{"podcast":{"title":"LOVE MURDER","slug":"love-murder-877958","podcast_index_feed_id":877958,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/love-murder","website_url":"https://art19.com/shows/love-murder","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/e1/11/54/1a/e111541a-8027-4fad-ae52-cc04ab6fb110/075c7f5f7ce93bbb56cbe867552692ab73602dafa3f25ec26004e48bd6167712cda7203bbd60a8db64a054b5443612db0fe3071f4795112ee8b7088bd5f9758b.jpeg","author":"Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette","episode_count":495,"summary":"Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette team up each week to tell stories of love and relationships gone fatally wrong. This show is all about seemingly normal people driven to terrible madness by passion and rage. Hang out with your new best friends each week to discover how someone can go from sweet to murderous in the blink of an eye, and to hear all the ways murder can give love a real bad name.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T18:19:32.795958+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/love-murder-877958"},"episode":{"title":"Myth and Murder in West Cork: The Story of Sophie Toscan du Plantier","slug":"myth-and-murder-in-west-cork-the-story-of-sophie-toscan-du-plantier","published_at":"2026-05-27T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/love-murder-877958/myth-and-murder-in-west-cork-the-story-of-sophie-toscan-du-plantier","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/love-murder-877958","url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/claritaspod.com/measure/arttrk.com/p/PDPN1/pscrb.fm/rss/p/rss.art19.com/episodes/5add00cd-19d7-4ac2-8e64-9882d9f895b6.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/claritaspod.com/measure/arttrk.com/p/PDPN1/pscrb.fm/rss/p/rss.art19.com/episodes/5add00cd-19d7-4ac2-8e64-9882d9f895b6.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"Sophie Toscan du Plantier was a 39-year-old French producer, wife, and mother who traveled alone to her remote cottage in West Cork just before Christmas 1996. Two days later, she was found dead outside her gate, beaten beyond recognition, in a case that drew in Irish folklore, French cinema, a troubled local journalist, years of failed prosecutions, and a family’s long fight for justice across two countries. Sources: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/from-paris-to-west-cork-and-back-the-story-of-the-sophie-toscan-du-plantier-murder-investigation-1.3910782 https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/the-story-of-the-sophie-toscan-du-plantier-murder-investigation-a-chronology-1.2158891 https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/a-23-year-investigation-what-next-for-the-sophie-toscan-du-plantier-murder-case-1.4123633 https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2024/01/22/garda-cold-case-review-of-film-producers-murder-to-continue-despite-ian-baileys-death/ https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/08/15/sophie-toscan-du-plantier-gardai-awaiting-results-of-tests-using-advanced-dna-collection-method/ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/31/briton-convicted-of-murder-french-film-maker-ian-bailey-sophie-toscan-du-plantier https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/23/well-never-have-the-truth-death-of-suspect-ian-bailey-floors-family-of-french-film-maker https://www.lemonde.fr/en/police-and-justice/article/2024/01/21/ian-bailey-man-convicted-in-france-for-murder-dies-in-ireland_6453379_105.html https://shows.acast.com/westcork/about https://www.netflix.com/title/81094755 This Week’s Episode Brought To You By: Progressive Insurance -  Discover better rates at  https://www.progressive.com/  **** Shopify  - $1 per month trial -  http:/…","meta_description":"Sophie Toscan du Plantier was a 39-year-old French producer, wife, and mother who traveled alone to her remote cottage in West Cork just before Christmas…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6367,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/love-murder-877958/episodes/myth-and-murder-in-west-cork-the-story-of-sophie-toscan-du-plantier/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/love-murder-877958/myth-and-murder-in-west-cork-the-story-of-sophie-toscan-du-plantier.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}