s another theory, one that alleges that both Steven Avery and the police were set up? I’m not kidding, and this shit will inspire a feature film if not a dozen more.
Yahoo! shares the below video that hit YouTube in which former police sergeant and FBI cold case task force worker John Cameron thinks he knows who did it.
The video alleges that notorious convicted serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards, pictured above, is Teresa Halbach’s killer and set-up both Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, as well as the local police.
It sound fucking ridiculous, until you look at some of the “facts,” which include the following (compiled by Yahoo!):
- Several of Edward Wayne Edwards’ past victims were murdered on Halloween night. Teresa Halbach disappeared on Halloween night.
- Edwards had killed in Wisconsin before: In 1980, Edwards mudered Timothy Hack and Kelly Drew in what was later dubbed the Sweetheart Slayings.
- Edwards was living about an hour away from Steven Avery at the time of the murder.
- Avery’s new lawyer Kathleen Zellner has already freed one of the men wrongfully convicted of a crime Cameron attributes to Ed Edwards – Ryan Ferguson spent nearly 10 years in jail for the death of Columbia Daily Tribune sports editor Kent Heith. That murder went down on Halloween night.
- Edwards has a history of showing up at funerals and trials of his victims. Cameron contends he’s been caught on camera doing this a few times, appearing in the background of a documentary on the West Memphis Three. As for the Halbach case, take a look at someone Cameron noticed in episode six of Making A Murderer:
The photo is moderately convincing, but the fact that Edwards likes to “cameo” in his productions makes you raise an eyebrow, and the additional fact that Edwards murdered on Halloween adds real weight to this theory, not to mention the locations of the murder and knowledge that Edwards lives only an hour from the Avery residence.
Oh, and it gets even more insane. Like, off-the-rails bonkers.
Officially, Edwards has been convicted of five deaths from 1977 to 1996, including the murder of his adopted son for insurance money, explains Yahoo who adds that “there’s a growing body of investigators that believe he is responsible for some of the biggest unsolved murder cases in American history, including the Zodiac killings, the West Memphis Three, Chandra Levy, and Jon Benet Ramsey.”
It’s all pretty fucked up, and the more people dig the more crazy information comes up. They say the simplest explanation is usually the correct one, but could this be the exception to the rule? Could the filmmakers behind “Making a Murderer” have stumbled upon the greatest set up of all-time? With Edwards now in a coffin, we may never know, but for now you can really get into the nitty gritty over at Yahoo! after you’ve watched the below video.
What do you guys think?
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply saddened to learn that George A. Romero Foundation Founder and President Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has passed away.
GARF shared in a statement on socials, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Desrocher Romero. Suzanne passed away of natural causes on June 24 at her home in Toronto after a prolonged illness.”
The statement continues, “Suzanne was the fierce leader of the George A. Romero Estate and The George A. Romero Foundation. She worked tirelessly to preserve George’s legacy. Her work at the foundation will continue to inspire and live on for generations to come. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Desrocher-Romero founded GARF in 2018, after her late husband’s passing in 2017, and has been a fierce advocate for his legacy and the arts. It was her mission to “strengthen horror as a serious field of global study,” and she was a tremendous fighter on behalf of Romero’s works and supporting new filmmakers inspired by his legacy.
It was Desrocher-Romero who spearheaded the recovery and restoration of The Amusement Park, and, as the person in charge of the George A. Romero estate, worked closely with author Daniel Kraus on completing unfinished novels like Pay the Piper and The Living Dead. She most recently celebrated the restoration of her favorite of Romero’s zombie films, Day of the Dead, and was hard at work producing the upcoming film Twilight of the Dead.
That passionate advocacy led to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero becoming family to Bloody Disgusting as well.
2023 marked the start of an ongoing partnership between Bloody FM and GARF on The Dead, a scripted audio series spanning multiple seasons that saw Desrocher-Romero working closely with the Bloody FM team and mentoring the series’s contributing writers with GARF. To say her loss will be felt internally is an understatement.
“Anytime George Romero is mentioned is good, because what we are doing is to provide a healthy legacy. We’re uplifting his legacy, we’re supporting the archive, and we’re also supporting the Horror Study Center. So, all of these three things are what the Foundation is striving to do. As far as I’m concerned, the more we say George Romero’s name, the better it is,” Desrocher-Romero recently told BD.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of her unwavering enthusiasm for supporting Romero’s legacy and the horror genre, and just a glimpse at how much she contributed to preserving it. She is, in short, an inspiration.
We send our deepest condolences to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero’s family, friends, and GARF.
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