Soldato
Nothing sigificant was withheld and all the Generation Why stuff has been explained by the programme makers.
I'm not communicating this well enough - I don't know if he's guilty or not, I wasn't provided with enough clear arguments from both sides to make such judgement and to be honest - it doesn't even matter - regardless of whether he is guilty or not, what was done to him is a crime.
However it's important to understand that prior to this filtered documentary for the armchair detectives like you and me, the entire neighbourhood, public, media and nearly all the people involved in the trial at the time, including people close to Avert and at some point Dassey's defence team, all believed him/them to be guilty beyond any doubt and actively participated in digging the hole under him.
Of course as I watched the documentary the conspiracy theorist in me wanted to scream "OMG, they all wanted to frame the *****!" but the humanist in me begged "please, let this be a failure of his defence team, tell me they just couldn't communicate everything we saw across as well as the documentary was able to and that's why all of those people reached the guilty verdict".
But every time I dismiss conspiracy of silence and sway to "bad defence" corner, I remind myself that even Jodi, his fiancee, claims she was abused and scared of him and believes he murdered that photographer (and you would not believe that at all after watching the documentary). And she's not alone. Every neighbour in this close knit community had either experienced something bad or heard a first hand bad story about him. Family members claimed they were abused by him. So it is highly plausible that they all looked at each other with that "now or never" look and pressed that button to purge the hatch as hard as they could...
As a side note, has anyone ever seen someone look more guilty in front of a camera than the brother and the ex?!??!
Brother and the ex of the victim, right? Brother character is something else - I mean just recall his first appearance on TV. She's missing for like, three, four days, nobody knows what happened and he appears on TV and just says something like - the family just wanted to find her effects so they could move on - as if he was sure, he knew or was told that she was dead..
You said up there that these people behave like it was still eighties. It is eighties over there. I cannot stress enough how closed up, isolated and intertwined that community is. It's like one movie set with the same extras. Ok - get this, maybe it will help - Brendan Dassey. Son of Steve Avery's sister. His biological father, Peter Dassey, is currently married to Lori. As in ex-sister-in-law Lori - Steven Avery's first wife, the one Steven divorced while doing life for rape. But then it seems like a sort of 1940ies honorary thing going on in the area, so for example after their biological father died at the age of 31 Teresa and Mike Halbach's mother married her own brother-in-law - her dead husband's younger brother. Deputy in the Manitowoc County police department Arland Avery, is Steve Avery's biological uncle. Sandra Morris - the lady Steven allegedly "flogged the dolphin" to and then tried to run off the road in a truck, wife of Manitowoc County police deputy Bill Morris, is Steven's cousin. Kim Ducat is her biological sister. Pamela Sturm, the "God showed me the way" lady who found RAV4, is Teresa father's cousin. Almost everyone in this story is interconnected via two, maybe three very short but weavey family trees.
This will not end well...
I think Making a Murderer will undoubtable become a kind of social meme. I think so many people got carried along by it's story while watching it but then start to do your own investigating and you feel a bit silly and are swayed back to a much more rational position.
A lessor version of watching Loose Change and then having a look at the evidence yourself....maybe that is too harsh but you know what I mean.
Did I read somewhere the theory that Avery did it, but wanted to get caught? Is this possible? Did he think he could dodgy a conviction? Did he think/know he would get famous?