A retired detective is suing the filmmakers who produced the Netflix series 'Making a Murderer' alleging the documentary defamed him.
Former Manitowoc County Sheriff's Detective Andrew Colborn, who helped convict Steven Avery for the 2005 killing of photographer Teresa Halbach, filed the lawsuit on Monday in Manitowoc County Circuit Court in Wisconsin.
Colborn contends the 2015 series which documents Avery's case was edited to make viewers think he and others planted evidence to frame Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey.
The complaint names filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, Netflix itself, the streaming service's executives Lisa Nishimura and Adam Del Deo, along with editor Mary Manhardt as defendants.
Michael Griesbach, Colborn's attorney, released a statement saying of his client:
'His reputation and that of Manitowoc County, itself, has been severely and unjustly defamed,' Michael Griesbach, Colborn's attorney, said in a statement.
'He is filing this lawsuit to set the record straight and to restore his good name.'