An Analysis Of The Netflix's 'Making A Murderer'

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The Netflix original series “Making a Murderer” goes through the trails of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey. Taking a closer look into Brendan Dasseys case can show several examples and evidence on how they were able to get inside his head and give a false confession to put him and Steven Avery in jail for life. Firstly, His lawyer , Len Kachinsky, had no intention of helping him from the start. Before he even met Brendan, he held a press conference and did interviews on the case before speaking with him. (3:35-4:34). He was also not present when Brendan was interviewed by the police, which breaks his loyalty to Brendan, and it is a civil right to have the loyalty of a lawyer and for them to be present in all interrogations. This gave
It’s clearly shown that Brendan does not fully understand what is happening, and O’kelly has specifically place items on the table to help with convincing him into a false confession. He also continuously tells Brendan that he is a liar or he is lying when Brendan says that he innocent and he says several times “ I don’t know” or “ I didn’t seen anything”. O’Kelly also tells Brendan “you don’t wanna go to jail your whole life, do you? If you tell the truth you won’t get in trouble, you won’t go to jail.” He says this to be able to get a confession from Brendan, and Brendan complies because all he wants to do is to go home, but right after he re-writes his statement (after O’kelly says what he wrote the first time was “not the truth”) O’kelly is satisfied with this wild story Brendan has made up and says he is being good by telling the truth, and then as Brendan is being chained up O’kelly calls Kachinsky saying that it “went very well, quite well.” Which just goes to show that all O’kelly was after was a story, not the truth.
Right from the beginning, they say that “things don’t add up” and as the video progresses you can clearly see that Brendan pauses for quite some time as he’s thinking of the next thing to guess so the investigators can hear what they want to hear from him. When Brendan isn’t guessing the correct things, he brings up his mom saying, “How would she feel if she knew that you were lying to us.” This is a interesting tactic they use to obtain this false confession, using his own mom against him. This interrogation went on for 3 ½ hours, and Len Kachinsky is never present during the questioning, which also shows he had no true intent in ever helping Brendan.

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