{"id":2034,"date":"2019-09-26T10:30:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T10:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2021-06-18T11:07:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T10:07:24","slug":"making-a-murderer-a-prisoner-has-confessed-to-killing-teresa-halbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/making-a-murderer-a-prisoner-has-confessed-to-killing-teresa-halbach\/tv-and-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Making A Murderer: a prisoner has confessed to killing Teresa Halbach"},"content":{"rendered":"

A prisoner in Wisconsin has allegedly confessed to the murder of Teresa Halbach whose crime which was featured in Netflix’s documentary Making A Murderer. Steven Avery is serving a life sentence for the crime but has always said he is innocent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Steven Avery\/\/ Netflix<\/p><\/div>\n

The unidentified prisoner has claimed he committed the murder in a recorded interview for a documentary, police are currently verifying the confession. The new documentary is called Convicting A Murderer and the whole confession was caught when he was interviewed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Director Shawn Rech told\u00a0Newsweek<\/a>: <\/span><\/span><\/strong>“We haven’t confirmed the legitimacy of the confession, but seeing as it was given by a notable convicted murderer from Wisconsin, we feel responsible to deliver any and all possible evidence to law enforcement and legal teams.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Having been in production for 20 months, we’ve uncovered an unfathomable amount of information and evidence that is leading us to the truth. Our investigation does not end here.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Steven Avery was convicted of the murder of Teresa Halbach in 2007, his nephew Brendan Dassey was also found guilty of being part of a first degree homicide, sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Teresa Halbach was a 25-year-old photographer who disappeared on October 31st 2005. Her last confirmed movements was meeting Avery at his home.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Teresa Halbach\/\/ netflix<\/p><\/div>\n

Steven Avery 2007 trial was played in the Netflix documentary Making A Murderer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Avery’s lawyer Kathleen Zellner responded to the news of the confession on Twitter, writing:<\/strong> “We received the handwritten confession on Saturday. It is worthless unless it is corroborated.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The confession could be false but if verified Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey ‘s convictions could be changed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A prisoner in Wisconsin has allegedly confessed to the murder of Teresa Halbach whose crime which was featured in Netflix’s documentary Making A Murderer. Steven Avery is serving a life sentence for the crime but has always said he is innocent.\u00a0 The unidentified prisoner has claimed he committed the murder in a recorded interview for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":2037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[860,362,1305,965],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-making-a-murder","tag-netflix","tag-netflix-news","tag-tv-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2038,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/2038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/entertainment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}