Is West Cork one of the greatest true crime podcasts since Serial?
In West Cork, they simply refer to it as the murder. The area in Irelands far south-west is so remote and the community so tight, that no further qualifier is needed to explain. Its not just the worst thing that has ever happened there, it remains one of the highest profile and longest running unsolved cases in Irish history. West Cork podcasters Sam Bungey and Jennifer Forde. Credit:Ben Russell  On December 23, 1996, the dead body of 39-year-old French TV producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier was found near her holiday home. She was wearing a nightdress and boots, and was brutally bashed and tangled in briars and barbed wire. Suspicion soon fell on English journalist Ian Bailey, who lived nearby. He had a reputation as a big drinker, a narcissist, an attention-seeker and a bad poet. He was also known for physically abusing his partner, painter Jules Thomas.