Alison Dirr

USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin

The short-lived Steven Avery-Lynn Hartman engagement has officially ended — via a letter from Avery's attorney, In Touch Weekly reports.

"Please let this letter act as formal notice that Mr. Avery terminated his engagement with you effective yesterday, October 2," attorney Kathleen Zellner writes in the letter dated Oct. 3.

The letter says that Avery considers the correspondence between the pair confidential.

"You should therefore cease and desist giving interviews of any kind concerning your relationship with him. Additionally, you should refrain from selling, distributing, or otherwise disseminating any letters from, or the substance of any other communications with, Mr. Avery."

The one-page letter also tells Hartman she can't disseminate in anyway photos of herself with Avery or trying to profit from "his likeness or your relationship with him."

Finally, she was told not to offer opinions about his case, including about his guilt or innocence.

In other "Making a Murderer" news:

At a stop in Lincoln, Nebraska, former Avery attorney Dean Strang spoke against the death penalty, Pure Nebraska reports.



"He said you can't be one hundred percent sure the right person will be put to death" and that getting rid of the death penalty will deter criminals. How, you ask? Answers at this link.



"He said you can't be one hundred percent sure the right person will be put to death" and that getting rid of the death penalty will deter criminals. How, you ask? Answers at this link. Strang also made a low pass through Texas, this time talking "Making a Murderer", not the death penalty.



Finally, John Ferak reports that quarries could hold the key to Teresa Halbach's murder. He analyzed the 1,100-page-plus Halbach murder investigation report and other reports to get the story.



"After sheriff's deputies recovered Teresa Halbach's Toyota RAV4 on the Avery salvage yard property in early November 2005, signs of a grisly crime began to emerge — but not where you'd expect," he writes.

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