Issue 37 of Auto Trader magazine (September 15-21, 2005) in the bottom left of the image above was not on Avery's desktop when his desk originally was photographed on November 5th.
Additionally, the Zander Road for sale sign in the top right of the image above was not on the shelf above the printer when Avery's desk originally was photographed on November 5th.
Issue 37 of Auto Trader magazine was not on Avery's desk and probably was not in his trailer at all. The only Auto Trader magazine on Avery's desk was issue 40, which
was on a shelf to the left of his desk (close up of issue in bottom
right of the image above).
Avery's desk before issue 37 of Auto Trader magazine and the Zander Road for sale sign were planted
When issue 37 of Auto Trader magazine and the Zander Road for sale sign were planted, the planter(s) moved items around on Avery's desk. A Boat & Bike Trader
magazine originally was on the desktop, in front of Avery's computer screen, but was moved in front
of his printer.
Avery had a notepad in which he had written phone numbers plus a
note, "back to patio door." The planter(s) used Avery's notepad to copy his handwriting. The planter(s) wrote Teresa's phone number above "back to patio
door" (notice in the image below that the ink doesn't match).
The black marker that was on top of the Boat & Bike Trader magazine most likely was used to write Teresa's phone number on the back of the Zander Road for sale sign.
On November 5th, Avery's trailer was searched from 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. by
Manitowoc County sheriff deputies Lenk, Colborn and Remiker and Calumet
County sheriff deputy Tyson. Remiker wrote that at 21:48 hours he located "a for sale sign on the right side of the desk area, as well as an Auto Trader magazine on the desk area" (MTSO, page 10).
Issue 37 of Auto Trader magazine, which was planted on Avery's desktop, could have been the one that Teresa Halbach had given JoEllen Zipperer on October 31st. It had been collected into evidence when Dedering, Remiker and Colborn visited the Zipperer residence on Thursday, November 3rd (CASO, page 107).
Close-up of issue 40 of Auto Trader magazine on a shelf of Avery's desk
Before the planter(s) staged items on Avery's desk, there were two issues of Boat & Bike Trader and one issue of Auto Trader, issue 40, on Avery's desk (image above).
Issue 37 of Auto Trader magazine, in the bottom left corner of the first image above and on the left side of the image below, was planted on Avery's desktop to "prove" that Teresa had given Avery the same issue of the magazine that she had been given JoEllen Zipperer on October 31st. Why? Because the State didn't have hair, DNA or blood evidence that "put Teresa in Avery's
trailer," so Kratz had to rely on an Auto Trader magazine and an Auto Traderbill of sale to "prove" that Teresa had been inside Avery's trailer.
Ken Kratz at Avery's trial:
The Defense argued that there was no blood found in the trailer. Since Teresa wasn't killed in the trailer, there shouldn't be. But what was found in the trailer is extremely important. They found the very same Auto Trader magazine, the very same type of bill of sale that we put in this exhibit, that's from Mrs. Zipperer, the very same Auto Trader Magazine, very same bill of sale. Teresa was in that trailer. She was in the trailer, but she was not killed in that trailer.
She was killed in Steven Avery's garage. There's two things that
are most reactive with luminol, one is human blood and the other is
bleach. We have heard about just to the left and just to the back of
this tractor a large area that lit up or glowed very brightly. Mr. Ertl
testified about that, that the two things that light up, it wasn't
blood, but it was, in fact, bleach.
Ken Kratz at Avery's trial:
Right
after she is done with Mr. Schmitz, she goes to the Zipperer residence,
sometime between 2:00 and 2:30. In fact, you will note from the calls
and the testimony later from the cellphone people, that at 2:12 a call
is made to the Zipperer residence.You heard some reference to that.
It
may have been lost in some of the other testimony, about Teresa being
lost and on her way. But Teresa finds her way there. And we know that
about 2:15 or so, she does her photo shoot at the Zipperer's. We also
-- excuse me -- We also know, just like the Schmitz photo shoot, just
like every other photo shoot that you have heard testimony about, that
it lasts 10 minutes.
She leaves an Auto Trader book. She leaves a receipt, which is actually called a bill of sale. These things are particularly important. [Kratz is lying, the receipt and bill of sale are two different things.]
You will see testimony later, or you will see exhibits later, that were seized from Mr. Avery on the 5th, that exactly the same Auto Trader magazine is found on his computer.Exactly the same kind of bill of sale is found. So the significance, or the habit, if you will, of these contacts, become critically important.
The Zipperers were a cold call telemarketing lead. JoEllen Zipperer didn't pay for an advertisement at the time Teresa stopped to take the photo. Instead of giving her a receipt and current issue of Auto Trader magazine, Teresa gave her a packet containing an older issue of the magazine (September 15-21, 2005, issue 37), a bill of sale, and a for sale sign. She also told JoEllen that if they decided to place the ad in Auto Trader, she needed to call the office to authorize the ad and make payment.
Avery was a repeat customer (his last photo shoot was on October 10th) who paid Teresa $40 cash, up front, at the time of his photo shoot on October 31st. He was a repeat customer who paid up front, so he was a priority customer. Because Avery was a priority customer, he was given a current or more current issue of Auto Trader magazine. Because Zipperer was just a potential customer, who didn't pay when
Teresa showed up to take the picture (she didn't authorize the ad or make payment), she was given a packet that contained an older issue.
Marinette County Detective Anthony O'Neill reported on his November 5, 2005 interview with Avery that "he told me that Teresa Halbach, as in the past, had
given him a copy of the current Auto Trader magazine" (page 2). Avery also told O'Neill that
after his business transaction with Teresa he went inside his trailer and
dropped off the magazine. O'Neill wrote:
"As
our conversation continued I asked Steven if he had ever been inside of
Teresa’s vehicle at all and he told me “I might of touched the door”.
When asked to explain he said “all different places depends how it is”.
Steven went on to explain further in more detail, saying that when
Teresa got inside the drivers side (seated in drivers seat) to get the
Auto Trader magazine for him he had been holding onto the drivers side
door (outside, top or side) up until she handed him the magazine and he
had then left and returned back to his trailer home, dropping off the
book, then going over to his sisters home to see if Bobby was home but
finding that Bobby was already gone."
The above conversation with O'Neill starts at 30:03 in the video linked below:
Kratz: There isn't a question about who is responsible for the death and the mutilation of Teresa Halbach.
As we know the charges of Kidnapping and First Degree Sexual Assault
were dismissed before the trial even began, and the charge of False
Imprisonment was dropped after Kratz called his last witness but before
closing arguments.
The
boys in the club were no doubt concerned come time for closing
statements - almost every charge listed in the amended complaint had
been inoculated.
Due to Strang and Buting discrediting the gory
story Fassbender and Wiegert put forward, Kratz needed to change the theory of the
crime for Avery's trial. Of course, this only slightly benefited Steven,
and did not benefit Brendan at all.Recall Brendan was convicted for
raping and killing her in the trailer while Steven was convicted for
killing her in the garage.
[–]Whiznot
People almost universally view the way Avery was convicted as unjust.
There is no argument there. The argument is over actual guilt or
innocence.
I've slowly come around to thinking something was fishy about Avery's defense. In subtle ways, Strang and Buting meekly acquiesced in favor of injustice.
Real defense lawyers would never participate in a sham trial. Strang and Buting are not who they pretend to be but, man, they were great actors.
Consider the following. Strang and Buting had the information showing that Halbach's cell phone pinged a remote tower when she was supposedly being raped and murdered by Avery and Dassey. Why did Strang and Buting (and their only private investigator, former sheriff's lieutenant Pete Baetz) ignore the single most exculpatory fact?
Only LE think Avery got a fair trial given the fact that two of the jurors were intimately connected to Manitowoc County. One of those jurors was a part time MTSO deputy. The trial was a sham. After the defense empaneled the two Manitowoc County employees on the jury, Strang and Buting were free to mimic a real defense with the certainty that there could not be an acquittal.
The trial was a sham from the beginning. I think Avery turned against Strang and Buting after Zellner explained how his trial was fixed.
"I have never liked the mystery surrounding the gentleman's agreement. Anything the prosecution fought to keep the Jury from hearing was no doubt important to uncovering the truth."
I'm in 100% agreement. Consider, Ken Kratz was desperate to keep Brendan Dassey off the stand in Avery's sham trial. Dassey was Avery's alibi witness. The State's extreme and sadistic techniques used to transform Dassey from a witness to a murderer sickened MaM viewers. I cannot understand why Dassey wasn't called to the stand by the defense.
Strang and Buting acquiesced to Kratz's proposed "gentlemens' agreement." Strang and Buting allowed two prosecution plants to be empaneled on the jury. Strang and Buting acquiesced to Kratz's desire to keep the jury from hearing from Avery's alibi witness. Strang and Buting failed to introduce the cell tower evidence that proves Teresa left ASY alive [and they failed to subpoena her original Cingular records, including text messages].
To quote Buting, "what is going on here?"
Dassey was Avery' alibi witness. Surely he could be called by the
defense. Kratz was afraid to call Dassey to the stand. Strang and Buting
shouldn't have let Kratz get his way. The Dassey "confession" as seen on tape was strong evidence for the defense.
On August 31, 2005, The Avery Task Force was taken over and renamed The Criminal Justice Study Commission by AG Peg Lautenschlager and Jerome Buting, who represented the Criminal Law Section of the Wisconsin State Bar. This is a fact.
This group had seated to it: Sheriffs, Judges, Prosecutors, Atorneys, Senators, DCI and State Crime Lab affiliants. Jerome Buting was seated alongside those with a political agenda stemming from Steven Avery’s exoneration.
Do you think out of all Buting’s colleagues, he’s really the only one who thinks Steven was innocent?
Think again.
Peg Lautenschlager distributed pamphlets in September 2005. The content in these pamphlets were drafted by Jerome Buting, working as her lead author. The content covered Jail House Snitches, Tunnel Vision, Contaminated DNA, False Witness Testimonies and Electronic Monitoring of Juveniles.
This was basically a “How To Convict” bible, indicating to her bad apples how they were to frame Steven Avery.
Notice Buting neither Lautenschlager defends these very political agendas that the cops used to frame Steven and Brendan with, and the Commission was supposed to prevent this.
Follow The $ Trail:
Peg Lautenschlager held three Attorney General conferences right before Halbach died.
Lautenschlager has access to every department that would work The Halbach Investigation and paid them off in advance with money from settling numerous civil suits as the Attorney General.
There was no way Steven Avery was winning a civil suit for $36,000,000 as long as she was the protector of the DOJ Budget.
She took over The Avery Task Force and renamed it because her hate towards Steven Avery became personal.
After Steven was arrested, and the coercion was in place of Brendan Dassey, Lautenschlager made certain her lead author Jerome Buting was assured a spot on the defense counsel to clean up after her.
Jerome Buting was there to only compliment the prosecutors in a very high political conviction.
Jerome Buting was attached to Lautenschlager even at the time Steven hired him. This is a fact.
Avery’s Trial was rigged on both ends.
Police reports: Only SA suspect but BIG RED FLAGS on others. Must have to do w/BIG GREEN DOLLARS. #MakingAMurderer — Kathleen Zellner (@ZellnerLaw) February 8, 2016
Zellner Tweet - Eyes Wide Shut - Time We Saw S. Avery - Elitist Issues
A gentleman from Manitowoc County, Dave Begotka, has posted three videos to YouTube,
in which he explains that he was jetskiing by the beach in 1985
when Penny Beernsten was assaulted. Avery was convicted of that assault;
he went to jail for 18 years and then was exonerated, thanks to DNA
evidence. On YouTube, the man who saw Beernsten on the beach that day says
that there was something fishy going on; he seems to think the assault
actually was connected to the alleged sex club, but pinned on Avery. He
believes that many prominent businessmen, cops and school employees were
part of this secret sex club. He claims that a month or two after the attack, he was shown
Polaroids of (naked) members of the club and was encouraged to join.
The club threatened him because he refused to join, and he suspects
them of ruining his business and murdering his manager—a woman who died
under suspicious circumstances. Her boyfriend was falsely accused of
shooting her, but then the death was ruled a heart attack.
Steven Avery had no particular reason to rape and murder a woman on Halloween. But Halloween would be the #1 day for a satanic sex cult to have a
ritual sacrifice, even if it was just some goth kids playing wannabe
devil worshipers “for fun.”
“I think the sex cult theory is incredibly interesting, especially
since it later is revealed that [Calumet County district
attorney/special prosecutor Ken Kratz] was sexual harassing a bunch of his clients and had to check into sex/prescription drug rehab!”
For years Dave has been sharing this information both off line and on
the internet. What follows is a detailed statement. The bulk of it is
from Dave about his direct experience and thoughts on what happened.
Dave dictated the statement and his wife, Sandra, transcribed it. The
last few paragraphs regarding Halloween 2005 include events that both
Sandra and Dave were involved with.
Assault in 1985
On the afternoon of July 29th, 1985 Dave was riding a jet ski with a
friend on Lake Michigan just off the shoreline of Two Rivers, Wisconsin.
Two Rivers is a small town in Manitowoc County located adjacent to the
city of Manitowoc. There’s a large, sandy public beach at this
location with a jet ski launching area.
Dave was attentive to what was happening on the beach & road due
to the fact that residents in the area had been complaining to police
about noise from jet skiers. That day he noticed what struck him as
extra activity on the road next to the beach. He observed several city
of Two Rivers squad cars and at least one unmarked county Sheriff’s
vehicle. (Dave knew the unmarked cars – anyone could drive by the Sheriff’s open lot and see them).
While out on the water Dave saw a man speaking to the friend he was
hanging out with that day. He thought it might be a cop. So he rode
his jet ski into the beach to find out what was going on. The man who’d
been speaking to Dave’s friend had left. Dave’s friend told him that
the guy (who turned out to be Penny Beerntsen’s husband) said he was
going to call the cops.
Dave’s friend explained that the man was
concerned about his wife who had been jogging north on the beach. She’d
not returned in the time frame he expected and he’d not been able to
locate her. Mr. Beerntsen was gone for only a short time and then
returned to the beach. At the same time a Two Rivers Police officer
named Charlie Clough (sp?) arrived. Dave had seen Charlie Clough
driving through the area earlier. The two approached Dave and his
friend. Mr. Beerntsen suggested that Dave could ride his jet ski up the
shoreline to look for his wife. The police officer said he didn’t feel
that Dave needed to do this. However, Dave thought it made good sense
to go look and so he did.
Dave rode the jet ski north along the shore. As he traveled away
from the launch area he observed a man and a woman walking north on the
beach carrying a white towel. Dave didn’t know their names but he
recognized them as being local. They were on the beach in the area
where there are houses close by. The lay of the land is as such:
Heading north from the municipal beach in Two Rivers there is a
residential area for about ¼ mile. After that there are no houses close
to the beach – it is state land which consists of beach, dunes, a strip
of swampy forested area, and then a road (county hwy O).
Dave proceeded on the jet ski for about 6 miles north along the
shoreline until he arrived at Molash creek. This did not take long as
the jet ski could go about 30-35 mph. Near the creek Dave saw another
man and woman so he pulled in to speak to them. He explained he was
looking for a woman jogging down the beach…had they seen her? They
stated “Yes”…they had seen her. She’d run past them and then turned
back to the south jogging towards the public beach in Two Rivers.
Dave again took off on his jet ski headed south. Dave estimates he
rode about 4-5 miles when he saw a woman in a mad run from the sand
dunes. She was running as if for her life. Her swimsuit top was
missing and she was covered in blood.
The couple Dave had seen earlier
walking with the white towel were sitting on the beach in front of the
location where the woman (Penny Beerntsen) was running. They were
looking at Dave. He pointed to the dunes behind them as he was driving
towards the shore. At this point the couple on the beach saw Ms.
Beerntsen. Dave drove his jet ski up onto the beach so fast that he
lost control and was flung off. He got up and was on the scene as Ms.
Beerntsen ran past him to the couple who covered her with the towel.
Around this same time Mr. Beerntsen and Two Rivers police officers,
Charlie Clough and Bill Bero (sp?) ran up. Ms. Beerntsen was embraced
by her husband and was sobbing and very upset. Dave asked the police
what had happened. They told Dave she was assaulted by a man.
Dave
grew up in the area and was very familiar with the trails between the
beach and the road. His first thought was to go after whomever had done
this to the woman and catch the guy or at least get a license plate
from any cars that might be on the road. So he took off running up the
dunes. The dunes were high enough that a person standing on the beach
could not see over them to the area beyond.
As Dave crested the first
dunes the police behind him were frantically yelling “NO, NO” and for
him to stop and return to the beach. Dave halted on top of the dune and
it was at this point he witnessed several men in the area behind the
dunes. One man was to the south of Dave about 20-30 feet. This man was
lying prone on the dune peeking over the top toward the scene on the
beach. Dave isn’t positive but thinks he was wearing a suit (like a
business suit). Another man was standing about 20-30 feet to the west of
Dave. He got a good look at this man. He appeared to be picking things
up from the ground but stopped when he saw Dave. Dave says he was
bug-eyed, mouth gaping open with surprise as they made eye contact. He
also looked a lot like Gregory Allen. (Of course Dave did not know
about Gregory Allen at the time. However, after seeing his picture
years later Dave immediately said that he looked like one of the guys he
saw in the dunes.) Closer to the woods (further west from Dave) there
were a few other men who seemed to be walking in the direction of the
woods. All the people were dressed in plain clothes. No uniforms.
The officers behind Dave were greatly agitated and yelling at him, so
Dave turned and walked back down to the beach. The officers there told
Dave that Ms. Beerntsen had been “passed out” and that they (the
police) had people over there and they didn’t want Dave to mess up the
crime scene.
At this point Dave got back on the jet ski and proceeded south to the
Two Rivers public beach. Ms. Beerntsen was escorted down the beach to
an ambulance that was waiting. Dave doesn’t recall filling out an
official statement but does remember the cops implying that he (Dave)
didn’t need to do anything further because he didn’t witness anything
significant.
The Beerntsens later sent Dave a thank you note and gift
certificate for use in their candy store in Manitowoc.
Dave learned
through the media that Steven Avery had been charged in the assault and
details that were presented to the public. He also heard talk from
locals that the “Good Ole Boys” club were taking care of the situation
to make sure that Steven Avery was sent to prison.
Naked Pictures – The Club
Not long (a month or two) after the incident on the beach Dave was at
Two Rivers Tire and Muffler where he worked. A co-worker approached
Dave and said a man (he called him by his name) wanted to speak to him.
This man was and is a very prominent member of the community.
SIDE NOTE:We’ve
not stated this person’s name. We feel this individual is very
influential, having held office in local and state politics and we are
concerned about back lash.
This man spoke to Dave and told him that “We” would like to invite
you to join a special men’s club. He showed Dave some photographs. In
them were naked men, some of whom Dave recognized. There were at least 2
high school teachers and a junior Ramblers football coach. They
appeared to be engaged in sexual acts. There were multiple men in each
photo…like some kind of group thing was going on.
The guy told Dave
that club members met at various hotels and venues in the area and not
to worry…sometimes they got girls. He stated that many business owners
and prominent people were in this club and that it was advantageous to
be a member. He said Dave should come and talk to him to let him know
if he wanted to participate.
Dave was freaked out by this (he was 19 at
the time) and didn’t know what to say. He put the guy off and said
he’d get back to him. Afterwards Dave recalls feeling stunned. He was
mystified as to why this guy would show him these pictures and invite
him to join this “club”. It was extremely weird.
First Learning About a “Club”
Now we’re going to go back in time to describe incidents that
happened when Dave was a kid. He feels that they also relate to this
“club” and are relevant to painting a picture of the culture that is
part of the Manitowoc county area.
On several occasions when Dave was between 4 and 8 years old he was
the victim/witness to domestic violence. These acts were committed
against his family by a police officer. In one of the last and most
dramatic of these incidents Dave and his family (single mother and
younger sister) were forced to go into hiding because the police officer
who committed the acts could not be located. Dave and his family left
town and hid out at some sort of Catholic affiliated retreat in northern
Wisconsin. Despite the police, a priest, several nuns, and a guidance
counselor being involved and aware of the specifics of the incident, the
events seemed to get covered up. It was later implied to Dave not to
worry…the “Good Ole Boys Club” had taken care of it.
Fast forward to Dave’s freshman year in High School. After Dave quit
football two boys on the team began to bully Dave. One of the boy’s
father was rumored to be a big shot in this “Good Ole Boys Club”. These
two began spreading rumors about Dave’s mother. They said that the
boy’s father (the one rumored to be in the “club”) had made derogatory
claims regarding Dave’s mom. The stigma of this followed Dave
throughout his school days.Later on in the 90s Dave has another run in
with this father in regards to the club…keep reading.
Eagles Club Aerie 706, 823 Hamilton Street, Manitowoc, WI
The location of Dave's Dungeon, 2013 Hamilton Street, Manitowoc, WI Dave’s Dungeon
In 1986 when Dave was 20 he bought a bar in the city of Manitowoc on 21st
& Hamilton Streets. The bar was called Dave’s Dungeon. It was in
the basement of a building the top portion of which consisted of
apartments. The place wasn’t open more than a few weeks and a man came
in while Dave was bartending. Dave didn’t know the guy. He sat at the
bar and ordered a few beers. He explained to Dave that he was sent by
the “club” to speak to him. He went on to say that Dave needed to go to
the basement of the Eagles Club (located in Manitowoc) in order to join
this club. He didn’t say who Dave was supposed to see…just where he
should go. He was insistent that Dave must join this club. Dave asked
him why. Why should he be interested in joining this?The guy then
explained how it worked. Essentially he described racketeering to
Dave. He didn’t call it that…but it was the textbook definition. Dave
told this fellow sure….just to get him to leave him alone. But he had
no intention of going to join anything.
Time passes. A month or two goes by. Into the bar walks the junior
Ramblers football coach. This was one of the naked guys in the pictures
Dave was shown after the assault on the beach. The guy is friendly to
Dave but starts reeling off the same speech as the man who’d been in
there before. Dave needed to go to the Eagles club and join this
“club”. Dave has the Ah Ha moment…this football coach guy was in the
naked pictures…this is all part of the same “club”. This reinforces
Dave’s desire NOT to become involved with whomever it’s so important he
go see in the Eagles basement. Dave blows the guy off, telling him sure
he’ll go down there. Not!
Over the course of the year that Dave was actively tending his bar
the same guy from the naked photos comes in several times. On each
occasion he adamantly requests that Dave go join this club. He
practically begs Dave. Telling him things such as, “You don’t want to
get on the wrong side of these guys”.
Finally the last time Dave
encounters this fellow he becomes belligerent. He starts yelling and
waving his fist at Dave. Before storming out of the bar he tells Dave
he’d better take care of joining or else “something is going to
happen”. There were other people in the bar at the time who witnessed
this. They even asked Dave what the guy’s problem was.
Something to add is that almost immediately after Dave opened the bar
there had been one problem after another. Three different people were
suing him. The city authority on housing was getting after him about
the apartments in the building. There were burglaries and vandalism. It
may have just been bad luck. But Dave wonders now if it could have
been related to him refusing to join this “club”.
Mary Ann
About a year after Dave opened the bar he hired Mary Ann Dehne. Mary
Ann had operated a bar called Pat & Mike’s just down the road from
Dave’s Dungeon. She began bartending and then proposed managing the
bar. Dave was pleased with the job she did and she took over the bulk of
day to day responsibilities.
Mary Ann began reporting to Dave that a
few men were repeatedly coming in and harassing her. She told him they
were telling her that Dave had to join the “club”. Dave told Mary Ann
to blow them off. On the last day Dave spoke to Mary Ann in person she
said she was sleeping with a gun because she was so fearful of these
people. Dave suggested they go to the police to which Mary Ann
responded, “They are the police.” Dave was preparing to travel to
upstate Wisconsin on a hunting trip so he told Mary Ann he’d figure out
what to do when he returned.
On Nov 15, 1988 Dave set off on his trip.
He was gone for about a week and half. During that time he was
unreachable by phone. Upon his return his mom told him that Mary Ann had been found dead in her apartment (in Manitowoc) on the day Dave
left. He couldn’t believe it. He called a friend to go with him to
Dave’s Dungeon. The bar was a mess and ransacked. It looked like it
had been the scene of a big party. Everything of value was gone. All
the liquor, beer, many fixtures, money.
Mary Ann’s boyfriend (Dave doesn’t remember his name) happened to
drive by the bar and saw Dave’s car parked outside. He stopped in and
explained to Dave that he’d been the one who found Mary Ann. He came
home and discovered her lying in bed, covered in blood, dead, with a gun
on the nightstand. The boyfriend claims he called the police and when
they showed up they immediately handcuffed him. They suspected he killed
her due to all the blood. He wasn’t cuffed for long and they released
him. He told Dave they deemed the death a heart attack. Dave didn’t
get further details about that incident.
The boyfriend went on to tell
him about the huge, free for all party that had taken place. It had
occurred the weekend after Mary Ann’s death. He said he didn’t know who
opened the bar and/or started the party but apparently there were
possibly hundreds of people there.
After this Dave decided to go talk
to Mary Ann’s teenage son. He didn’t provide any useful details
either. Dave did contact the police to report what had happened at his
bar. He was informed there was nothing that the police could do. Dave
was forced to declare bankruptcy and that was the end of Dave’s
Dungeon.
In the years after Dave crossed paths with individuals who
claimed to have been at this party. Several times he heard that people
from the “club” were at the party giving everything away. So was this
the “Something is Going to Happen” that Dave was promised by the naked
football coach guy?
Another Invitation
In the mid-90s (estimates it was 1995) Dave again experienced a brush
with the “club”. He’d been invited to a local supper club (bar &
restaurant) by friends. He suspected these friends were knowledgeable
about the “club” and he’d recently been asking them about it. They’d
consistently avoided answering.
On this night after the restaurant
crowd had thinned the friends told Dave they had a surprise for him.
They led him over to some people sitting at another area of the bar. As
he approached a man introduced himself. It turned out he was the
father of the kid who’d spread the rumors about Dave’s mom in high
school. This guy said he wanted to invite Dave to join a special club.
After realizing who the guy was Dave told him to get bent. He also
confronted him about the rumors regarding his mom, and the harassment he
and Mary Ann had been subjected to by this “club”. The man seemed
stunned and Dave headed out of the place. His friends caught up with him
at the door and told him “he had to go back”. They were adamant that
Dave should make nice and that he couldn’t refuse this invitation. Dave
asked them why he should. They said for jobs/work/money. He explained
why he had no use for the guy handing out the invite and basically told
them no thanks and he left.
Steven Avery Again
Steven Avery gets exonerated for the assault on the beach. He’s
released from prison on September 11, 2003. Dave sees this playing out
in the media and can’t believe it. Once again the events he witnessed
on the beach that day in 1985 are fresh in his mind.
As time passes
Steven Avery files his lawsuit, etc. Dave and Sandra follow the news
coverage. Dave looks forward to further investigation into the crime on
the beach. He’s always felt there was something off about the things he
saw that day. That along with all that Dave has experienced regarding
this “club” is certainly enough to have him very curious about what in
the hell is going on in the community.
On the evening of October 31,2005 Dave and Sandra load
their bicycles into the back of their truck. They drive from their home
in Two Creeks to Two Rivers where they park by Walsh Field and unload
the bikes. They ride around town checking out the Halloween decorations
and getting some exercise.
As they are heading back to their truck
they pass through the parking lot of Patsy’s Hwy 42 Mobile Mart [in Two Rivers]. At the
gas station Dave spots Steven Avery. Dave says to Sandra, “Look,
there’s that Steven Avery.” The two stop their bikes on the edge of the
gas station parking lot and watch him for a few minutes. He’s driving a
dark colored larger Ford truck. He’s wearing a red and white jacket.
He seems to be filling gas cans (the red plastic type). There also
appears to be a blonde female with him. Sandra mentions to Dave that it
looks like Steven Avery is doing pretty good.
Dave and his wife leave
the area and continue back to their truck. Time: not sure of exact
time. It was soon after dark.
Detectives described their search on November 6, 2005 of Avery's truck, a Ford 350, which was parked in front of his garage (see images below). This truck matches
the description that Begotka gives of the truck (dark-colored, larger Ford) that he saw Avery driving
shortly after it got dark on October 31, 2005. It got dark around 5 p.m. that day. Begotka saw Avery at Patsy’s Hwy 42 Mobil Mart at 816 22nd Street, Two Rivers, WI, filling gas cans (the red plastic type), and there was a blond-haired woman with him.
