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Mark Dixie’s own defense attorney admits his client’s conduct may be considered “disgusting.” Dixie has been accused of murdering teen model Sally Anne Bowman, but admits only to having sex with her after finding her dead on the street.

Dixie also denies attacking a Thai woman in Australia in 1998. The woman testified that an intruder entered her home through an open kitchen window, stabbed her eight times, (Sally Anne Bowman had been stabbed seven times) and raped her. Dixie’s DNA was reportedly found on her body.

In responding to that accusation, Dixie admits he had a thing for Asian women and frequented brothels and massage parlors. The woman, he says, must have been a working girl or just someone he took out one night.

Steve Wright has admitted to having sex with four of the five prostitutes found dead in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK, but denies killing any of them. When Prosecutor Peter Wright (probably no relation) asked Steve Wright how blood from two of the four ended up on his jacket, Steve Wright replied that he has no idea. Wright (Steve) insists he isn’t “any random psychopath,” which begs the question, what kind of psychopath is he?

Doctor Charles Smith, Ontario’s top pediatric forensic pathologist for 20 years, testified in dozens of criminal cases, helping to secure a number of convictions. Unfortunately, not all of those convicted were guilty. One man, William Mullins-Johnson, was later exonerated when it was found that Smith erred in some of his findings. Mullins-Johnson had been convicted in 1992 for the sex slaying of his niece when Smith supposedly found evidence of asphyxia caused by a neck and chest compression, and anal dilation.

Smith found the exact same evidence in Ohio in the 2000 child-murder case of Christopher Fuller, accused with the murder and attempted rape of his three-year-old daughter. The difference was that while Mullins-Johnson was sentenced to life in jail, the jury recommended the death sentence for Fuller. Fortunately the trial judge denied the request and sentenced Fuller to life imprisonment.

Mullins-Johnson spent 12 years in prison before it was determined that his niece was not sexually assaulted and that she probably died of natural causes. It remains to be seen whether Fuller’s conviction may be similarly discredited.

Mark Dixie admits that while under the influence of drugs and alcohol he had sex with Sally Anne Bowman, a teen model, one night in September 2005, near Croydon, UK.

It was pretty violent sex, by the sounds of it. He reportedly left bite marks on her cheek, neck, and nipples.

What he denies is killing the girl, stabbing her several times so savagely in her neck and abdomen that some of the wounds passed right through her body.

The sex, Dixie insists, happened after he found Bowman already dead, lying in a pool of blood on the street outside her home.

Dutch student Joran van der Sloot was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and murdering American student Natalee Holloway in Aruba on May 30, 2005. He was released a few months later because there was insufficient evidence to hold him. He was arrested again in November of 2007 and released a month later, again because there was insufficient evidence to hold him.

Through all of this, his story regarding the events of that night have changed several times. Now, after being recorded telling a supposed friend that he was with Natalee, that she died in his arms, and that he and another friend disposed of her body at sea, he has again changed his story, insisting he was lying to his friend and that he really had nothing to do with Natalee’s death.

It’s certainly not unheard of for an accused, when under intense police interrogation or when suffering from diminished mental capacity, to confess to a crime he didn’t commit. But van der Sloot, attending university and studying international business management, was just sitting in a car, talking to a friend. There was no pressure to confess. He says now that he simply told his friend what he wanted to hear.

So, did he lie about lying? Or is he telling the truth when he says he lied?