sot dean strang ntl intv (end of ntl piece- ntem012016a)-do not cut a big part of me worries he might be guilty and an even bigger part of me says you know, if convicting people on maybes or possibilies was how this system worked, that's great. we can all slap each other on the back and go out for a beer. but that's not how the system is supposed to work. > abc's linsey davis reporting. now.. prosecutor shown in that ken kratz says he feels an obligation to speak up for the victim.. teresa halbach.. and her family. he was the former county d-a who prosecuted steven avery and brendan dassey. both are serving life sentences for halbach's murder. nearly 8-million children died in 2013.. and a new report says most of those deaths were preventable. we'll go through the leading causes of child death.. next in today's health report. do you think when you are president you'll be paid as much as if you were a man-male...? this is one of the jobs where they have to pay you the same. but there are so many examples where that doesn't happen. i'm going to do everything i can to make sure every wom

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enjoy the relief. >>> dean strang is with me now, attorney for steven avery.d the reason there wasn't blood all over that garage where they allegedly stabbed and shot this woman is because they cleaned it up with bleach. your thoughts on that? >> steven avery can be accused of being a lot of things, but a really good housekeeper doesn't make the list. >> but what if you just committed a murder and he said that brendan, the nephew, had bleach all over his jeans, which was turned over. >> i have no idea when the bleach got on the jeans. i can't imagine, especially whereas i recall, there was deer blood left in the garage that all traces of human blood would have been removed from that garage by anybody let alone steven avery and brendan dassey. >> they talk about steven's history of animal abuse and allow his claim, you know, when he was much younger, that he -- pardon -- i hope the viewers will pardon the description. but he said he burned a cat alive. he suggested it was an accident. he threw it and it fell into the fire. and the truth is he poured oil all ove

reporter: "making a murderer" transformed avery's former defense attorney, the eloquent and emotional dean strang, into a digital-age folk hero. >> redemption will have to wait as it often does in human affairs. >> reporter: we met him in his office where he said the case still troubles him nine years later. >> i want him out of prison. i really am haunted by the concern that he's sitting there innocent. >> reporter: in stark opposition to strang, some on the internet have identified a villain, the man who put avery away. prosecutor ken kratz. when we arrived he showed us nasty e-mails -- >> i hope your daughter gets raped and murdered. voice mails. >> i'm going to do everything in my power to free steve avery, then i'm coming after you. >> reporter: kratz blames the filmmakers. >> this is not a documentary at all. it's still a defense advocacy piece of what they pick and choose, causes only one reaction and only one conclusion, that mr. avery was innocent. >> reporter: kratz points out there was a mountain of evidence against avery. hallback's remains and her car both found on his property. and

evidence here and our investigative division. >> reporter: here's how former aver defense attorney dean strang responded when weold him what we'd heard. perhaps the strangestwist in this whole saga is three years after the trial, prosecutor ken kratz became embroiled in scandal. a third woman saying he sent inappropriate messages. >> reporter: he pled no contest ter the associated press unearthed racy texts kratz had sent to a domestic violence abuse victim. >> i hope to regain the trust of the crime victims community. >> reporter: he says his dependency. >> being the center of attention for 18 months every day, being in the limelight. i started medicating. >> reporter: he lost his wife and his job. but now, five years later, he says he is sober and running a business as a defense attorney. although he says his business has now dried up because of the bad publicity from "making a murderer." >> if this costs me my private law practice, i'll take that trade. because i know i did the right thing. >> reporter: kratz macy be embattled but prominent voices are coming to his side including nancy grac

dean strang. it's good to talk to you. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> ali velshi on target takes a close look at president obama's new executive actions on guns and the criticism. >> john, president obama did an end run around congress taking a serious of executive action on gun control. republican critics say that he's overreaching. that's not a price. but even some of those who support gun control said that the measures announce ready underwhelming and there is a nagging question what took him so long. that's "on target tonight" 9:00 eastern. >> he brought saturday night fever.anand grease to the screen. we'll take a look at robert stigwood after this. >> robert stigwood died today at the age of 81. he was the driving force behind pop culture hits in the '70s and '80s, movies that have become classic. john travolta did the trusting, the bee gees provided the sound track, but it was one person who put it all together. robert stigwood, a show man with style and an eye for success. he produced saturday nig

reporter: "making a murderer" transformed avery's former defense attorney, the eloquent and emotional dean strang, into a digital-age folk hero. >> redemption will have to wait as it often does in he said the case discovered on the seventh search because that's when it fell out of the back of this bookshelf. kratz also points out the jury rejected the framing defense. >> we the jury find the defendant, stephen a. avery, a t. how do you leave that out of the >> if his hand was there, why didn't you find fingerprints? this vehicle and hid it. i would imagine >> he did. >> why didn't you tell us that? >> i couldn't think of it. >> reporter: was this admission coerced? the controversial confession up next. and the surprising twist that landed the winning prosecutor back in the headlines. plus our investigation leads us down that dead-end road. >> that's an avery -- >> reporter: when "nightline" returns. speed... there's something in the air. but here's the thing: about half of men over 40 have some degree of erectile dysfunction. well, viagra helps guys with ed get and keep an erection. ask your doct

dean strang and jerry buting arereen room and only on "cbs this morning." their first joint interview since the show's premiere. some of the morning's headlines from around the globe. >>> "the new york times" reports on goldman sachs agreeing to pay up $5 billion for its role in the sale of faulty mortgages in financial crisis. it's part of a settlement with federal prosecutors and regulators. goldman is one of the last wall >>> "usa today" says the military is ready it hand out punishments for safety failures in the shipping of live anthrax from an army lab.ear it was discovered that samples were mistakenly sent to a utah lab. they were warranted of the to act. several people, including a bringing deer general, could lose their jobs. >>> acy is declared in flint because of the water crisis there. lead contaminated the drinking water when the city switched to the flint river to save money and could include money forpairs. they asked the governor to resign and his office has defended his role. >>> chipotle is meeting with allemployees. on february 8th the ch

the murder of teresa for his defense, he hired two of the most respected attorneys in wisconsin, dean strang and jerry >> the vast majority of their evidence was all circumstantial. >> in court, the attorneys set steven avery was framed for the murder of teresa halbach by the department -- desperate to stop his 36 million dollar civil lawsuit. avery said as much in his interviews with reporters. >> reporter: who would wanna set you up in something like this? >> the only thing i can think of is manitowoc county with the money. so, they didn't have to pay nothin' out. >> while he was awaiting trial avery settled his 36 million dollar lawsuit for 400 thousand dollars. the county did not acknowledge any wrongdoing. avery used the money for his defense. during the trial, defense attorney buting told the jury that the state's evidence was weak, and could easily have been planted, beginning with that car key. >> that is where we thought the evidence pointed, yes. >> buting pointed out that the detective who found that key shouldn't have been there at all because of the lawsuit. and he only found th

series examines the trials of steven avery- taking viewers behind the scenes as jerry buting and dean strang make their defense case. >> all right, so that's it, that's the evidence. now what? well now we argue it. >> i was hesitant at first. but i realized that it, you know, this would be an opportunity to see what it's like to, to put on a case from the defense side. ken kratz did not participate in the netflix series. and while he did win in the courtroom, he's now playing defense in another court, public opinion. he continues to refute the defense's theory that steven avery was the victim of a frame-up by the manitowoc county sheriff's department. >> with any one of these facts, you can come up with a what-if scenario. but at some point this conspiracy theory collapses under its own weight. >> reporter: a lot of attention right now focuses on that vial of avery's blood at the center of the defense's frame-up theory. in court the defense couldn't prove it was used to plant the blood stain in teresa's car. but a scene in "making a murderer" has re-ignited the debate. >> the seal was clearl

i also met avery's former defense attorney dean strang, whose emotional and eloquent defense of avery has made him a sort of digital age folk hero. sot dan: sitting here today all these years later, do you still suspect that. one of the local sheriffs deputies who strang accused of possibly planting evidence? lieutenant andrew colborn? recently spoke out for the lenk, myself and our agency are neighbor? another protester was escorted out of a campaign event for it happened today as the republican presidential front-runner was speaking at a rally in iowa. when trump started talking about radical islamic terrorism, two men on the balcony held up a white banner with the words "stop hate" written on it. supporters then began booing and chanting. the two men were escorted out of the building. earlier this month a muslim woman wearing a hijab was escorted out of a campaign event in south carolina. actor matt damn is weighing in on the recent controversy surrounding the oscars and what some are calling a lack of diversity... matt damon is praising membership changes from the film academy des

nothing i've seen that has convinced me of that. >> only on "cbs this morning," dean strang and jerry butting are with us. good morning, heartthrobs. dean, you squirmed a little when you heard that word. >> every time. >> they say they left out key found under the hood >> the movie gives a lavish three hours plus to one trial that went over $200,000. if they are clear in the convictions they obtained, i wondered why they found it so insecure about a movie that necessarily couldn't hundred $200,000. >> in the case of teresa hallback, he called her cell phone three times on the day she was murdered. why was that left out of this series? would think. >> it is and it isn't. the state is trying to make a lot of these pieces that weren't in the movie more sinister than they really were. it's nonsense that -- to say that large parts of the state's case were left out. regard to this, for instance, also left out was the fact that he called and made an if he had her cell phone number and he was trying to lure her, why would he call the office and create a paper trail? he would just call her dir

. >> reporter: avery's lawyer, dean strang, says, though, that the reaction to the series has included useful information for the defense. least sift and consider something that might be useful to one human being who right now is facing a slow death in prison. >> reporter: here in wisconsin,ep governor scott walker has the power to pardon someone, but during two terms in office, he has never used it. and, scott, his aides say he is not going to change that strategy now. >> pelley: dean reynolds in madison for us tonight. dean, thank you very much. the justice department takes that's next. >> pelley: we have an update tonight on our investigation on a compounding pharmacy outside dallas which mixes custom drugs. last year jim axelrod and producer emily rand discovered downing labs sent people millions of dollars in medications they did not order. the lab was also investigated for unsanitary conditions. well, yesterday, the department of justice filed an injunction mixing drugs until an outside expert inspects the facility. in a first for the u.s. military academy, today brigadier genera