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

I understand. When looking at Bailey, I am always wondering why the motive would always exclusively have been Sex? And if so, would he really expected his chances at this time of the night? I would guess he would not have made it before 2am to Sophie's that night? Would Sophie even have opened the door to somebody she barely even knew? ( an expensive bottle of French wine wouldn't have done the trick as well.... )

Also, was he known to cheat or did he ever cheat on Jules?

Could it be that Bailey had a totally different motive we all don't know about?

I was often thinking about some freelance work, something that would have meant big money for him? But he would hardly have discussed business at 2am, plus killing Sophie would not have benefitted him in getting some freelance contract?

Was maybe Sophie a threat to Bailey in some other form we don't know about and killing her would have ended that threat?

We don’t know what evidence there is against anyone other than Bailey, because we’ve been fed only Bailey tales for the last 25 years.

Maybe he did see her in Schull, not follow here around but just see her, enough to know she was in the area and not in France.

And on the night maybe he didn't know she was home or not, maybe he was trying his luck .

Don't expect a randy man who was drinking whiskey and admits that whiskey makes him different to act rationally.

I am no forensics expert, but I would believe that DNA evidence would have lasted for quite a while, also it wasn't raining that night and wasn't windy at all. I would agree on the motives Bailey giving DNA samples voluntarily as the Guards could have taken it anyway.

I would also agree that a murder scene where sexual violence or rape was attempted would look different. Bailey was no fool either. They would have found his DNA on or in Sophie or would he have put on a condom? And even then he could have left pubic hair incriminating himself rather quickly. Would he have hiked over to Sophie's with condoms? I find that very hard to believe, but again, yes, it's possible.

I find that theory published in that article a possible scenario. Whether it was more likely or less likely I can't say. It's certainly a line of enquiry worth following up on.

Her husband not travelling to Cork upon Sophie's death is very odd. Yes, he may have had other previous commitments, yes, the marriage wasn't in order, but still, if your spouse dies and is murdered in a foreign country one would expect the husband to come to the place where she died.

How much would a divorce have cost Daniel Toscan du Plantier? And how much did he "save" by his wife's untimely death? Her death certainly came as a convenience to him, plus he was already busy with his next wife....

This situation should have raised more than just one red flag.

The Gards are to blame for this and that's the reason the case has never been solved.

I couldn't care less about Bailey if he was to rot in a jail but still, motive and evidence beyond reasonable doubt are clearly missing.

Real evidence is also missing for all the other theories, - drugs, or the ex husband or some other sexually motivated killer.

The article is from the countries foremost conspiracy theorist.

I don't think there is another journalist in the land with less credibility.

Yet you think it's a plausible scenario.

We are probably on the third generation of Gardai since the murder.

Some of those that joined after the murder have since retired.

But in all that time some violent, corrupt, dead Garda from Bantry is being protected.

No officer has come forward about them, none have put their head above the parapet to solve the most high profile case in the country and give closure to the family.

Why is that do you think?

Maybe because it's all BS.

And you keep going on about how it's worth following up on.

But you have no idea if it was or was not followed up on.

All we have is this Martin O'Sullivan (if he even exists) saying he was surprised there was no public appeal for the car, or no door to door enquires.

Maybe there was no need for a public appeal, maybe Matin was making it up, maybe someone else saw the car and was able to identify the driver who was then ruled out.

You are thinking about it too rationally.

This was a murder, there is nothing rational about a murder, or the circumstances that lead to murder.

The rational thing for Bailey to do that Sunday night was to go off to bed.

We know that Bailey had weird sexual fantasies, we know he was violent, we know he acted strangely when he had been drinking whiskey, we know he had a narcissistic personality,cwe know he walked the roads at night.

So toss all those in together and add a bit of irrationality to it and it's plausible that he struck off for Sophie's house expecting to seduce her, got rejected and ended up killing her.

There's no evidence of sexual assault here. Sexual assault followed by murder of the victim is common.

That case has evidence of a deliberate planned attack. No suggestion, at least in the information I could find, that the perpetrator went there under any pretence that they would be welcome?

But you only think it was narrow-minded because you have no other information.

You don't know what other lines of inquiry were followed until Bailey was arrested.

You don't know why those other lines of inquiry did not lead to arrests.

The most likely reason that they didn't lead to arrests was because the people investigated were not involved.