1- Robert Henak : “The fact that the victim identified the perpetrator as wearing white underwear when Steven Avery didn’t own underwear”
2- Dean Strang : “All due respect to counsel, the state is supposed to start every criminal trial swimming upstream. And the strong current against which the state is supposed to be swimming is the presumption of innocence”
3- ““Most of what ails our criminal justice system lie in unwarranted certitude on the part of police officers and prosecutors and defense lawyers and judges and jurors that they are getting it right. That they are simply right. Just a tragic lack of humility in everyone who participates in our criminal justice system.”
4- Judge Patrick Willis : “You are probably the most dangerous individual ever to set foot in this courtroom”
5- Steven Avery : “I ain’t gonna give up. When you know you’re innocent, you keep on going”
6- Steven Avery : “I just want to be by myself and think about this and rack my brains about where she might be. I want to help.”
7- I am a scientist, though I am not a chemist or molecular biologist, but I do have to say that if I walked into a lab meeting and my negative controls were contaminated the response would be ‘redo that experiment because this means nothing.’
8- “What book that you read ever had the story of a woman chained to a bed, raped, stabbed, and then her body thrown on a fire? What book was that, sir?”
“I believe it was called Kiss the Girls”
9- Steven Avery : “I’m a decent guy. I get along with everyone—except Manitowoc County.”
10- Steven Avery : “Poor people lose. Poor people lose all the time”
11- Ken Petersen : “If we wanted to eliminate Steve, it would’ve been a whole lot easier to eliminate Steve than to frame Steve…or if we wanted him killed, it would be much easier just to kill him”
12- “Timing and technology, I thought, underpinned Making a Murderer’s success. The show burst out during an electric, transformative, pre-Trump period in our country.
13- Dean Strang: “The court knows, I know. Perhaps some in the public or some in the media even have forgotten that he’s innocent. As he sits here today, he is legally presumed innocent. I mean, we can dress him up in something that makes him look like he jumped off a Monopoly game board or something. He’s a ‘get out of jail free’ card come to life. But he’s innocent.”
14- “I’m an analytical chemist, I’m not in the habit of guessing what’s in samples.”
15- Len Kachinsky : We have a 16 year-old who, while morally and legally responsible, is heavily influenced by someone who can only be described as something close to evil incarnate”
16- Dassey spends three hours confessing to a violent rape and murder, next question? “do you think I’ll be back by 1:29 I have a project due in sixth hour.” Detective: no.
17- Dean Strang : “No sane lawyer looks forward to presenting a defense that the police framed his client. No sane lawyer”