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

I'm not doubting he sold the Turkey on the 22nd. Just seems unusual to kill them so close to Xmas normally believe they would be killed and left hang for a few days

Daniel would have to have made the phone call from a public phone box. Some code word to be on the secure side. The recipient of the phone call, maybe called somebody else, maybe the killer. The killer could also have been living in Ireland as well, - didn't need to be French or travelling to Ireland.

All possible.

I still think a professional hitman would have used a gun and a silencer.

But still Daniel's motive is from a financial perspective very very strong. He did avoid a very costly divorce and he did not travel to Ireland upon hearing of his wife's death.

To me that's hard to imagine.

Bailey would have to wait very long to have a sexual encounter with Sophie, - she was rarely at the cottage anyway. If he wanted to cheat at Jules he'd probably had other choices in the area, and also way sooner than to wait for Sophie.

And then, how would he have known she would have been alone that night, or even at home? The walk over to her cottage could easily have been in vain.

It is plausible. Because he may have been enraged that she rejected him. It may not the be the number one theory but I've read enough people saying Bailly had no sexual motive just because of lack of forensic evidence.

Those 54 names would make for interesting reading.

He was a journalist stringing stories. Information about the case was his pitch.

Could have gleaned the information all sorts of ways without him being the culprit. If you heard the victim was found fully clothed it wouldnt be much of a leap to deduce that.

If he was 100 percent innocent he wouldnt think such deductions would dangerous to make.

Looking at the photos of the murder scene, Sophie was still fully clothed so it wouldn't have taken a genius to figure she was unlikely to have been sexually assaulted.

I've consumed everything about the case but I flip flop all the time.

Even in the Christmas day swim video, the woman holding the camera says to Bailey "You're a man of many words, do you've any few words for the camera".

Bailey responds "My comment is you'll have to speak to my lawyer".

I know that sounds innocuous, but is that a clue into the mindset of someone expecting to be interviewed by Gardai.

It's an unusual response to make.

Its an unusual question? Comment on what?

If you are one of the later ones to be asked, if you reply normally you will come across as repetitive of whats been said. If you have a reputation as a man who keeps his cards close to his chest, thats an apt response to both maintain that rep and distinguish yourself from other comments.

In context, I find it strange.

It might be a clue to his mindset at the time. That's all. It's defensive.

He may have known of Sophie prior to December 1996, and had a sexual interest in her.

But on the Saturday it's feasible that he saw her in Schull and that aroused that sexual interest again.

Only recently an uncle of Sophie's brought up something Bailey said on his very own podcast.

It's linked in a post on this thread about a month ago.

Apparently Bailey was talking about Sophie's movements on the Saturday and started offering information about her movements that was never before know.

How did Bailey know this, maybe because he was keeping an eye on her that day?

If there had been a murder in the area two days before ?

Yes.

Bailey said Sophie went up Ardmanagh road where she had parked her car.

The Ardmanagh road bit was well known from the Sky film . The Centra car park is off Ardmanagh road, so Bailey probably assumed she had parked there to do her shopping.

It's just another line of speculation, I think.

There are too many open possibilities and no real evidence.