Yahoo News There's a Making a Murderer spin-off coming
We're still no closer to getting the official second season of Making a Murderer on Netflix, but a new spin-off series is coming that might just satisfy our true-crime cravings.
Yesterday (February 22) it was announced that production had begun on Convicting a Murderer, an (unofficial) follow-up to the sensational 2015 series that took Netflix by storm.
Documentary filmmaker Shawn Rech, who also worked on A Murder in the Park, will direct the eight-episode series, which is currently being shopped.
Rather than continuing Steven Avery's story, Convicting a Murderer will investigate the controversial case built by the State of Wisconsin – ultimately with success – against Avery.
Rech has promised exclusive and unprecedented access to the prosecutors involved in the case, including District Attorney Ken Kratz and Lead Investigator Tom Fassbender.
In a statement, Rech said that he hoped the new series would offer a more complete picture of the trial against Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey, which he claims was afforded "a one-sided analysis" in the original Netflix documentary.
"When Making a Murderer was produced, many on the law enforcement side of the story could not, or would not, participate in the series," he explained.
[Avery's defence lawyers Dean Strang and Jerry Buting]
"This docu-series will examine the case and the allegations of police wrongdoing from a broader perspective. It will also share with viewers the traumatic effects of being found guilty and vilified in the court of public opinion."
Avery was convicted along with then-17-year-old Dassey for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach, a photographer who had visited the Avery family's salvage yard.
Avery's lawyers built a case claiming the prosecution had inconsistent and unreliable evidence, and argued that he was being framed, but in a long and often surprising trial, they were both found guilty.
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