What You Should Know About Netflix’s ‘Making a Murderer’

7. Ken Kratz Seems Out for Avery’s Blood

Throughout his appearance in Making a Murderer, Ken Kratz , the special prosecutor tasked with leading the case against Avery, is painted as, at best, an opportunist. At worst, he’s a blind vigilante hell bent on getting Avery behind bars. On screen, he’s made to seem belligerent and obnoxious as he portrays Avery as a mad man using some terrifyingly descriptive language in his arguments. In the series finale, it’s even revealed that Kratz had to quit his job after it came to light that he sent the victim of a domestic violence case he was prosecuting 30 sexually coercive texts over the course of three days. In her police report, the victim in question said she was afraid that if she didn’t succumb to Kratz’s advances that the prosecutor would dismiss the charges against her abusive boyfriend. In other words, the man whose job it was to see justice served for Teresa Halbach’s murder seems like kind of a dick.