The first trailer for the much-anticipated second season of Netflix’s Making a Murderer has been unveiled.
Created by film-makers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, the documentary series examines the cases of Wisconsin salvage worker Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey, who in 2007 were found guilty of first-degree murder in relation to the 2005 death of a photographer, Teresa Halbach.
Making a Murderer has proved popular with viewers and is credited – along with The Jinx and Serial – with kindling a global interest in the true-crime genre. The series has also prompted a public interest in the men’s cases, with more than 200,000 people signing a 2015 petition that called for then president Barack Obama to overturn Avery’s sentence.
Released nearly three years after the show’s December 2015 debut, the second season will cover the appeals of Avery and Dassey, re-examining the evidence that prompted a guilty verdict and following attempts to have Dassey’s case heard in the supreme court.
The trailer gives us our first glimpse of Avery’s post-conviction lawyer, Kathleen Zellner, an attorney with a strong record of overturning wrongful convictions. “I have one goal and that is to overturn the conviction of Steven Avery,” Zellner says in the trailer. “If he’s guilty, I’ll fail.”
Making a Murderer season two is released on Friday 19 October on Netflix
