Wisconsin: Something Evil Has Been Happening There For Decades: RAV4 and Other Vehicle Sightings in the Steven Avery Case

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

RAV4 and Other Vehicle Sightings in the Steven Avery Case

October 31 - November 3, 2005

Two witnesses who lived on or near Twin Bridge Road in Mishicot contacted the sheriff's office to report a suspicious van parked for three consecutive days at Krueger Road and Twin Bridge Road, an area about two miles north of Avery Auto Salvage. The van was parked there during the day but was always gone in the evening.

This was early in the week that Teresa Halbach went missing.

The one witness described it as a black, four-door van. She also said that, during the first part of the week that Teresa went missing, her dog outside in the pen barked for a solid 20 minutes and she was unable to settle it down.

October 31, 2005 (Monday)

Around dusk on Monday, Paul Burdick sees the RAV4 parked by the old dam on HWY 147. "It was facing northwest and parked facing a tree." Several days later it was gone. He did not report this to the police. "However, the talk around town was some people in the community called in the vehicle to the police."

https://criminaljusticereformjournal.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/exhibits-21-30.pdf#page=75

Between 3:30 and 4:00 PM on Monday, propane truck driver John Leurquin glances up while he is filling his tank and sees a "mid-size green SUV" leaving Avery Road that looked similar to the one he saw on TV (he didn't see it come in; he only saw it leave).

"I seen a green SUV. I can't say it was that one or a different one." He didn't say anything to the police because "I didn't think it was a --a -- a definite that it was hers, or -- and I don't speculate unless I know the truth."

Fassbender got Leurquin's name from the check-in log at the roadblock and called him. Leurquin told Fassbender: "I seen a green SUV leave, but I wasn't sure if it was hers or not." He told Fassbender this occurred between 3:30 and 4 PM on October 31st, which is when he loaded his truck (for the past six years, Monday-Saturday, between 3:30 and 4 PM, he loaded his truck at the bulk plant station near the intersection of Avery Road and Highway 147).

http://www.stevenaverycase.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Jury-Trial-Transcript-Day-19-2007Mar08.pdf#page=122

A 1995 green Jeep Cherokee Laredo, very similar in appearance to a 1999 RAV4, was in a large red metal building at Avery Auto Salvage. Could this be the green SUV spotted by John Leurquin and Paul Burdick on 10/31?

November 1, 2005 (Tuesday)

On Tuesday, Jill Rhein sees a suspicious car parked at the turnaround by the old dam on HWY 147 (the turnaround is across the street from 3405 Main Street/HWY 147, Mishicot).

http://www.stevenaverycase.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/CASO-Crime-Scene-Logs.pdf

November 3, 2005 (Thursday)

Around 8 AM on Thursday morning, Robert Fabian sees the RAV4 backed all the way up at the turnaround on HWY 147 (page 320 of CASO).

http://www.stevenaverycase.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/CASO-Investigative-Report.pdf#page=320

On or before Thursday, turkey hunters in the Richard Drum Forest call MTSO dispatch and report seeing a either dark or green-colored truck parked near the West Twin River bridge on HWY 147 and a man in waders on the trails below (24:30 mark).

Audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RHj9EcUzBfi19ULeBMhGm8tBZgFcgxAr/view?usp=sharing

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrzJQq2EkO4

November 3 or 4, 2005 (Thursday or Friday)

On Thursday or Friday, Kevin Rahmlow see the RAV4 parked at the turnaround on HWY 147 by the old dam. He reports the sightings to Andy Colborn when he runs into him at the Cenex station in Mishicot (affidavit and page 31 of motion).

http://www.stevenaverycase.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Oct-23-2017-Motion-for-Reconsideration-Exhibits.pdf#page=18

On Thursday morning, Ervin Koehnke sees the RAV4 parked in a turnaround just west of Mishicot. "He observed a large hole in the windshield as well as a large hole in the driver's side window."

http://www.stevenaverycase.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/CASO-Investigative-Report.pdf#page=221

Investigators, when they followed up with him in January 2006, reported that Koehnke said: "The one on television wasn't the same color" (pages 350 and 353 of CASO).

"KOEHNKE advised me that he saw a unit parked in the turnaround in Mishicot just west of
Mishicot on Thursday, 11/4/05. He stated the vehicle was parked facing east and that he
observed a large hole in the windshield as well as a large hole in the driver's side window.
KOEHNKE stated when he heard about HALBACH's vehicle missing, he thought, perhaps, this
was the one. KOEHNKE stated, "The one on television wasn't the same color." He further indicated the vehicle shown on television as a result of the preliminary hearing on 12/06/05 did not seem to be the same unit."

http://www.stevenaverycase.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/CASO-Investigative-Report.pdf#page=350

http://www.stevenaverycase.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/CASO-Investigative-Report.pdf#page=353

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Avery's neighbor on Jambo Creek Road, Wilmer Siebert, "became aware through news media that Teresa Halbach was missing and that one of her last stops was at Avery Auto Salvage." From the media coverage he "learned that Teresa Halbach drove a 1999 Toyota RAV-4, blue-green in color."

Sometime before the RAV4 was discovered at Avery Auto Salvage, Siebert "saw a similar vehicle - matching in color, style, and size - drive into the Fred Radandt Sons, Inc. gravel pit on the access road that is just south of his house."

In Siebert's affidavit he wrote: "I remember this vehicle had the same spare wheel and cover on the rear cargo door as Ms. Halbach's RAV4. I saw a white Jeep closely follow the other vehicle down the access road into the gavel pits. The Jeep looked like an older model and had paint chipping off of the hood. A short time after the two vehicles entered the gravel pits, the Jeep exited the gravel pits, again using the access road just south of my house."

http://www.stevenaverycase.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Exhibit-98-Affidavit-of-Wilmer-Siebert.pdf

Dispatch call from Wilmer's daughter, Vicky Siebert, calling for her father, who is reporting activity at the back quarry entrance (26:37 mark):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrzJQq2EkO4

When the RAV4 was discovered at Avery Auto Salvage on the morning of Friday, November 5th, it had the wrong size battery in it. The battery, an Interstate MT-58, fit mid 90s Crown Victorias, which were part of the fleet for the city and county of Manitowoc (the city and county shared a maintenance garage).

The Battery in the RAV4 at Avery Auto Salvage Was the Wrong Size (the Battery Fit Mid 90s Ford Crown Victorias)

"It is my belief there is only one other Manitowoc employee, other than perhaps Lenk, and that is the person who works public works who owned a white CJ5 Jeep. What's interesting about that guy, who I will not name, is he drove a Crown Vic which was within the model years that had Group Size 58 batteries. I just made the connection yesterday and I updated KZ accordingly." - CaseFilesReviewer

When the CASO Flyover video was given by @ken723ken to Avery's defense in January of 2006, they had edited out flying over the town of Mishicot, where the RAV 4 was said by multiple witnesses to have been spotted. Must be pure coincidence right @JButing ?#MakingAMurderer pic.twitter.com/1qdtWY8VvP
— AC (@Rookie1082) January 23, 2019

@CalumetSheriff @CalumetCounty to help clear your name from the crutch that is @ken723ken, please take this opp. to tell the us why only a few mins of video was provided to @jbuting, and why the relevant areas where the RAV4 was spotted were cut out?#MakingaMurderer @ZellnerLaw pic.twitter.com/nYvJhwkKDm
— AC (@Rookie1082) January 24, 2019

2 comments:

magiclougieTuesday, January 29, 2019
[–]kookaburrakook

Some choose to jump to the conclusion that TH is dead or choose to believe the KK fable, but others prefer facts. Therefore, until proven otherwise by KZ, TH is missing.

[–]BMP72

In reality this should be a missing person case. No one can conclusively come to a conclusion that she’s dead. It’s a total frame job by LE. They pinned a murder on a guy with no body, very very very suspect evidence and a sweaty prosecutors made up gruesome tale.

To me that alive theory makes way more sense then the possibility of a random murder at the most opportune time before a couple big shots were deposed in the civil suit.

This case seems like a total set up from the start. I believe the DOJ have a big part in this.

[–]s_wardy_s

TH is still missing until it's proven she's dead, and no-one has done that up until this point in time. But is she missing? I got the impression people were looking for her car, not her... Whoah! Something to chew on.

[–]kookaburrakook

Yep, dead or alive, I think they knew exactly where she was.

[–]goodnewsweek

KK wants us to believe SA and BD are guilty. No one here believes it.

Therefore if KK wants us to believe TH is deceased, I can't believe that either, because he says it.

I don't believe anything KK wants me to believe, on principle as well as because he wants me to.

[–]Mr_Precedent

Kratz wants the focus OFF of the bones because they were planted. If people are distracted, looking for a living woman, they aren’t looking at a dead woman’s bones. Kratz is an embarrassing amateur and it shows.

[–]goodnewsweek

The bones may be in two conditions, firstly, planted, secondly, some one else's. I am hoping its both and KZ can eventually prove both, but the first condition will suffice to hang KK and I would be happy with that.

[–]PresumingEdsDoll

I don’t believe the theory.

But what I find disturbing is that the theory does fit with a lot of the issues which question Steven’s guilt.

Such as the lack of any evidence of any brutal rape or murder. There is evidence of bones which as we now know, have been conveniently disappeared and were never 100% determined to have been those of TH. The lack of concern in the faces of those grieving and those who “hope they find the car” as opposed to TH (I don’t wish to rehash any of that, I just use it an example of some of the red flags)

[–]Ninjasleuth

If TH is alive then they don’t want her DNA anywhere. Nada...they want her true DNA wiped off the face of the earth. They certainly wouldn’t be planting it at a crime scene.

[–]kookaburrakook

I think if TH was alive, they would not have used her DNA at all. So if she turns up in the future (dead or alive) she won't match.

[–]BMP72

Wouldn’t it be fair to say that if she was murdered that is also speculation and a theory? Without a body and without DNA proof that the bones were hers how do we know? I think that’s why KZ wants to test the bones to show that they aren’t TH and probably Carmen’s? I’m sure KZ has known for a while that those bones were given back to the family. She’s playing a snake in the grass and is about to bite them in the ass.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TickTockManitowoc/comments/akv7ae/my_insane_speculative_theory/
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magiclougieSunday, August 18, 2019
Howard Felan's upstairs neighbor on Krueger Road was working on a roof / his roof and saw TH's RAV4. Channel 11 interviewed him and then he freaked out.

MTSO deputy Greg Schetter already knew where this person lived and what he was going to say about spotting the RAV4 because he says the name of the road before the dispatcher tells him (last call on MTSO dispatch audio).

https://www.reddit.com/r/TickTockManitowoc/comments/6b4qfh/guy_named_howard_who_calls_with_a_guy_freaking/

MTSO dispatch calls (around 4-min mark): Deputy Ryan said Channel 11 News is/was in Mishicot and they're saying that Teresa was last seen in Mishicot.

What if Dedering falsified his report and the black van spotted on Krueger Road by two witnesses who lived on or near Twin Bridge Road and Krueger Road in Mishicot was actually a white van?
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"The most common way for forensic evidence to be planted is by re-labeling the forensic swabs." - Dr. Karl Reich, PhD

A former New York City narcotics detective testified in court that planting drugs on innocent people was common practice, a quick and easy way to boost arrest numbers. Stephen Anderson, the former detective, is now cooperating with prosecutors and is spilling the beans on the crooked practice of framings and false arrests, often to reach arrest quotas. “It was something I was seeing a lot of, whether it was from supervisors or undercovers and even investigators,” Anderson testified in Brooklyn Supreme Court. “It’s almost like you have no emotion with it, that they attach the bodies to it, they’re going to be out of jail tomorrow anyway; nothing is going to happen to them anyway.” The Drug Policy Alliance, a group that promotes alternatives to the war on drugs, issued a statement calling the case against the officers indicative of larger, systematic failures. “One of the consequences of the war on drugs is that police officers are pressured to make large numbers of arrests, and it’s easy for some of the less honest cops to plant evidence on innocent people. The drug war inevitably leads to crooked policing — and quotas further incentivize such practices.” - Huffington Post, October 13, 2011

A crucial aspect of Zellner’s effort to overturn Ryan Ferguson's conviction was obtaining two recantations from key witnesses whose testimony placed Ferguson at the crime scene. They admitted to lying after being pressured by police and prosecutors. Zellner has become a standard bearer among civil rights attorneys and has long been known as a fierce courtroom advocate — armed with a recorder-like memory, trial techniques that include videotaped re-enactments of crime scenes and, perhaps most crucially for her clients, an ability to elicit the truth from co-defendants or witnesses who have previously lied about innocent defendants’ involvement in crimes in order to save themselves. Quite simply, she gets people to talk. And to tell the truth. - Chicago Lawyer Magazine, December 2014

“What drives me is the abuse of power—the bullying and the victim. I have such a strong reaction when I see people who can’t defend themselves... When I watched the Avery case, I felt that the attitude toward him by the prosecutors and the state was that he was disposable. It was almost like a class thing. [His family] didn’t matter, they had no power. The longer I watched it, the more angry I got.” - Kathleen Zellner, Newsweek, April 8, 2016

“We are continuing to examine every aspect of Mr. Avery’s case and all of his legal options. We are confident Mr. Avery’s conviction will be vacated when we present the new evidence and results of our work to the appropriate court.” - Kathleen Zellner, The Wrap, January 11, 2016

“There is evidence that already exists in the case that points to a different location and a different suspect. We've got a combination of forensic evidence and a tip from somebody that we've interviewed multiple times that we think is credible... I've never seen a more graphic, compelling illustration of a crime scene that was fabricated.” - Kathleen Zellner, The New York Times, August 18, 2016

During a press conference on August 26, 2016, Kathleen Zeller said: “[In the post-conviction petition] we're going to lay out all of our investigation that we have done that will point to a third party. That was not successfully done at the trial level. I think the most reassuring thing is that we are going to get to the bottom of who killed Teresa Halbach... we're not going to disclose that until we do the post-conviction petition. But I can tell you that the testing we've already done will establish Mr. Avery's innocence. But we are going to do the whole thing; we're going to do every conceivable test. We've been contacted by scientists all over the world, volunteering, offering us ideas. And now we've got it pinned down to the testing we need to do to determine once and for all: was the evidence in the vehicle planted, was the DNA on the bullet planted, was the car key planted, was the DNA on the car key planted? We're going to be able to answer all of those questions because it's been almost 10 years since the verdict and there have been really huge developments in forensic science... Because he [Avery] never made any incriminating statements. The [Dassey] confession has been invalidated. So you're down to the evidence at the crime scene. You're down to the key, the hood latch, the blood in the RAV and the bullet.” When asked, “Do you just have one suspect in mind or are you looking at multiple suspects?,” Zellner replied, “In fairness, yeah, we are looking at multiple people, but we are narrowing it down.” And when asked, “What can you tell us about the suspect?,” she answered: “Nothing. Nothing. Not until I file [the post-conviction petition].”

“Not 1 but 8 plants: bullets, bones, blood, camera, cellphone PDA, key, car + false confession. World's best experts on it. #MakingAMurderer” - Kathleen Zellner, Twitter, January 17, 2017

“There’s always an element of misconduct. Police, prosecutors—They’re actually able to sleep at night knowing they’ve convicted an innocent man. They rationalize it. They say ‘I didn’t convict him, the jury did!’” - Paul Henderson, Private Investigator, May 7, 2013

"My biggest problem with police interrogations is they don't believe anything you say. So right out of the gate everyone is a liar as far as they are concerned. They are pretty much trained to be cynical of society and given power over them at the same time. They claim you are lying, while they themselves lie. To them, the end justifies the means when you’re a police officer protecting the citizenry from the scum of the city." - Reddit

“I think people become jaded when they spend too much time as a prosecutor, or if they first come to be a prosecutor after being a victim of some kind. They start seeing all of the accused as a subclass of humanity that doesn't deserve due process. Then they start watching Nancy Grace, and hanging around with the like minded, until their journey is complete. Unfortunately it is within human nature to descend down these paths to prejudice, to form self congratulating, witch burning mobs, and to rationalize the injustices they cause by dehumanizing their victims.” - magilla39, Reddit, October 11, 2017

"She’s not intimidated by anybody. In particular, she doesn’t have much respect for authority. She has a willingness to challenge and be skeptical of authority. And she has a real compassion for the underdog. Most of the people in prison are dangerous, violent criminals who belong there—she knows that. She’s not starry-eyed about criminals. But she’s not starry-eyed about people in authority, either." - Robert Zellner, January 2018

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rededicated his department to working with local law enforcement on civil asset forfeiture efforts that bypass the need for criminal convictions to seize property—and also bypass state and local safeguards. Forfeited funds are split between federal and local agencies in a lucrative arrangement for everybody but the victims. "Equitable sharing" collaboration between federal and local agencies was suspended under former Attorney General Eric Holder, but the new regime is jump-starting the program. Yes, Sessions promised that "the federal government will not adopt seized property unless the state or local agency involved provides information demonstrating that the seizure was justified by probable cause." But that's cold comfort if the probable cause comes from eager cops planting bags of drugs hither and yon. The evidence—not planted—suggests that police officers don't need more incentive to falsify reasons for slapping on the cuffs. Day-to-day pressures to meet arrest quotas, out-do colleagues, or spackle over errors in judgment seem to have already done the job in spades. - J.D. Tuccille, July 24, 2017

'If I was able to spoon feed an audience for 10 hours facts that I could pick and choose, edit or even create from other clips I could get an audience to believe whatever I wanted them to believe." - Ken Kratz, Daily Mail, February 13, 2017

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