Netflix Open to a Second Season of Making a Murderer

The 10-part series, “Making a Murderer”, spans over a decade and follows the case of Steven Avery who is convicted of killing photographer Teresa Halbach and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.

And now documentary makers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos have defended their show.

Making a Murderer quietly debuted on Netflix on December 18. “It was a remarkable turn of events in the last couple of weeks of the year where it was that insane combination of super addictive television and time to watch it. People were watching it and telling their friends who also had time to watch it during the holiday break”. “It’s now on a national scale where the media is demonizing this man”, Demos said. They said they have had conversations with Avery since the documentary’s release that they have taped, but have not returned to Wisconsin for more filming. When asked if he was closing the book on the idea of expanding upon the series, he responded “no. I know you’re asking for me to say that we’re doing something or not, and we don’t know yet”. Now Avery’s ex-fiance has revealed disturbing details about their relationship, and we’re left wondering all over again what really happened.

Ricciardi fully admitted that they did leave out evidence, suggesting the constraints of telling a condensed story forced them to not include some aspects. Ricciardi said Avery has asked the warden for permission to see their series and it was denied. When we spoke recently, his focus was mainly on his case.

Steven Avery for Making of a Murderer.

Steven Avery is shown in a booking photo from the Netflix documentary series “Making a Murderer”, in this handout provided by Netflix, January 13, 2016.

“So here, 36 hours earlier, we have someone listening to her voicemail”, one of Avery’s former defense attorneys Jerry Buting explained to RollingStone.

“We were looking for jurors who were intelligent, independent, had some significant education so that they could follow the science, and the state, obviously, was not”. Speaking to reporters, they said they are gathering new materials to continue Steven Avery’s story, but there would have to be “significant developments” to actually begin production on a followup season/series. We picked out highlights of the questions and their responses below, but the entirety of the Q&A session is on Twitter.

“As we said before… this story is ongoing, these cases are open”.