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* ChronicEvidenceRetentionSyndrome: If you believe the state's version of Teresa's murder, Steven Avery managed to completely clean a crime scene of forensic traces of her ever being there yet was stupid enough to leave her car, bones and personal items in his property. The defense notes that it would have been stupid for Avery to keep the victim's car intact on his premise when it was cluttered with compromising traces while he had a compactor at his disposal to DestroyTheEvidence.

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* ChronicEvidenceRetentionSyndrome: If you believe the state's version of Teresa's murder, Steven Avery managed to completely clean a crime scene of forensic traces of her ever being there yet was stupid enough to leave her car, bones and personal items in his property. The defense notes that it would have been stupid for Avery to keep the victim's car intact on his premise premises when it was cluttered with compromising traces while he had a compactor at his disposal to DestroyTheEvidence.



* ManipulativeEditing: The show has been called advocacy journalism for the reason that a number of facts were left out by the producers which made the case less riveting and Avery and Dassey more sympathetic. Some of it was addressed and rebutted in the second seasons though. Examples are:

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* ManipulativeEditing: The show has been called advocacy journalism for the reason that a number of facts were left out by the producers which made the case less riveting and Avery and Dassey more sympathetic. Some of it was addressed and rebutted in the second seasons season, though. Examples are:
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* AdultFear: Much time is devoted to show Avery and Dassey's parents worrying over their fate.
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* StupidCrooks: Avery and Dassey's low IQs (both of whom scored in the low seventies) are brought up a few times. In Dassey's case, the defense cited this as evidence of his impressionable nature -- that he was easily coerced into trapping himself in his redacted confession. The prosecution insinuated elsewise, leaning more on the idea that their low intelligence is the main reason they failed to cover up the murder and left so much evidence behind.

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* StupidCrooks: Avery and Dassey's low IQs [=IQs=] (both of whom them scored in the low seventies) are brought up a few times. In Dassey's case, the defense cited this as evidence of his impressionable nature -- that he was easily coerced into trapping himself in his redacted confession. The prosecution insinuated elsewise, leaning more on the idea that their low intelligence is the main reason they failed to cover up the murder and left so much evidence behind.
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* StupidCrooks: Avery and Dassey's low IQs (both of whom scored in the low seventies) are brought up a few times. In Dassey's case, the defense cited this as evidence of his impressionable nature -- that he was easily coerced into trapping himself in his redacted confession. The prosecution insinuated elsewise, leaning more on the idea that their low intelligence is the main reason they failed to cover up the murder and left so much evidence behind.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To the documentary ''Witch Hunt'' (2008) which covered a similar case of wrongful convictions, withheld evidence and exonerations after long years of imprisonment, similarly provoking questions about an unchecked criminal justice system.

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