If you like this show you should watch:
The Jinx (HBO)
Paradise Lost Trillogy (HBO)
Serial (Podcast)
um.. those are the 3 I can think of.
Oh and I think the lawyers for the defense, though they seemed smart, were pretty... Idk.. bad?
It's not like they Erin Brokoviched this case that much.. I mean they did with the vial of blood, but in Erin Brockovich they would have done their own testing, not just FBI testing of the bloodstains.
Is just scooping the key up off a bedroom floor enough to attach that bedroom owners DNA on it? I dont know, sees like that could be a good case to make.
But they didn't really go out and investigate the crime. Like they should have done more investigation at the second burn site, they surely could have found something.
I honestly think there should have been more investigation of other folks in the area, like those creepy relatives that had nothing nice to say about Steven on the stand...
One thing you'll learn watching Paradise Lost
About Stevens case.. As I was watching Making a murderer I thought to myself,
shouldn't you want to have Brandon and Steven on trial for the murder, together? Brandon's confession is so absurd and obviously false, yet it was the very reason they were able to arrest Steven. Wouldn't you want the prosecution to come at you with such obviously false claims if you were Stevens lawyers?
If they did, would they have a better chance at getting off? No evidence in the house or bed of any rape, no evidence in the garage of any shooting other than the bullet, no blood, a huge mess of clutter, nothing there either. I mean you saw the show, there was nothing that had to do with anything Brandon said.
When they were so excited each time one of the counts from the Brandon confession was removed from Avery's case all I could think is, why would want the prosecution to be forced to distance itself from such an obviously false claim?
All that said if they did this wouldn't it mean for Brandon's case they would have spent more time going over with a fine tooth comb investigating with dna evidence discovering that there was no damage to the bed from rape/binding, blood or anything to corroborate his confession at all?
And why wasn't that something his defense even seemed to try to push for at the end anyway? How can you send someone to jail for making a confession about a murder, that cannot and does not match the evidence at all? its like he may as well said he road a dinosaur into the trailer and tail whipped her to death... then he actually gets prosecuted for tail whipping a woman to death with a dinosaur!! This system of law makes zero sense to me, zero.
Maybe the Brandon trial was abridged a lot compared to the Avery trial, but it seemed like there was all this attention to detail to proving how wrong the confession was during the Avery trial, but it didn't seem so during Brandon's.
I dont think the police did it, I don't think there was a major conspiracy or anything. I do think the police wanted to arrest someone as quickly as possible and did not and do not ever really care, if they have the right person. I think thats what happened here. I think that the killer is likely a relative other than Brandon and I think he was interviewed in the documentary, but not investigated.
I just dont see any motive to suddenly be like, hmm ill rape this woman because I'm about to get 36 mil from the state and I'm also engaged to someone who loves me and I'm very excited about that.
Just doesn't add up. But a real cold blooded relative? in the sticks? that makes sense.