Upcoming Interviews: Sophie and Suzy
Over the holiday period I will be welcoming Geraldine Comiskey into the studio to talk about how the Sophie Toscan du Plantier case developed during 2025, and also to look again at Suzy Lamplugh.
23rd December 2025 will be the 29th anniversary of the killing of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in West Cork, Ireland. It has been a frustrating year. Still there is no closure to the police cold case review, despite all the summer excitement in the press about a new method of collecting tiny amounts of DNA. I did not expect that to lead anywhere because many of us have come to believe that it was only Sophie’s DNA present on items of evidence still available. Sadly, and unbelievably, the enormous farm gate was ‘lost’ some years ago.
I recently recorded a special interview with a friend of Crime Guy, the professional Irish journalist Geraldine Comiskey. She has written a book on the case, turned conventional wisdom on its head, and come up with her own theory about how that night unfolded.
This was also the year that Jim Sheridan returned to the case with his cinematic release, Re-Creation. Geraldine has seen that film but we are still waiting for a UK release. All of this and more is in our interview which will go out on 23rd December. You can follow and subscribe now on Spotify, YouTube and Apple to make sure you get it the moment we send it out.
Looking ahead to New Year’s Day, and I will be marking 2026 with a renewed focus on Fulham estate agent Suzy Lamplugh. July will be the 40th anniversary of her disappearance. Work is once again taking me closer to London this winter and we may at last carry out our walk of the key locations in the Suzy Lamplugh disappearance. She is still technically missing, but there are no credible theories that suggest she might still be alive.
Although Geraldine and I are not quite as close to this case, we have both read the books by Andrew Stephen and David Videcette, and I have seen all the documentaries over the years. The only thing I feel sure of is that John Cannan (who died in November 2024) was always a convenient patsy and had no involvement in Suzy’s disappearance. You can hear this part of our interview in the same places on 1st January 2026.
