Alison Dirr

USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin

Dean Strang, whose work in defending Steven Avery in the Teresa Halbach murder case has been getting rave reviews since the release of "Making a Murderer," has "changed the way we think about criminal defense attorneys," FUSION says.

"In their defense of Avery, both Strang and his co-counsel, Jerry Buting, emerged as forces of quiet decency within a series dedicated to the destruction wrought by systemic prejudice," Sarah Marshall writes. "They also offered American viewers a sustained look at a figure who we have, in the past, either ignored altogether or shunted into cliché: the criminal defense attorney."

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The series also allowed the audience "to empathize with defendants whose innocence remained ambiguous throughout," she writes.

In an interview with Marshall, Strang acknowledges that he's tired of being asked whether he thinks Avery is guilty. The correct question, he says, is whether he was proven guilty.

Throughout a somewhat lengthy (though totally worth it) Q&A, Strang dives into such topics as the lack of critical analysis media gives cases and police statements, the general public's understanding of the criminal justice system, and his reflections on his work on the case about a decade later.

USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin reporter John Ferak wrote this week that investigators in the homicide case against Avery did not photograph human bones found at multiple sites on different days.

"The lack of any photos taken by law enforcement of the bones as they were found at any of the three sites has always been very puzzling," Jerry Buting, Avery's lawyer, said in the story. "The state never offered any explanation for why law enforcement officers failed to photograph the bones to show precisely how they were positioned, an elementary task in the course of such an investigation."

The lack of photographic documentation baffles forensic experts, Ferak writes.

If you've finished all of "Making a Murderer," Simon Cowell might just have the next binge-worthy crime show.

Cowell is jumping on the 'Making a Murderer' bandwagon, reportedly with his own series.

The Independent bills it as "Simon Cowell’s British answer to ‘Making a Murderer.’" The series titled, "The Investigator: A British Crime Story" will focus on the 1985 disappearance of a woman from her home in Bournemouth. A former detective will examine the case over the course of four episodes of documentary and "stylised drama" footage.

Alison Dirr: 920-996-7266 or adirr@gannett.com; on Twitter @AlisonDirr