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