Laura discusses 39-year-old French TV and film producer Sophie Toscan Du Plantier’s brutal murder with actor, director, producer, author and true crime aficionada Alison Sweeney.
On the morning of December 23 1996, Sophie’s body was found by her neighbour, Shirley Foster, at the bottom of the driveway to her holiday home in Schull, West Cork, Ireland.
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Oct 29
Ep 384 Remastered: The Forgotten Victims: The A1 Linked Attacks, Continued Part 5
In this remastered Crime Analyst series, Laura Richards puts the women back at the centre of the story. For decades, the women murdered and attacked by Peter Sutcliffe (known as PS in this series) were overshadowed by the man who targeted them. Laura continues to analyse the A1 l ... Show More
55m 19s
Oct 26
Ep 383 Sleeping with the Enemy: Profiling the Husband Who Drugged and Raped with Zoe Watts, Part 3
Zoe Watts's husband had confessed to drugging and raping her throughout their marriage. When Zoe confided in her mother, she contacted the police. But that night, while the children slept upstairs, he broke into the family home. Zoe shares what happened when he found her and Laur ... Show More
1h 2m
Oct 22
Ep 382 Remastered: The Forgotten Victims: The A1 Linked Attacks, Part 4
In this remastered Crime Analyst series, Laura Richards puts the women back at the centre of the story. For decades, the women murdered and attacked by Peter Sutcliffe (known as PS in this series) were overshadowed by the man who targeted them. Laura shares other attacks on women ... Show More
1h 21m
Mar 2019
E137: “Film Fatale” - Sophie Toscan du Plantier
In the idyllic sleepy town of Schull, Ireland, Sophie Toscan du Plantier, was brutally murdered just before Christmas in 1996. The celebrated documentary producer was beaten to death outside of her holiday home. The town’s first murder in 71 years would divide the normally tight- ... Show More
45m 17s
Mar 2019
E138: “Film Fatale” Pt. 2 - Sophie Toscan du Plantier
On December 23rd, 1996, this French filmmaker was murdered outside her vacation home in West Cork, Ireland. Leads were scarce in the initial hours, and evidence was lost as investigators waited two days for the coroner to arrive. However, the case blew open when a teenage boy cam ... Show More
47m 27s
Jun 2017
3 – The murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier & trial by press
Sophie Toscan du Plantier was a french writer and documentarian, who owned a secluded holiday home in the picturesque west Cork town of Schull, Ireland. Days before Christmas 1996, she was found savagely murdered in the lane way leading to her house. The case remains unsolved, bu ... Show More
41m 5s