272: True Crime Theater 2: Sophie Toscan Du Plantier: Murder in West Cork
Corpus Delicti
CDM Productions
4.4 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Sources:
- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5168r5zj83o
- https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/sophie-toscan-du-plantier-s-family-call-for-official-inquest-following-tanaiste-s-comments/ar-AA1qFiNi?apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1
- Netflix Documentary - Murder in West Cork
- https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/sophie-toscan-du-plantier-murder-case-cork-ian-bailey-dna-gzfsqq7c6
- https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41475160.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sophie_Toscan_du_Plantier
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone is Jen. |
| 0:24.7 | And this is Lindsay. |
| 0:25.5 | And welcome back to Corpus Liktai, the podcast. |
| 0:28.4 | We are still in our True Crime Theater series. |
| 0:32.0 | And this time, we're going to hop the pond and go over to Ireland. |
| 0:35.8 | And this one, we said when we started doing this series |
| 0:40.1 | True Crime Theater, too, that it was going to be TV, movies, and documentaries. And |
| 0:46.6 | documentaries is where this one comes in. So this one, we'll talk a little bit about the documentary |
| 0:52.6 | at the end, but you can find this one on Netflix. |
| 0:56.0 | So this one on Netflix is actually called Murder in Westcork. |
| 1:00.0 | It is a little remote village where Sophie de Planteer was murdered brutally outside of one of her homes. |
| 1:08.0 | Just a little bit about Sophie. |
| 1:10.0 | She is a 39-year-old French television producer. |
| 1:14.5 | She was known for her intelligence. She was so elegant and she was creative and she had a passion |
| 1:19.9 | for storytelling, which translated into her work for film and documentaries. She loved books and |
| 1:25.9 | art, but she was very quiet, very reserved. She was |
| 1:29.6 | very much an introvert. She did not like flashy or loud social gatherings. She much preferred |
| 1:37.6 | to be quiet and on her own. And she was married to Daniel de Planteer. He was a renowned film producer as well, and they |
| 1:45.8 | shared a life that from the outside seemed very glamorous and very successful. She had a son, |
| 1:52.7 | Pierre Louis, from her first marriage, who lived with her and Daniel. So Daniel is a little bit of the opposite of Sophie in that he's a very social person. |
| 2:04.5 | He always has friends in and out of the home. He's entertaining, working on his next big project, |
| 2:10.9 | working in this industry. There was a part of him that had to be. But as we know, Sophie was much more introverted, more private. So to balance |
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