Netflix confirms 'Making a Murderer' season 2, reveals Teresa Halbach’s true killer
Netflix has announced earlier this week that "Making a Murderer" will be making a return with a second season. The new season features an inside look at the post-conviction process as Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey’s respective legal teams challenge the convictions while the State fights for the convictions to be upheld. The release date for season 2 is not yet announced.
Co-directors Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos will return to direct the new season. Steven Avery’s new lawyer, Kathleen Zeller joins the legal team in the fight for Avery’s freedom. Brendan Dessey’s legal team is still lead by Laura Nirder and Steve Drizin.
The second season offers interviews and a closer look to the effects of the case on not only the defendants, but to the legal team and the close family members and friends as well. The first season of "Making a Murderer" took Ricciardi and Demos ten years to produce.
“We are extremely grateful for the tremendous response to, and support of, the series. The viewers’ interest and attention has ensured that the story is not over, and we are fully committed to continuing to document events as they unfold,” said Ricciardi and Demos.
Making a Murderer is a true crime series which centers on Steven Avery, who was wrongfully imprisoned in 1985 for 18 years for sexual assault and attempted murder of Penny Berntsen. He was then released in 2003 after DNA evidenced proved him innocent.
His freedom was cut short as he was accused and found guilty of the murder of Teresa Halbach. Many suspect that law officials of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, set him up in fear of the US$36 million (AU$48 million) lawsuit.
The 10-part first series of "Making a Murderer" received six Emmy Nominations, including outstanding documentary or nonfiction series. It was nominated for Program of the Year and Outstanding Achievement in Reality Programming at the 32nd TCA Awards.
Some critics, however, claimed that Making a Murderer omitted seven key evidences from the trial and the documentary being one-sided.
