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Originally Posted by KTrain
A lot more family members joining the "cast" this year. Looking for their own 15 minutes of fame?
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You have to remember that there's a large portion of the community that completely hate the Averys, in part because of the media. "Vile killer Brendan Dassey sentenced to life for the horrendous rape and killing" would have been the exact type of thing that would have been on the TV when they last made the documentary. Reporters would have been hounded them to ask "How does it feel knowing your cousin, brother, uncle, stepson, etc. did this?"
It's pretty easy to see why someone would want to just stay away from a camera crew who's intention you didn't know about. They had no idea the type of documentary that was going to air years later. Keeping a low-profile and not get your life ruined because you support your family, or even are associated with them, seems perfectly reasonable. Especially when you've seen the rap sheet the Averys have. Both his brothers had been charged with sexual assault and domestic violence, including Earl sexually assauling his daughters (and Earl would be later caught videotaping children changing). Steven Avery had been accused of molesting his niece before any of this had happened, along with his other crimes, and of course he's estranged to his children who refuse to talk to him because he use to beat them and their mother. Scott beat his girlfriend.
At the time of the documentary the Averys were all blaming each other because, really, they are filled with terrible (or extremely disfunctioning) people.
But then Making a Murderer comes out a decade later and it's clearly biased in favour of the family, it make sense why you'd be okay having cameras follow you around.