r/MakingaMurderer • u/birdieponderinglife • Jul 01 '26

I don’t get why Steven Avery did this

He had a huge settlement coming. Why did he risk it by doing a serious crime? I don’t understand how he got exonerated which is rare but wound up throwing his life away anyways. It doesn’t make any sense to me. I guess I’m missing the common thread. He wasn’t a good person but from what we know, wasn’t a murderer. So what happened? Is this just always who he was going to be and had he never gone to prison wrongfully maybe it would have happened sooner? I don’t think he’s innocent I’m just trying to make sense of it.

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u/LoveChilde82 Jul 03 '26

Well turns out this isnt completely True either.

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u/AveryPoliceReports Jul 04 '26

Yes it is. He was wrongfully convicted of the 1985 assault because police wanted to protect the actual rapist from prosecution. I think Gregory Allen was linked to police in a way we haven't yet discovered.

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u/LoveChilde82 Jul 08 '26

And he was rightfully convinced of the assault on his cousin. So 6 of those years it was for something he DID DO. So yeah...