MANITOWOC, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — The attorney representing Steven Avery is asking a judge to allow a new witness statement in the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach.
According to a motion filed Monday, a newspaper delivery driver recently came forward to Avery’s lawyer, Kathleen Zellner. In a written statement, he claims he saw a nephew of Avery and another man moving Halbach’s vehicle onto the Avery Salvage Yard property on Nov. 5, 2005, five days after Halbach was killed. The driver says he reported what he saw to the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Office, but an officer told him “we already know who did it.”
The nephew testified at Avery’s trial that he saw Halbach arrive on Oct. 31, 2005. He said her vehicle was gone from the driveway a few hours later.
Halbach’s vehicle was found on the Avery Salvage Yard property a few days later. In a tweet, Zellner alleges the two men planted the vehicle there.
Avery’s motion alleges prosecutors suppressed the driver’s statement and did not bring it up at trial. Attorney Kathleen Zellner asks that the statement be allowed in Avery’s postconviction appeals.
Avery and a different nephew, Brendan Dassey, are serving life prison sentences for their roles in the murder. Their cases received worldwide attention with the 2015 release of the Netflix series “Making A Murderer.”
