Avery was later found innocent of the crime of rape that put him in prison in the first place for those 18 years. However, Avery had served time before for other crimes.
Either way, he was NO angel, and the only reason he was convicted of the rape that put him in prison was because his “buddy” who looked very much like him, (white guys with long blond hair, mid-twenties) actually committed the crime, but the victim fingered Avery because he was there, too. She picked Avery out of the line-up versus the guy that may have raped her, which was proven later through DNA evidence when the technology caught up to the crime. (The real “perp” was ALSO in prison for other crimes when the DNA evidence finally caught up with him via “The Innocence Project.” He was in for a long time anyway, so he confessed to that rape along with others.)
However, Avery “assisted” in the rape by whatever means and he WAS there when it happened and did not step up and say, “Dude! You can’t do that!”
Who knows? Maybe, in reality he had his fun too, but the DNA swipes from way back when got the other guy and NOT Avery. Those DNA swipes were fifteen years old for Pete’s Sake! You can’t tell me that two white boys from Wisconsin with blond hair and blue eyes don’t carry SOME sort of similar DNA material? It’s not a huge Gene Pool to draw upon around here.
It’s the company you keep.
And, as a side note, another thing that p*sses me off to NO END is that I, as a woman, am NOT allowed to carry a weapon of ANY kind on me when I leave my own property. Wisconsin is the last of two states (IL) that refuses to give us concealed carry.
Avery raped, tortured, killed and mutilated Theresa Halbach as she was going about her every day life as a photographer. She was there to photograph a junker car Avery wanted to sell through the local Shopper Rag. Had Theresa been armed with anything to fend off Avery and his nephew, she might still be alive today!
If I am caught with so much as a roll of quarters in an old sock, or an unregistered can of pepper spray to use to defend myself against these creeps, I’M the one that’s going to jail for having a weapon while the “Averys” of this world can roam at will and harm me as they see fit in ‘The People’s Republik of Wisconistan.’
It. Sucks.
Scary.