Jodi Arias' defense team's constant portrayal of her alleged murder victim, Travis Alexander, as a monster, pedophile and a crazy sex fiend, is a blatant attempt to escape a possible death sentence, and couldn't be further from the truth, the late motivational speaker's close friend tells Breaking Celebrity News exclusively.

"Travis should not be the one on trial here, he is the victim," Alexander's former work colleague Jesse Macpherson charges.

"There is no evidence that he abused Jodi, other than her own testimony. You can make up stories and try to deface his character and turn him into a sexual devaient but there is nothing to support it other than they were a couple in a consenting sexual relationship.

"It was obvious to me that they were sleeping together," explains the pal from Pre-Paid Legal, who stayed in the master bedroom of the Mesa, Arizona, house where Travis, a devout Mormon, was brutally killed just six months later in June 2008. "I think some people thought, ‘There’s no way he was having sex' but the only people who were shocked were the Mormons."

After six days of eye-opening and sexually graphic testimony from Arias that was packed with dramatic bombshells about kinky bedroom games, role play, and a very raunchy phone sex recording, Macpherson believes it's all just a defense team tactic to tarnish Travis' name.

"I think it is just some