Cold Case Review of Sophie Tuscan du Plantier murder to proceed

It’s very possible- but we’ve seen these type of speculative articles time and time again over the years - a “Bailey” article sells newspapers and whilst this article isn’t specifically saying the DNA is Baileys, it pretty much alludes to it in many ways.

Either there’s a result or there isn’t - if it is baileys I’m assuming it will be announced with great fanfare- but if it isn’t, what then? They certainly won’t announce any names - it will likely be back to the drawing board and further investigation and another few years of no updates .

I think it's just journalistic license about "missing piece" to get more attention and clicks, if they had enough of a profile for it to be Bailey then they would have absolutely ran with that instead.

If they just led with "undetermined DNA found, will know more in 30 days", it would be much less interesting.

We all know that there is the theoretical possibility that Bailey did it, enough time, knowledge where the cottage was, how to hike there at night time, and no alibi for that night. ( excluding the consideration if Sophie would have opened the door for him )

However don't you think if he really did it, he'd have a better ailibi? Bailey must have known if Jules was a light sleeper or slept deeply. If the latter he could still have claimed having been in bed with Jules all night, maybe went to the bathroom once because of the large quantities of booze he had consumed and returned to bed again…. Jules could neither confirm nor really deny this.

Bailey could have kept his typewriter at Jules not the studio for that night, and once he returned from the killing and cleaned up at the studio sat in the kitchen and typing as loudly as possible for everyone in the house to hear, - kept up the story of having to meet a deadline for the newspaper.

It would have made it all a bit more sounding like he had an alibi rather than none at all, - that's what I am saying here….

Didnt bailey claim he was in bed all night

Then Jules was coerced into saying he left the bed and bailey changed his story ?

The most important factor to this DNA finding is that it hopefully bring justice to Sophie whether Bailey or another perpetrators DNA that they can compare against.

If it is an unknown person that will be unfortunate (until they find who left it), but either way it should hopefully still get rid of all of the discussion about all the circumstantial evidence, which will be a relief.

The flip side of the article is that Bailey could be exonerated if the killers dna is not baileys

Well, as “exonerated” as this case will allow- for all we know the DNA is the scrapings of skin from the hands of a person who recently repositioned the brick back in place as it was likely to fall and injure someone - a completely innocent act. And the killer, Bailey or whomever else, wore thick gloves so was never likely to leave hand DNA on any weapon used that night.

To definitively exonerate Bailey- the DNA needs to lead directly to the killer and to have proof beyond reasonable doubt - otherwise, people will just continue to argue “Bailey wore gloves”- of course no DNA on brick- and so it would continue.

To those who claim that he wore gloves on the night , the simple question could be asked - How did his hands get scratched ?
The other issue with gloves is why did he not wear them in the following days to hide the obvious scratches ? He could have avoided the narrative of killing turkeys and chopping down trees .

But we know for a fact that he DID kill turkeys and cut down a Christmas tree - getting scratched in the process - there were witnesses!

So, not proof of murder.

Ab but the Gardai tried their best to replicate his injuries by cutting down innocent Christmas trees and couldn’t- so he must be guilty 😀

So we know what posters will gloat here if Baileys DNA is found on the brick- but for the rest of the more rational and even handed posters- how will you react if Baileys DNA is found there?

I’ll be glad there’s closure for sure, and glad for her family, not for me.
But I will always wonder how a case built on such flimsy evidence survived and thrived for nearly 30 years, when there were so many other lines of enquiry to also investigate - Bailey was an obvious suspect given his past brutality against his partner- but a French connection which to me was an obvious one, was never properly explored- and closer to home, there were other more immediate suspects who categorically did know Sophie and interacted with her on this particular visit.