3: Sophie Bouniol

West Cork

sambungey

Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Sophie Buoniol, commonly referred to by her married name, Sophie Toscan du Plantier, was 39 years old when she was murdered, a well-connected French film producer. In a place where there had been no murder that anyone can remember, locals speculated that the murderer must have come from out of town. But West Cork grapples with which version of Sophie to believe. Rumors about Sophie and her love life, fueled by tabloid headlines, abound. But there was a quieter, more bookish side to her, a side better represented by the small, simple, white house she kept in West Cork. In this episode we get to know Sophie, from the perspective of those who loved her most.

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0:20.5	It was first light on Christmas Eve when Detective Eugene Gilligan entered Sophie's house.
0:36.0	He was expecting a homicide scene, signs of a struggle, upturned furniture, broken glass,
0:40.8	blood.
0:41.8	Instead, the thing that struck him most was how normal everything seemed.
0:46.4	Like the anthology of Irish poetry on the kitchen table, held open to a page with
0:50.4	a pot of honey, as if someone might return at any moment to finish reading it.
0:56.0	The whole house was sparsely furnished and white, white walls, white stone fireplace.
1:01.7	Gilligan remembers the stairs.
1:03.8	But the stairs were painted, white, glass paint.
1:06.9	It made the house look French, he thought.
1:10.0	They were spotless, and it told him Sophie was the type that didn't like shoes to be worn
1:14.0	upstairs in the house.
1:15.7	The deceased had slippers and all her shoes were left at the bottom of the stairs, but
1:21.4	we were the first ones with big boots on us walking up the stairs.
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