Steven Avery’s Lawyer Is Dropping Bulk Hints About A New Leading Suspect

His new lawyer – acclaimed wrongful conviction lawyer Kathleen Zellner, who has a serious condition where she can’t stay away from the press for more than a week – just revealed that among the suspects they’re looking at, one is a man who called victim Teresa Halbach twice shortly before her death, and was recently charged with sex crimes.

The deets are laced within a new profile on Zellner in Newsweek, which naturally has a strong Avery flavour about it.

When asked if there were any new suspects in his case, Zellner replied: “We have a couple. I’d say there’s one, leading the pack by a lot. But I don’t want to scare him off, I don’t want him to run.”

A little while later in the piece, however, and Zellner introduces a new, as-yet unknown suspect while criticising the original investigation.

Newsweek reads:

“Just as [lawyers here to steal ur heart Dean] Strang and [Jerry] Buting claimed at trial, Zellner says there are many glaring examples of investigators failing to look past Avery at other suspects. For example, two days before her murder, about 15 minutes before midnight, Halbach made two calls to a phone number that belonged to a man recently charged with sex crimes in Arizona, records show. “A well-trained investigator, they’d be all over that. And they would have gone and talked to [that man], and they would have interviewed these other people that she’s talking to right before her death,” Zellner says. “She’s like prey being stalked, and that’s [the most likely type of] person who would have been after her.””

Curiouser and curiouser. Meanwhile, just keep an eye on Zellner’s Twitter feed for more Avery updates, because it is literally full of them:

Easy part: planting evidence. Hard part: avoiding scientific detection 10+ yrs later.#MakingAMurderer #Sciencerules

— Kathleen Zellner (@ZellnerLaw) March 2, 2016

SA’s former cellmate doesn’t like him. That always happens when one guy is innocent and the other is not. #MakingAMurderer

— Kathleen Zellner (@ZellnerLaw) February 25, 2016

Cellphone tower records of SA & TH provide airtight alibi for him. She left property he didn’t. #MakingAMurderer #UnmakingAMurderer

— Kathleen Zellner (@ZellnerLaw) March 6, 2016

Tips are great but don’t quit your day jobs bc scientists are going to solve this. Everyday SA moves closer to freedom. #MakingAMurderer

— Kathleen Zellner (@ZellnerLaw) March 27, 2016