I stumbled upon this Netflix movie and soon became addicted. My opinion, from someone who has spent most of his life participating in the criminal justice system.(good guy) Avery was a poor White Trash boy who was victimized by an entrenched, systemically, annd generationally, corrupt system. He beat them the first time. The system doubled down on the second go round to get their conviction and maintain their civic invincibility. All evidence as I interpreted it was bogus. The Toyota key was planted,bone fragments in burn pit planted, blood evidence in her car stolen from evidence and planted. The retarded nephew was slam dunked to bolster the case.. The entire evidence recovery effort and securing of the scene was laughable. The FBI blood test was predisposed in favor of the prosecution. Key information was continually withheld from the jury. The entire fiasco should have been declared mistrial. There should have been a Federal investigation. This is only one small town system in a huge country full of small towns. Who does the system favor? They got their conviction. Nothing more to see here!
Actually re the burn barrel, I thought the defense team’s explanation not only exonerates Avery but points to / proves that she was burned elsewhere and transported in burnt remains to his site.
There is no reason for him to have murdered her and burnt the body and then put bits in a barrel and elsewhere. But logic dictates that the framers needed to transport the remains in a barrel or something.
This may be where they could get some new scientific evidence to open a new trial: can burn fragments tell what they were burned with? If evidence of non-body remains are still saved, perhaps it can be proven that her bones were not burned with rubber / plastic / metal car parts that were thrown in. The way you can tell (without microscopic evidence) when a meat was cooked over a certain type of wood.