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About Teresa Halbach
Teresa disappeared on October 31, 2005; her last known appointment was a meeting with Steven Avery, at his home on the grounds of Avery's Auto Salvage, to photograph a minivan that he was offering for sale. Her vehicle was found partially concealed in the salvage yard, and bloodstains recovered from its interior matched Avery's DNA. Investigators later identified charred bone fragments found in a burn pit near Avery's home as Halbach's.
Avery was arrested and charged with Halbach's murder, kidnapping, sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse on November 11, 2005. He had already been charged with a weapons violation as a convicted felon. Avery maintained that the murder charge was a frameup, promulgated to discredit his pending wrongful-conviction civil case. Although a judge assigned the murder investigation to the neighboring Calumet County Sheriff's Department because of Avery's suit against Manitowoc County, Manitowoc sheriff's deputies participated in repeated searches of Avery's trailer, garage, and property, unsupervised by Calumet County officers. A Manitowoc deputy found the key to Halbach's vehicle in Avery's bedroom after repeated searches by other officers. Avery's attorneys said there was a conflict of interest in their participation and suggested evidence tampering.
Avery's attorneys also discovered that an evidence box containing a vial of Avery's blood, collected as part of the 1985 investigation, had been unsealed and a puncture hole was visible in the stopper.[20] They speculated that the blood found in Halbach's car could have been drawn from the stored vial and planted in the vehicle to incriminate Avery; but FBI technicians tested the blood recovered from Halbach's car for EDTA, a preservative used in blood vials but not present in the human body, and found none.
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Teresa Halbach's Timeline
| 1980 |
March 22, 1980
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Kaukauna, Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States
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| 2005 |
October 31, 2005
Age 25
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Saint John, Calumet County, Wisconsin, United States
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