Steven Avery Update: Ken Kratz Speaking Event Canceled Amid Protest Threats
A Rockford, Illinois, speaking event featuring Making a Murderer‘s Ken Kratz, scheduled for next month, was canceled this week without notice, and so far, no one is explaining why.
Bustle reports that Ken Kratz, the infamous attorney seen working as a prosecutor against Steven Avery on the Netflix docuseries Making a Murderer, was scheduled to speak at the Coronado Performing Arts Center on May 19. In an event titled, “Steven Avery: Guilty as Charged,” Kratz was slated to provide evidence that the event promoter detailed as, “an unusual means by which the public will have the opportunity to hear the other side of the case.”
The cancellation may possibly be from the sheer amount of people who planned to protest the event. Numerous members of the Facebook group “Steven Avery Project” planned to show up to the event to help prevent Kratz from profiting from the case.
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According to the page’s administrator, corruption is the key to all of this.
“Once again we have another member of the corrupt manitwoc [sic] county frame job of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey attempting to profit from there corrupt actions. Kratz and Judge Jeanine Pirro will be speaking at there event which is titled Avery: Guilty as Charged.”
So far, there’s no indication of exactly how many tickets to the event were bought, which were selling for $47.50 each. Prior to the cancellation, however, there were still an ample amount of tickets available. There’s rumors that low ticket sales are behind the event’s cancellation, which according to some members of the Steven Avery Project Facebook group, indicates how many people believe in Avery’s innocence.
The same Facebook group had also planned to protest another event in Naperville, Illinois, where Lt. Mark Wiegert and Special Agent Tom Fassbender planned to speak about the Avery case in April, at the 2016 Educational Conference. For reasons unknown, that event, too, has been canceled.
'Making A Murderer' DA Ken Kratz Is Planning To Write A Tell-All Book https://t.co/keuSgQ6lFu #StevenAvery pic.twitter.com/Suvrt6syaX
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However, it seems as if Kratz will continue to profit from the Avery case. The former prosecuting attorney still has plans to continue with his book, detailing “the voice of Teresa Halbach,” something he said was forgotten about in the Making a Murderer film. Although Kratz attempted to get an interview from Avery himself for the book, Avery ignored the request, which prompted Kratz to send him a letter.
“Since I’m the only person who probably knows more about your case than anyone else, I hoped that you would choose me to tell your story to. Unfortunately, you only want to continue your nonsense about being set up. That’s too bad, because you had one opportunity to finally tell all the details, but now that will never happen.”
Avery’s new attorney, Kathleen Zellner, didn’t let Kratz’s behavior slide. After learning of the letter sent to her client, Zellner blasted Kratz via social media, after information proving that he indeed wrote Avery was deleted.
Meanwhile, Zellner continues to work on getting Avery released from prison. In a recent tweet, the wrongful conviction attorney stated that there were “no doubts” that Halbach left Avery’s property alive. Halbach, a 25-year-old freelance photographer, visited the Avery property on October 31, 2005. She disappeared later that day, never to be seen alive again. Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, authorities later recovered her vehicle on Avery’s property, as well as remnants of her cellphone, parts of her clothing, and her bone fragments.
Avery was convicted of Halbach’s murder in 2007, but the case didn’t gain worldwide popularity until the 2014 release of Making a Murderer. Numerous people across the world now believe that authorities planted evidence on Avery’s property to convict him of a crime he’s innocent of. Steven Avery remains behind bars, serving a life sentence without parole.
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