In Avery's case against Manitowoc County, it was said that insurance wouldn't cover it and they were looking at a payout of around $36 million. This made the county and the others named in the lawsuit nervous about their futures.
Teresa was at Steven Avery's place taking pictures on Oct 31st. Somewhere within the next 3-4 days, Colburn calls in the license plate to confirm it's from Teresa's RAV4. This is BEFORE it is found by the searchers. So the police had a day or two to do what they wanted with it. There is a possibility that the key was still inside the RAV4 when Colburn found it as well. Since Lenk and Colburn were besties, he could have very easily given it to Lenk to "find" later on. Or when he asked the dispatcher if it was a '99 Toyota, did he get a key from a different RAV4 and present it as hers? Remember, only Avery's DNA was found on the key, not even Teresa's.
This is all of interest because Colburn had been given information that Avery was innocent nearly 8 years (in 1995 from the man who actually did the crime, Allen) before Avery was let out of prison. But the day AFTER Avery was released from prison in 2003, Colburn was sure to write out a statement with this information.
Around Nov 5th, 2 ladies "find" the RAV4 in the salvage yard. One of them stated that they arrived to the search party area after everyone else, were given a camera by Teresa's ex-boyfriend (I think), and found the Rav4 after about 45 minutes of searching. Note that there were literally hundreds of vehicles on this lot that spanned many acres. These 2 ladies happen to be related to the ex-boyfriend; an aunt & cousin maybe? The coincidence of arriving late, being given a camera, and finding the RAV4 in less than an hour seems a bit fishy.
The ex-boyfriend admitted to checking Teresa's cell phone messages by "guessing" her password, which he said consisted of her sisters' birthdates. Later on it was revealed that some of the messages appeared to have been erased because at one point the mailbox was full, and then it wasn't. Why erase anything?
There was no blood found in the bedroom, garage, etc. of Teresa's. If all of these horrible things happened to her at his residence, wouldn't there be something, somewhere? It's highly unlikely that she was killed in his house/garage. She had to have been killed somewhere else.
Is it possible that when the bullet was found in Avery's garage so many months later, the police had been working with the crime lab & were given the bullet as they were going through the bone fragments from the firepit? How is it that the bullet only had Teresa's DNA on it, but no blood? Plus no blood on the floor where it was found? Did it go cleanly through her head & land on the floor? It seems unlikely.
There are just too many coincidences for me. I feel like Lenk, Colburn, Fassbender, and the ex-boyfriend are all somehow involved.
I don't think Brendan Dassey was involved at all. I can't believe they were allowed to question him without his mom present. I also found it crazy when they made him draw those pictures after he was done with his statement.