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Name Teresa Halbach

Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background

Introduction : Who was Teresa Halbach ?

Teresa Halbach was a photographer & victim of murder in Wisconsin, USA, in 2005. Her case gained a lot of media coverage on account of the convict’s history.
Evidence suggested Steven Avery to be a prime suspect of the case. He was found guilty of first-degree murder and charged with life in prison with no parole.

Netflix made a documentary television series called Making a Murderer based on the life of Steven Avery, also covering the murder case.
Teresa was born on March 22, 1980, in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, & died on October 31, 2005, in Chilton, Wisconsin.

Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education

Teresa Halbach, together with siblings Kelly, Michael, Katie, and Timothy was born to parents – Richard and Karen Halbach.
A typical country girl, she was raised in a dairy farm owned by her great-grandfather that was 225 acres large! Her great-grandfather was a German immigrant.
She would babysit her younger sisters while her father and two brothers tended to the cows on their farm – a herd of more than 60!

Education : Teresa attended the Hilbert High School and is from the class of 1998.
She graduated ‘Summa-Cum-Laude’ from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay with a degree in photography.
She’s a very energetic, spontaneous person. We were always up to something – hiking or swimming at High Cliff State Park on Lake Winnebago, quoted Kelly Pitzen, one of Teresa’s oldest and closest friends.

Her lively personality has brought her to many places such as Australia and New Mexico, but being a family person she kept them close at heart wherever she went.
She also coached her younger sister’s 7th-grade volleyball team at St John-Sacred Heart School.
Ryan Hillegas, who was her boyfriend from high school to college, described Teresa as ‘a friend to everybody’.

Teresa enjoyed having a good time and intended to meet her family at a bar for a Halloween party when she returned from her job. It was the final Sunday anyone saw her alive.
The job was to take photographs of a minivan for sale on Auto Trader magazine at Avery’s Auto Salvage Yard, owned by convict Steven Avery.
It was established that Teresa had met Avery before the job, which led to the discovery of her car at his property.

The Steven Avery Trial :

Steven Avery was first wrongfully convicted of sexual assault and attempted murder in 1985 & was sentenced to 32 years in prison.

He served his sentence for 18 years before being fully exonerated following new DNA evidence proving him innocent beyond a reasonable doubt.
Avery filed a $36 million lawsuit against Manitowoc County & another party involved for wrongful conviction. Two years later, he was arrested and charged for the murder of Teresa Halbach.
However, due to the history between Avery and the Manitowoc Sheriff and Judge, there was a conflict of interest in their participation and suggested evidence tampering.

Avery’s nephew, Brendan Dassey was later charged and convicted as an accessory to murder after confessing under interrogation. Nevertheless, he later recanted his confession, declaring that he was forced.
Following the release of the documentary Making a Murderer, it was revealed that 7 out of 12 jurors voted not guilty, but the judge passed on a guilty verdict at the end.
Allegedly, another juror told the filmmakers that he voted guilty for fear of his safety.