(RE-UPLOAD) IAN BAILEY INTERVIEW- Life as m*rder suspect, theories, Garda corruption & NETFLIX DOC

The Good Listener Podcast

(RE-UPLOAD, RECORDED LATE DEC 2022 & PUBLISHED IN JAN 2023)
The chief suspect for the still unsolved 1996 murder of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, Ian Bailey has died form a heart-attack. I spoke to Ian almost exactly a year ago in what was, I'm fairly sure, his second last long format interview and his last video long format interview. (Video version available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZqPD3yV1uA)
To this day Ian Bailey remains the only person who has asked me to interview him (although I was going to ask anyway)
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For this episode I spoke to Ian Bailey. Ian moved to West Cork (Ireland) years before the 1996 murder of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, an incident which later became subject of a 3 part Netflix series
Ian spoke to me about his memories from the time of the murder and the subsequent years of his life as Gardai pursued him as their prime suspect, his own theories regarding the killing, his reaction to the Netflix documentary and Audible series
**APOLOGIES FOR ANY BAD-QUALITY AUDIO CAUSED BY POOR INTERNET CONNECTION**
00:00 Preview
00:35 Intro and move to West Cork
7:11 First hearing about the murder
12:35 How well did Ian know Sophie (murder victim) ??
16:20 Finding out that he was the police’s (Gardai) prime suspect & treatment by Gardai
21:20 Members of the community claiming that Ian confessed
26:10 Does Ian think that the Gardai genuinely thought that he committed the murder?
27:55 Local rumor/theory about Garda killing Sophie and the “missing gate”
31:05 Marie Farrell- the witness who changed her story
34:55 Ian’s reaction to audible series on the murder
37:20 Reaction to NETFLIX doc
42:35 Does Ian court attention from being a murder suspect??
46:20 Which theory of Sophie’s death’s does Ian lean towards?