To Sue or Not to Sue

Of all the people harmed by the Netflix documentary, it turns out it might be the weakest link that feels it is time to sue Netflix. The man that manhandled the nightstand to find the key. The man that phoned in the license plate number before the vehicle was discovered. The man that suggested a dead man was responsible for the murder of a teenager in Manitowoc County when there is no evidence the dead man was even on the road the night of the hit-and-run. The man that received a phone call from Brown County saying they had the man that raped Penny Beernsten but he just laughed it off and did nothing about it.

The Netflix documentary is supposed to be unbiased, according to Colborn, but that seems like a stretch when it really only follows the Avery family. It is hard to argue that it is an unbiased account of the murder.

The documentary role, as I see it, is to raise questions about the murder trial and the questionable tactics of a sheriffs department that weren't even supposed to be on the crime scene.

Do I think Avery is innocent? No.

Do I think police planted evidence? No. I do think someone planted evidence because some of the physical evidence didn't match the story told to investigators.

I also think that the jury was tainted by Ken Kratz going before the cameras and telling a story that couldn't be backed by physical evidence.

Of all the people that could sue the makers of 'Making a Murder,' it seems like it is the weakest link in the bunch is the one looking for some money.

Colborn could win his case but it won't change the public perception of Colborn because of how good of a job the documentary did with portraying Colborn as someone that took part in something he shouldn't have because the Manitowoc Sheriffs department discovered the key evidence and allowed for the documentary to make a case for planting evidence. The best thing he could have done was not to get involved in the investigation but Colborn didn't see it as a conflict of interest.

The sad part for Colborn is that he is receiving death threats. No one should receive death threats and I feel sorry for him and his family because he was just doing his job. He doesn't come off as someone that was capable of planting evidence but just smart enough to follow the lead of his supervisors.

We also need to remember that there aren't a lot of murders in Calumet County and Manitowoc County so they really didn't have the experience to investigate the murder and there is a lot of things that could have been done to prevent the circus that followed the case and continues to follow the case.

It will be interesting to see if Colborn's case even makes it to court. It seems hard to believe that an innocent person would sue for slander. He is just drawing more attention to himself and if he had a better record of doing the right thing, well, then he would have a good case against Netflix.