Steven Avery of ‘Making a Murderer’ breaks silence: ‘The real killer is still out there’

From behind bars, with three pages, Steven Avery broke his silence after being asked how “Making a Murderer,” the Netflix documentary series about his case, has affected his life.

The Wisconsin native — who is currently serving a life sentence for the 2005 murder of 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach — maintained his innocence, encouraged an investigation of the Manitowoc County sheriff and suggested that the state government paid off his ex-girlfriend to change her story.

Colleen Henry, an investigative reporter for local ABC-affiliate WISN 12 News, had written Avery, now 53, to see if he would be willing to be interviewed. She received his first communication since the documentary debuted on Dec. 18 — a handwritten letter and a written statement — on Thursday afternoon.

“Here, put this on and I will talk to you, and do an investigation of the sheriff of Manitowoc County,” the letter begins.

Avery shifted his attention to his former fiancée, Jodi Stachowski, who professed his innocence in the popular documentary but later recanted. She recently told HLN TV that Avery is a “monster” who was abusive throughout their two-year relationship and threatened to kill her, her family members and a friend. Now she thinks Avery is behind Halbach's death.

"Steven`s one person I don`t trust. He's like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: a nice person or semi-nice person, and then behind closed doors he`s a monster," Stachowski said.

In response to these allegations, Avery wrote, “How much money [did] Jodi get to talk bad?"

"The real killer is still out there. Who is he stalking now?” he said.

Despite Avery's willingness to discuss the matter, the department of corrections told WISN that it does not allow interviews.

Avery also sent a handwritten letter and the typed form letter to Milwaukee's Fox 6 anchor Ted Perry, agreeing to an interview on the condition that the station investigate the sheriff of Manitowoc County.

"Threats against [Stachowski] and her family are totally untrue,” Avery said. “Jodi must have been pressured by the state to change her story. She would never have said anything bad about me, due to the fact that she wanted to marry me."

In the message, Avery alternates between referring to himself in the first and third person. He asks why she would make statements that contradict what she said in the documentary if she had not been threatened in some way.

Avery has not yet seen “Making a Murderer” because Netflix is not available in prison, and his request to view the documentary series has been denied.

On Sunday, Avery's new attorney, Kathleen Zellner, released a letter that special prosecutor Ken Kratz (one of the most reviled figures to emerge from the documentary) allegedly wrote to her client in September, urging him to confess to the crime so he could write a book about the case.

“Kratz letter to SA: Confess so I can write book & profit. This bloodsucking gives vampires a bad name,” she tweeted.

The Manitowoc County Sheriff's Department did not immediately respond to Yahoo News' request for comment.