As Netflix subscribers are well aware, Manitowoc, Wisconsin is the setting for the 10-hour true-crime series Making A Murderer. But it is also a generally quiet community, whose residents never had any say in their town becoming an epicenter of a nationwide controversy over corruption and injustice. The New York Times’ Chicago bureau chief Monica Davey first visited Manitowoc in 2005 to report on the very unusual case of Steven Avery, a man exonerated of one heinous crime only to be charged with another in the midst of a costly lawsuit. Davey returned to the town a decade later to see how it was holding up in the wake of the popular and divisive Netflix series. Unsurprisingly, she found that Making A Murderer was the source of a great deal of tension in Manitowoc and that residents were not exactly eager to talk to reporters or curiosity-seekers. Davey’s article shows just how much the town had changed since her first visit in 2005.