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Jun 30, 2021 · Daniel Toscan du Plantier was a French film producer from Chambéry, France. He died on February 11, 2003, aged 61, of a heart attack in Berlin. His death came 16 years before Ian Bailey...
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- Du Plantier's Death Was The First Murder in The Town in Decades
- In The Beginning, There Was No Clear Suspect
- Bailey Was Arrested For The Murder But Eventually Released
- Bailey Was Found Guilty in A Trial in Absentia
- The Case Remains An Unsolved Mystery
Du Plantierconsidered her Irish farmhouse a refuge from her busy life in France alongside her famous film producer husband, Daniel Toscan du Plantier. But the quiet setting turned deadly. At approximately 10 in the morning on December 23, 1996, a neighbor spotted du Plantier's body lying on a path near her house in Toormore, West Cork. It was clear...
The police tried to track du Plantier's movements from the time she'd flown into Cork Airport on her own on December 20, spoke to numerous witnesses and received anonymous tips on the phone. The case also drew media attention. One reporter who covered du Plantier's murder for several publications was Ian Bailey, a British national who'd worked as a...
Bailey, whowillingly provided a hair sample, denied any involvement in the murder when he spoke with police. But hesaid to one editor that he'd committed the murder to reignite his career. Friends also revealed that Bailey had made a confession about going "too far" to them, and a local teenager who'd received a lift from Bailey in early February 1...
In 2001, Ireland's Director of Public Prosecutions ruled there was not enough evidence to support the prosecution of Bailey for du Plantier's murder. The eyewitness who'd placed Bailey near the scene of the crimerecanted her testimony in 2005, with the explanation that she had been pressured by police to name Bailey. Bailey felt he'd been "set-up"b...
Irish courts ruled against extraditing Bailey following his 2019 conviction. Yet he could face extradition outside of Ireland. Bailey saidin 2021, "If I went to England, I would be immediately arrested on foot of the European Arrest Warrant." Du Plantier's familyremain convinced of Bailey's guilt, but his conviction hasn't resolved the mystery surr...
Toscan du Plantier was found dead by a neighbour at 10 am, her body clad in nightwear and boots, in a laneway beside her house. Her longjohn bottoms were caught on a barbed-wire fence. Bloodstains were present on a gate as well as a nearby piece of slate and a concrete block.
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Jul 1, 2021 · Daniel died of a heart attack at the age of 61 on February 11, 2003, in Berlin, according to Newsweek. He died 16 years before a man was ultimately convicted of Sophie's murder in May 2019.
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Jun 30, 2021 · At around 10 a.m. on Dec. 23, Sophie's battered body, still clad in pajamas, was found sprawled in the brambles at the edge of the path leading up to her house, her head smashed by a concrete block...
Daniel Toscan du Plantier. 1979 image from the set of City of Women: Renzo Rossellini, Toscan du Plantier, Federico Fellini. Toscan du Plantier's grave in Père Lachaise. Daniel Toscan du Plantier (7 April 1941 – 11 February 2003) was a French film producer.
Jun 30, 2021 · Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered just outside her holiday cottage in rural West Cork in December 1996. After 25 years, the murder case that remains unsolved is set to be explored in...
