Making A Murderder (Netflix Doc)

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    The New Yorker article is really good. If you have already seen the show, skip the first 11 or 12 paragraphs, because they just give you the background details which you already know.

    http://www.newyorker.com/magazin…

    Scroll down and start with the big drop cap B in "By chance, I have known many of the details..." It's long, but worth the read.

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    • everyone gets hung up on the dna under the hood, like it's a smoking gun or something, the defence pointed out during the trial that it was impossible to_niko
    • determine where the dna came from, they could have easily taken dna from his razor and planted it there, the prosecutors quickly dropped this line of questionin_niko
    • the fact that there's not a drop of Teresa's blood anywhere near where she was supposedly killed will never stop bothering memonospaced
    • hey mono, he's a criminal mastermind and was able to meticulously destroy every piece of DNA evidence from his entire property. Oh except he forgot an entire_niko
    • ...car, and that key which happened to forget in his room._niko
    • And managed to meticulously cover it with dirt and cobwebs so that it looked like nobody had touched it in 20 years.monospaced
    • The point of the article is, "Ultimately, 'Making a Murderer' shares that flaw; it does not challenge our yearning for certainty or do the difficult work ofnb
    • helping to foster humility. Instead, it swaps one absolute for another—and, in doing so, comes to resemble the system it seeks to correct.nb
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