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The entire documentary is bizarre and sad. We see a poor white, ignorant, and possibly mentally challenged, trashy family in the Avery’s living in a small trashy town in Wisconsin whose police “farce” is completely incompetent, manipulative, and corrupt; and who completely have it in for the Avery’s who are the embarrassment of the town. Here we have the dumb subjugating the dumb.

Did Avery do it? Who knows. It is quite possible. After-all, this is the same man who walked around outside his property naked and had sex on the front lawn. This is also the same man who harassed Hallbach and repeatedly asked for only her to come out to his property. The documentary clearly favors the Avery’s, as so much about their wrongdoings is withheld.

It was a very well made documentary but could have been 2 episodes shorter. Overall disturbing to watch because I was disgusted with the town, the Avery’s, the cops, and the prosecution. The latter being, Kratz, a smarmy guy with the look and nasally mumble of a Jurassic Park-era Wayne Knight, who we constantly see evading pointed questions about the gaping logic in the prosecution’s narrative. Then you have the chilling, stone-faced lieutenant who is accused of planting Avery’s blood at the crime scene.

In the end you are left wondering why the most obvious overlooked suspect, the victim’s ex-boyfriend (who mysteriously points a volunteer directly to the crime’s largest piece of evidence) was never questioned, and is in fact, given access to the crime scene. And yet, Avery is convicted of homicide, but acquitted of mutilation of a corpse — an unexplained contradiction in charges. If Avery killed her, but didn’t mutilate her corpse, who did – and why would they mutilate a corpse? Just bizarre.

4 stars

Reviewed by: Maurizio Marchese on January 14, 2016