Netflix has confirmed that they will be producing a second season of the Emmy Award-winning documentary series Making a Murderer, and it will launch globally on Friday, October 19.
The hugely popular series followed the story of Steven Avery from DNA exoneree and reformer to convicted murderer.
In the second run, filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos return to the American Midwest where they have exclusive access to Steven Avery and his co-defendant and nephew Brendan Dassey, their families and the legal teams fighting for justice on their behalf.
Over the course of ten new episodes, Making a Murderer Part 2 provides an in-depth look at the high-stakes post-conviction process, exploring the emotional toll the process takes on all involved.
"Steven and Brendan, their families and their legal and investigative teams have once again graciously granted us access, giving us a window into the complex web of American criminal justice," said Ricciardi and Demos in a statement.
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"Building on Part 1, which documented the experience of the accused, in Part 2, we have chronicled the experience of the convicted and imprisoned, two men each serving life sentences for crimes they maintain they did not commit. We are thrilled to be able to share this new phase of the journey with viewers."
Part 2 introduces viewers to Kathleen Zellner, Avery’s hard-charging post-conviction lawyer, in her fight to prove that Avery was wrongly convicted and win his freedom.
Ricciardi and Demos - who are executive producers, writers and directors of the series - follow Zellner, who has righted more wrongful convictions than any private attorney in America.
While working on the case she uncovers unexpected evidence about what may have happened to Teresa Halbach and about how and why the jury convicted Steven of her murder.
Ricciardi and Demos also follow Dassey’s post-conviction lawyers, Laura Nirider and Steven Drizin, as they fight in federal court to prove their client’s confession was involuntary, which could take the case all the way to the US Supreme Court.
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