The popularity of the Netflix series Making a Murderer, which focuses on the 2007 conviction of Steven Avery for the murder of a photographer, has resulted in a overwhelming uptick in records requests at the Manitowoc County Courthouse in Wisconsin.
Lynn Zigmunt, Clerk of Circuit Court for Manitowoc County, told local CBS affiliate WBAY that the volume of records requests had increased so exponentially in recent days, it has become someone’s designed job to deal exclusively with documents in the Avery case each day. Read more…
