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Teresa Marie Halbach was 25 when she vanished on October 31, 2005, after going to a large auto salvage yard in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, to photograph a minivan for a car magazine. She was reported missing on November 3, 2005. Days later her Toyota RAV4 was found partially concealed on the Avery property, and charred bone fragments later identified as Halbach’s were recovered from a burn pit near Steven Avery’s trailer. Investigators also found the key to her vehicle in Avery’s bedroom and his blood inside her car.

Steven Avery, who had been exonerated by DNA in 2003 after a wrongful conviction and had a $36 million lawsuit pending against Manitowoc County, was arrested on November 11, 2005, and charged with murder, kidnapping, and sexual assault. In March 2006 his 16-year-old nephew Brendan Dassey was charged after giving a confession that he later recanted, saying it had been coerced. Both men were convicted in 2007: Avery of first-degree intentional homicide and illegal possession of a firearm, and Dassey of first-degree intentional homicide, second-degree sexual assault, and mutilation of a corpse; each received life sentences.

Does anyone with knowledge of Halbach’s movements that day or the Avery property in 2005 have information to share?