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Today is Monday, December 23rd, 2019.

On this day in 1996, the body of 39-year-old French film producer Sophie Taskin-du-Plantier was found at her vacation home in County Cork, Ireland.

It would take 23 years before her killer saw his day in court.

Welcome to today in True Crime, a parcast original.

Due to the graphic nature of today's crimes, listener discretion is advised.

Extreme caution is advised for listeners under 13.

Today we're covering the murder of French film producer Sophie Toscan de Plantier,

who was killed outside her home just two days before Christmas.

Let's go back to the isolated Irish hamlet of Drynan in West Cork. It was just after 3 in the morning on December 23rd, 1996.

Marie Farrell sat in the passenger seat as her friend gave her a lift back to her car. The shopkeeper and mother of four had told her husband Chris that she was off to meet some girlfriends. But this was a little white lie.

She'd spent the last three hours with a man she met in Cork City.

They rendezvooed outside a village called Goline,

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