Making A Murderer Steven Avery’s ex ‘downed RAT POISON in desperate bid to escape months of horrifying domestic abuse’
MAKING a Murderer's Steven Avery's ex-girlfriend says she ate two boxes of rat poison to escape months of horrific domestic abuse, according to a book on the notorious case.
Jodi Stachowski's claims are revealed by Michael Griesbach in his book Indefensible: The Missing Truth About Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach And Making a Murderer.
It reveals claims Avery was obsessed with extreme bondage sex and once throttled his lover unconscious in the months before the murder at the heart of the hit Netflix series.
She said: "He's not innocent. I ate two boxes of rat poison just so I could go to the hospital and get away from him."
Jodi sat by him holding his hand and said she believed sheriffs were out to get him in an interview with the documentary makers nine years before it aired.
But after it was broadcast, she said it was "an act" and he had threatened her if she didn't do as he asked.
He's not innocent. I ate two boxes of rat poison just so I could go to the hospital and get away from him
Jodi Stachowski
Avery moved into Jodi's trailer soon after he was freed in 2003 after 18 years in jail for a sex attack he was wrongly convicted of.
The book reveals claims he beat her viciously over 18 months together, and once tied her to the bed and wanted to video himself raping her.
Avery also boasted how he wanted to rape and murder young women in a 'torture chamber', according to police reports citing his fellow inmates, known as "jailhouse snitches".
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She also said she felt guilty because she had been due to be with Avery on the day he raped and butchered Teresa, and could have saved her.
Jodi said: "I didn't want to get hurt. Steven is one person I don't trust.
"He's like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A nice person, a semi-nice person, and then behind closed doors he's a monster.
"He told me once 'all b***hes owe him' because of the one that sent him to prison the first time.
"We all owed him - and he could do whatever he wanted."
She told cops on another occasion he battered and strangled her in a fury when he found out she'd been out without telling him, knocking her unconscious then dragging her outside and threatening to shoot her dead.
The evidence was ruled inadmissible at his 2007 trial for killing Teresa, a photographer whose charred bones were found near Avery's scrap yard in Wisconsin, US, in 2005.
The judge also refused to let the jury hear evidence of how sadistic Avery allegedly poured petrol on his family's pet cat and threw it on a fire to watch it burn to death.
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Griesbach, a former prosecutor who helped overturn Avery's wrongful 1985 sex attack conviction, is convinced he is guilty of murdering Teresa despite suggestions he's innocent in Making A Murderer.
He accuses the documentary makers of deliberately leaving out key evidence to make Avery appear the victim of a second miscarriage of justice.
In 2007 Avery was jailed for life along with his 16-year-old nephew Brendan Dassey, who confessed he helped his uncle rape, stab shoot and dismember the victim.
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