Murder at the Cottage | Sky

I was saying the very same thing to Leonardo diCaprio only yesterday

This thread is going around in circles..

Regarding the time of death, the photos of her kitchen area the next day show an uncovered loaf of bread that had been cut into - I just don't believe this is something that would be left out overnight. Plus the first Guard on the scene noted 'wet' blood around her nose. There were other indicators too of it being more likely that the murder occurred in the early morning.. Perhaps 6am or so.

In France they probably would not bat an eyelid at such carry on. I see no purpose at all in trying to connect Sophie's marital difficulties to a list of possible motives for her killing. An assassin hired by the murderous husband who contrives to make the killing look like anything but the work of a professional killer? It's the most absurd conspiracy theory of the many attatching to this case and also this loose speculation regarding her sexual life in Cork is insulting to the woman's memory. Of course it was Bailey who first made reference to both of these theories in his articles covering the case in order to deflect attention away from himself as he was aware he was regarded as a suspect at that point. This was a crime of passion, unplanned, committed on impulse by a local and motivated by... who knows? Lust, jealousy, envy, rejection or personal vendetta or grievance.

Does anyone else think the table looks a bit staged?

The rest of the kitchen and living areas look a bit disordered, but the kitchen table looks a bit out of place.

If you used a match to light a candle would you put the spent match down on a white linen/cotton tablecloth?

Would you push back the chair you sat on to read the book and either leave it pushed back or push it in fully?

Where did that blue jacket folded over the back of the chair come from, or go to ? it is not in other photos of that chair.

The empty cup and looks like a someone had just had a cup of tea/coffee ,but yet the the cup is spotless.

Was she left-handed?

If they were about to have a cup of coffee why is the coffee pot washed up on the draining table?

All this probably means nothing, just me thinking about stuff and writing it down.

But the jacket on the chair shows a certain casual attitude towards the crime scene to me.

The problem is, in reality we all know so little. Thus the speculation will go on and on......

I personally do not think that this was an unplanned crime of passion. For that there is too little evidence found, or no evidence at all found by police, possibly deliberately?

I believe it was planned to a certain degree, and the killer went through her house as well.

Arranging things or possibly looking for something possibly incriminating. Yes, the table could be staged, but it could also have been Sophie's way to do things? We don't know.

Two or more people involved? Was all the land looking right and ahead from her front door belong to STDP. There was meant to have been some dispute about the outhouse/shed right in the middle of this. It would appear to have some way of getting to it off the lane between Alfie's and Sophie's houses. People were keeping horses on the land. Were they paying for this? Wouldn't that be a main focus of investigation?

We are being told that there is no forensic evidence. There is probably none that isn't from a small group of people that had other reasons to be in the area.

An interesting question would also have been if anybody but herself would have had keys to the house? After all, it wasn't lived in for a long period of the year.

Even if it was just a cleaning lady looking after the place every now and then, she could have been as "solid" as Marie Farrell.

The thing is some people love the easy answers.

It's the same in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier case. Who did it ? Ian Bailey, Yeah, Ian Bailey murdered her..... And if you ask why, then there is absolutely no evidence. And the scary thing is that those who think that Bailey did it, don't care if there is no evidence.

But looking for evidence is never an easy job it's never about easy answers, even worse in this case where so much was messed up.

There's about 15/16 acres attached to the property in 9 parcels, 2 of which are shared commonage, I don't know with whom she shared the commonage.

Maybe the horses were grazing on the commonage.

The only land at the house was the lawn in front of the house, down which she was reported to have fled ;about 1\4 acre,

the rest was spread around in different locations.

The gate marked the end of the property at the cottage, and also the beginning of a right-of-way for Sophie, Alfie and the Richardsons.

In fact the land where Sophie parked her car belonged to the Richardsons, the boundary was quite close to her Eastern gable.

The dispute about the shed was with the auctioneer who sold her the cottage.

He told her it was part of her property, whereas Alfie had been using this shed as his own and continued to do so.

Sophie had no right-of-way on the lane beyond her Eastern gable, so the shed was outside her boundary.

Fence posts strewn around her front lawn indicated work was being done around the boundary,

I don't know by whom , I don't think it was Leo, I could be wrong.

There is still a small space which seems to belong to Sophie's, maybe 30 cm to 1 meter along the Eastern gable. The place where the Ford Fiesta was parked, doesn't seem to belong to Sophie's anymore.

The shed is to the west of Sophie's. I don't know if it still belonged to her or not, regardless if Alfie was using it or not.

Sophie could also have parked the car on the other western side of the house. There seems to be a bit of space, driveway, and a gate.

Another easy one then, her then husband - dead.

What about the Alfies' wife, the richardsons, Her friends at 3 castlehead (french), Josephine and Finbarr Hellen, Bruno.

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Like bailey or not he was a journalist, and said to be talented when young in the UK.

What does he know that we don't? this has been rolling in his head for 25 years, If he cant figure this out how do we stand a chance..

I am of the belief that the media and gardai of 25 years ago will always be deemed inadequate but todays investigative/media will be deemed no better if the truth ever comes out. The answers are all to be found on the peninsula.

Go back to motive, opportunity and reason....... Passion & land when it comes to Ireland I'm afraid.

For a rural property there has now been a few issues surrounding sophie's property and rights..

1. The annoyance surrounding closure of a gate or , right of way.
2. The outhouse that she believed she had bought...
3. The place that she parked her car is now not part of the holding.
4. (Ref photo above) new fence posts not yards from the murder scene & disputed gate)

All was harmonious in sleepy valley .....ya right pull the other one.

I believe fresh french francs put someones nose out of kilter with this property purchase....

Who in her close circle of acquaintances could in a shaken state could walk home covered in blood and be assisted thru this carnage..

And I'll stand corrected but Baily was not the first person to point (without good evidence) the Gardai towards France.

But but but....never mind all that ...look there's an essentric, blowin type living that may have been introduced to her onceover the hill lets focus out energy over there..