Twisted 2s #65 Sophia Toscan Du Plantier & Susan Smith

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🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Scary Mysteries Twisted Twos:Sophia Toscan du Plantier & Susan SmithTales of hauntings, murder and scary mysteries, Every week Twisted Two's dives into a pair of uniquely terrifying true stories that are worthy of a more in depth look.For this week we focus on a gruesome and mysterious death and a morbid story from a woman named Susan Smith. Get ready for scary mysteries Twisted Two's.#1 Sophia Toscan du Plantier Sophia Toscan du Plantier was a French Film producer born in Paris France in 1957. After marrying a fellow French film mogul, Daniel Toscan du Plantier, they bought a home in the town of Drinane in Schull, Ireland. This isolated house would serve as a retreat for the couple whenever they wanted to escape the hustle and bustle of Paris. On December 20, 1996, Sophia arrived at the Cork Airport in Ireland and drove to her home in Schull. For the weekend, she visited friends and dropped by some of her favorite haunts. Afterwards, she decided to return to Paris on Christmas eve, phoning her husband the night before her departure at 11:00 PM, saying she would see him the next day. However, the next day at 10:00 AM, Sophia’s bludgeoned body would be found by her neighbor, Shirley Foster, in the laneway leading to her home. #2 Susan SmithOn October 25, 1994, Susan Smith contacted police and told them she had been carjacked by a black man while stopped at an intersection. She pleaded with police for help because her two sons, 3-year old, Michael and 14-month old, Alex, were still inside the car when the man had driven away with the vehicle. For the next nine days, Susan went on various national television programs, pleading and asking for her boys’ safe return. A huge investigation followed along with a nationwide search. But police always had their suspicions from the start.Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Scary Mysteries Twisted Two's, Sophia Toscan Du Planter and Susan Smith. Tales of Hauntings, murder, and scary mysteries.
0:15.0	Every week, Twisted Toe's dives into a pair of uniquely terrifying true stories that are worthy of a more in-depth look.
0:21.0	For this week, we focus on a gruesome and mysterious death and a morbid story from a woman
0:26.7	named Susan Smith. Get ready for scary mysteries, twisted twos.
0:31.1	Number one, Sophia Toscan do plantier.
0:37.0	Sophia Toscan do plantier was a French film producer born in Paris, France in 1957.
0:47.0	After marrying a fellow French film mogul Daniel Toscond du Plantier,
0:52.0	they bought a home in the town of Drenane in Shalle, Ireland.
0:56.1	The isolated house would serve as a retreat for the couple whenever they wanted to escape the
1:00.2	hustle and bustle of Paris. On December 20th 1996 Sophia arrived at the Cork Airport in Ireland and drove to her home and shell.
1:10.0	For the weekend she visited friends and dropped by some of her favorite haunts.
1:15.0	Afterwards she decided to return to Paris on Christmas Eve phoning her husband the night before her departure at 11 PM saying she would see him the next day. However, the following day at 10 a.m.
1:27.0	Sophia's bludgeon body would be found by her neighbor Shirley Foster in the laneway
1:32.1	leading to her home.
1:34.0	She was still wearing her nightgown, leggings, and brown lace-up boots.
1:38.0	Her body was heavily bludgeoned, hit more than a dozen times with a blunt instrument and her skull had been smashed with a concrete block or large stone.
1:47.0	Despite a heavy investigation, for years no one was arrested or brought under suspicion for the murder.
1:53.0	Police believed that she was running away from her attacker when she was caught in the
1:57.3	laneway and brutally killed. It's possible she was surprised by her killer
2:01.5	inside her home the night before and tried to run away by heading out of the house.
2:07.0	Press coverage of the incident came fast and one journalist named Ian Bailey was praised for being insightful in his articles.
2:14.8	He had lived in the same area as Sophia at the time and knew the town's folk and layout of
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