Murder on TV.

AuthorMangu-Ward, Katherine
PositionBriefly Noted - "Making a Murderer" and podcast "Serial" - Brief article

Making a Murderer, a 10-episode Netflix documentary series, follows the twisted legal saga of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin native who served 18 years in prison forthe sexual assault and attempted murder of Penny Beemtsen. Avery was exonerated in 2003 but rearrested in 2005 and convicted of a totally different murder after a byzantine sequence of legal maneuvers.

Similar to the hit podcast Serial, the show gains its spellbinding power by delving ever-deeper into the ordinary, messy, ruined lives of those who run, and run afoul of, the criminal justice...

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