(con't)The evidence Kratz said his case will show:At about 2:45 p.m., Oct. 31, 2005, Steven Avery restrained and killed Teresa Halbach."We will prove where it happened, and when it happened."We can't provide the why — the motive behind the kill, and what was in Mr. Avery's mind."He called Teresa "a remarkable young woman" as he introduced her as "a real person — somebody's daughter — somebody's sister."On Halloween 2005, that all ended, and that ended at the hand of Steven Avery."He said Avery "lured" Teresa, who had been to the family property several times before to photograph vehicles, by calling Auto Trader Magazine that morning.And he told jurors that Avery "should never have been convicted in 1985," when he was convicted of a rape and served 18 years in prison before he was exonerated by DNA evidence.He also said there is nothing wrong with Manitowoc County being involved in the investigation, despite a "perceived conflict — an apparent conflict," because Avery had filed a $36 million civil lawsuit against Manitowoc County for his wrongful 1985 arrest and conviction. Avery spent 18 years in prison before he was exonerated.posted by john lee at 10:11 AM | 0 Comments--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Searchers found the "needle in the haystack" when they found Teresa's sport utility vehicle in the salvage yard, "not accidentally, from the furthest point from (Avery's) trailer," hidden and near a car crusher, Kratz told jurors."Where it was found was not an accident."It wasn't found on a roadway. It wasn't found in a mall parking lot.It was found on the Avery property," with license plates removed and the vehicle obscured.Police examined 4,000 vehicles "in a torrential downpour, in the pitch dark," and used search dogs."They really don't know what they are searching for yet," and he said police at first hoped to find Teresa alive.A day after her vehicle was found, police found "what we believe was the last recorded voice of Teresa Halbach," a voice mail she left for Avery after receiving the appointment.Monday, state lab workers found Teresa's blood, and a male's blood — later identified as Avery's — in six different locations in her vehicle."They suspect early on that something horrible has come to Teresa Halbach," Kratz said.Police that day also found the burn barrel, where "critical pieces of information" were found.On Tuesday, Nov. 8, police found a key to Halbach's vehicle, with Avery's DNA on it. The key was found about the third time his bedroom was searched, and apparently fell from a cabinet that was moved and jostled and shaken, Kratz said.That day, police also found license plates for Halbach's SUV in a station wagon in the salvage yard."Not by accident," Kratz said.Also that day, police found the burn area where remains of Halbach's body would eventually be found.They also found her tibia, part of a long leg bone, with tissue attached, despite "Avery's attempt to obliterate these bones by burning."posted by john lee at 10:38 AM | 0 Comments--------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Wednesday, vehicle from the blood is matched to Avery and bones are recovered, Kratz tells jurors.Avery had a deep cut on his hand, and police found his blood in at least six places in her vehicle, including on the rear cargo door.Blood from the ignition matched Avery, from "an actively bleeding middle right finger."Both front seats and the rear tailgate also had Avery's blood, and Halbach's blood is also found on the tailgate.Kratz said experts had enough bones recovered to show two entrance gunshot wounds."I will be able to tell you this was a homicide and it included at least two gunshot wounds to the head of Teresa Halbach."He said other scientific evidence will include that of a forensic odontologist who matched teeth from the burn area to Halbach, and by a forensic anthropologist who identified bones found in the search as those of an adult woman.An FBI lab later used a sophisticated testing to confirm those bones came from Halbach."There is really no question whose camera it was that Mr. Avery burned up in that burn barrel Oct, 31," Kratz said.Other evidence will include shell casings from Avery's garage with Halbach's DNA on them."The facts in this case will not just point to who did it."He said evidence will also show people excluded from suspicion."At the end of this case you will search for the truth," Kratz said."Remembering the humanity of Teresa Halbach, remembering who she is, and what she meant to these people, is an important part (of jurors' job)."I will ask at the conclusion that you return a verdict of guilty.""Teresa left her DNA for you," he told jurors.Lunch break from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.posted by john lee at 11:00 AM | 0 Comments--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Avery's lead attorney, Dean Strang of Madison, said the system failed Steven Avery in 1985, and he wants to make sure than it doesn't fail him again.Strang wasted little time in getting to the conspiracy theory that Manitowoc County officers framed Avery, using a vial of blood that was drawn from Avery 11 years ago and was left unsecured in the Manitowoc County Clerk of Courts office.And very early in his opening statement, he pointed the finger at Lt. James Lenk, the fourth-highest-ranking officer in the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Department, and Sgt. Andrew Colborn, who gave depositions in the civil suit."By October, 2004 the lawsuit mattered."This lawsuit was the public cry of a man wrongly convicted and sent to prison."This kind of thing has to be a nightmare for every law enforcement officer."Like special prosecutor Ken Kratz in his opening, Strang said Avery's 1985 conviction for rape in Manitowoc County, and his eventual exoneration of that conviction by DNA evidence, will be at the center of this case.Strang told jurors about the $36 million federal lawsuit Avery filed against the county for his false conviction in 1985."There was no question the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Department and the court system had gotten the wrong guy," he said.Strang said a vial of blood drawn from Avery in 1996 and left unsecured in the Manitowoc County Clerk of Courts office, and the availability of that blood to Lenk, also will be at the center of his defense.Strang said the Avery family "shares the perimeter of this (salvage yard) property with 4,000 rusting cars that are the wreckage of other people's lives."You've got to get your hands dirty if you work in the salvage business. You've got to get your hands bloody," he said in an attempt to explain a deep cut police found on Avery's hand in the days after Halbach disappeared.posted by john lee at 11:46 AM | 0 Comments--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Two of the people who knew Teresa Halbach best opened the testimony against her accused killer Monday.Her younger brother, Mike Halbach, and her partner and boss in a photography business, Tom Pearce, were the first two witnesses in the case against Steven Avery, who is accused of killing her Oct. 31, 2005 after she took a picture of a van he was selling at his family's salvage yard west of Mishicot."She had many friends and loved doing things with her friends," her brother said.He last saw her the day before his disappearance, when the family gathered at their grandfather's home for his birthday, which was Halloween.They had also worked together Saturday, when she helped Mike video tape a wedding.Pearce met her when she interned for him in early 2002 while she was a student at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay."From there on I saw she was an exceptional person for a photographer and for a person her age."He asked her to stay on, and they worked together, running their separate businesses."The drive, the p"DorkFish"ion. I was very impressed with her," he said."I have 38 years experience and I wanted to share that with her."She loved photographing children of all ages. She had a knack for that."He remembered her being "happy as a lark she had her first car," when she bought a small sport utility vehicle to replace an old beater.She loved to travel and had been to Mexico, Australia and New Zealand, her brother said.She coached her younger sister's seventh grade volleyball team and graduated with honors from UW-Green Bay, Mike said.He remembers driving highways around Mishicot with his brother after she was reported missing.They hoped to find her, and thought maybe she had an accident somewhere."We hoped to find her alive," he said.posted by john lee at 4:31 PM | 0 Comments--------------------------------------------------------------------------------