Lawyer for Making a Murderer’s Steven Avery to put forward sensational ‘alternate theory’ to explain victim’s death
Attorney Kathleen Zellner has promised a ‘tsunami’ of new evidence in the highly publicised case
THE lawyer representing Steven Avery, the subject of Netflix’s Making a Murderer, is set to reveal an 'alternate theory' this week - which points to a different suspect.
Attorney Kathleen Zellner has previously promised a “tsunami” of new evidence which she hopes will free Avery from prison.
According to , online court records show she has until Monday to file a motion.
Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, have been in prison for nearly a decade for the 2005 murder of 25-year-old Theresa Halbach.
Last week, she told the New York Times, through a new motion, she plans to present new evidence, new theories and revisit old evidence.
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Zellner claims she has proof Halbach was killed somewhere other than Avery's salvage yard and that someone other than Avery or Dassey committed the crime.
In July, the lawyer tweeted that "a tsunami of new evidence is on the way."
Zellner took over Avery's case at the beginning of this year, shortly after the Making a Murderer Netflix series debuted.
The attorney has helped exonerate 17 people of wrongful convictions.
If a motion is filed in the next two days, it would come two weeks after a federal judge overturned Dassey's conviction.
The state has a 90-day window to decide whether to retry Dassey or he will be released from prison.
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