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Atlanta police said they believe John Platt was killed by another man over a $3 debt. A homicide detective told Channel 2’s Mark Winne it took her more than a year to get the witnesses she needed to break the case, but now she believes she has. An arrest was made in the case this week.

The detective on the case said David Blake’s name surfaced the first day she was on the case in June 2007. But it took her a year and a month to get evidence to charge him.

Atlanta Police homicide Det. Nicole Redlinger said she believes 56-year-old John Platt was beaten and body slammed over a $3 drug debt. “The victim in this case was essentially defenseless,” said Redlinger.

Officials charged 24-year-old David Blake with Platt’s murder this week.

“At the hospital, my brother passed on and they gave me the money in his pocket and I knew he could’ve paid him $3 and that boy just took his life for nothing,” said Barber.

A chef accused of murdering teenage model Sally Anne Bowman saidy he had sex with her corpse while high on drink and drugs but did not murder her.

Mark Dixie, 37, said he stumbled across the teenager's body lying between a van and a skip in the street after he went out to buy cocaine in the early hours.

Giving evidence at his Old Bailey trial, Dixie said he felt "worse for wear" after a drug and alcohol binge and did not immediately realise she was dead.

"I took full advantage of someone and I shouldn't have," he told the jury. "I thought she had passed out through drink or fallen over."

He told defence barrister Anthony Glass that he had not noticed the pool of blood around the 18-year-old's body.

Dixie said he had just been on a four-day drugs and alcohol binge during which he took cocaine and cannabis and drank wine, beer and whisky.

After realising that Bowman was dead, Dixie said he panicked and ran to his flat. He smoked cannabis to try to calm down, slept for a few hours and went out drinking.

Earlier in the trial, prosecutor Brian Altman said Dixie murdered her for his own sexual gratification and then concocted a "ludicrous" defence "borne out of desperation".

Dixie denies murder. The trial continues.