Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, You know You in Trouble When Serial Killer Attorneys Stay away from your Case.
Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey face a monumental task in proving their innocence in the murder of Teresa Halbach. You know you are in trouble when attorneys who have handled cases for serial kills want no part of your case and are glad they never involved themselves. That would be a serious problem.
The lawyer who handled David Spanbauer’s serial murders says he’s glad he’s not involved in Teresa Halbach’s murder case, which now involves Steven Avery and Avery’s 16-year-old nephew, Brendan Dassey.
Spanbauer was convicted in 1994 of kidnapping and murdering two children, and murdering a young Appleton woman about Teresa Halbach’s age.
Tom Zoesch earned a lot of praise for the way he handled Spanbauer’s case, but he found his experience handling Spanbauer emotionally draining.
“I was able to successfully keep my professional cool until it was all done. It wasn’t easy, but I was able to do it,” Zoesch told us. “Then I just broke down. I went home and I was just weeping.”
One could imagine that if this would be difficult for a lawyer who has handled serial killer cases, imagine what the potential jury must deal with?
But he’s uneasy with all the graphic details made public about how Avery and his nephew allegedly murdered Teresa Halbach. “If it goes to trial, I think it’s going to be difficult to find twelve people who haven’t formed some sort of opinion,” he said.
(WBAY TV)