Sophie: A murder in West Cork was the Netflix take on the brutal murder of French television producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier. Released in June 2021, the three-part series, made by John Dower and Lightbox Media, documented the 39-year-old’s final days at her holiday home near Goleen just before Christmas in 1996 and the impact her death had on her family and the local community. The production was made with the blessing of the du Plantiers and showed how the garda investigation quickly whittled the suspects down to one man, journalist Ian Bailey, an Englishman who had moved to West…

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