Inge Lotz died on 16 March 2005 inside her apartment just outside Stellenbosch, South Africa – murdered. Someone repeatedly hit her on the head with a blunt object and stabbed her with a knife.

The police matched a fingerprint they found on a DVD holder to Inge’s boyfriend Fred van der Vyver. As Inge rented the DVD just hours before her death it means that Fred was in her presence that afternoon. However, he claims that he was at work all day, 50 km away.

In large part, due to this incriminating fingerprint evidence, the police arrested Fred van Der Vyver for Inge’s murder.

The police also found an ornamental hammer in Fred’s vehicle which could have inflicted the wounds on her head.

Several international fingerprint experts argued that the fingerprint was not lifted from a DVD holder but from a drinking glass. These ‘experts’ claimed that the police intentionally fabricated the fingerprint lift to frame Fred.

After a sensational 9 month-long trial the court found Fred not guilty.

Bloody Lies exposes the lies the defense and expert witnesses told the court to deny Inge Lotz justice.

It demonstrates conclusively that the fingerprint lift could not possibly be from a drinking glass. Furthermore, all the lift’s features are consistent with a flat surface and there is no reason to doubt its authenticity.

It shows how some witnesses and experts fabricated evidence and lied to sell the drinking glass theory to the court.

It also exposes the defense’s lies that the hammer was too small to inflict the wounds on Inge’s head.

The Bloody Lies series exposes all these lies and many more.