Kathleen Zellner ‏@ZellnerLaw Wisconsin AG appealing Brendan's decision. Just prolonging the injustice. @MakingAMurderer

Dear Hos

Thank you for replying! It was a delightful surprise when I saw your message amidst all the hate mail! (Not lots really, but there was some!) I will confess off the top that I posted on SAIG today, agreeing with the poster and her submission re the Halbachs. I hope that won't get me banned but on this subject alone, my sentiments definitely lie with the SAIG crowd.

  • You say that you are fine with any posts involving the Halbachs as long as they are not slandered, insulted or disparaged. I would say the posts that contain these kind of comments are in the minority and most of the time they are rarely this kind. If they do violate these guidelines, what is the next step? You say that you won't enforce any rules(?) because of what the AG said. Another mod has jumped on-board the Halbach-bashing train so she would also be unapproachable.

I wrote to you around the time that TTM started with a complaint about how a thread was treating the Halbachs, and particularly Teresa. I think that was the one where she was called a "slut" but even that wasn't enough to motivate you to shut it down. You sympathized but you didn't really feel you should do anything. It's frustrating. It's frustrating to feel such sadness for this family and have them endlessly critiqued on every thing they do. Having it happen by members of TTM makes it worse, although usually it's not done by posters that I hold in high esteem.

I totally understand the Halbach's grief and their belief that SA and BD raped, tortured and killed their daughter. They want to see them rot in hell, not released because of technicalities. Their brains have been seared with images from KK's infamous press conference...that is unforgivable that he was able to do that. I know these thoughts come unbidden into my head from time to time; how much worse it must be for the Halbachs. I forgive them for everything; their lack of outward emotion,the delay in reporting TH missing, their civil lawsuit against SA trying to deny him any kind of defense, their refusal to give interviews or make any public statements and so on. I understand why they did these things.

  • I think what you're saying in your second point is that the Halbachs shouldn't be accused of committing murder but then you go on to say that it's often done by a culprit in the family and that speculation should not cause them to be immune but that sandman was perma-banned (good riddance) because he continuously posted that Kratz killed Teresa. Not exactly sure which way you're going on this one.

  • I have not seen any threads that threaten the Halbachs in any way.

I don't know why you made a post asking people to be respectful toward the Avery family yet neglected to mention the Halbachs and only after you were pressed a few times and questioned about it, did you acquiesce and include the Halbach family in your directive. As I understand it, this was about the time that there was some question about money in an account that was supposed to go to SA and BD but there was some question about where it went and Carla and Barb were under scrutiny for it.

Anyways, if you feel that your hands are tied, and that you can't,or won't, do anything about the negative comments re the Halbachs, what do we do? Try a different mod?

I really do appreciate all you've done for TTM, from the start-up to the present modding. I'm sure it's not easy when presented with a situation like this. I fully support you in everything you've done and I will continue to do so. I've gone to bat for you when the SAIG members get on your case. I'm so sorry that we see things so differently re the Halbachs.

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