The Wrongful Execution Essay: The Murder Of Steve Avery

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I read the biography of Steven Avery, from Gibson, Wisconsin. On October 31, 2005 a woman by the name of Teresa Halbach was raped, murdered, her body was mutilated and burned, by Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey. The body of Teresa Halbach was not found, however, pieces of bone fragments, her vehicle, cell phone, camera, clothes and her keys were all found on the Avery Salvage property, which was ran by Steven and his two brothers, Chuck and Earl, but a good majority of his family lived on the property. Steven had done time in prison before, for a wrongful conviction of attempted first degree murder, first-degree assault and false imprisonment. The victim of these crimes had picked Avery from a line-up in 1985, both picture…show more content…
Avery came from a family with some good citizens, but also there were criminals and he must have thought the criminal life was easier to get things in life that he wanted. Although I do believe that Avery’s family had something to do with the reason he decided to commit this murder, I do not believe it was one of the main reasons for committing the crime. The thing that jumps out at me the most is the wrongful conviction back in 1985 and the 18 years he spent in prison for that wrongful conviction. I think it kind of relates to the topic about kids ditching and not having good role models to stop them and cops making the kids feel like criminals that early in their life, so then they become criminals, in the simulation I read earlier this week. I think because Avery was treated like a criminal in the wrongful conviction in a murder, which he then went and decided to live out the life style. I am convinced that if the investigators in the wrongful conviction case would have done a more thorough job on investigating and would have found the real murderer, Avery might not have been susceptible to lead that type of criminal activities. After all, his first crimes had nothing to do with neither rape nor

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