TV | July 7, 2021 | In 1996, just before Christmas, the French television producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier was brutally murdered outside of her holiday home in the countryside near Schull, County Cork. The case gripped and terrified the nation with Madame du Plantier’s death being referred to as the first murder in the region in over a century. As the press swarmed the tight-knit community and fingers were pointed, the Irish Police, known as the Garda Síochána, focused in on one Ian Bailey, an English journalist covering the story. Over the course of close to 25 years, the interest in du Plantier’s death hasn’t lessened, nor has Bailey’s insistence on his innocence.