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February 2016
Aug. 2, 1983 Gregory Allen stalks a woman walking in front of him. He pulls his shorts down, begins masturbating, and then lunges at the woman.
The woman gets away and calls the police, who arrest Allen. Allen later calls the woman twice at her home and asks her to drop the charges against him.
The prosecutor against Allen is Denis Vogel. The charges were reduced from indecent exposure to disorderly conduct.
Jan. 3, 1985 Steven Avery was charged with endangering safety and felon gun possession when he ran his cousin, who is also the wife of a part-time Manitowoc County sheriff, off the road and pointed a rifle at her.
When Avery spotted the woman’s infant daughter in the backseat, he backed off. He was later sentenced to six years in prison for this crime.
July 17, 1985 The City of Manitowoc Police Department assigns officers to conduct daily surveillance on Gregory Allen.
He was identified as a suspect in several complaints of prowling, window peeping, indecent exposure and sexual assault dating back to January of 1985 through July 14.
"He is a dangerous individual with a potential for violence," a police report stated.
July 29, 1985 3:50pm Manitowoc PD surveillance on Gregory Allen was interrupted that day. He was unsupervised at the time of the assault of Penny Ann Beernsten.
Penny Ann Beernsten was attacked by a man in a dark leather jacket as she was jogging alone along the Lake Michigan shoreline north of Two Rivers.
The man pulled out a knife and forced her into a wooded area. He sexually assaulted her, beat her and left her bloodied.
At the hospital, Beernsten described her rapist.
Deputy Sheriff Judy Dvorak made a comment that the attacker sounded like Steven Avery despite there being vast differences in hair, weight, height, and eye color.
Because of this statement, Manitowoc County Sheriff Tom Kocourek asks for Avery's January 3rd booking photo to be included in a photo lineup.
Before the photo lineup, Thomas Kocourek renders a composite drawing, potentially from Avery's January 3rd booking photo (Gene Kusche draws the composite).
From her hospital bed, the victim reviews nine photos. Avery's photo was in the middle. The photo line up did not include Gregory Allen.
After she identifies Avery, the sheriff tells her he was going to arrest him.
Three days later, Avery is identified a second time in a live photo lineup of suspects. Allen is not included in this lineup.
Dec. 14, 1985 Avery maintains his innocence. At trial, he produces 16 alibi witnesses. Receipts and employees at the ShopKo store in Green Bay confirmed his alibi.
Avery was inside the store at 5:13 p.m. — 75 minutes after the rape occurred. Still, Vogel and Kocourek were convinced Avery raped the victim.
The jury finds Avery guilty of attempted first-degree murder, first-degree sexual assault, and false imprisonment.
Mar. 10, 1986 Manitowoc County Circuit Judge Fred Hazlewood sentences Avery to 32 years in prison.
Aug. 5, 1987 A Wisconsin appeals court rejects Avery's bid to overturn his convictions.
1994-1995 Sergeant Andrew Colburn receives a call from a Brown county detective stating that he had someone in custody claiming that Manitowoc County was holding someone in custody for a crime he committed.
Sep. 23, 1996 Hazlewood denies Avery's bid for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence that show scrapings taken from under the rape victim's fingernails did not contain Avery's DNA.
Aug. 5, 1997 An appeals court upholds Hazlewood's 1996 decision.
Apr. 3, 2002 Hazlewood grants the Wisconsin Innocence Project permission to conduct new DNA testing, citing scientific advances made in DNA testing.
Sep. 10, 2003 The state crime lab tests 13 hairs recovered from the victim back in 1985.
None match Avery. One matches Allen, who is now serving a 60-year prison sentence in Green Bay for a rape that occurred in Brown County.
The criminal complaint against Allen for the Aug. 2, 1983 beach incident was contained in Vogel's file for the 1985 case against Avery.
Sep. 11, 2003 Avery is freed from prison after spending 18 years locked away for a rape he did not commit.
Back in society, Avery moves into a trailer in rural Manitowoc County with a new girlfriend. He also works at his family's local salvage yard.
Sep. 12, 2003 Andrew Colburn contacts his superior officer James Lenk to tell him about the 1995 Brown county detective call. Lenk tells him to write a report.
Sheriff Kenneth Peterson puts the report in his safe.
Sep. 19, 2003 Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager assigns the Wisconsin Department of Justice to investigate the Avery case.
Dec. 22, 2003 Avery Task Force begins hearings to review police and prosecutorial practices statewide. Steven is the first to testify
Dec. 19, 2003 A DOJ report finds no basis for bringing criminal charges or ethics violations against those Manitowoc County Sheriff's officials and prosecutors involved in securing Avery's wrongful conviction.
Sep. 11, 2004 News segment asks Steven Avery if there is any way you can forgive the people that put you in prison, and he says, “I doubt it.”
Oct. 12, 2004 Attorney Walt Kelley of Milwaukee files a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court on behalf of Avery. The suit seeks $36 million from Manitowoc County, Kocourek and Vogel (both are no longer in office).
August 2005 Steven Avery's girlfriend goes to jail on her 5th DUI.
Sep. 22, 2005 Manitowoc County District Attorney Mark Rohrer deposed for the lawsuit.
Oct. 10, 2005 Teresa's business partner notices that Teresa is getting phone calls that she is ignoring.
Oct. 2005 Legislators move forward on a draft bill to compensate Steven for his wrongful conviction. The expectation is that he will receive $400,000, making it unlikely he'd settle his lawsuit.
Oct. 11, 2005 Lieutenant James Lenk deposed.
Oct. 11, 2005 Sandy Morris deposed.
Oct. 13, 2005 Deputy Judy Dvorak deposed. She admits to saying that the description Penny Bernstein gave of her assailant sounded like Steven Avery.
Oct. 13, 2005 Sergeant Andrew Colburn deposed. He admits to receiving a call from a detective in Brown County that had a person in custody claiming ownership for a crime that someone in Manitowoc was being held for.
Oct. 13, 2005 Sheriff Kenneth Peterson deposed.
Oct. 26, 2005 Chief Deputy Eugene Kusche deposed. He is skeptical that Gregory Allen committed the crime of assaulting Penny Bernstein. He drew the image of the assailant and agreed it looks more like Steven Avery than Gregory Allen. “I am just the pencil” is how he explains why he’s not responsible for the result of his work.
Gene also was asked to provide commentary on his previous statement where he said Tom Kocourek told Colburn “we already have the right guy and he should not concern himself” in regards to the Brown detective informing Colburn of the mistake in 1995.
Gene’s previous statement also said that James Lenk was aware of this call.
Oct. 30, 2005 Teresa Halbach has an encounter with her ex boyfriend Ryan Hillegas. Ryan says he definitely saw her that day, but says he does not recall what time or part of the day.
Oct. 31, 2005 8.12am Steven Avery calls AutoTrader "to request the photographer who had been out to the property previously" to photograph a van his sister Barb had for sale. He gives his sister's name and phone number instead of his own (she is the owner/seller). Teresa leaves a message on Barb's answering maching saying she will be there "around 2 o'clock or a little longer."
Nov. 1, 2005 Halbach doesn't show up to work.
The Avery bill passes the state legislature.
Nov. 2, 2005 Halback doesn't show up to work.
Nov. 3, 2005 Halbach's roommate and ex-boyfriend do not report her missing. The parents report her missing.
Colburn is recorded talking to dispatch and asking them to run the plate SWH582. This plate belongs to the missing person Teresa Halbach as the dispatch says. Colburn then asks "99 Toyota?" as if looking at the RAV4 in front of him and dispatch responds "Yep".
EDIT: There has been some audio clues that the words "the cars here" can be heard in the background of the call. It has not been proven if it is on Colborn's side or dispatch.
He denies being in the presence or seeing the plates/car. Yet, he cannot explain why he called the plate in. He even goes as far to say, "I shouldn't have been and I was not looking at the license plate."
Nov. 4, 2005 There were two helicopters flying low over the Avery lot taking pictures, Eagle ll Rescue and a Police Chopper.
Brendan was informally interviewed by police. When questioned Brendan tells police that he never saw Teresa Halbach after getting off the bus and didn't know anything about her until seeing the news about her missing on TV.
The Halbach family begins looking at TH's phone records and financial transactions (TH’s roommate and ex-boyfriend “guess” her username and passwords and print out records), and they begin hanging/distributing missing person posters.
Action 2 news at 5PM. SWH582 1999 Toyota RAV4 1999 shown in the report.
Teresa Halbach was at
Steven says Teresa Haibach has been there several times in the past year. Steven says that police didn’t ask him for a polygraph but they did ask to come in and check the house, and he let them.
Karen and Mike Halbach interviewed. Karen says “It’s very odd that we didn’t hear from her for 2 days when she didn’t return calls, you know?”
Mike says that after the 3rd stop is when she stopped answering the phone or stopped making calls. “She hadn’t listened to any voicemails after that. She didn’t make any credit card transactions. So we don’t know what happened after that.”
“The grieving process you know could last days, could last weeks, could last years. You know, hopefully, we find answers as soon as possible so we can, you know, begin to hopefully, you know, move on, hopefully with Teresa still in our life.”
Ryan Hillegas, Teresa’s ex-boyfriend to a search group: “If you do find anything, say you find the truck, say you talk to somebody that has seen her or made contact or knows her whereabouts or anything, don’t touch anything. Make s.. It’s very important, I guess. Um, don’t touch anything. Get a hold of either the detective or dispatch in Chilton, and just, you know, tell them you’re really concerned and you found this and they can take care of getting a hold of who we need to.”
Ryan Hillegas appears to have 3 scratch marks on his left hand during the interview.
Mike Haibach interviewed again: “I don’t know what to hope. I don’t know if you want to find a vehicle and you know, she’s there. I don’t know if you want to find nothing and hope that she’s somewhere still, um.. alive. You know, we don’t know what to.. I don’t know what to hope.”
Nov. 5, 2005 10:30am Pam Sturm (former private investigator and Sheriff Pagel's cousin by marriage) discovers Halbach's SUV inside the 40 acre Avery Auto Salvage yard after about 20 minutes of searching 4,000 cars.
She called Pagel directly to say she’s found a RAV4.
She’s asked and confirms that there are no plates on it and that it’s a little covered up. Last four digits of the vin are 3044. She tells the police she’s at Avery Salvage.
11:00am First officer responds, arrives at Avery property.
Sometime between 11am-2pm a command post is set up on Avery property.
After the Pam Strum call: Manitowoc County Officer 1: “Other than the car do we have anything else?” Manitowoc County Officer 2: “Not yet.” Manitowoc County Officer 1: “Is he in custody?” Manitowoc County Officer 2: “Negative, nothing yet.”
2:00pm Special Agent Tom Fassbender arrives and is appointed lead investigator.
Begin applying for search warrants. Search warrants obtained for Avery property - An 8 day search begins. Steven Avery is not allowed on his property.
Officers do “protective sweep” of property - Search with dogs, aggressive dog behind trailer prevents search of "burn pit" area. – Command post debrief - evidence team searches SA trailer - Cadaver dogs hit on TH’s SUV - Searched all 4000 junked cars, multiple times.
Police impound Halbach's vehicle and take it to the Wisconsin crime lab. Ken Kratz leaves at the exact same time as the driver hauling the secured trailer containing the RAV4 leaves for the crime lab.
District Attorney Mark Rohrer in a press conference hands over the investigation to Calumet Count District attorney Ken Kratz to avoid the appearance of impropriety.
EDIT: There has been a lot said about hood latch "DNA", but it was proven in court to be non-blood and in such a small amount that it could have come from transfer. A crime tech admitted that he failed to change gloves after searching Avery's car and before searching the RAV4 hood as protocol dictated.
Nov. 6, 2005 Brendan Dassey second informal police interview without parental consent or lawyer present.
Mike Halbach said: “A hundred percent of my hopes are with finding Teresa. When we last heard she was alive Monday afternoon. And until we hear otherwise that’s what we’re going to believe.”
Junked cars all searched again. Garage searched 1st time (was only swept on 5th). Aggressive dog still preventing thorough search.
.22 Marlin Glenfield semi-automatic rifle seized from gun rack on Steven Avery’s bedroom wall (it beloongs to Roland Johnson, owner of the trailer where Steven lived with Jodi).
Nov. 8. 2005
Human remains found on Steven Avery’s property
Teresa’s spare key (it has been shown that the key found is a valet key...not her regular set of keys...as shown in photos) was found laying out in the open in Steven Avery's trailer inside his bedroom by James Lenk and Colburn (who weren’t suppose to be in the trailer).
In a spot that had previously been checked at least 3 to 5 times and had no prints (not SA’s or TH’s) nor did it have any of TH’s DNA only DNA on key was SAs.
Teresa's license plates were found in a junked vehicle on the path to Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey's residence. William Brandes, a volunteer firefighter, found the plates.
From Sheriff Pagel at a press conference: Investigation is changed to criminal homicide investigation. Pieces of human bone and teeth were found on the Avery property.
The key that was used to start her vehicle was also found in Steven Avery’s bedroom. Re-emphasizes that Manitowoc’s only role was to provide resources when needed. Makes a reference to items being provided and this is the only scope.
Crime lab finds 6 male blood spots in TH's Rav 4 and significant amount of female blood in cargo area.
Hundreds of officers & citizens (including TH’s roommate and ex-boyfriend) search Avery property.
Burn barrel just outside Steven Avery's residence discovered for first time.
Nov. 9, 2005 Authorities arrest Steven Avery for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Steven Avery’s attorney Walt Kelley cannot find him despite making attempts and talking to Sheriff Pagel. (Held without access to counsel and phone call.)
Mark Wiegert and Andrew Fassbender interview Steven Avery about the murder without a lawyer present. Steven Avery denies involvement.
Lab determines bones are human and female
Nov. 10, 2005 Deposition was scheduled for Sheriff Tom Kocourek on this day but it did not happen.
Jerry Pagel announces that Halbach's bone fragments, teeth, camera and cellphone pieces are found in a burn pit near Steven Avery's trailer.
Ken Kratz announces that Steven Avery’s DNA is found on the key and from blood in the Rav-4. (Possible prosecutorial misconduct eroded his right of innocent till proven guilty by his peers.)
Nov. 11 2005 Female blood in SUV matched to TH.
Nov. 12 2005 Law enforcement leaves Avery property.
Nov. 15, 2005 Deposition was scheduled for District Attorney of Manitowoc County Denis Vogel but it did not happen.
Ken Kratz announces that Steven Avery's blood was found inside of TH's vehicle. (Possible prosecutorial misconduct eroded his right of innocent till proven guilty by his peers.)
Nov. 19, 2005 Teresa Halbach's funeral.
Nov. 29, 2005 Scott Tadych is interviewed by police.
Around that same time Tadych was trying to sell Bobby Dassey's .22 rifle to a man named Jay Mathis at work
Jan. 17, 2006 Avery pleads not guilty and insists he is innocent.
Jan. 19, 2006 An FBI laboratory determines that the remains found at the Avery salvage yard are Halbach's.
Feb. 27, 2006 First formal police interview with Brendan, first at the high school then at the police department. (Without parental consent or lawyer present and lied about consent…the officers feed the 16 year old kid every vital piece of information and badger him for hours till he repeats it back the way they like it.)
Mar. 2006 In March of 2006, an employee at the Madison bureau of the lab was suspended for being "intoxicated" on the job.
Mar. 1, 2006 Second formal police interview with Brendan. (Again no parents or lawyer present and same method of feeding info out have kid repeat it back in his own words.)
Another Search warrant issued for Avery property.
Handcuffs and leg irons found.
Taken into evidence: Brendan's jacket, shoes, and bleached jeans.
Two bullets found in garage, one has TH's DNA. (After an initial 8 day search found nothing they come back 4 months later and find a “magic” bullet.)
Mar 2, 2006 Authorities arrest Brendan Dassey and charge him with homicide, mutilation of a corpse, and sexual assault.
Kratz holds a press conference and does a very dramatic reading of the coerced and false confession of Dassey to shock the local viewers into picking sides in this case with false horrors. (Possible prosecutorial misconduct eroded his right of innocent till proven guilty by his peers.)
Mar. 8, 2006 Special prosecutor Kratz also charges Avery with kidnapping, false imprisonment and sexual assault with a dangerous weapon.
Mar. 30, 2006 Scott Tadych in an interview with Calumet County sheriffs department was described as short tempered, angry, and capable of murder.
Apr 3, 2006 Swabs taken from TH's RAV4 hood.
May 13, 2006 Third formal police interview with Brendan. This time at the behest of his Public Defender, who did not attend; and after his Private Investigator coerced\s Dassey into changing his confession of innocent back to the guilty, one they needed to justify all the “magic” evidence in SA’s trial.
Dec. 20, 2006 Dean Strang and Jerome Buting find an 11-year-old vial of Steven Avery's blood. The vial’s seal was broken along with the entire chain of evidence. The seal on the outside Styrofoam box and on the inside cardboard box were both broken. Lenk had signed in the evidence, so he knew it was in the office unguarded.
Jan. 29, 2007 As part of a pretrial ruling, Manitowoc County Circuit Judge Patrick Willis dismisses two of the criminal charges against Avery, first-degree sexual assault and kidnapping.
Jan. 30, 2007 Willis rules that Avery's lawyers are free to tell the jury about the old vial of Avery's blood.
Feb. 2, 2007 Willis denies a request by Avery's lawyers to delay the trial to allow testing on the 1996 sample of Avery's blood to bolster the defense's theory that Avery is being framed by the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Office for Halbach's murder.
Feb. 9, 2007 - March 18, 2007 A jury of Manitowoc County residents is picked to hear the Avery jury trial. The trial is held in Chilton at the Calumet County Courthouse. (On the Manitowoc jury one of the Juror's son works at Sheriffs office!!!!! Another Juror's wife works at clerk of courts office!!!!!!)
The trial included 19 days of testimony from 59 witnesses.
Avery's lawyers contend that Manitowoc County sheriff's officers planted evidence against him in retaliation for a lawsuit Avery filed against the county seeking $36 million for the wrongful conviction.
After being charged with murder, Avery settled the $36 million lawsuit for about $400,000. He needed the money to pay for private defense lawyers in Halbach's case.
Mar 18, 2007 The Manitowoc County jury of six men and six women deliberate for nearly 22 hours over three days. The jury finds Avery guilty of intentional homicide and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The jury acquitted Avery of mutilation of a corpse.
(Reminder Juror's son works at Sheriff's office, Juror's wife works at Clerk of Courts. In first vote, 7/12 not guilty, 2 guilty, 3 unsure. Two bully's get to work and then 12/12 guilty, and it is not hard to guess who the bullies were.)
Apr. 16, 2007 - Apr 25, 2007 Brendan Dassey trial takes place.
Apr. 25, 2007 A Dane County jury found Brendan guilty in the rape, murder and mutilation of Halbach.
Jun 1, 2007 Avery is sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance for parole in connection with Halbach's death.
Aug. 2, 2007 Brendan is sentenced to life in prison. He becomes eligible for parole in 2048 after serving 41 years.
Aug. 24, 2011 Avery's murder conviction is upheld by the 2nd District Court of Appeals.
Jan. 30 2013 A state Court of Appeals rejected a request from Dassey, Avery's nephew, to get a new trial.
Aug. 1, 2013 The Wisconsin Supreme Court denied Dassey's bid to review the case.
Jun 6, 2014 Kenneth Kratz's law license was suspended for four months by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. During the disciplinary hearing, Kratz admitted abusing prescription drugs and being treated for sexual addiction.
A former state prosecutor and victims' rights advocate who tried to spark a sexual relationship with a domestic abuse victim and made sexual remarks to social workers cannot practice law for four months, the Wisconsin Supreme Court announced Friday.
As well as suspending Ken Kratz's law license, the court called his actions "appalling" and ordered him to pay $23,904 to cover the costs of the disciplinary proceedings.
"This was exploitative behavior, harassing behavior, and a crass placement of his personal interests above those of his client, the State of Wisconsin," the court wrote in a collective decision that wasn't signed by any single justice.
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