Making a Murderer's Brendan Dassey to Attend Wrestlemania

Subject of Netflix documentary recently had his conviction overturned

Now that Brendan Dassey's conviction has been overturned, the subject of Making a Murderer will be heading to Wrestlemania.

Those who watched the hit Netflix documentary know of Dassey's passion for the WWE world, so xHamster has decided to help him see his dreams come true. Dassey could be out of prison in the next 90 days, and upon his release he and his family will travel to Florida to see his favorite sport in real life. "We are pleased that we can make this young man's dream of going to Wrestlemania come true," said Alex Hawkins, spokesman for xHamster, in a statement. "We have been in talks with the family and they are more than thrilled that Brendan will get this opportunity after so many years of heartache and injustice. We are waiting on a response from Brendan and we know he will be thrilled that he is going to Wrestlemania when he gets out."

Netflix's limited series documented both Brendan and his uncle Steven Avery's trials following the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach on Halloween back in 2005. Brendan's trial lasted 9 days, and on April 25, 2007—after the jury had been deliberating for four hours—he was found guilty of first-degree intentional homicide, second-degree sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse. At the time, Brendan was six months shy of being 18-years-old, but was both tried and sentenced as an adult.

In 2010, a judge denied Dassey's attempt at a retrial despite his post-conviction motion already set in place with an appellate court.

Shortly after Halbach's murder, Brendan was interrogated four times over a two-day period without a parent, attorney or any other adult that could have served as guidance to the teen. During this interrogation period, Brendan confessed to being a co-conspirator in Halbach's death and rape. Brendan later recanted this confession in a letter to the judge. His current attorney, Laura Nirider, filed a writ of habeas corpus in 2014 in federal court claiming that "Brendan's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process were violated by the admission of his involuntary confession."

In other words, it appeared Dassey had been coerced into making a confession.