Sophie: A Murder in West Cork - Netflix.

I was just about to ask that.

Daytime. Also I've seen the pictures often enough.

Any killer who wasn't local would probably have been to the area in daytime to get his bearings.

The question would only have been how, and not been noticed. I'd say any car out of the ordinary would have been noticed with ease, or not, if the killer was lucky.

Both Alfie and Shirley's house as well as Sophie's house would come in view first. They would also see any car approaching, or anybody loitering around, and the Richardson's house is more secluded from the road, - comes into view the last.

Having said that, the killer could also have parked the car somewhere, and staked out the area on foot.

I think you're overthinking this. Also there is the element of luck.

If the killer was hired and not local, he would at least have gathered the following information:

• he would have either had a description or a picture of the house. Even a description without a picture would have been possible, as Sophie's house looks distinctly different.
• the likelihood of Sophie being out and about during the day is rather high, plus her car would be visible if she was home. ( and she rarely parked behind the house, but visibly in front of the house)
• Alfie and Shirley were certainly not always watching who would come and go, as the only risk or element of luck.
• parking a car at any free space at the entrance of the road to these 3 houses would hardly have been noticed, another hiker parked there, nothing out of the ordinary.
• any hike off road and hiding somewhere, while taking a look, binoculars et all, also no problem.
• he would have noticed soon that the Richardsons were not home.

I think this kind of conversation is a bit pointless.

Taking two or three wrong turns isn't unusual, it may only set you back 30 to 45 minutes. The killer could easily have done the same thing and returned at night.

Yep, that's it. Just a few written instructions and you'll find it.

Also, good maps were widely available back then. People were known to have had the ability to read maps, not like today's generation, especially the younger ones. ( my irony )

Ordnance maps from Ireland, but also the French Michelin maps are very exact showing the narrowest roads.

Some people are infatuated with the idea that the house is so remote, can't be found or if at all only with extreme difficulty, and thus try to make a case that the killer must have been a local.

"Whats actually improbable though is that the town drunk went up there,"

Nothing improbable about that at all.

"murdered her in that fashion"

Nothing improbable there either

"left no DNA"

We don`t know that he left no DNA. They just didn`t find any. There`s a difference.

"reported on it the next day"

Well he didn`t have a choice really and he was on the lookout for a gig.

"never gave one hint of committing the murder to his partner"

That is only based on your faith in Jules and her faith in Bailey. The fact is Jules has no idea what he was up to that night he went missing for several hours from her bed. She chooses to believe him. You seem to think that it would be impossible for Bailey to have committed this murder without Jules knowing he did it. Not impossible at all. Google BTK. In this case Jules was the roof over his head and was providing a fairly comfortable existence for him. So while he threw out plenty of hints to people that he would have considered to be beneath him, Jules would probably have been the last person he would have confessed to. Even if he did confess to her, we already know that Jules has a pretty extraordinary capacity to forgive him his sins.

"You`ve just come up with a lazy narrative that you`ve consistently tried to push labelling anyone who doesn`t agree with it conspiracy theorists"

I don`t do lazy narrative. I also don`t consider most of those here that disagree with me to be conspiracy theorists. But you are a classic conspiracy theorist. Your thinking is warped by your hatred of the gardaí. Your posts drip with disdain to the point where you refuse to spell the word guard/garda properly after all this time. We both know you can if you want to.

"Care to back up your assertion that no crime profiler would back up that this hit was by a third"

Of course not. You are asking me to prove a negative, which is impossible. It`s like asking for proof that God doesn`t exist. If, on the other hand you are aware of an authoritative figure who has suggested this murder has the hallmarks of a hit, then I`m all ears.

Dunno really. I think she was more a social media campaign co-ordinator than penpal in fairness. The throw lots of mud and hope some of it sticks type. It was fun while it lasted.

Hate is the opposite of like, and nobody likes a corrupt and bent Guard. The lengths of of corruption would point to a local Guard with seniority or influence or a higher rank. I don't think it could have been the work of a low rank junior officer, it must have been someone higher and local and influence and direction/responsibility over others.

I've often felt, that it's also highly unlikely that the killer left no DNA, no traces at all, at this sort of a crime unless he was a real professional. This automatically brings up the thought that the DNA evidence was tampered with, fake items were examined or sent over to the UK for examination, nothing was found..... This could only have been done with the interference of a bent Guard.

It's probably easy to corrupt and mess up all the other evidence, but it's hard to mess up and lose a whole gate, hence the reason, why the gate may have disappeared completely?

Don't get me wrong, I would never exclude Bailey as a suspect. However to me he's just suspect.

Yes he could have done it. Yes, there is a long time for Bailey which is unaccounted for that night and where he clearly has no alibi at all.

But what would really have been his motive? What would have made him hike for 1 hour in darkness to Sophie's?

Would it really have been sex? Other than sex, it's hard to consider any motive for Bailey at all.

He may have met Sophie once or twice, may have been introduced to her, however his contact with her, if there was any at all, certainly wasn't a long one.