u/Ghost_of_Figdish

OK so the Wisconsin Supreme Court denied Steven Avery's latest appeal on May 21, 2025. Hard to believe it's been a year already.

It’s been a full year since the Wisconsin Supreme Court denied review, and what exactly has Kathleen Zellner produced since then?

No new suspect.

No credible new witness.

No groundbreaking forensic testing.

No bombshell filing.

No evidentiary hearing.

No federal habeas petition even filed yet, apparently.

Remember when every tweet implied the “real killer” was about to be exposed? When every interview teased revolutionary evidence? Fast forward a year and there’s… nothing. Just recycled theories, social media hype, and the same accusations against law enforcement and random third parties that Wisconsin courts have already rejected over and over.

At some point, people have to stop confusing confidence and theatrics with actual results.

If this case were truly sitting on powerful exonerating evidence, where is it? Because after all the grandstanding, all the accusations, and all the promises, the scoreboard since the denial is basically zeroes across the board.

For nearly a decade, Kathleen Zellner sold the public a fantasy that Steven Avery’s conviction was on the verge of collapse. Every procedural hiccup became “huge,” every filing was “bombshell,” every recycled theory was marketed like the final scene before exoneration. And after all that noise, what exactly is the scoreboard?

Conviction intact.
No new trial.
No exoneration.
No evidentiary hearing proving a police conspiracy.
No court endorsement of the “frame-up” narrative.

Just years of bluster, hashtags, teaser tweets, and increasingly desperate alternate-suspect roulette.

The most offensive part wasn’t merely the arrogance — it was the recklessness. Zellner publicly insinuated that law enforcement officers planted evidence and framed Avery for murder. She floated multiple alternate killers over the years, casually dropping suspicion on real people as if this were an episodic Netflix game instead of an actual homicide involving Teresa Halbach.

And when the courts repeatedly rejected these theories? More spin. More PR. More “#TruthWins.”

That infamous “WE WON!!!!!!” tweet perfectly captured the entire grift. She tweeted that after losing the broader appeal and getting only a narrow procedural remand. Most normal people reading “we won” would think Avery achieved some meaningful legal breakthrough. He didn’t. He stayed exactly where he was: convicted of murder.

That’s the core issue with Zellner’s Avery-era persona. It stopped feeling like disciplined legal advocacy and started looking like performance art for social media followers who desperately wanted the Netflix story to be true.

Real post-conviction lawyers let filings speak for themselves. They don’t spend years hyping phantom breakthroughs that never arrive while accusing entire departments of corruption without ever proving it in court.

At some point, “#TruthWins” became unintentionally hilarious. Because after ten years of motions, media tours, dramatic declarations, and online cheerleading, the only thing that actually survived scrutiny was the verdict.