Whether you think he ought to be given another trial is one thing, but how anyone actually believes he is innocent is beyond me. For starters he has no alibi...none...if he had anything resembling the flimsiest alibi of all time, that overly favorable documentary would have presented it. He was there the whole time. Now, here is one of the many big problems for the conspiratorial minded in this thread...his phone calls the day of the murder. When first questioned, Avery told police he didn't see her or that she didn't show up. Why the lie?
This is a guy who bright and early at 8:12 the morning of the murder, right when Auto Trader opened up, called to request they send the soon to be dead woman to his property to take pictures of a van. He doesn't give his name but his sister's first initial and last name. Later in the afternoon, perhaps impatient cause she hasn't shown up yet, he twice calls her number with a blocked call. Considering these calls and considering he had on a previous occasion answered the door in a towel when she arrived (which understandably grossed her out a little), it is pretty easy to see he had a hard on for the woman. Do you honestly believe he didn't know exactly when she got there? Common sense would dictate one to believe that he was watching and was aware of her presence one the premises the moment she arrived. Do you think he didn't go talk to her? He had her on his mind bright and early that morning and was calling and blocking his number moments before she arrived. What other possible suspect in the area had ever shown near as much interest in this woman?
Then we get the defense for Avery that really isn't a defense...the why would he do this with possible millions on the way from a lawsuit? You ever met an irrational person? Or a person with no impulse control? A person who flies into rages. They don't think like you and I do, they don't weigh the pros and cons of a situation cause they can't control their crazy dumbass side. He may have not planned to kill her, she may have rejected him and he goes nuts. He did order handcuffs and leg restraints three weeks before the murder...maybe he did plan it.
Another interesting aspect of this long discussion is that the conspiracy types want to have it both ways...first they tell us Avery was too dumb to clean up a mess and then defend him by saying if he did it he would have obviously destroyed the car right away. But in the first breath you just told us how dumb he was? Perhaps that same lack of intelligence is why the car wasn't destroyed. Maybe he got done with her at such a late hour that he thought someone might notice him destroying a car at an odd time. Maybe he didn't even want the crushed, remnants of the car on his property and planned to move the car far away at a later date. And lets not forgot he left the day after or so after the murder, went a hundred miles away for 3 days, when he returned of course police would notice that significant cut on his hand.
And I forgot to add this was a woman who was quite frequently on her cell phone and pretty much when she arrives there is no activity on her phone ever again. So I think we can all agree that she was killed in that general area by someone who lived fairly close shortly after she arrived. If most of us agree on that, which of the 4 or 5 men/suspects in that immediate area knew she was going to be there that afternoon and knew about what time? Steven Avery. Which of the men showed he was thinking about her a lot that day? Blocked calls, giving his sister's name, requesting that Auto Trader send her out...Steven Avery. Which one tells police he didn't even see her? Some of those other 'suspects' told police they saw her out there taking pictures that day...kind of dumb to admit they saw her if they killed her. But Avery, the man calling her minutes before she arrives, didn't see a thing. Claimed at one point she was a no show. Jesus fellows, common sense.
And if this was a frame job it was quite an extensive one. His blood in her car and DNA on her keys you would think would be sufficient but no, they went the extra mile, and put her DNA on a slug and his non blood DNA on the latch of the hood. Even if you threw out the keys and slug and blood that were questioned in the show, you would still have his DNA on the latch and his lies and her bones in his back yard and camera and phone in his burn barrel...that and the cut on his hand, his odd behavior the day she was killed, last known person to have seen her alive and well. Lot of people in jail for terrible things with far less evidence, circumstantial and otherwise. He was guilty. Maybe someone else was involved, maybe they weren't but Steven Avery was one of the murders and most likely the only one. For a guy so eager to proclaim his innocence to the media before he was arrested, he refused take the stand on his own behalf..