What a day for Brendan Dassey.
Hours after the Making A Murderer subject had his homicide conviction and 41-year prison sentence overturned, the filmmakers who brought his plight into the public eye have spoken out on the case once more.
In a statement, directors and executive producers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos said the decision to wind back Dassey’s conviction for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach is a “major development for the subjects in our story” that “shows the criminal justice system at work.”
The pair also used the statement to reassert that their coverage of the case, and the intertwining story of Dassey’s uncle Steven Avery, didn’t end with their 10-part Netflix documentary series. They said “as we have done for the past 10 years, we will continue to document the story as it unfolds, and follow it wherever it may lead.”
