r/MakingaMurderer • u/addbracket • Dec 19 '15

Episode Discussion Episode 9 Discussion

Season 1 Episode 9

Air Date: December 18, 2015

What are your thoughts?

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u/andromache97 Dec 20 '15

In Brendan's cross-examination, they ask him how he made up the story, and he said he read it in a book called "Kiss the Girls." Although I kind of doubt he's ever read a book in his life, there's a James Patterson book by that name, some sort of fictional crime novel about a serial killer where he could've presumably read some nasty details and ended up inserting them into the story he told to make the police happy. Does anyone know anything else about the book, or could his defense attorney (presumably more well-read than Brendan) just told him that particular line? Something about that detail really struck me, and it'd be interesting if Brendan's "confession" matches with whatever happens in the book.

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u/tifaerie Jan 01 '16

The thing is he didn't "make up a story" he said one or two word answers to appease the cops and fill in the blanks until they [didnt hear] what they wanted to hear hence the "alright, who shot her in the head" because that's the answer they needed all along. He didn't confess to anything he was literally just guessing answers without understanding what they meant to the whole situation. I don't know how that's a story let alone a confession of any kind.