More than 150,000 sign petition calling on Obama to pardon subjects of Making a Murderer, the real-life mystery on Netflix that has taken the US by storm

Two online petitions demanding the pardon of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, the subjects of the newNetflixseries Making a Murderer, have received more than 150,000 signatures.The 10-episode documentary revolving around Avery and Dassey's murder trial for a 25-year-old woman's murder in Manitowoc, Wisconsin has become a sensation over the holidays.Both petitions have directly appealed to President Obama to pardon the two men, who were both convicted in March 2007 in the death of freelance photographer Teresa Halbach.