STORY: "Avery attorney rips Kratz over book," by reporter Alison Dirr, published by USA Today on January 25, 2016.
GIST: "Ken Kratz, the prosecutor in the case against Steven Avery, is writing a book to tell the "whole story," according to a published report. And Avery's new attorney is calling him out in blunt terms. Kratz has said that he believes evidence against Avery was left out of the wildly popular Netflix docu-series "Making a Murderer." He has called the series is one-sided and told the Associated Press that the victim, Teresa Halbach, is being forgotten. What's still unclear is whether Kratz had been working on the book as early as last summer — long before the series came out. Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, are serving life terms in prison for the murder of 25-year-old freelance photographer.cAvery's new attorney, Kathleen Zellner, tweeted a letter she said Kratz sent to Avery along with the line, "Kratz letter to SA: Confess so I can write book & profit.This bloodsucking gives vampires a bad name #MakingAMurderer." The letter tweeted by Zellner is dated Sept. 6 and titled, "I'm Sorry That You Are Not Interested." Kratz wrote to Avery: I got your letter dated August 28, 2015, wherein you tell me that your visitor list is full, and ask if I checked out other fingerprints found on Teresa Halbach's car, telling me that these people could have "set you up" for this.........Unfortunately, you only want to continue your nonsense about being set up. That's too bad, because you had ONE opportunity to finally tell all the details, but now that will never happen. By the way, the difference between you and famous convicted murderers from the past is they told their whole truthful story to someone, who then wrote a book about what actually happened and people got to understand both sides. I was willing to help you do that...but if you are going to continue to lie about what happened between you and Ms. Halbach, I am not interested. If you change your mind, and want to tell your honest story someday, please contact me. Zellner announced in mid-January that she'll be taking on his case. Since then, she's been active on Twitter, calling out Kratz and drawing parallels to her former clients, who had been exonerated."
The entire story can be found at:
http://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/local/steven-avery/2016/01/25/avery-attorney-rips-kratz-over-book/79291924/
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