Otherwise, you'll be here until your MR." You know?
So I guess I'll be in here 'til my MR, 'cause I ain't gonna admit to it.
I'm not gonna lie.
Here's the court of appeals.
Sentencing papers.
This one must've been in... '98. I sent transcripts out.
A whole bunch of them. I made ten copies.
Sit in the living room and done it on the copy machine.
Then I put the pieces, each on the table to make ten, you know, ten of them.
It was nerve-racking.
I think there's about a thousand pages in 'em.
This one went to New York.
They went all over.
Wherever 60 Minutes is or 20/20 or...
I can't remember the other ones all.
All them things that's on TV always.
I thought they'd help Steven to get out if they read all this here script stuff.
Then all of a sudden we got a lot of 'em back, though.
They couldn't do it, they said, or something like that.
Yeah, I put a lot of hours in these boxes.
You learn to take patience, because everything...
it takes time.
In prison, you gotta wait.
Nothing happens just like that.
Anyway, they couldn't take away my love for my family and that.
I never had bad hopes. It was always good hopes.
Both his trial lawyer and his appellate lawyer said,
"Could you look at this guy's case, at Steven Avery's case?
We've been losing sleep over this case for 15 years."
We knew the technology had advanced, so we asked for the testing again.
The material was sent down to the crime laboratory again,
and what they found was that there were 13 pubic hairs
that had been collected during the pubic hair combings of the victim.
Eleven of those hairs had no root.
So they were down to two pubic hairs.
One of those hairs was from a female, probably Penny Beerntsen's own hair.
The truth in this matter came down to that one remaining pubic hair.
They got a full profile.
That profile conclusively excluded Steven Avery.
It could not have come from him. Now we know that with certainty.
Whether that alone would've been enough to grant him a new trial, I don't know.
But even more dramatically, they took that profile from that pubic hair
and they ran it through the state crime laboratory data bank
and they got a cold hit.
That is to say, they matched it to somebody in the data bank
who they didn't know was in there.
And that somebody was Gregory Allen.
I feel free.
When I left the prison, the anger left.
It was gone.
It stayed there, behind them gates.
It didn't come out with me.
I was happy when I got out.
I probably was the happiest man on the Earth.
- How you doing? - Oh, hello.
- How are you? - I'm pretty good.
- How's it feel? - It feels wonderful.
Oh, God! Oh, Stevie!
Let's get rid of this thing.
I'm just glad they got the guy who did it.
Do you forgive the victim?
It ain't at all her fault, you know.
Honest mistake, you know.
I mean, most the time, I think the cops put it in her head more.
Who's this?
I don't know.
The revelation hit the DA's office and the sheriff's office like a bomb.
And as it began to unfold what had happened,
there was then a huge set of repercussions
on a whole series of people in those offices.
The day of or the day after Steven's release,
law enforcement officers in Manitowoc
are writing memos to describe activity
that had occurred almost ten years earlier.
They don't do that unless they feel threatened.
When I called Denis Vogel to tell him the news
that Steven Avery wasn't guilty of assaulting Penny Beerntsen,
I was expecting to hear some shock or some surprise, like,
"Oh, my goodness. How did this happen?"
Or "I feel terrible about it" Or...
"Thank goodness the DNA proved it."
But I didn't hear any of that from Mr. Vogel.
What I heard instead was a question,
whether or not there was anything on Gregory Allen in his file.
I couldn't believe it. I mean, it showed me two things.
It showed me that he suspected that Gregory Allen was the assailant.
But it also showed me... I didn't know how else to take it,
other than that he was worried about his exposure.
That something about Gregory Allen was in his file.
I started leafing through denis Vogel's file on Avery and I come across
a criminal complaint.
"State of Wisconsin v. Gregory Allen" In the Avery file,
which didn't make a lot of sense.
It was a charge of lewd and lascivious behavior.
He had dropped his shorts, he exposed himself and he lunged at this woman.
And it was the same basic section of the beach
where Penny Beerntsen was assaulted two... two years later.
Um, and I looked at which prosecutor had prosecuted Gregory Allen earlier,
and it was Denis Vogel.
That was evidence that at least made it possible
that the DA and the sheriff
either knew or should have known
that Steven Avery was not the assailant.
And not only that,
we believe there was the potential that they knew, in fact,
who the assailant was, but continued with the prosecution.
We needed for somebody else to look at it
and the logical office would be the Attorney General's office.
It's extraordinarily significant
that a prosecutor asks the Attorney General,
the chief prosecutor of the state,
to investigate his own department
and law enforcement in that community. That doesn't happen.
Would you tell us what your occupation is, please?
I am a special agent with the Wisconsin Department of Justice
Division of Criminal Investigation.
What are your duties as a special agent?
To investigate crimes relating to misconduct in office.
And you were one of two DCI agents
to work on an investigation involving the prosecution in 1985
- of Steven Avery, is that right? - Yes.
We wanted to interview everybody we could identify as being involved
in the investigation or in the prosecution.
Understand, this is all happening in public view.
The public knew an Attorney General's investigation was underway.