When Wisconsin native Brendan Dassey was ordered to be released from prison pending an appeal on Monday, the Making a Murderer figure became another example of what can happen when a documentary captures the attention of a nation and raises new questions in the process.
In Netflix's ten-episode series, the 27-year-old was featured along with his uncle, Steven Avery, in a review of their trials for the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach.
Following renewed public interest in the case stimulated by the popular series, Dassey's murder conviction was overturned in September by a federal judge after a new investigation determined that he was coerced into giving a confession.
Nearly a year after Making a Murderer debuted and more than a decade after Halbach was murdered, a federal judge then ruled he should be released from prison within 90 days pending appeal.
Dassey is not the only person to have their life changed after a documentary brings new attention to their story. In HBO's documentary miniseries, The Jinx, famed director Andrew Jarecki launched 10 years of research into the life of real estate heir, Robert Durst, whose wife mysteriously went missing in 1982, whose neighbor was dismembered and whose longtime friend, Susan Berman, was found murdered in her California home.
The series concluded with a sit-down interview with Durst himself. However, the climactic moment arrived when Durst got up to use the bathroom with his mic still on and muttered to himself, "Killed them all, of course."
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