The bit I didn't understand from Season 1 and again in Season 2 is when Colborn finds her car before anyone else and radios it in then lies about it in court. It seems like such a major part of the case but nothing seems to be done about it. Am I missing something?
It's pretty normal for a police officer on patrol, to call despatch to verify or check on information he's been given in the field, indeed - he didn't "find' a car at all, he was verifying information (plates / vehicle /year) that had been given to him, it doesn't stop conspiracy theorists jumping onto it like flies on **** though.
Secondly, it's pretty far fetched to claim Colborn lied in court, there were some errors in his record keeping - but extrapolating that to the point where he's lying is far fetched.
I don't understand how he cleaned all of the blood off the bed. I know whenever I've split anything on the bed it's gone through to the mattress yet there wasn't a drop of blood found on Avery's. Maybe I need to ask him what mattress protector he was using.[/QUOTE]
The problem is, nobody knows exactly what went on in the trailer - where the blood went, how much there was, crucially - Avery had the luxury of his trailer to himself, from the
31st of October until the 5th of November before Halbach's car was found on his property, in that time he could have done literally anything with the scene - we simply don't know and will never know what happened in that trailer. All we have to go on, is Brendan Dassey testifying that Avery burnt the bloodstained bedding, there's no other evidence that goes either way.
@Screeeech, you seem to be giving a lot of credence to Brendon’s confession(s), despite all of the issues surrounding his case and the way he was treated.
I do give it credence yes, mostly because the information he gives, obtained on three separate occasions, is not only reasonably consistent - it's also packed with detail that aligns with the details found at the crime scene.
In order to prove Brendan Dassey's statement wrong, or claim it's a false confession - the information he provided would have to be wrong, alas; many false confessions - those obtained under torture, threats of physical violence or bribery, often amount of a big pile of nonsense that doesn't add up. In the case of Brendan Dassey, many major details came out that made sense with the facts on the ground, many of which make sense, good examples of these were;
- Dassey alleges that Avery shot Halbach in the head; Forensic investigation of the skull fragments show damage consistent with that of a gunshot wound to the skull.
- How Habach's blood got into the Rav 4 when it had no logical reason to be there, which puzzled the detectives; Dassey explains how Avery originally planned to dispose of her body in the quarry by driving her body down there in the back of the Rav4, they remove it after he changes his mind and decided to burn her.
- How Avery's blood got into the Rav4; Dassey explained how Avery cut himself when he stabbed Halbach and was bleeding, this explains the source of Avery's blood on the Rav 4
- The condition of the Rav4; Dassey explains in detail, how they disguised her Rav4, using branches and other junk to disguise it, along with how the plates disappeared (which matches exactly how it was found)
- Dassey confessed that after they shot her in the garage, they cleaned up the blood using bleach. Dassey's jeans had significant bleach stains on them when he handed them to the police, luminol testing in the areas Dassey pointed out, also came back as positive
- Dassey explains how they carried her to the burn pit and used tyres to burn her, along with a rake to stoke the fire; Halbach's remains were found entwined with the remains of burnt tyres, a rake found nearby was also found with her bone fragments on it.
On how he was treated, I watched the full confession and I've read all three of his statements and I didn't really see anything that bad given the context; A young woman murdered when he'd admitted being there, what do people expect? for the officers to simply say "oh that's fine Brendan, we don't want to upset you, you can tell us what happened to her some other time"
Indeed, I think they're pretty good with him - they offer him breaks, drinks, opportunities to see his mother, I really don't see anything untoward going on at all, Netflix attempted to make it look like some abuse of human rights but I wasn't phased by it, I've watched loads of interrogations and it didn't really seem remarkable.
Lastly, Brendan apparently has an IQ of 80, if his confession was false - how did he manage to fabricate so much information (from the points above), recite it three times, under pressure from hardened detectives, and manage to actually match it all up with the forensic evidence, specifically things like the forensics of the Rav 4, and how he raped Halbach - why confess to that, it makes no sense to confess to the rape so why do it?
My theory is, he simply did not have the mental fortitude and character to spar with a special agent and a detective, when caught red handed for a terrible crime he's been involved in - without the intelligence and mental agility to lie his way out of the situation, plagued by guilt and shock, he simply couldn't hack it, caved in and spilt like the Exxon Valdez.
