Brendan Dassey with his parents and brother, Oct 2025. From left: Pete Dassey, Barbara Tadych and Blaine Dassey. Photo courtesy of Barbara Tadych. There was a time when Brendan Dassey’s name carried the full weight of a movement. It echoed in courtrooms and classrooms, across forums, news cycles, and social feeds, a rallying cry for justice reform, for false confession awareness, for compassion toward the vulnerable caught in the machinery of the state. Now, two decades after

It’s been nearly 20 years since Brendan Dassey, then a shy, highly suggestible 16-year-old with a tangle of learning disabilities, was pulled into one of the most infamous wrongful conviction cases in recent American history. Coerced into a false confession, extracted without the presence of a lawyer or parent, this confession became the linchpin in the case against him, ultimately leading to his conviction for the 2005 murder of 25-year-old Wisconsin photographer Teresa Halb

Governor Tony Evers Office of the Governor 115 East Capitol Madison, WI 53702 Dear Governor Evers, We are writing to you today with a...

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Pardoning Brendan Dassey is a Moral Imperative: An Open Letter to Governor Evers.

“The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It...

A global support effort unleashes billboard campaign across Wisconsin in the fight to free Brendan Dassey and reach Governor Tony Evers.

The pursed lips of Judge Fox (left) and Len Kachinsky (right). The Appleton attorney who will represent a teenager charged in the Teresa...