6 burning questions for 'Making a Murderer' season 2

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"Making a Murderer's" Steven Avery.

Netflix is currently in production on season two of its true-crime hit, "Making a Murderer."

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The docuseries follows Steven Avery, a man cleared of a sexual assault charge after spending 18 years in prison. Free and with a $36 million suit pending against Wisconsin's Manitowoc County, Avery suddenly found himself at the center of the investigation into the 2005 murder of photographer Teresa Halbach.

Even worse, his learning-disabled teen nephew, Brendan Dassey, was accused of helping.

In the end, both Avery and Dassey were given life sentences for Halbach's murder.

Since "Murderer" was released in December 2015, many people have come away with their own takes and theories on the case. And there have been a couple major developments. Kathleen Zellner, a defense attorney whose work has so far led to the overturning of wrongful convictions for 17 people, took on Avery's case earlier this year. She has expressed nothing but confidence that she can get Avery freed.

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And second, Dassey's conviction was recently overturned. A federal judge in Milwaukee ruled that Dassey's constitutional rights were violated when authorities questioned him without an adult present.

All this amounts to several loose ends that need to be tied up.

Here are six questions that need to be answered on "Making a Murderer" season two: