Your last sentence is interesting. You might be referring to two different parties. The person or persons who killed TH and the person who persons that covered it up. I believe a coalition including the police and possibly TH's brother assisted in the framing and the killing could have been several different parties. Brendan's brother, dad or step dad, Avery's brother, someone who was stalking TH, there are many options.
Don't be fooled into thinking police never frame a suspect or plant evidence to strengthen their case. This sort of behaviour happens all the time.
Even if Steve did kill her, and I don't think he did, there are too many blurred lines to ever know the truth. Reasonable doubt was blantanly obvious and he should have been convicted. It's a sad social commentary that people are getting convicted because they seem to meet the profile of a killer. PROOF is what is needed.
I would also say that police tampering of this magnitude should be an instant Not Guilty on principle alone.
Welcome to the debate. The good thing about this site is on the whole, most people share their ideas, however extreme in all directions, and posters are cordial.
To that end, I am going to share with you an edited post that I shared with another user, whilst discussing some of the coincidences & amnesia surrounding this case. Spoiler alert, I agree with the jury of Avery's Peers that he is guilty and where he should be right now. The following, has shaped my thinking from day one.
I know, lets clean up a small section of the Garage together
.. and then both coincidentally forget about it.
There is nothing damning about this at all. Just two people, cleaning up a stain that one of them has no idea what it is, nor why it is so important that it must be cleaned up on a Monday evening, instead of playing video games or Trick or Treating
... Not to worry, Amnesia & Coincidence are going to explain this away, and a lot more besides.
On its own? Cleaning a stain in the garage is nothing. However, add a few coincidences & 'memory lapses' and it should give any inquisitive mind, (or a trained LE Officer) cause for concern. More to the point, it is bound to invite more questions. Avery's garage was like the junk yard and a real mess. Debris lay all around and its lack of cleanliness was in keeping with its surroundings. Was there really a sense of urgency to clean a small stain in it that night?
Avery & Dassey decide to clean a 3 ft by 3ft stain on the floor of this garage, on the same day that TH is last seen alive. They also decide to have a bonfire at the same time. Coincidence? Possibly, but not as much as a coincidence as them both 'forgetting' to tell LE during the initial interviews on the 5th & 6th of November. One of them forgetting? Maybe. Both of them????
Amnesia & Coincidence - It does not end there.
You would think, that if you had a fire and forgot about it, if a policeman starts asking you when was the last time you actually had a fire, it might make you think a little more and cure that amnesia. Given the last fire you had was with your nephew, and you both drove around your property in a Golf Buggy collecting material for it, including a car seat, branches, tyres & a cabinet, that it might jog your memory. Here, I am going to use the word kindly and say it was just a coincidence that Avery forgot about this. As with Dassey.
The night of the fire though, is not just a random night though. By sheer coincidence, the night of the fire is Halloween. Quite a memorable evening by all accounts and one that Dassey might remember as he recalled his Brother going Trick or Treating. Coincidentally, Dassey's Mother was away for most of the early evening, visiting her Boyfriends Mother in hospital. However both she and her Boyfriend, did recall the bonfire, which is another (albeit unfortunate) coincidence.
Now, given that just a couple of days ago, Avery gave an interview to the media about the girl that came to see him and has not been seen since, this might make that Halloween Night become a little clearer. Nope. He cannot instantly remember her name in his first interview, but we can put that down to Avery Amnesia. That others did recall detail about her on that day, is just a coincidence, but more of that later.
Now another memory lapse. Avery was asked what he was wearing that night, during those first interviews on the 5th & 6th of November. He says he could not remember. Fair enough. He has only been asked about that night a couple of times in TV interviews & a call from LE in the last couple of days. He forgot. Sure. No problem. By sheer coincidence, he has some clothes in the boot/ trunk of his car. However, his memory actually stands him in good stead here, because when asked if he was wearing any of those on Halloween less than a week ago, he is adamant that they were not the ones.
Now, this is where memory lapse works in a mysterious way. He can't remember what he was wearing, but he can remember what he wasn't, if you catch my drift. This by the way, is the night he had a bonfire with his nephew, who remembered changing out of the clothes he wore to school, put some clean jeans on out of his drawer, but then changed out of them again later in the evening, despite saying they were not covered in any of the substance he was helping to clean. (He did get bleach on them, but as many will know, bleach only shows itself after a wash.)
Back to the coincidences (which might make a policeman a little suspicious.) The same night, that two people coincidentally have a bonfire but don't tell LE, two separate people (Radant & Fabian) see the fire. One of whom, tells LE before the car was found. Speaking of coincidences, the car that was found, belonged to the girl Avery told police in early November, had been to his property several times. Memory lapse alert: During those interviews he could only vaguely describe her. (When asked what she looked like, he said ... Skinny.... Like my Sister' and her hair was Darker
... shorter. ) Coincidentally, he had been asked about her by a TV crew days earlier, and her picture was plastered all over the TV for the previous 48 hours since she had been reported missing. (Ask Barb, she called home & told Dassey to put the TV on.) I don't know wether that is both a coincidence she was on the TV and /or bad memory that he couldn't remember the detail.
Coincidentally, the two other appointments Teresa had that day, could recall she wore a white shirt, blues jeans and a waist length dark jacket. SS & JE Z, both gave statements describing what Teresa wore that day. Avery is the only only out of the three that cannot remember. But that is just a coincidence.
We know Avery was cured of his Amnesia when speaking to Barb from Prison, as he recalled the fire on Halloween, and the attendance of Dassey at it. Coincidentally, Prison life must cure Amnesia, because Dassey also recalled the fire in a conversation with Barb too. Coincidence? Or she has such a soothing manner that people just tell her their inner most secrets.
Back to the fire. Coincidentally, there was a burn barrel next to the site of the bonfire. This also was in use on Halloween, and by some coincidence, some personal possessions of the missing Woman, were found in that barrel. You have guessed it, Avery forgets about using this and says that stuff was planted in that and the pit.
The last thing Avery forgets for now? His mad chained up Dog that would not let investigators near the fire pit for two days until it could be subdued. Avery coincidentally forgot that the person he claims planted evidence, would have had the same issue with his dog.
Cleaning the garage floor? No problem. Cleaning it the same night as a girl goes missing and is murdered, whilst 'forgetting a major bonfire & other events that evening?? Clearly, just a coincidence and a sure case of Amnesia
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