President Obama may have to binge watch all 10 episodes of Netflix’s “Making a Murderer,” as a White House petition asking for convicts Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey to be pardoned has reached 113,000 signatures.
The formal WhiteHouse.gov petition, created in December after the premiere of the true crime docuseries, required 100,000 signatures before Jan. 19 to be eligible for an official White House review.
“Making a Murderer” investigates Avery’s troubled history with law enforcement in his native Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. After DNA evidence exonerated Avery from a rape charge that put him behind bars for 18 years, he was convicted on a life prison sentence for allegedly killing photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005
Dassey, Avery’s nephew, was also convicted for his alleged involvement in the same crime.