Showing posts with label Blaine Dassey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blaine Dassey. Show all posts

Saturday, November 4, 2017

Sacrificing Brendan Dassey


Brendan with his mother Barb and father Peter

[–]GrowingHumansIsHard wrote at Reddit:

I actually am a pen pal of Brendan Dassey [who turned 28 on October 19, 2017].

His IQ is around 70, and he graduated with his GED in December 2015.

He has someone help write his letters because he often doesn't understand questions his fans write him, nor is he that strong of a writer. He will often say his writer had to ask him the question repeatedly in different ways for him to comprehend it.

He is a very sweet kid. He's always wanting to try and help anyone as much as possible. He said he writes to literally anyone who writes him because they deserve a letter back for taking time out of their day to write him.

So if anyone has ever considered writing him, please do so. He loves to hear about where you travel to, tell jokes, and he loves to talk about eating different kinds of foods. He especially loves hearing about pizza and hamburger places he should try once he gets out.

Here is his address to send letters only to:

Brendan Dassey #516985
Columbia Correctional Institution
PO Box 900
Portage, WI 53901

Honestly, I am surprised by the lack of information on a lot of people's parts.

Brendan is very simple. What you see is what you get. I can't imagine he ever did this crime. Not even if he was forced into doing it. He just is so simple. All he wants to do is play video games and have a girlfriend.

I think perhaps sometimes the rest of us look too much into things, when they don't look enough into things.

Was anyone in here part of the Brendan Dassey Facebook group the family set up? They did a live Q&A last year where supporters could ask questions, and Barb and Scott Tadych and family friends would answer questions.

They were asked what their favorite childhood memory of Brendan was; they had no answer.

They asked what his favorite movie was; no answer.

They asked at one point if he was a playful kid who ever hurt himself; they said no.

If you know Brendan you know he hit his head hard on the back of a truck tow hitch as a kid and was sent to the hospital.

It's simple things like those questions that make me wonder, do they even know Brendan?

I was a member of the family's Facebook group and watched that heartbreaking interaction. It sickened me and within a week I was off that Facebook page, never to look back.

They gave me the impression that Brendan was left out of a lot of things growing up.

Brendan often talks about how his brothers were asked to do fun stuff, but he never was.

So the idea of Bobby and Scott hunting without him that day doesn't surprise me.

I feel like Bobby and Scott Tadych have inconsistent alibis because they were trying to make sure they were distanced from the events that took place and that Bobby may have been trying to help Steven Avery's alibi. But they did a poor job at planning.

Scott had only been dating Brendan's mom Barb for a year when this took place, so he may have easily thought Steve Avery was a creeper and belonged in prison. I dunno. I just don't get why people think the brother and stepdad did it.

Is the stepdad a good guy? I don't know, but he sure does know more about Brendan than his own family.

When the family did the live Facebook Q&A session, they couldn't tell you shit about Brendan's interests, life in prison over the years, etc., but the stepdad could tell you stuff. How freakin sad is that? Dude deserves a gold star for at least trying to make it look like he talks to the kid.

In my mind, I just think they were "simple" country folk.

Brendan was a little different than the rest of the kids, and they never paid him any mind.

Lots of people think Bobby and Scott were up to trouble when they went hunting without Brendan, but if you know Brendan, they left him behind ALL THE TIME.

I pray to the gods that Brendan is not returned to that home until massive therapy for everyone is completed. Otherwise, Barb will have him pimped out like a circus monkey on every talk show willing to give her gas cards or stamps. Unfortunately, he will return to live with her.

There have been discussions of having him go on speaking tours to talk about his situation and inspire other people. I personally can’t see Brendan as a motivational speaker. He’s very reserved.

It’s my personal opinion that Barb will try to pimp him out and he will go along with it. Because, to him, he loves his mom and loves the attention he is finally getting from her.

I remember people would send Barb money to help Brendan buy commissary. Yet, if you read his letters, he’d always ask for items, saying he was low on stuff. What was that about?

That’s a whole other can of worms, though, because I believe Brendan was being played by another inmate who was helping write his letters for him. This inmate kept a notebook of details about Brendan's supporters and would stay up till 2 AM typing letters “as BD.” And Brendan would read and approve them. It’s quite a bigger mess than people realize because this inmate's crime is not pretty, and he’s also a registered sex offender.

Brendan has unfortunately been played by almost everyone around him. Again. Just my opinion.

I know how much he adores his mom. He really does. He is always telling me when she will visit and how excited he is. He's a momma's boy, through and through.

I'd be very curious to see the visitor log for Brendan, as I've heard several people close to the family say he was rarely visited. Which is why in the documentary they only show recent photos of Brendan with his family, as opposed to photos of him throughout the 10 years he's been in there. I've only ever seen one photo of him from when he was at Green Bay, I believe during Christmas time. He was approximately 19. Other than that all the other photos with "family" were recent.



Brendan as a child; Brendan receiving his GED in prison in December 2015; and Brendan with stepdad Scott Tadych, mom Barb, and brother Bobby in 2016


Brendan in court and photos of his brother Blaine, 2006-2007 time period

'Making a Murderer': Avery Lawyer Adds Allegations in New Court Motion

Kathleen Zellner filed further court documents, now alleging that Steven Avery's sister Barbara and her husband know more than they're letting on

Rolling Stone
November 2, 2017

There's still no word on when Netflix plans to drop Making a Murderer's second season, but there's been plenty of legal drama in recent weeks surrounding Steven Avery's case. Last week, Avery's attorney, Kathleen Zellner filed court documents that, amongst other legal issues, implicate Avery's nephew Bobby Dassey – older brother to Avery's co-defendant, Brendan Dassey – in the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach. The Avery and Dassey families were reportedly kept in the dark about the attorney's plan to present Bobby as a suspect, and it's provoked shock, anger and, it seems, additional revelations. Yesterday, Zellner filed yet another supplement with further evidence to support both allegations – and all of it came from statements made by members of the Avery/Dassey clan in just the last few days.

In new court filing, attorney Kathleen Zellner says damning evidence shows Bobby Dassey could have been involved in Teresa Halbach's murder

First, a quick refresher: In September, Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge Angela Sutkiewicz denied Avery's request for a new trial in a six-page decision that didn't address many of the issues Zellner raised in her 1,200 page brief. At the beginning of October, Zellner responded with a motion to reverse that decision on the grounds that the record was incomplete at the time of the ruling, and an evidentiary hearing on all the new findings was warranted. Last week, Zellner filed a 54-page supplement that mostly focused on new evidence that Bobby Dassey had given false testimony – which was key to the State's theory that Halbach never left the Avery property — and had the motive, means and opportunity to be a viable alternative suspect.

That evidence included a signed affidavit from a third Dassey brother, Bryan, confirming what he told police during his 2005 interview. "I distinctly remember Bobby telling me, 'Steven could not have killed her because I saw her leave the propery," Bryan's affidavit states. At trial, Bobby testified that he did not see Halbach leave and instead saw her walking in the direction of Avery's trailer. Prosecutors repeatedly emphasized the importance of Bobby's testimony to their case.

Perhaps most damning, however, are Zellner's allegations about the contents of the Dassey family's computer hard drive. Investigators seized the laptop in April 2006, believing it could contain evidence relevant to Halbach's murder. Zellner says that it does – police recovered pictures of Halbach, as well as "many images of violent pornography involving young females being raped and tortured." However, they were all allegedly accessed via the Internet at times when Brendan Dassey was at school and Bobby Dassey was home alone. It's understandable then why the prosecution wouldn't use this evidence at trial, but Zellner believes this further illustrates yet another missed opportunity by Avery's trial counsel.

"There is a paragraph in a police report from 2006 describing what we were able to find with more clarity," Zellner tells Rolling Stone. "All of this demented violent material was there and [the State] found it. [Avery trial attorneys Dean] Strang and [Jerry] Buting received the reports on this violent porn about 7-10 days before trial. Clearly, they should have investigated, gotten a forensic expert and pinned it to when only Bobby was home. But the State had no real interest in outing Bobby's perversions and obsession with dead female bodies – after all, they didn't want the jury to see their star witness was a developing sexual psychopath." (Bobby did not respond to requests for comment when Rolling Stone reached out after Zellner initially made these allegations last week.)

Zellner's new filing includes a new affidavit given earlier this week by a fourth Dassey brother, Brad, Brendan and Bobby's half-brother. (There are five Dassey brothers.) According to Brad, in 2006, Barbara told him that she had hired someone to "reformat" the computer, and specifically to delete "pornography," before the authorities seized it. Zellner has already filed an affidavit from a computer forensics expert who analyzed a copy of the laptop hard drive and discovered that numerous files accessed in the months prior to the murder had been deleted.

"[Barbara] said she did not want anyone to get what was on her computer," Brad Dassey states in the affidavit. Concerned that she was "trying to remove evidence related to Halbach's murder," Brad contacted authorities – but he was never called to testify at Avery or Brendan Dassey trials, and the computer or the pornography was never mentioned. It's not clear if investigators ever questioned Barbara about Brad's allegations, but Zellner tells Rolling Stone, "There is no proof that the State's forensic examiner had the technology to figure out the deletions."

Barbara Avery was credited as Barbara Janda – her now ex-husband's last name – on MaM, but she has since married Scott Tadych, who was also featured in the series. Tadych and Bobby Dassey were each other's alibis, leading Zellner to posit that they both could be involved in Halbach's murder. Her latest filing contends that "additional new evidence continues to develop."

Two of the exhibits attached to Zellner's latest filing are an audio file and transcript documenting a call between Avery, Barbara and Tadych that occurred just last week. According to Zellner, the conversation proves Barbara's "lack of credibility" in regards to the laptop, contains admissions from Barbara and Tadych that Halbach did leave the Avery property before her disappearance/murder, and demonstrates that Tadych "has violent, homicidal propensities manifested by his uncontrollable temper."

On the call, when Avery asks his sister about "all that shit on the computer," Barbara repeatedly denies having Internet service back in 2005 and 2006, which Zellner alleges is a lie, as there is ample evidence to the contrary. Later in the conversation, Barbara changes her tune when Avery says that only Bobby would have been home when the disturbing material was accessed. "Then somebody else was in my fucking house and was on it," Barbara responds, seemingly confirming that the household did indeed have Internet service.

And then there's this exchange, where Avery references Bobby's conflicting statements about whether he saw Halbach leave the Avery property.

AVERY: And he said he left. She left.
SCOTT TADYCH: That's right.
BARBARA TADYCH: Yeah. She left.
AVERY: Yeah.
BARBARA TADYCH: Yeah.
AVERY: Well, he [Bobby] didn't testify for that.



Zellner says this is further evidence that Bobby did see Halbach leave the Avery Salvage Yard on the day of her disappearance, and Barbara knew it and thus would have known that Bobby was lying in his trial testimony. Zellner contends that Tadych's response indicates that either he was also told this information, or he "observed and/or had contact with Ms. Halbach after she left the property." Zellner also included a screenshot of a recent Facebook exchange in which Barbara acknowledges that Bobby's testimony about seeing Halbach walking towards Avery's trailer is also false.

Throughout the call, Scott Tadych uses abusive language and insults, threatens to assault Avery, and tell him he's going to put him "in the fucking ground."

"The phone call captures the great tragedy of Steven's life," Zellner tells Rolling Stone. "The people who should be helping him want him to shut up and quietly accept that he will die in prison. … I ask myself what would motivate Tadych and Bobby to be such obstructionists, and I have reached the inevitable conclusion, as our court filings state, that they were involved in the crime and Barb, was and is involved, even unwittingly, in its coverup. … Tadych thinks he can intimidate us into looking away, but he has only succeeded in placing himself front and center in our investigation. Quite frankly, he is no match for our abilities, experience, resources or boundless commitment to freeing Steven Avery."

Multiple requests for comment from Barbara and Scott Tadych went unanswered, but Avery and Dassey family cousin, Carla Chase, gave Rolling Stone permission to republish a statement she posted in a private Facebook group: "Kathleen Zellner's supplement to the motion filed yesterday is difficult to read. My family appears to have been targeted and pushed to turn on each other, but no one in our family had anything to do with [Halbach's] disappearance. Not Steven. Not Brendan. Not Barb. Not Bobby. Not Scott. Please let Kathleen Zellner do her job and wait to pass any judgement on our family. Steven and Brendan have paid the ultimate price of being locked away, but all of my family has been victimized by this horrible injustice. Barb and her family, all of us are doing what we can to get Steven and Brendan released. Please support our family while we get to the bottom of it."






Photos of Bobby and Blaine and their toys in the 2006-2007 time period


Brendan and Steven Avery in November 2005
JODI states STEVEN has no friends that stop over at the property. She states the only visitors to STEVEN's mobile home would be his sister, BARBARA, and BARBARA's children. [CASO page 84]

We asked BARBARA about an argument she had with STEVEN about selling her red van. BARBARA said she had disagreed with him putting it in the AUTO TRADER because she did not feel she needed to sell it, she was going to keep it for one of her sons who was getting their driver license. BARBARA said she thought it was a waste of money to spend the $40.00 to run an ad for the van. We asked BARBARA how much she thought the van was worth and she said about $1,000.00. We asked BARBARA if she has ever gotten into an argument with STEVEN particularly in the last couple of days prior to 10/31/05. She said she and STEVEN had gotten into an argument and he had told her her kids are stupid and she needs to spend more time with them and be a mom. BARBARA said STEVEN was very demanding and stating she was doing a bad job raising her kids. [CASO page 264]

We asked BARBARA who the other person may have been that was standing out by the fire and she said she did not know; however, BRENDAN did spend quite a bit of time with STEVEN because he was the only child who did not have a lot of friends at the time and he did help STEVEN with stuff around his house. [CASO page 264]
Brendan Dassey with his father Peter Dassey and his half-brother Brad Dassey


We asked BARBARA who the biggest influence in her son's life would have been and she said TOM JANDA was good with her kids and took them fishing a lot; however, he had moved out in October. I asked BARBARA if STEVEN has ever come on to her sexually and she said just stupid comments and pushing and shoving. BARBARA stated she did not feel there was anything unusual or out of the ordinary with her relationship with STEVEN... I asked BARBARA who STEVEN said the handcuffs and leg cuffs were for and she said he told her it was for JODI. I asked BARBARA when JODI was due to be released from jail and she said March. I asked BARBARA if she really thought those items were really going to be used for her and she said no. [CASO page 264]

We asked BARBARA about her son, BLAINE's, relationship with his boss, MICHAEL, and she said it was fine, that he did a lot of landscaping for him and she thought he treated him like a son. We informed BARBARA of our concerns with his boss and the way he was treating him and touching him during an interview that one of the other agents had with BLAINE earlier. [CASO page 264]

The State of Wisconsin took advantage of a vulnerable mother and her teenage sons (she needs to finally tell the whole truth).

The following is the end of Brendan's interrogation on March 1, 2006. It starts around page 670 of the CASO file.
(door opens and closes)
BARB JANDA: Why didn't you tell me? Huh?
FASSBENDER: Barbara give me your coffee, it's in your hands right now.
BARB JANDA: Huh? Did he make you do it? (Brendan nods "yes") I woulda walked out. That's what I woulda did. (crying during pause) Why didn't you just tell 'em, no? Huh?
BRENDAN: I don't know.
BARB JANDA: You knew it was wrong, right? (Brendan nods "yes") (pause) Do you know you can't come home? Do you know where you're going? (pause)
BRENDAN: How long is it though?
BARB JANDA: I don't know. I do not know. (pause) Do I have ta get some him an attorney, or will they do it for me?
FASSBENDER: The court will assign one for him or the state will pay for his attorney if he can't pay for it, but obviously you have a right at any time to try and get him one or get him one.
BARB JANDA: I tried for a public defender not too long ago and I couldn't get cuz l've got a house.
FASSBENDER: Well there's different, different ways that they determine, you know, based on, on what you've been arrested for and stuff like that. There's different levels of, of money that you need, you need, they, they will determine and I don't know what that is or how they determine that. (pause)
BARB JANDA: Are you gonna be OK, are you sure? Huh. Look at me. Why didn't you tell me? Stuff like that is not no secret. I don't care if he told you if he said to keep it a secret, it's still not a secret. I don't keep secrets from yous. Do I? Don't worry about my belly, I haven't eaten in two days.
FASSBENDER: I didn't even hear it. Did you want a sandwich, Barb?
BARB JANDA: No.
FASSBENDER: We have some here.
BARB JANDA: No. I'd probably just throw it up anyhow. Am I gonna be able to see him? Later on, after he gets where he's gotta go?
FASSBENDER: I don't know, ah, on their policies and when they allow visitation and stuff like that. We can check with Mark. He's gonna know Sheboygan's polices or whatever. With, with juveniles there's probably a good chance but I just don't wanna say right now.
FASSBENDER ON THE PHONE: Hello, Tom here. Good how are you?
BARB JANDA: Why.
BRENDAN:
BARB JANDA: Huh?
FASSBENDER ON THE PHONE: It's on for tomorrow?
BARB JANDA: What?
BRENDAN:
BARB JANDA: I said why?
FASSBENDER ON THE PHONE: OK.
BARB JANDA: Mh huh. What did he do to you to make you do it?
BRENDAN: Nothin'
BARB JANDA: Did he force you to do it? (Brendan shakes head "no")
FASSBENDER ON THE PHONE: All right if, if we go in tomorrow and I think we need someone, I'll call you. All right?
BARB JANDA: Mh huh.
FASSBENDER ON THE PHONE: All right, thanks. Bye.
BRENDAN:
BARB JANDA: Mh.
BRENDAN: You don't want to.
BARB JANDA: What?
BRENDAN: I didn't want to.
BARB JANDA: Ohh. (door opens and closes) Are you regrettin' it now? (pause) You had a whole life ahead of you Brendan. Just because he's so demanding, doesn't mean you gotta do the stuff he says. Right?
BRENDAN: Where am I going?
BARB JANDA: Where do you think you're going?
BRENDAN: I don't know?
BARB JANDA: You're goin' to juvie, that's where you're going, to a juvie jail. About 45 minutes away.
BRENDAN: Yeh, but I gotta question?
BARB JANDA: What's that?
BRENDAN: What'd happen if he says something, his story's different? Wh-he says he, he admits to doing it?
BARB JANDA: What do you mean?
BRENDAN: Like if his story's like different, like I never did nothin, or somethin.
BARB JANDA: Did you? Huh?
BRENDAN: Not really.
BARB JANDA: What do you mean not really?
BRENDAN: They got to my head.
BARB JANDA: Huh?
BRENDAN: ......say anything.
BARB JANDA: What do you mean by that? (pause) What do you mean by that Brendan? (pause) I have a question for yous two. Is there any way that l can talk to him. Not him, the other one.
WIEGERT: As in Steve you mean?
BARB JANDA: Yes.
WIEGERT: The only way we can have you talk to him is if he calls you or if it's, you know, you go there for visiting.
BARB JANDA: I won't go there and visit.
WIEGERT: OK. That's the only way. I-I have no other way of, you know, I-I can't hook you up to him or anything like that. I'm not allowed to do that. If he calls you, you can do what you want or if you go there for visiting, you know, that's up to you.
BARB JANDA: Were you pressuring him?
WIEGERT: Who are you talking about?
BARB JANDA: Him.
WIEGERT: What do you mean, pressuring him?
BARB JANDA: In talking to him.
WIEGERT: No, we told him we needed to know the truth. We've been doing this job a long time Barb and we can tell when people aren't telling the truth. And, in my opinion, he'd never be able to live with himself if he didn't tell somebody. There's no way he could've live with that. Nobody could live with that. I think Brendan knows that.
WIEGERT: Brendan, you need to use the bathroom or anything? (Brendan shakes head "no")
BARB JANDA: When are you going out to my house then?
WIEGERT: As soon as we can leave here, we'll go out there. I don't think we're gonna bring Brendan out there though. I-I just don't think that's a good idea. I don't think he needs to be exposed to that or be out there anymore. (door opens and closes) It's not gonna do him any good.
BARB JANDA: So what you're sayin' is if, when he gets out, it wouldn't be a good idea for him to be there, at all.
WIEGERT: I-You know, I can't tell you where for you guys to live, but what do you think? Do you think it's a good idea for him to be next to where this stuff occurred?
BARB JANDA: I-I don't wanna be there, but I can't afford another place.
WIEGERT: I know.
BARB JANDA: I mean, that's $80,000 I owe yet.
WIEGERT: I understand.
WIEGERT: It's a shitty, shitty spot to be in.
BARB JANDA: And nobody's gonna buy it.
WIEGERT: You're in a bad spot an -- and I wish I had some answers for you. If there's somethin' I can do to help ya, I certainly will. (pause) Maybe you should look into movin' the house.
BARB JANDA: I can't afford it.
WIEGERT: We -- who knows, you don't even know what it'll cost, depends on where you move it.
BARB JANDA: Quite a bit. (pause) An extra $16,000 for another basement. (pause) So what did you all help him with? Can I ask? Will you tell me? Brendan? Did you do it willingly? Huh? (Brendan shakes head "no") ( pause) He did tell me one time, Steven, he told me that probably one or two of my kids would not graduate.
WIEGERT: Steven told you that?
BARB JANDA: Yeah. This was before this all even happened. So he must have had it all planned.
WIEGERT: That's very possible, very possible. (pause)
BARB JANDA: You don't know how much hatred I got right now.
WIEGERT: You're right, I don't. I can only imagine. I-I can't even put myself in your shoes Barb, I can't.
BARB JANDA: My oldest son is gonna flip. I can't even tell him. I can't.
WIEGERT: I think you better because
BARB JANDA: I can't. He's on a heart monitor now.
WIEGERT: This is gonna be on the media tonight.
BARB JANDA: Oh god.
WIEGERT: There's no way to stop it.
BARB JANDA: He's not gonna be on, is he?
WIEGERT: Brendan?
BARB JANDA: Yeah.
WIEGERT: No.
BARB JANDA: Well they can't anyhow.
WIEGERT: No, he's not gonna be on.
BARB JANDA: How long do we have to stay here?
WIEGERT: Well, as soon as you guys are done talkin'.
BARB JANDA: No and he's not talking too much so.
WIEGERT: You know, I can leave you alone but this is all recorded and videotaped,
BARB JANDA: I don't care.
WIEGER: OK, All right, do you want to be left alone with him for five minutes or it doesn't matter at this point?
BARB JANDA: It doesn't matter.
WIEGERT: OK.
BARB JANDA: I just don't know if I'm really able to handle it.
WIERGERT: You have to. Barb you have to. You've got other children you've gotta worry about.
BARB JANDA: I know.
WIEGERT And you got Brendan to worry about too. Brendan's gonna need you through this. (pause) OK, let's go. Barb, is this yours?
BARB JANDA: Yeah.
WIEGERT: Let's go in the other room. Brendan, I'll be back, OK? (door opens and closes) (pause) (door opens and close)
FASSBENDER: Did you want another water Brendan? (Brendan shakes head "no") (long pause) (door opens)
WIEGERT: She wants to give him a hug.
BARB JANDA: Stand up. (background voices) (door opens and closes) (pause) (door opens and closes)
JACOBS: Brendan, my name is Dennis Jacobs and I-l'm a detective with Manitowoc County. Do you have any weapons or anything on you?
BRENDAN:
JACOBS: Anything like that?
BRENDAN: Just some stuff that I can give to my mom, like a CD player and that.
JACOBS: That wouldn't be a weapon though. You have like a little pocket knife, anything like that?
BRENDAN: (Shakes head "no") No.
JACOBS: Can you stand up, I just want to pat you down real quick, just to make sure. Well that's nothing that gonna hurt me an, OK that's fine. OK. There's nothin', nothin' else in your pockets at all? OK. You have a shirt, you have a pocket up here.
BRENDAN: No.
JACOBS: OK, you can have a seat.
BRENDAN: .....do somethin'?
JACOBS: Yeah, yo-you can put it back in your pockets too if you want, it's up to you. Whatever you wanna do. Actually if you wanna listen to your headphones, you can go ahead and do that too.
(door closes) (music playing in background during pause) (door opens)
WIEGERT Brendan, this what's gonna happen, OK. We're gonna take ya downstairs (door closes) and they're gonna fingerprint ya and stuff here. (Brendan nods "yes") OK, and then you'll be taken over to down to Sheboygan County jail. (Brendan nods "yes") So, is that your's?
BRENDAN: (Nods "yes") mm huh
WIEGERT: Where did ya have it, in your pocket? Holy Christmas. All right. Why don't we go. OK. Bring that along.
FASSBENDER: ........side or
WIEGERT: OK........
FASSBENDER: Are we going outside?
WIEGERT: No. (door closes)
This is the end of the interview with Brendan Dassey at Manitowoc County Sheriff's Department.






Scott and Barb bought a new home for $195,000 on 5.1 acres, across the East Twin River from the turnaround on Highway 147 (area highlighted in red in the image above); they signed the deed on February 27, 2007 (images below), the day Scott testified for the prosecution at Avery's trial.







Kathleen Zellner filed a "Motion for Reconsideration" with 20 new exhibits on October 23, 2017, and in it she revealed that Bryan Dassey, Barb Tadych's oldest son, told DCI agents on November 6, 2005 that Bobby Dassey saw Teresa leave the Avery property on October 31, 2005 (image below).



The following image is from Byran's affidavit attached as Exhibit G to Zellner's October 23, 2017 motion.


How to send money to Brendan to purchase items in the prison commissary:
Kathleen Zellner – Where The Rubber Meets The Road
BY GRACE WINTERWOOD 
NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Blaine Dassey Testified to the Opposite of What He Told Investigators on November 7th and 11th


Had Scott, Barb, Blaine and Bobby, pictured above as the guilty verdict was read at Brendan's trial, told the truth in their statements and testimonies (better yet, had they consulted an attorney and invoked their Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination), Brendan, and perhaps Steven, would not have gone to prison for crimes against Teresa Halbach.
"Mr. Kratz is well-aware that other individuals lied about their contacts with Ms. Halbach on 10/31". - Kathleen Zellner's statement to Dateline, February 2017
On November 5, 2005, when police took control of the Avery property, Blaine and Brendan Dassey's bus driver told police that at 3:40 p.m. on October 31st, when she dropped off the brothers, she saw a woman taking pictures of a van parked at the intersection of Avery Road and the shared driveway leading to the homes of Barb Janda and Steven Avery.

Also on November 5th, DCI agent Kim Skorlinski contacted Barb Janda, who agreed to bring Blaine to the Cedar Ridge Restaurant in Maribel so that they could "ask him a few questions that had to be clarified" (CASO page 282). At 5:00 p.m., CASO deputy Wendy Baldwin and DCI agent Skorlinski "made contact with Blaine." Skorlinski wrote a report on their contact with Blaine; however, this report was not entered into evidence at Avery's trial.

The following map of the property must have been drawn by Blaine during his interview on November 5th, although it was included in the DCI report of his second interview on November 7th, and the date of the map was changed.





During cross examination at Avery's trial, Strang asked Blaine about the interrogation at Cedar Ridge Restaurant (page 103), but Strang misrepresented this meeting as having taken place on November 15th:

Q.   The Cedar Ridge Restaurant?
A.   Yes. 
Q.   Over in Maribel, near you?
A.   Yes.
Q.   Okay.  Was your mom there for that?
A.   Yes.
Q.   Just you and your mom?
A.   Yup. 
Q.   And then a couple of officers or agents?
A.   Yes.
Q.   And did you guys sit across the table from the agents, in the restaurant?
A.   Yes.
Q.   Did there come a time in that discussion between you and your mom and the agents, when the agents sort of got in your face a little bit?
A.   Yes.
Q.   What were they doing to get in your face?
A.   They were arguing.
Q.   They were arguing?
A.   Yes.
Q.   They raised their voices?
A.   Yes. 
Q.   They got angry?
A.   Yes.
Q.   They accused you guys of not accepting that Steve was guilty, didn't they?
A.   Yes.
Q.   They accused you of embarrassing yourselves by believing in your uncle, didn't they?
A.   Yes.
Q.   They tried to convince you that Steven Avery was guilty, didn't they?
A.   Yes.
Q.   And they got loud about it, at the restaurant?
A.   Yes.
Q.   And then they stomped off and left you there, when you wouldn't turn on your uncle, didn't they?
A.   Yes.
Q.   And that was back in November 15 of 2005.
A.   Yes.

ATTORNEY STRANG: That's all I have.

Two days later, on November 7, 2005, at 10:11 a.m., Agents Debra Strauss and Lisa Wilson of Wisconsin DOJ, Division of Criminal Investigation, interviewed Blaine Dassey at the home of his boss, Michael Kornely, where he had been staying since November 4th (trial exhibit 355).

On November 7th, Blaine told the DCI agents Strauss and Wilson that he did not see anyone or any vehicle that did not normally belong in the driveway when he and Brendan got off the bus and together walked directly to their house on October 31st. He explained that a red and black Blazer and a Monte Carlo/Grand Prix were parked at the mailboxes, where the school bus driver picks them up and drops them off. He said he did not see Steven Avery when he got off the bus. He said that Bobby was sleeping in his bedroom when they got home, and that them coming home woke Bobby up.

Blaine said he listened to the message that Teresa Halbach left on their answering machine. He recalled her saying that she would be at their residence to take pictures between 1:00 and 2:00 p.m., and he recalled that she left a callback number to reschedule if necessary. Blaine said that Barb had placed ads in AutoTrader in the past, the most recent being for a black Lincoln.

Blaine said he was picked up by a friend's mother at 5:20 p.m. to go trick-or-treating and that he returned at approximately 9:30 p.m. He said when he got home, Barbara, Bobby and Brendan were inside and awake. He said he went to bed shortly after he got home, sometime between 9:30 and 10:00 p.m. He said he didn't recall anything unusual happening that evening after he went to bed.

Blaine said he didn't recall anyone using the burn barrels that day. He said that the last time he recalled anyone using the burn barrels was Thursday, November 3rd.

When asked if there were any bonfires the week of October 31st, Blaine said there weren't any.

The DCI agents asked Blaine "if he had seen any media coverage of the missing woman, including her name and picture of her vehicle." He said that he had "but these photos did not help Blaine recall having seen Halbach or her vehicle before."

Blaine was questioned about the Suzuki and snowmobile in the garage. He was asked to describe in detail the trailer that had been used to transport the Skidoo snowmobile from Crivitz to the Avery property.
Blaine was asked if he recalled Steven coming to the house and asking for assistance in moving a Suzuki or a snowmobile into the garage. Blaine said he did not. Blaine said if Steve would have made such a request, Blaine would have remembered

Blaine asked if he could describe where the gray Suzuki was normally kept. Blaine responded that for the last week or two, this Suzuki was parked on the side of Steve's garage closest to Blaine's house. Blaine said he thought Steve's plan was to fix the Suzuki so Blaine's grandpa, Allen Avery, could take it to the cabin in Crivitz. [This could be interpreted as the Susuki being parked on the east of the garage, inside or outside.]

Blaine was asked where the Suzuki currently was located. Blaine said he thought it was still parked next to Steve's garage. [This could be Fassbender twisting Blaine's words by using the word "next" when Blaine could have said it was still parked on the side of the garage closest to his house.]

Blaine was asked what he knew about Steve's snowmobile. Blaine responded Steve brought this snowmobile back from his grandpa's cabin about one week ago. Blaine was with Steve when Steve did this. According to Blaine, the snowmobile was put on a trailer and brought back home. Blaine did not help Steve unload this trailer because the snowmobile had been left on the trailer. As of the week of 10/31/2005, Blaine thought the snowmobile was still on the trailer. [Steve brought the Suzuki home on 10/30 from someone named Tim, and he also brought the snowmobile home from Crivitz on 10/30.]

Blaine was asked to describe the trailer. Blaine described this trailer as approximately 14' long, black metal with a drop ramp, and approximately 2' sides. Blaine said this trailer is capable of hauling two snowmobiles. This trailer is actually Barb's trailer and usually sits [sic] on the left side of Barb's garage.


The two DCI agents returned on November 11th to re-interview Blaine about any bonfires the week of October 31st. Blaine said he was "supposed to have a girl over to his house for a bonfire" but the "bonfire never took place" because the girl said "she did not want to come out for a bonfire." 








To summarize, Blaine was questioned on November 5th, 7th and 11th.

During cross examination of Blaine at Avery's trial, Strang was mistaken about an interview occurring on November 15th (page 83). There was an interview on November 5th at Cedar Ridge Restaurant (unless Baldwin misrepresented the date in her report on CASO page 282, and this interview actually occurred on November 15th and not November 5th).

Q.   Good morning.
A.   Good morning.
Q.   I'm going to call you Mr. Dassey, even though you-- I guess you are 18 now, you turned 18?
A.   Yes.
Q.   Since this is a little bit of a formal place; do you mind if I address you as Mr. Dassey?
A.   Yes.
Q.   Yes, you do mind?
A.   Or no.
Q.   All right. Mr. Dassey, you have been approached by the police a number of times, I think, since October 31, 2005, haven't you?
A.   Yes.
Q.   Started probably a week later, on November 7?
A.   Yes.
Q.   And on November 11?
A.   Yes.
Q.   November 15?
A.   Yes.
Q.   And times after that, right?
A.   Yes.
Q.   Right up through today, when you talked to Mr. Fassbender during the break?
A.   Yes.
Q.   And the police have asked you the same questions over, and over, and over, about October 31, haven't they?
A.   Yes.
Q.   You give them an answer?
A.   Yes.
Q.   And if they don't like the answer, they ask you again?
A.   Yes.

Other than the excerpts of testimony above, Blaine outright lied at Avery's trial (page 52). Blaine caved into pressure from Scott and Barb to change his original statements to match the State's narrative. Kratz wrote the script, which he rehearsed with Blaine prior to Avery's trial. Blaine followed Krtatz's script when he testified, but his performance wasn't flawless.

The following are Blaine's lies about October 31st during direct examination by Kratz.

1. The bus dropped him off at 3:40 (he originally said the bus drops him off between 3:30 and 4:00 p.m.).

2. He got home from trick-or-treating at 11 p.m. (he originally said he got home at 9:30 p.m.).

3. As he was walking from the bus stop to his home, at 3:46 or 3:47 p.m., he saw Steven bringing a plastic bag to his burning barrel (he originally said he didn't see Steven that day).

4. When Steven threw the plastic bag into barrel, there was smoke and flames coming out of the barrel (he originally said he didn't see Steven that day, he didn't see anyone using burn barrels that day, and burn barrels were used on November 3rd).

5. When he got home at 11 p.m. he saw one person, who he believed to be Steven, sitting and watching a bonfire with four to five foot flames behind his garage. (He orginally said that he got home at 9:30 p.m., and that when he got home he didn't see anyone outside; he also originally said he hadn't seen Steven that day and that there weren't any bonfires that day or that week.)

6. When he got home at 11 p.m. he went to bed in the bedroom he shared with Brendan, but Brendan wasn't in the bedroom (he originally said that when he got home at 9:30 p.m., Barb, Brendan and Bobby were inside, and then he went to bed by 10 p.m.).

7. At 3:45 p.m. he saw the Suzuki parked on the "right side, outside of the garage" (he originally said that for the last week or two, this Suzuki was parked on the side of Steven's garage closest to Blaine's house, meaning the inside of the garage).

8. Kratz, knowing that Blaine screwed up, used a diagram to have Blaine point out where the Suzuki was parked, and Kratz clarified for the jury that Blaine is "pointing to the outside of what would be Steven Avery's garage, just to the left side." (Fassbender twisted Blaine's words in his report of Strauss and Wilson's November 7th interview with Blaine, writing that "when asked where the Suzuki currently was located, Blaine said he thought it was still parked next to Steve's garage." However, Blaine hadn't said it was "parked next to Steve's garage;" he said it was "parked on the side of Steven's garage closest to Blaine's house.")

9. He also noticed a snowmobile outside, parked in "back of, behind the Suzuki." (He originally said Steven had towed the snowmobile from his grandpa's cabin about one week ago, on October 30th, and that the snowmobile had been left on the trailer. He also said that as of the week of October 31st, he thought the snowmobile was still on the trailer.) Kratz stopped at this point to add the following:
Q.   Now, I'm just asking you about your observations, Blaine, I don't know -- I don't care who you talked to, or what somebody might have said, but just what you saw with your own eyes, okay?
A.   Okay.
Q.   Do you remember seeing, with your own eyes, or remembering your own observations, whether or not that Suzuki and that snowmobile were moved somewhere else, at some point after the 31st of October? 
A.   I'm not sure, no.
Q.   Okay.  You just remember the 31st, that they were next to the garage; is that right?
A.   Yes.
10. Because Blaine, when asked twice before about the burn barrel, didn't say, as he had rehearsed with Kratz, that he saw white smoke, which would be the color of smoke if plastic were burning, Kratz asked him a third time about the burn barrel:
Q.   Now, can you describe for the jury the smoke or anything else that you saw coming out of that burn barrel when you got home that day?
ATTORNEY STRANG:  Asked and answered, twice. 

ATTORNEY KRATZ:  I want him to describe, if he can, I want to know if he can describe the color, or if there were flames, or more descriptive of what he saw, Judge. That has not been answered.

ATTORNEY STRANG:  It's been asked and answered, twice.

THE COURT:  I know the question has been answered if there was something coming out of it. I don't remember if there was a request for a description, so I will allow the question.

Q.   (By Attorney Kratz)~ If you remember, Blaine, do you remember anything coming out of that burn barrel?
A.   Yeah, white smoke.
(Blaine originally said there weren't any fires in burn barrels that day.)



The screenshots above and below are from CASO's November 4th flyover of the Avery property. Many portions of the recording seemed to be intentionally blurred, especially the areas in front of Avery's truck and Barb Janda's shed, where Avery parked the trailer after returning it to Barb. Are the trailer and Skidoo snowmobile parked between Avery's truck and the garage overhead door in the screenshots above and below?



The flyover video from November 4th is blurred but there appears to be something between Avery's truck and his garage overhead door (image above). That something could be the Skidoo snowmobile on the trailer Avery borrowed from Barb to haul the snowmobile from Crivitz to his home on October 30th. That snowmobile on the trailer would have been blocking the garage overhead door, preventing anyone from pushing the Suzuki outside the garage, as the State claims was done to make room for Teresa's RAV4 on October 31st.



Avery's truck was parked to the side of his garage overhead door when law enforcement commandeered the property on November 5th (Steven and other family members were at the family cabin in Crivitz). The trailer used to tow the Skidoo snowmobile from Crivitz to the Avery property on October 30th had been parked, with the Skidoo still on it, in front of Avery's garage overhead door. Prior to November 4th, Avery had moved the Skidoo inside his garage and moved the trailer, which belonged to Barb, beside her home.




On October 30th, Avery used Barb Janda's trailer and his Ford truck to tow a Skidoo snowmobile from Crivitz to the Avery property. According to Blaine, he was with Steven when he towed it on October 30th; and during the week of October 31st, it was still on the trailer as far as he could remember (Blaine stayed at the home of his boss November 4-12th). Avery had moved the Skidoo off the trailer and into his garage prior to the evening of November 4th, and then returned the trailer to Barb, moving it to the side of her home.



The image above is from a flyover video taken by a drone on October 31, 2016.  The large yellow box at the bottom of the image is the turnaround on Avery Road, near the mailboxes, where the school bus driver dropped off the Dassey brothers. The tiny pink box at the top of the image is where the minivan that Teresa photographed was parked on October 31, 2005. The distance is about 1000 feet or 333 yards (the length of about three football fields). The school bus driver said she saw Teresa taking pictures of a van by the mailboxes (the yellow box); however, the van that Teresa photographed was parked in the long, shared driveway between Steven Avery and Barb Janda's homes (the pink box).


Screenshot of a 2016 drone flyover of the Avery property.

In the image above, the spot where the bus driver picked up and dropped off the Dassey brothers is marked with the yellow box. It is at the end of Avery Road, where it intersects with the long shared driveway to Barb and Steven's homes. The spot where Barb's van was parked on October 31st, and the days that followed, is marked with the pink box.

On November 5th, the day police took over the Avery property, the bus driver for the Dassey brothers approached law enforcement at barriers on HWY 147 and County Road Q (she walked there from her home on County Road Q). She told them that on October 31st around 3:40 p.m. she saw a women, who she thought was Teresa, talking pictures at the spot where she dropped off the Dassey brothers. She gave a statement to Wiegert two days later, on November 7th, and clearly stated that it was at the intersection of Avery Road and the long, shared driveway where she saw Teresa taking pictures of a van. But the van was not parked at the spot. It was parked down the shared driveway, near Steven's trailer.

The bus driver was mistaken. She did not see Teresa on October 31st. She may have seen a women taking pictures of a vehicle parked at the mailboxes since there was a red and black Blazer, along with a Monte Carlo/Grand Prix, for sale on that day; or she saw Teresa taking pictures three weeks earlier, on October 10th, when she came to the Avery property to photograph the Grand Prix that Steven wanted to sell. Steven said Teresa usually came between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m., so it is likely the bus driver never saw Teresa at any time or on any day because she dropped off the boys between 3:30 and 3:45 p.m.