A life term after rape exoneration
A man convicted of murdering a photographer 3 1/2 years after his release from prison for a rape he did not commit was sentenced in Manitowoc to life in prison with no chance for parole.
Steven Avery, 44, was convicted in March of killing Teresa Halbach, 25, on Halloween 2005 near his family’s rural auto salvage lot. She had gone there to take a picture of a vehicle for an auto-sales publication.
Avery previously spent 18 years in prison for rape. He was freed in 2003 after DNA samples proved another man committed that crime.
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