Cold Case Review of Sophie Tuscan du Plantier murder to proceed. **Threadbans in OP**

In fairness, if you live someplace rural and listen to the pub chatter, you'll soon hear every detail. There doesn't have to be a printed source.

"Jimmy Murphy mentioned it one night in Riley's Bar..."

(names invented)

But the man is such a loose talker that you can't really believe anything he says, unless backed up by something or someone else.

From Crimeguy.com

his source Michael Sheridan.

yes, that's one of the many odd aspects of the case against Bailey.

Generally a murderer will keep his head down, his mouth shut and maintain as much distance as possible from the issue.

Bailey's behaviour has been in complete contrast to what would be expected.

The Farrells were relatively new to the area and lived in the opposite direction to Bailey. It’s possible their paths never crossed up to then. I believe Chris, her husband, recognised Bailey in the swim video and pointed him out to Marie.

They never found DNA, nor fingerprints or anything like that. It's possible or one hypothesis that whatever was collected was corrupted later on by somebody within the police force?

There is no likelihood at all in this case, for or against anybody.

Just a number of events and indications pointing in all sorts of different directions.

There was some DNA found at the scene that did not belong to the victim and later DNA testing of the crime scene by French forensic experts found evidence of DNA near Sophies boot laces that did not belong to her.

The huge advances in DNA testing since the murder will be the key to solving this case. A miniscule speck extracted from the block or rock is all that is needed. These days they have the technology to analyse "touch DNA" and now also mixtures of DNA samples from more than one person found which would have previously been of no use in a trial can be tested, separated and used as evidence.

Its not something though that could lead to a conviction though in my view- it could be simply written off as a mistaken view of events given time passed and multiple different eye witness accounts at the time- I’d argue that IF IB had a hand in her passing, it’s the events and his accounts surrounding the night in question and the following morning that would have tripped him up far more- while there are certainly questionable aspects of his behaviour and what he said in the days after the murder, there’s been nothing there that could be taken as any sort of definitive proof.

There certainly seems to be renewed hope in significant developments though for 2024

It is something that could form part of the basis of a conviction though when added to other circumstancial evidence.

It is coming from the self declared chief suspect who has changed his alibi for the night of the murder a few times.

The glaringly obvious most suspicious evidence is that he said he was in bed with his partner all that night and she (a frequent victim of his violence) agreed only to then later retract her statement and state that he actually got out of their bed an hour after getting into it and was gone for 11 hours only to return next morning with a fresh injury to his forehead.

Other circumsatntial evidence it could be added to is his twice admitting to different people that he was the actual murderer and describing how he did it.

Fresh eyes looking at this case might not even need DNA evidence to take the case to trial.

Yeah he seems optimistic alright - I wouldn’t hold my breath though on that brick delivering the killers DNA- and as for chain of custody and level of care of such evidence post murder, again likely an area a good defence team could deliver huge levels of doubt to a jury especially given the widespread incompetence of the original investigation

I don't see it that way. Anybody could have touched that cavity block, minutes, hours before the murder happened. Even yourself, or myself, if we were there.

Legally, I doubt it's enough for a conviction in this case.