TheWrap takes a look back at the last eight months to see how “Making a Murderer” changed the case of Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey, who were convicted for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach.

Making a Murderer Gets Released

The documentary was released on Dec. 18, 2015. At first, it received an approval rating of 87 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

Ken Kratz was Bashed on Yelp

A week after the doc aired, doc fans took to Yelp to warn potential new clients checking his law practice’s Yelp page against hiring him.

“Mr. Kratz is a seasoned sexual harasser, with deep knowledge of abuse victims which he took advantage of. He has a long experience in evidence fabrication, and has the required strategic thought skills to send innocent men to jail for forged crimes,” one man wrote in a Yelpreview posted Sunday. “When you think of garbage think of Mr. Kratz, he is the living representation of immorality and indecency that you need by your side to solve any legal issues.”

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White House Petition

A White House Petition was started shortly after the documentary’s release, asking for the pardoning of both Avery and Dassey. It required 100,000 signatures before Jan. 19 to be eligible for an official White House review.

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Avery Can’t be Pardoned by Obama

Although there was a White House Petition to pardon Avery, President Barack Obama is constitutionally barred from pardoning Avery, because he was convicted in state court.

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Protests Outside of the Courthouse

In January, people protested outside the Manitowoc County Courthouse.

Supporters traveled from as far as Texas, Florida and Oregon. The event was live streamed on Periscope drawing hundreds of people online, some from out of the country like Belgium.

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The Family Launched a Fundraising Website

In January, the uncle/nephew combo found guilty in the killing of a local photographer launched a fundraising website through their family in an attempt to raise money to mount another defense effort.

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Avery Hires a New Lawyer

Avery hired Kathleen Zellner, an Illinois-based attorney who specializes in wrongful convictions, in January.

“The Zellner Law Firm is looking forward to adding Mr. Avery to its long list of wrongful conviction exonerations,” Zellner’s statement read.

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Avery’s Ex-Fiancee Calls Him a “Monster,’ ‘Not Innocent’

Jodi Stachowski, the ex-fiancee of Avery, says he is a “monster” and that “he’s not innocent” in the murder of Halbach.

In a January interview with HLN’s Nancy Grace, Stachowski admitted that she “ate two boxes of rat poison just so I could go to the hospital to get away from him and ask them to get the police to help me.”

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Halbach’s Family Think The Doc Is ‘Terrible’

“It’s terrible,” Teresa Halbach’s aunt, Kay Giordana, told People. “I can’t believe this came out. It is really unfortunate.”

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Bomb Threat at Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Department

On Feb. 3, a bomb threat was called into the Sheriff’s Department. Authorities say that the caller claimed “there were bombs in the building” and that he was “getting justice” for Steven Avery, the man at the forefront of the series, who was convicted of the murder of Teresa Halbach after being exonerated for a rape he didn’t commit.

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Investigation Discovery Aired a Special About the Case

The special, aired in February, claimed that 16 people testified to his whereabouts, saying that Avery could not have been Penny Beernsten’s sexual attacker in 1985, and that all vials of blood have a puncture hole (this was a piece of key evidence that was used to suggest law enforcement had framed Avery), among other revelations.