Wisconsin requests state Supreme Court reject ‘Making a Murderer’ star Steven Avery’s latest appeal
Steven Avery's mugshot, as shown in the documentary "Making a Murderer." - Netflix/New York Daily News/TNS

The state of Wisconsin has said the latest appeal made by Steven Avery, the man at the center of Netflix’s wildly popular “Making a Murderer” docuseries, should be denied. Avery and his 31-year-old nephew, Brendan Dassey, are currently serving life sentences for the murder of Theresa Halbach. The young photographer vanished Oct. 31, 2005 shortly after a visit to Avery’s home, where she snapped images of a car he intended to sell. Authorities later discovered 25-year-old Halbach’s Toyota RAV4 hidden among the junked vehicles in a salvage yard not far from Avery’s home. Her charred remains were ...