Welcome back to Ronfell Conviction with Jason Flom, you know.

Many of our listeners, most of our listeners, have seen the Netflix original series making

a murderer.

It's the story of Stephen Avery, a guy from the wrong side of the tracks whose family

owned an auto salvage yard in Manitouac, Wisconsin.

It starts off in 1985, wherein Stephen Avery was wrongfully convicted of a sexual assault

for which he was exonerated 18 years later when the DNA and the case was found to match

another man, and his alibis were proven to have been true all along.

After his release in 2003, Avery filed a $36 million civil suit against Manitouac County

Wisconsin and several of its officials.

Fast forward to 2005, Theresa Hallback, a photographer known to have been photographing

cars on the Avery property when missing.

The handling of the investigation was quite controversial to say the least with issues

of evidence tampering, not to mention the obvious conflict of interest in allowing Manitouac

County to investigate the very same man who was suing them for $36 million.

However, all of that aside, the most damning piece of evidence came in the form of a false

confession from Avery's nephew, Brandon Dassy, a 16 year old boy with no criminal record

and serious mental challenges.

Now I'm honored to present the exclusive, the one and only interview that Brandon has

ever given to anyone.

Joining us is esteemed appellate attorney from the Center on Romple Convictions at Northwestern

University, my friend, Laura Nyrider.

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