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Making A Murderer is a documentary-film which intended to chart one man’s release from a wrongful conviction and his ultimate search for the truth. What followed was his fight to hold officials within Manitowoc County responsible for their actions in having him incarcerated and leaving him there. When he was finally exonerated through new developments in DNA testing and released in September 2003, the Netflix film crew were ready and waiting. Steven Avery was wrongly convicted of rape in 1985 in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, spending 18 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Complex, emotional and disturbing, it has the nation questioning the fairness and reliability of the American criminal justice system.

This is a case which has sparked widespread debate and controversy. In December 2015 Netflix released their emotive ten-part documentary film Making A Murderer following the case of Steven Avery and in final episodes his 16-year-old nephew Brendan Dassey.