Ireland Ireland - Sophie Toscan du Plantier, 39, murdered, County Cork, 23 Dec 1996

[missgreenbanks]

@kemo Regarding DNA testing in cold cases - is this more successful in bringing a solution when the killer is a stranger to the victim? What happens if a killer is known to a victim and can excuse their DNA being found at a crime scene?

 

[dotr]

@kemo Regarding DNA testing in cold cases - is this more successful in bringing a solution when the killer is a stranger to the victim? What happens if a killer is known to a victim and can excuse their DNA being found at a crime scene?

DNA Evidence: Applications

www.forensicsciencesimplified.org

''For example, if a family member assaults another family member within their home, DNA of both parties will be found all over the home because they both live there, so DNA may not be helpful in determining guilt as some other form of evidence''

 

[Lonicera]

DNA Evidence: Applications

www.forensicsciencesimplified.org

''For example, if a family member assaults another family member within their home, DNA of both parties will be found all over the home because they both live there, so DNA may not be helpful in determining guilt as some other form of evidence''

I had read that the DNA research would be on the stone used to kill Sophie: if it is, it does not matter that the killer is close to this beautiful young woman.

 

[kemo]

I had read that the DNA research would be on the stone used to kill Sophie: if it is, it does not matter that the killer is close to this beautiful young woman.

If Ian Bailey’s Touch DNA is on the rock, that would settle this issue once and for all, otherwise we won’t learn much at all. No DNA tells us nothing. It doesn’t even clear Bailey since contact doesn’t always result in DNA transfer. Unidentified DNA either means someone else is the perpetrator or someone had contact with it unrelated to the crime.

 

[Lonicera]

If Ian Bailey’s Touch DNA is on the rock, that would settle this issue once and for all, otherwise we won’t learn much at all. No DNA tells us nothing. It doesn’t even clear Bailey since contact doesn’t always result in DNA transfer. Unidentified DNA either means someone else is the perpetrator or someone had contact with it unrelated to the crime.

If Bailey’s DNA is on the stone, it signals his guilt no matter what you think. I love Ireland.

 

[dotr]

April 20 2025 John Kierans rbbm.

Cold case cops hope forensic progress & FBI can help solve Sophie Toscan murder

GARDAI are hoping advancements in forensics and the FBI will help them solve Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s murder. The French filmmaker, 39, was battered to death near her remote holiday home in Schu…

www.thesun.ie

''Speaking on the Garda Podcast, Supt McTiernan added: “We are being extremely comprehensive, that case happened on December 23, 1996, so it’s 29 years old.

“A lot of work was done over the years by various senior management in An Garda Siochana, and by the French as well.

“From a forensic perspective we are trying to develop it more because there is new advancements out there on a worldwide scale.''

“We just don’t confine ourselves to Ireland and our ability and our capacity here. We have gone abroad, we have close links to the FBI and it is working quite well.”

 

[Melt71]

15 August 2025
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/08/15/sophie-toscan-du-plantier-gardai-awaiting-results-of-tests-using-advanced-dna-collection-method/

DNA hopes to solve Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder​

Gardaí investigating the Sophie Toscan du Plantier cold-case murder should know ‘within weeks’ if a new DNA analysis method has successfully identified her killer, sources have told Extra.ie.....

 

[su5ie]

‘Hugely significant’ new DNA evidence breakthrough in Sophie Toscan murder case brings fresh killer identity hopes

A BREAKTHROUGH in the case of Sophie Toscan du Plantier could see the identity of her killer confirmed as early as next month. Mum-of-one Sophie, 39, was battered and left to die at the gateway to …

www.thesun.ie

 

[BobleFlambeur]

‘Hugely significant’ new DNA evidence breakthrough in Sophie Toscan murder case brings fresh killer identity hopes

A BREAKTHROUGH in the case of Sophie Toscan du Plantier could see the identity of her killer confirmed as early as next month. Mum-of-one Sophie, 39, was battered and left to die at the gateway to …

www.thesun.ie

If they get a result from the DNA it will be Ian Bailey's

 

[Chaldean]

If they get a result from the DNA it will be Ian Bailey's

How do you know? Real question.
Speaking as a would-be Sleuth, I like to see some backup for a claim.

 

[BobleFlambeur]

How does one "know" anything?. All views on these discussions are formed from the preponderance of (mainly circumstancial) evidence, and my view is that the dna will be his.
If knowledge, in the true sense, was a requirement, there would be very little discussed on this forum.