Netflix has released the first trailer for its major new three-part documentary on Sophie Toscan Du Plantie, the French film and TV producer killed at her isolated holiday cottage in West Cork 25 years ago.
Sophie: A Murder in West Cork premieres on the streaming service on Wednesday, June 30.
It features interviews with Sophie's family, including her son Pierre-Louis Baudey and Ian Bailey, who has consistently denied any involvement in the killing in 1996.
It's the second major documentary series on the unsolved murder, with director Jim Sheridan's Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie , debuting on Sky Crime and Now TV this Sunday.
Executive producer Suzanne Lavery said the people behind the Netflix doc set out to focus on Sophie herself, her family and the community in West Cork.
“In making this documentary we wanted to honour Sophie, her family and that rural community in the West of Ireland.
"Even now, I find it genuinely astonishing that something so terrible could have happened not just to a woman who appeared to have such a gilded life but in such a beautiful place and to a community that prided itself on its peacefulness, its safety and inclusivity.
“It’s what drew Sophie there. What does seem so tragic, is that Sophie’s perfect escape turned out to be where she lost her life. And the shock of it still reverberates in that community 25 years later.”
