• Wrecking Crew

  • Demolishing the Case Against Steven Avery
  • By: John Ferak
  • Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
  • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (432 ratings)

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Wrecking Crew

By: John Ferak
Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
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“Whatever you thought you believed about this infamous case, get ready to change your mind or be more convinced than ever.... Fascinating.” (New York Times best-selling author Steve Jackson)

In 2016-17, while working for the USA Today Network’s Wisconsin Investigative Team, author John Ferak wrote dozens of articles examining the murder case again Steven Avery, who had already beat one wrongful conviction only to be charged with the murder of Teresa Halbach in 2005. The case became the wildly successful Netflix Making a Murderer documentary.

In Wrecking Crew: Demolishing the Case Against Steven Avery, Ferak lays out in exacting detail the post-conviction strategy of Kathleen Zellner, the high-profile, high-octane lawyer, to free Avery. To create this work, Zellner, perhaps America’s most successful wrongful conviction attorney, gave Ferak unique access to the exhaustive pro bono efforts she and her small suburban Chicago law firm dedicated for a man she believes to be a victim of an unscrupulous justice system in Manitowoc County.

©2018 John Ferak (P)2018 WildBlue Press

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Just Excellent...

If you are up to date with the Netflix docuseries, then this book provides you with more details surrounding the case.

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Great factual account of the injustice system.

Loved it. Binged listened to the book, just as I binge watched Making A Murderer. This book has many facts I have not heard about elsewhere.

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Excellent book!

Unbelievable the amount of evidence questioning the wrongful convictions of Steven and Brandon! I only hope Kathleen is able to get a new trial. There is no way a jury would convict this time

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Free Avery!

Awesome Book. Great job Kevin Pierce on narrating! Listened to this book in less than a day. It's very good.

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wish I could give more than 5 stars.

This book is a seriously in depth account of the Steven Avery murder case. On Halloween day 2005 Teresa Holbock was murdered and the local Police department has pinned it in Steven Avery. A man who had a 36 million dollar case against the same police department for another wrongful incarceration case where he spent most of his adult life in prison for a crime he did not commit. There are several books and even a Netflix series called Making a Muderer on this case. I am not sure what exactly has drawn me to this case that I follow it closely . Maybe this poor man has spent over 35 years in prison for things he did not do or the fact that I was raised in a small town in Georgia that also had a corrupt Police Department and I saw many people take the fall for things they had no hand in. I also love true crime.

If you have heard of this case and even if you have not thus book is well worth the time to read or in case listen to this book. The book takes you through the evidence. It gives you reasons why it is believed this us a very corrupt case and also why Steven Avery is not guilty. It also points fingers at people who done the corruption, reasons why they may have done it, and even some people who should of been the true suspects.

I personally cannot wait to see this case played out the rest of the way. I honestly do not know if Steven is guilty or not but it jest seems like he is a scapegoat in a crooked town.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

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Tons of detailed info

I’ve watched both series of Making a Murderer and this book included details I had not previously known. It was fascinating and well written. It’s also infuriating. What a travesty of justice this entire affair has been. Kathleen Zellner is an avenging angel and my hope is that she prevails here and Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey are exonerated.

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Very good book

Very good book!!! Highly reccomend reading it. It goes into much more details about the case documents than I expected.

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Nothing new

This is nothing more than a reiteration of everything covered in making a murderer season 2. What makes it even worse is the random in depth history of misconduct by the prosecutor. It is really not necessary as it brings nothing to the table and seems like a cheap shot to me. Would not recommend.

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Lots of redundancy

Not well organized, lots of redundancy. Some new information but not well written. This is the first time I've read a book with exact sentences/quotes used twice through the book and this happens multiple times. It made me think I bumped the chapter button. The book isn't organized chronologically or by individual so it makes it difficult to follow. I've been following the Avery/Dassey case for several years and at the end of this read, I feel more aware of why they are pointing fingers toward another person/persons, but I still feel the writing was shoddy.

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Never blame the victim....

I would have returned this book after the intro and first chapter if it weren't for my total devotion to the narrator Kevin Pierce. He did an incredible job as usual. But the fact that the writer thinks that its ok to blame the victim, blame any and all relatives, blame the lawyers, the judge, the prosecutor. I don't believe I heard why Steven Avery didn't do it. I don't believe I heard why he did not testify in his own defense if he is innocent. But all the blaming aside, how hurtful to Teresa's family that this writer and Zellner thought it was ok to cast a bad light on Teresa, an innocent victim. It was sad and I was totally disgusted through the whole book because of that.

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