Making a Murderer episode two: What scenes caught my attention?

In class on Monday we viewed episode two of the series Making a Murderer and twos scenes really caught my attention. These scenes revolved around the way certain individuals were acting when interviewed about Steven Avery's case and how Avery reacted to facing his accuser. These scenes, for me, allowed you to see both sides of the coin and the true individual personality that exists. With Avery, you see a person who lost everything, but sees the light and has the ability to forgive the one who is partially responsible for the lose of his freedom. With investigators who took away Avery's freedom, I see people who are shaky, nervous, do not make any sense, and display signs of a person who is lying. My feelings on these scenes will be discussed further below.

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To begin, I think in the show when Avery was talking about his accuser, Penny Beerntsen, we see a mature indidivual who was on the other side of a horrible situation accept it and not blame the one that was hurt just as bad. Avery knew she was not the entire reason he was found guilty for something he did not do and he took the high road with someone who had already been through enough as it is. I say this because when Beerntsen came to apologize to him they shared a tight embrace and Avery said it was okay and that it was over. This is the closure a situation like this needs in order for people to get past it. I was very happy to see this in the episode.

Moving on, there were several interviews that upset me in this episode that involved people responsible for the investigation against Avery and the things related to the case beyond it. These interviews included Chief Deputy Eugene Kusche, Mark Rohrer, Sargent Andrew Colborn, and Deputy Judy Dvorak. They each displayed to me signs of deception that I did not appreciate. They werer answering questions about things that had happened in the past, so I understand that they might not remember a lot, but the time it took them to answer questions, the way certain people fidgeted, like Mark Rohrer and Judy Dvorak, it made me feel like they were hiding something. Then, the way inofrmation failed to pass along correctly and how it seems the use of evidence was misused, in relation to Andrew Colborn with the phone call about Gregory Allen in 1995 and the sketch with Chief Deputy Eugene Kusche, I feel that Avery was set up to fail and stay in jail for a much longer time then he needed to and that makes me sick. Once again I feel we see an instance in law enforcement where I think the conviction rate was seen as more important then attaining justice.

With the above being said, these were the instances in episode two of Making a Murderer that made the most impact on me.