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

It wasn’t to get the heating fixed, that had been fixed and working.

So either that was just a cover story \ justification for why she was coming over?

She wanted to get away but at Christmas felt she needed some reason to give family, friends.

Or she wanted to get away \ get to the cottage for reasons unknown.

Or shows a lack of trust in what she was hearing about the cottage from Josephine Hellen? I'm just mentioning that for consideration, rather than something I am stating as likely.

Drugs would explain a lot about the way in which Sophie was killed. Methodical but absolutely brutal. especially in the context of Veronica Guerin’s murder exactly six months before.

For the drugs angle

There would have to be a connection somewhere between Sophie and this drugs trade

Of all the possible scenario's that could reveal the murderer, I still come back to these curious factors:

1) The murder was unplanned - It wasn't premeditated. Bashing someones head with a rock & building block isn't the preferred method of an assassin. These were weapons found on location, spur of the moments stuff, first thing that came into sight..

2) The brutality seen in this killing was off the scale. The assault was prolonged and emotionally charged. This has all the traits of a rage attack, fueled by hate.

3) The body was left at the gate.. It was going to be found within hours (if not minutes). There was no attempt to hide the body, drag it behind the wall / ditch.. This might have secured more time for the killer to make his escape.

4) In my opinion, it was a morning murder, I can't prove that, but the known snippets of information in the public domain, lead me to think so:

• Lights turned off
• Open bread on top of work top
• Stomach contents possible cereal food / breakfast
• No alcohol in the blood
• Boots on and laced up - Hardly put them on in the dark
• Guard noted wet blood around the nose upon arrival at the scene
• The locality! - Somebody knew where the house was.

5) If this was a random house breaker, an opportunist, why kill the occupant? She may have heard them, disturbed them.. So what? They were looking for empty holiday homes to rob, somebody around, move on to the next one. They don't tend to kill random strangers, and especially in the manner that Sophie was killed.

6) There was two known people in the vicinity that night - Alfie Lyons & Shirley Foster. Another person made a statement that they were in the area during the time of the killing - Maria Farrell. She also states that another male was in the area with her at the same time, he's identity was never revealed.

7) Did Maria Farrell see a male on the road that night? That is the question. If she did, then that has to be a person of interest. If not, what pushed her to make the anonymous claims during a massive murder investigation? I get that she will never be trusted again, and has been deemed a liar etc... But was there a man seen walking by the bridge that night?

8) The expensive bottle of wine found in a field - Still a mystery.

Personally, I just can’t reconcile the murder itself with someone breaking in or arriving up at the house. It’s just too barbaric.

It’s understandable why the Gardai are trawling through the footage from that festival to see if Bailey spoke to her.

In my view, the killer had to have a prior relationship of some kind with her. Even with the drugs angle, there had to have been a prior run in. The only other explanation is that the killer was having a psychotic episode or was on some strong drugs.

The murderer didn’t just kill Sophie, they destroyed her.

I'd agree with Bridget that because of the remoteness of the house were not looking at a random stranger murder

The rage and the fact that she was a beautiful woman alone in a remote location suggests a likely motive as the gardai believe

There's also other possibilities. Morning murder etc.

The South West coast of Ireland seems largely unprotected, I think.

The caretaker was looking after her house in her absence? How often did she look after things? Every week? Every two weeks? And if something odd would have gone on, she would have reported that to Sophie and the police. But nothing of these likes happened.

I would not be certain about that. Planned or unplanned is not proven. One fact would be that the murderer knew that Sophie was there, at her cottage, - she's never been there at Christmas as well. This was not a normal holiday during holiday season. ( The French are known to be all or mostly all on holiday in August )

The brutality is odd as well, same as leaving the body in plain sight. What if the killer would have taken the trouble to hide Sophie's body just behind the briars and brambles not visible from the road. It could have taken 12 hours for her body to be discovered. Sophie not returning phone calls, Sophie not returning the rental car, Sophie not arriving in Paris......

It's possible the killer left in a hurry, left the body where it was, DNA evidence was destroyed by the thaw in the morning, didn't bother hiding the body or knew he had a couple of hours head start until Alfie and Shirley were either awake or leaving their house.

Maybe her car was visible from the lane. A clear sign that the house was occupied.

Although anyone familiar with the house would probably have assumed that Sophie had, as usual, a guest or two with her; apparently she was NOT in the habit of going there alone.

So, would you murder someone in the open, without knowing if maybe someone could see you from the house?

May we guess that the killer either KNEW that Sophie was alone; or else, had assumed the house to be empty and was surprised...in the act of...well, what???

Apparently, Sophie always left the curtains open.. I believe it was to see the beam of the Fastnet lighthouse.

And yes, there was the local knicker sniffer in the vicinity.

Now, he would have known that Sophie was home alone, and maybe went down for a night time show...?

Maybe she seen him, threatened to tell his Mother, call the Guards, let the good folk of Schull know all about him...?

But would that warrant such a reaction from the local deviant?

We're talking a prolonged bludgeoning here, no half measures, full on psycho mode.

We can speculate all we want.

We all don't know anything.

There is no evidence for a conviction.

We just have our own thoughts, gut feelings what may have been more likely or less likely.

To date there was also no death bed confession.

The German musician stating that "he did something terrible" before his suicide is not conclusive enough. He could simply have been mad and an expression of madness?

It's just a riddle with a lot of open ends. And we all love to write or read about a good story. Lot's of phantasies as well, I'd say.

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