Steven Avery‘s ex-fiancée from Netflix’s Making of a Murderer says he’s guilty.
Despite a 100,000 signatures calling for Steven Avery’s release from prison, one important person still thinks he’s guilty.
Steven Avery’s former girlfriend, Jodi Stachowski, was portrayed as the light and hope in Steven Avery’s life while his entire world was crashing around him. But, according to a new report and interview with HLN, the Making of a Murder girlfriend reveals that Steven Avery is “sick” and “a monster,” deemed their relationship “abusive,” and claimed, “He threatened to kill me, and my family, and a friend of mine.”
“He’d beat me all the time, punch me, throw me against the wall. I tried to leave, he smashed the windshield out of my car so I couldn’t leave him,” she said.
Stachowski said her appearance in Making a Murderer was “all an act”because she was intimidated by Avery. “Steven called me and told me that if I didn’t say anything good and nice about him, I’d pay,” she told HLN. She said she saw that as a direct threat to her life, if he was released from jail.
In Making a Murder the documentary showed Stachowski discussing multiple phone calls the night of Teresa Halbach’s murder in order to provide an alibi for Avery. Then Stachowski claimed regarding her phone calls from jail, “The conversation with normal. He didn’t sound rushed or like he was doing anything, and if he was in the middle of doing something, we wouldn’t have talked for 15 minutes.”
However, Stachowski said that Avery “did sound funny” the night of the murder. “I mean, he didn’t sound rushed or…whatever. But he did sound funny, like he was lying or hiding something,” she said. She said that she repeatedly asked Avery if he killed Halbach and “he always said no,” but she didn’t believe him because, “I know the way he is.”
Stachowski described Avery as someone who was severely impacted after spending 18 years in prison for rape that he did not commit. “He told me once, excuse my language, ‘All bitches owe him,’ because of the one that sent him to prison the first time,” she explained. “We all owed him and he could do whatever he wanted.”
Stachowski says she was also never bribed by law enforcement and that she was never told by the filmmakers behind Making a Murderer. However, she does not know if the filmmakers were aware of Steven Avery’s history of domestic abuse.
Regarding her breakup with Steven Avery, Stachowski says:
We were put on a no-contact after phone calls that were made that my P.O. heard of him talking to his mom something about me, I don’t know, I don’t care. We were put on a no-contact for that, and then one day he called and asked for the camera. Well, the camera’s in police custody. I don’t have it. She had some officers come to the house and arrest me because it was third-party contact. There’s no contact at all. So I went to jail, we talked, and she said it’d be in my best interest if I left. If I stayed, I’d keep getting in trouble. Well, I ain’t getting in trouble forhim. So I moved.
When questioned about Steven Avery’s nephew Brendan Dassey, who was also convicted of Halbach’s murder, she believes he is innocent.
You can watch the full interview below:
