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Roberta Glass True Crime Report

Ken Kratz On How "Making A Murderer" Tossed Truth Aside To Make Entertainment

Roberta Glass True Crime Report

Roberta Glass

True Crime

3.3628 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This is the second half of my interview with former Calumet County prosecutor Ken Kratz.
The episode was produced by Ati Abdo MacDonald
Special thanks to Martin Preib

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Roberta Glass and you're listening to my true crime report.

0:05.1

I'm delighted to play for you part two of my interview with Ken Crats.

0:09.5

It's the only interview I've ever lost track of the time.

0:13.9

I was that fascinated and riveted by what Ken Crats had to say.

0:20.6

And surprised, and I hope you are too. So here it is.

0:25.6

One of my frustrations with talking with Avery supporters or Avery and Dassey supporters about this case,

0:31.4

which is they make assumptions about what they think. I mean, they're completely untrained.

0:36.1

They say there's too much blood or there's not enough blood or there's not enough evidence here

0:40.3

or he wouldn't have left the car to put your rational frame of mind into the mind of someone

0:47.0

who just committed murder.

0:48.5

It's a little bit like saying, well, O.J. Simpson wouldn't just like kill his wife right

0:52.9

before he's about to take a flight for Chicago,

0:55.4

right? With a car waiting. You know what I mean? Like it all sounds ridiculous.

1:00.0

Here's what I talked about before. The willingness of people to suspend their common sense.

1:07.2

Let me talk about two things. Okay. The first, Stephen Avery had a police scanner set up

1:14.7

in his living room the day that Teresa Halbach was killed. You can hear it because when he talks

1:20.9

to Jody on the phone who was in jail, you can hear the scanner chirping in the background.

1:26.3

You know what, Steve? On Halloween night, after Teresa Hallbach is, you know, from all rational evidence, dead by now,

1:36.5

why are you listening to the cop radio?

1:38.7

Why do you wonder if the cops are coming?

1:41.3

He doesn't know if he's going to report Teresa missing.

1:45.4

He has four days, but he never knows when they're coming. He knows they're coming. He doesn't know if when he's going to report Teresa missing. He has four days,

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