Steven Avery
- Year
- 2003
- Where
- Wisconsin
- Source
- Innocence Project
- Evidence
- 1
In 2003, Steven Avery was exonerated of a 1985 rape conviction in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. DNA testing excluded him as the source of biological evidence and pointed to another man who had been convicted of a different sexual assault.
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Podcast episodes
- Steven Avery Part 1: Murderer.True Crime Kent · 2026
- ’Convicting A Murderer’: The True Story Of Steven Avery’s Final CrimeFederalist Radio Hour · 2024
- Steven Avery: Beyond Netflix’s Making a MurdererUnsolved Cases · 2025
- Murder of Teresa Halbach and The Case Against Steven Avery Part 1Necronomipod · 2025
- Steven Avery Part 2: Guilty (The Finale)True Crime Kent · 2026
In the Internet Archive
- Good Morning America: Weekend Edition : WISN : August 13, 2016 6:00am-7:01am CDTVideo · 2016
- Good Morning America : WOLO : January 5, 2016 7:00am-9:00am ESTVideo · 2016
- ABC15 News : KNXV : August 13, 2016 5:00am-7:00am MSTVideo · 2016
- Dateline NBC : KUSA : January 29, 2016 9:00pm-10:00pm MSTVideo · 2016
- Right This Minute : KTNV : January 6, 2016 2:07am-2:37am PSTVideo · 2016
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