'Making A Murderer' Case: Avery Attorney Announces $100K Reward

DOWNERS GROVE, IL — On Monday morning, just as she promised, the world-famous wrongful conviction lawyer for Steven Avery, attorney Kathleen Zellner, made a big announcement that is sure to draw a strong reaction all over the globe. Zellner revealed: "We are pleased to announce that a reward of $100,000 is being offered, by a concerned citizen, for the arrest and conviction of the real killer of Teresa Halbach. All tips should be called in to (630) 847-3733."

Zellner has maintained that the Manitowoc County native is totally innocent of the Oct. 31, 2005 disappearance and murder of Wisconsin photographer Teresa Halbach, who was a regular visitor to the Avery Salvage Yard. Avery was in the midst of $36 million police misconduct federal lawsuit against the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Office at the time of Halbach's disappearance.

The Manitowoc County Sheriff's Office took control of the Halbach investigation and a number of sheriff's officials were suspected of several incidents of planting evidence and concealing the true events and circumstances regarding Halbach's disappearance and slaying.

For instance, Zellner has determined that Halbach, 25, most likely met her demise off the seldom-traveled Kuss Road near the Manitowoc County quarry properties, which is at least a half-mile away from Steven Avery's property.

The area along Kuss Road is where the police dogs found Halbach's scent. However, the Manitowoc County Sheriff's arrested Steven Avery the following week, prior to the lawsuit deposition of retired Manitowoc County Sheriff Tom Kocourek and Manitowoc County claimed that Halbach was killed inside Avery's mobile home along Avery Road.

Avery's arrest caused his $36 million lawsuit against Manitowoc County to implode and the deposition of former Sheriff Kocourek, who was accused of framing Avery for a 1985 rape along the shoreline of Lake Michigan, never occurred.

The plight of Steven Avery and his other nephew, Brendan Dassey, was the subject of two world-wide documentaries on Netflix, Making a Murderer I and Making a Murderer II.