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The members of the jury
reached a verdict.

We, the jury,
find the defendant guilty

of first-degree murder of
Derek William Reginald Haysom

and Nancy Astor Haysom

and fix punishment
and imprisonment for life.

Why didn't you say anything?
Do you still say you're innocent?

Anything else?

All right, everybody out of the way.

Move it, please.

Get back on the sidewalk.

I was the investigator
for the Sheriff's Office.

It was around three o'clock that
Wednesday afternoon we got the call,

it came over the radio.

'Ricky was there, too.

'Ricky and I worked side-by-side,
hand-in-hand.'

Chuck Reid and I lived this case.

It was the amount of overkill that
was involved and the amount of blood

that was there. It was just...

I'd never seen anything like that
before.

Stepped inside and it was like
stepping inside of a slaughterhouse.

You know, "What gang of people
did this?"

Mr Haysom was lying face up,
just inside the door.

I had to step over him
and go into the dining room,

and it was covered in dried blood.

And on the kitchen floor,
Miss Haysom was lying deceased.

Upstairs, in Miss Haysom's room,

we found some photos of Elizabeth,

her daughter, in the nude.

She was kneeling down at the side
of her bed like she was praying.

In front of her was
a Shakespeare book.

The photos were taken
kind of from the side.

We just had heard, you know,

the kind of relationship
between her and her mother.

Miss Haysom, you refer to yourself
as Lady Macbeth.

Yes. Your Shakespeare is certainly
much better than mine,

but it seems to me, if I recall,

Lady Macbeth encouraged
old Macbeth to commit murder,

didn't she? Yes, she did.

Miss Haysom, in the police
sentencing reports,

you make some statement that you had
a full-blown sexual relationship

with your mother at one point...

Could you answer that, please?

You did state you had

a full-blown sexual relationship
with your mother?

I didn't put it that way, no, sir.

How did you put it? Well,
the investigator asked me about

photographs that my mother took
of me.

Miss Haysom, your mother
has been butchered.

Yes, she has, sir. You called her
a liar and an alcoholic.

I did not call her an alcoholic.
Was she a sexual abuser?

Did she sexually abuse you?

If she didn't, for God's sake,
clear her name now.

She did not sexually abuse me.

Thank you.

Hey! Hey, Chuck. How are you all
doing? Great to see you, man.

Good to see you. Yeah, come on in!

The last time I was in here,
it was a mess.

Mr Haysom was here.

He was laying right here.

Miss Haysom was right here,
her head was right here.

She was laying like this.
And, supposedly...

..Jens was supposedly over here

and got up and walked around
behind Mr Haysom.

And cut across his throat this way.

The thing that came up is Haysom
abusing Elizabeth. Mm-hm.

We found five or six pictures
of Elizabeth...

totally in the nude.

Supposedly, her mother did that.

Jens Soering, he was so
possessed over that girl,

she did nothing but use the boy.

She used him... I think she
used him to get to her parents.

I call it the way it is
and the way I see it. Mm-hm.

Then you can decide for yourself.

I'll never forget the night
we luminoled it.

If you know what luminol is...
It's a spray.

If you bleed on this table, someone
can come in here, wipe it up,

six months from now, come in
and spray luminol on it

and you'll see a greenish,
bluish glow.

Ricky was upstairs
and all of a sudden,

bluish-green footprints you could
see just step outside the door,

just started appearing
and going across the grass.

Derek WR Haysom and his wife Nancy

were stabbed to death
in their home Monday.

The bodies were discovered at
their Holcomb Rock Road home.

Haysom is a Canadian resident and
a prominent Nova Scotia businessman.

No motive at all has been
determined.

Paul Freifeld, News 13.

TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN:

"My dearest Jens,
the days go slowly.

"It is time to risk all
for the truth.

"You will not forgive me.

"Hate me, hit me, whatever.

"But please, hug me when we meet.

"Promise me, Jens,

"whatever it takes now,

"promise me you will not
let me ruin your life.

"I have seriously fucked up on mine,
don't let me destroy yours.

"This is the first real
and good thing I have ever done.

"I would kill myself if I discovered

"that you were compromising yourself
for me.

"Don't do it.

"I love you. Elizabeth."

TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN:

Where did you go to school?

I went to Wycombe Abbey in England.

Wycombe was considered one of the
most prestigious schools in England.

How much contact did you have with
your mother and father?

They never came to...

..to my...

successes or failures
while I was at school.

They never saw me play a lacrosse
match. They never saw me perform.

I started having some problems
at school. My father adored me.

And...he saw me as being perfect.

'I was a reporter with the
Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper'

and I covered western Virginia.

When we heard about the Haysoms'
double murder,

at that time, they thought it was
just a random killing.

And the story began for me
right there,

starting with the mysterious murder

of two very well-known,
prominent people.

It was a big, big story in Virginia,
and Elizabeth is...

Number one, she was a very
unconventional beauty.

I mean, she wasn't
your standard beauty.

And I think she had a way of
speaking and a charm about her

that attracted a lot of people.

And I don't know exactly what that
charm was. It was a bit of...

When she walked into a room,
you straightened your spine a bit,

because she just seemed like
she knew a lot.

She was very worldly,
very articulate, smart, obviously.

I spoke to my parents about changing
my A-level subjects.

And my father said it was nonsense.

I'm sorry, your father said what?
It was nonsense.

I... I completely overreacted.

I...

I threw everything up, I ran away.

I was using drugs extensively.

What types of drugs were you using?

A lot of LSD, and I was
doing a lot of heroin.

What...? Heroin.

'At the same time,
you could tell that she lied.'

She was a good liar, she lied,

but you could tell simply
that she was used to lying.

And she'd been a drug addict,
which she admitted,

and, of course, drug addicts often
learn how to lie very well

and often can't stop themselves.

So I think the number one thing
I would take away from it is that,

for her, she was a beautiful,
charming liar.

I wrote a poem for my mother.

She always wanted me to write poems
about her or to her. For her.

And I was now falling into this role

of again playing the perfect
daughter, of being...

..social and charming.

And I was being taken around
and exhibited.

I wanted to find out what was going
wrong with my life and instead,

I was... I was paraded.

They controlled every aspect
of what I was doing.

My mother would turn up at
odd hours of the day and night

in my dorm room to check on me
and what I was doing.

And I know she was doing it
out of love,

and she was concerned.

And I suppose I took it
the wrong way.

I was resentful of this attention.

What is your first
recollection of Jens?

I met him...the...

..the very first day I was there.

It was a barbecue for
the scholars in the evening,

and I was introduced to him.

And, um...

..my very first thought of him
was that he was very rude,

he was very hostile,
he was very aggressive.

But he was also very brilliant.

TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN:

He was introduced to me as the
Jefferson Scholar and as a German.

And I think...that appealed to me.

TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN:

Some writing that you made,
is that right?

Yes. It's a letter in diary form,
I suppose.

Where was this written?

This was written at Loose Chippings
in Lynchburg. Holcomb Rock Road.

That's your home? Yes.
Writing is the way I express myself.

I expose my heart on paper.

TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN:

I shared everything with him,

and...I shared this with him.

"My dearest Jens.

"A day of raining loneliness.

"This morning, I built my father
a desk for his computer.

"I didn't smoke.

"My parents began to drink."

I think I was trying to tell him
that...

I was unhappy.

He always described how unhappy
he was at home,

and I was describing to him that
we all have strife at home

at various times.

I expressed this.

"I bought cigarettes.

"My father fell down.

"I prayed."

I got carried away
on many occasions.

It all becomes very surreal.

Would it be possible to hypnotise
my parents, do voodoo on them?

"Do voodoo on them."
Will them to death.

"Will them to death.

"It seems my concentration on their
death is causing them problems.

"My father nearly drove
over a cliff.

"And my mother fell into a fire.

"I think I shall seriously
take up black magic."

I expressed this very cruelly,
very forcefully.

"I want to be with you, around you,
in you, through you,

"tied to you forever and ever.

"Please, my darling Jens.

"Oh, I love and miss you.

"Elizabeth."

TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN:

Larry, this is Carlos Santos
with the Fluvanna Review.

I'm trying to interview
Elizabeth Haysom.

If you could help me get
a request in to her,

I'd appreciate the return call.

She'd be on our cover,
I'll tell you that.

Thanks, bye.

I'd love to talk to her.

I'd run down there in a heartbeat.

The whole motive never made sense.

When you set up your theory,

you see things in the light of
those theories.

And so something like what
Elizabeth said, you know,

"We both belong here." She didn't
say he belonged in prison,

she said, "We both belong here."

You know, there's a ring of
truth to that.

TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN:

He was angry with my parents that...

they weren't providing me with
sufficient funds and they were

supposed to be so incredibly
wealthy, which is not true.

He wanted to go down to my parents'
home and to sort it out with them.

What did you say?

That I could kill them.

At the bottom of page six,
would you refer to that, please?

"Dear Liz. I love you.

"Je t'aime. Ich liebe dich.

"How do you feel about a couple of
drinks back at my place?

"I have this new Jacuzzi -
wild, baby, wild.

"It's me again, the Jens, lying in
his bed at 22 minutes past midnight.

"Ghosts dancing all around."

"Were I to meet your parents,
I have the ultimate weapon.

"Strange things are
happening within me."

"I'm turning more and more into
a Christ figure.

"I believe I would either make them
completely lose their wits,

"get heart attacks, or they would
become lovers of the world.

"Love is a form of meditation,

"and the ultimate weapon
against your parents.

"My God, how I've got
the dinner scene planned out.

"In the meantime, I love you as
totally as I can for right now.

"Your Jens."

What did you do after he left?

As soon as he was gone,
I went to a bar next door.

I bought some drinks and I scored
a couple of grams of heroin.

The fact that I hated
my mother so much,

I feel responsible for that hate
and pulling Jens into it.

Allowing him, in a sense,

as I feel now,
to have killed my parents.

Did you go to Lynchburg?
Did I go to Lynchburg? No.

CHEERING

ALL: Y!
What's that spell?!

ROCKY!

When Jens returned to
Washington that Saturday night,
what did he say to you?

I was at The Rocky Horror
Picture Show,

and I came out of the show
and I waited on the side.

He drove up - he was on the other
side of the road.

And I crossed through the traffic.

And when I opened the car door,
the light inside the car came on.

And he was...

wearing some kind of white sheet,

and he was covered in blood
from head to toe.

So I got into the car, we drove back
to the Marriott Hotel,

and he said
that he'd killed my parents.

I was stunned by the situation.

It was so huge, so overwhelming,
so definite, so final.

It's extraordinary.
I mean, Jens is just...

He's a wimp. You can't imagine
him doing something like that.
It's extraordinary.

Jens Soering was mad.

He hated the Haysoms.

He says that he went there
trying to reason with them,

because she had filled his head with
all these ideas about how much

she hated her parents

and that he couldn't have
anything to do with her,

and he wanted that
more than anything.

He wanted that more than
a Jefferson Scholarship,

he wanted that more than anything.
He wanted Elizabeth.

# In a little honky-tonky village
in Texas

# There's a guy who plays
the best piano by far... #

I was hired by an attorney
by the name of Gail Ball.

She didn't think that Jens Soering
was guilty of this.

And I felt there's
a lot of things missing.

And this is the footprint.

It says, "University of Virginia
Police Department".

Oh, my dear.

This is a sad one.

This is Mrs Haysom's,
what she was wearing.

'Richmond FBI.'

Uh, yes, ma'am, this is Chuck Reid.

I'm trying to contact a former agent
of yours, Ed Sulzbach.

He was doing a profile for me
on a murder case.

'Uh-huh.'

I got a phone call from the Sheriff
in Bedford County.

And the different sheriffs and
chiefs around the state of Virginia

knew me and knew that
I was a profiler.

And I drove out to Bedford County.

My mission was to study the crime

and come up with possible suspects.

And Mrs Haysom was wearing
her nightgown with a robe,

and it occurred to me that
Mrs Haysom would never entertain

strangers in such attire.

Who might be close enough to her
that she would feel comfortable
entertaining in a nightgown, a robe?

We're dealing with, uh...

somebody who's close
to these people.

And that, I suggested to
the investigators.

'I settled on a daughter, because
Mrs Haysom was a very proper woman.

'And I came to the conclusion
pretty quickly that it was someone
they knew very well.'

Ed, did you all do any paperwork
on that?

You and another agent did
a psychological profile for us.

'Yeah. I remember that well.
Contact the Richmond office.

'They can pull the file.

'Person I suggest to talk to is
Debbie Propst - P-R-O-P-S-T.'

Dave, this is the letter from
Bedford County Sheriff's Department.

Uh-huh. In reference to
the FBI criminal profile,

Major Ricky Gardner insisted
there was no profile conducted.

And it's official letterhead.

PHONE RINGS

Hello? 'Hi, man.'
Ricky, how you doing?

'Chuck, they're coming back now.

'Chuck, we never did an FBI profile.

Yeah, we did.
'No, we didn't.'

It was Ed Sulzbach
and another special agent.

See, that's how I got to know Ed.

Chuck Reid absolutely misspoke

when he said there was never any
profile done on this case.

There was never a profile
done in this case.

Now, I don't know how nobody ever
wrote anything down...

'Chuck, if we had done one of those,
that would have been
exculpatory evidence.'

To be honest with you, I have a copy
of some old field reports and stuff.

'But, obviously, there was nothing
mentioned in the...'

The profile...
'The profile.'

Yeah, yeah, it's in there.

It's stating that
Special Agent Ed Sulzbach did
the psychological profile

and came back to a female
acquaintance, and...

It's four or five different things
that's in there.

'So you think they have
thrown one out?'

Yeah, I know they have.

The FBI never throws anything away.

It's somewhere in the FBI's vast...

'It's still there somewhere.'

Thank you, John. Ms Haysom.

You went there and cleaned up
the blood, didn't you?

You went to the house
to mop up the...

I never wiped up any blood
in the house.

Professional cleaners
mopped up the blood.

But the fact is, Ms Haysom,

that you insisted on going back to
the house and cleaning yourself.

That's not correct, sir.

If Howard Haysom, your brother,
said that that is indeed the case,

would you disagree with him?
Yes, I would.

Did you also make the statement
that as you were cleaning
round the fireplace,

that one of your friends heard,

"There's Pop's brains,
just cleaning up Pop's brains"?

It's rather inaccurate.

It was not around the fireplace,
it was around a door.

Excuse me, I'm not interested
in where it was, I'm interested
in whether...

Well, we're supposed to be
dealing here with accuracy.

What happened, what did not happen.

Thank you, then. You did make
the statement nevertheless.

What I said, and what happened...

I was doing some cleaning
and there was...

several hairs from my father's head
on the door.

And I was sick.

TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN:

So we drove to Charlottesville to
talk to Elizabeth at the University
of Virginia Police Department.

I asked, I said, "How can we get
a hold of this Jens fella?

"We need," you know,
"we need to talk to him."

I'll never forget sitting in
the office the day that Sunday

that Ricky and I was
interviewing him.

In my mind, I'm thinking to myself,
"This boy...

"There's no way this little boy
could've done something like that."

So when he left that day,
he told me, he said,

"Look, let me go back to university.
I'll think about it."

And on Wednesday, the 9th,

October the 9th, he said,
"I'll give you a call

"and let you know what
I've decided to do."

I got a call about ten o'clock
Sunday night.

The same time Ricky did.

That we needed to get
to Charlottesville,

that Elizabeth and Jens
had skipped the country.

I was working at that weekend
in which Jens's father called me.

Jens is the same age
as my middle child.

They were in prep school in Atlanta.

The boys were about 11 or 12.

Jens's father was
a high government official

in the German consular court
in Atlanta.

He said, "I have a problem, would
you pick me up at the airport?"

I said, "Of course I will."

VOICE CRACKS: It was an awful day.

We travelled to the University of
Virginia from here,

which is about an hour and a half.

I'm sorry for this.

But we got to
the University of Virginia,

and on the way over,
he told me what had happened.

"Dear officers Reid and Gardner.

"I'm certain that sooner or later,
you'll become involved in whatever

"investigation may be made
into my disappearance.

"I tried to save you some effort by
including photocopies of the letters

"I'm leaving for family and friends.

"But undoubtedly, you will
travel extensively through
my belongings anyway.

"Please try to leave them
in a decent state

"and return them to my parents.

"They may want to keep them.

"I assume that especially you,
Mr Gardner,

"will be very excited by now, which
is why I hate to disappoint you.

"Unfortunately for you,
I really am leaving, for the reason

"I discussed in my letter
to my parents.

"I suggest that you continue
your investigation as before.

"Undoubtedly, you will find
who you're looking for.

"From what Liz has told me of what
you discovered at Loose Chippings,

"I can only say that I'm
incapable of such a thing.

"There's still much to do,
so I must say goodbye.

"Try to be kind to my parents -
they're going to have a tough enough

"time without you gentlemen.

"Sincerely, Jens Soering."

Jens had left the University of
Virginia, and I saw Klaus collapse.

He essentially dissolved.

Because at that point, he realised
how terribly serious this was.

"Dear Mum, Dad and Kai.

"I'm writing you to tell you
that I sincerely love you,

"and that the pain I'm probably
causing you is also causing me
great suffering.

"As you know, I've not been happy
at school for a very long time.

"There's a fundamental and deep
difference between me and almost
everyone else here."

His mother was shattered.

I mean, you would have to think of
glass. Just crumbs.

"I love you and I will be in touch,
though probably not soon.

"The car keys are in the brown
business folder in Liz's bedroom."

Jens said it would become clearer
to his father shortly

why they had left
the University of Virginia.

"There's a chance that certain
officers, Reid and Gardner,

"will interpret my leaving as
being connected with the death
of Liz's parents.

"It is for their benefit
that this letter is in English.

"They have a voyeuristic tendency
to read other people's
personal mail anyway.

"I can almost certainly guarantee
you that I did not do what
they may think I did.

"And Kai, take the Scirocco
and the two accounts and find
yourself a good college.

"And for Christ's sake,
don't become a dentist."

His father is a broken man.

His mother's dead.

His brother has essentially
divorced him.

He has nothing left.

According to Scotland Yard,
they questioned the 23-year-old

Haysom girl and 19-year-old
Jens Soering today

at the Richmond Police Station
in south-west London.

The two were arrested for writing
about $6,000 in bad cheques.

Haysom and Soering may also be
involved in drug trafficking.

May the 25th of 1986,
I received a telephone call

from a detective constable,
Terry Wright, in London,

and he asked me if
I had any interest in Jens
or Elizabeth Haysom.

And I said, "Sure, I do."

And the second question
he asked me was, he said,

"Are her parents dead?"

And I said, "Yes, they are."

And he said, "Well, let me ask you,
were they murdered?"

And I said, "Yes."

And he said, "Well, perhaps you
might want to fly over to London.

"I believe we have the murderers
locked up here and you may want
to come over and talk to them."

You know, I'm not believing
this is happening. I said,

"You stay right where you are and I
will call you back within an hour.

"Don't move, don't leave the phone,
I will call you right back."

You know, "Who are you again?"

So I drove up to the courthouse,

to Commonwealth's Attorney
Jim Updike's office.

And I started telling him,
"I just got off the phone

"and he told me Jens and Elizabeth
are in jail in England and
we've got to go over there."

Today, we've presented indictments
on both Jens

and Elizabeth for murder
of their parents.

We landed at Heathrow Airport
early Tuesday morning

and the detective constable
and a sergeant met us.

Within five minutes, they started
pulling out the letters.

So over the next couple of days,

we interviewed Jens and Elizabeth
four or five times.

"The first chunk is
the long promised dirty letter
to get you in a good mood.

"The room is lit only
by two candles.

"And with my best Nazi voice,
I slowly say,

" 'You are going nowhere,
my liebchen.

" 'Tonight, you're my
prisoner of love.'

"We kiss each other deeply now, our
tongues playing with each other.

"I move to your clitoris

"and you let out a small moan
as my tongue massages

"the flesh between the clitoris
and the vagina."

"Sweetie pie, I can't wait
to get you all to myself.

"I want to sit on your lap
and feel your finger.

"I love you."

"The nasty in our past could be
too much to block out.

"But you will overcome this
experience, because you want a good,

"strong fuck and a two-hour licking
from the guy who loves you.

"You are in a horrible position,
more horrible than mine.

"Let me clear a couple of things up.

"Erase all written evidence
of Bedford.

"Cross it out. That's all I have
time for, sweetie.

"Always trust me, always love me."

"I've been upset, scared, lonely,
worried.

"You won't leave me
to take the rap alone.

"If I go to Germany
and get convicted,

"I will go away for only a few years
and your trial will not be

"a hyped up publicity thing,

"since the star attraction, me,
is missing.

"Your parole board will give you
an early parole,

"especially when they take my early
release into consideration.

"So in a few years, we will
hopefully both be out and together.

"Trust me and go with the flow.

"Forever yours, Jens."

When Sergeant Beever
confronted me in the cell with

Jens's statement,

he was very careful to tell me

a couple of details

about Jens's statement.

My response was anger
that Jens had let me down.

While I was...

continuing to cover up for him.

So you were mad at him,

so you just decided to put him in it
a little bit deeper?

After they had confessed in London,

she wrote Jens a letter.

Elizabeth wrote Jens a letter
severing their relationship

and she said, "Look, I'm going
to go back to Virginia.

"I'm going to admit
to my part in my parents' death.

"I don't love you any more."

You know, "You're on your own."

Elizabeth Haysom
has told prosecutors

she would be willing to testify
against her former boyfriend,

Jens Soering.

Virginia prosecutors are still
trying to get Soering back

to Virginia to face
capital murder charges.

When I came over here,

I believed that if I was convicted
of this murder with Jens,

that he would also
have to be convicted

and that he would not be able to get
a second degree murder conviction.

And worst of all, I stayed with him.

And worst of all,
I stayed with him willingly.

What I want you to realise is that
Jens acted of his own free will.

He had a choice.

He had a choice.
He had a full hour drive.

I never believed
he would do that to my parents.

I still can hardly believe it.

No matter what I said to him,
no matter what I had written to him,

he had a choice whether
he killed my parents or not.

Welcome to Larry King Live!

Is Elizabeth Haysom a beautiful
and intelligent murderer?

Or the victim of
an obsessive relationship

with a cold-blooded killer?

Our guests are Dr Robert Showalter,
psychiatrist,

and Ken Englade, author of
the new book, Beyond Reason,

the story of the shocking murder
in a sleepy Virginia town.

You think what of her?

She probably developed
symptoms that we call

clinically borderline personality
disorder very early in life.

Elizabeth kept telling us
over and over again,

"I was never allowed
to think for myself.

"I could never do
anything for myself."

She could not even socialise.

If she were invited to a party,

she will be escorted to the party
by a chauffeur, left off,

picked up in 30 minutes.

This gets bizarrer and bizarrer.
Oh, it's incredible, yeah.

Long Island, New York, hello?

Was there sexual intercourse
between you and this man

who had butchered your parents,

and after you had attended
their very own funeral?

You go to the funeral, you take Jens
Soering with you and Christine Kim?

Yes.

On the very night of the funeral,

you and Jens Soering make love,
don't you?

I was in a separate room,
in a single bed,

sharing that room with Christine,
my roommate.

Jens came to me
and he said that he needed me

and that he was lonely,
he was scared.

And I went with him
and, up until this time,

he had been
completely and totally impotent.

And I got into bed with him,
and I woke up, sir.

He was making love to me.

Making love to you.

Why did your parents die?

My parents died...

..because Jens and I were obsessed
with each other.

And he was...jealous of
anything else in my life.

While all of
the testimony is shocking,

the biggest shock of the day
came when Haysom's two brothers,

Richard and Howard, took the stand.

She has lied to me in the past.

And...and, frankly,
continues to lie.

I personally am not
satisfied with the explanation

that her guilty plea provided.

I think Elizabeth was in the house
at the time of the crime.

We have an obligation to society

to show to people what the
consequences of such a crime are.

I, therefore, would want to see...

..the most severest
penalty possible.

I cannot imagine a crime more vile

than participating in
the killing of the very people

that gave birth to you,
that raised you, that cared for you

when you couldn't care for yourself.

I have been on
the bench for 22 years.

Most of the time,
cases do not bother me too much.

But I have lost
some sleep over this one.

Many of Elizabeth's
accusations against her parents,

particularly her mother,
were the product of fantasy.

She helped create
a fertile field for rumours.

Elizabeth Haysom has
pled guilty to two offences

which each carry maximum
life sentences.

Miss Haysom,

I sentence you to 45 years
in prison on each charge,

the sentences to run consecutively -
a total of 90 years.

If my sister had been
convicted of capital murder,

I could have...

loved her, hugged her
and kissed her,

and walked her to the electric chair
if that was what the law called for.

Jens's father, Klaus, said,
"I need to get Jens a lawyer."

The key lawyer had already
been hired by Elizabeth.

I got the names of three major
criminal lawyers in Virginia.

Each of them, as I recall, said

about a half a million dollars -
US, cash, upfront.

I never heard further,

until Klaus called and said
that he had hired Richard Neaton,

who was a Detroit lawyer.

Mr Neaton had been referred
to the Soering family

by somebody at the consulate.

I did not know Mr Neaton.

The defence will call its witness.

Call Jens Soering.

Raise your right hand.

Do you solemnly swear or affirm that
the testimony that you shall give

will be the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth,
so help you God?

I do.

Prior to today, have you had any
opportunity to testify under oath

about the events of that day?

No, I haven't.

I'd like to call your
attention to that day.

Did you go to the home
of Derek and Nancy Haysom

and kill Mr and Mrs Haysom?

No.

MURMURING

On March 30, 1985,

were you Washington, DC?

Yes, on a Saturday.

Elizabeth had basically gotten into
debt with a person both of us knew,

called Jim Farmer, who she'd
been buying drugs from at UVA,

and she told me that Jim Farmer
had asked her to pick up a package

from somebody he knew in Washington,

and drive back down
to Charlottesville.

Jim Farmer's parents
also lived in Lynchburg

and she told me that the families
knew each other socially.

Her parents were very worried
about Elizabeth using drugs,

because she'd used
a lot of drugs in the past.

At that point, she said
the only way I can help her

would be for me
to function as her alibi.

Hmm.

Yeah.

James Farmer.

There you go, right here.

He's got a criminal record.

But it's probably traffic.

Oh! No.

Possession of a controlled
substance.

He got jail time, too.

Did she ask you
to do anything specific?

Well, she asked me...

You'll have heard already,

to go and buy two tickets to a film,

and then meet her
at the hotel afterwards.

Hello, my name is Dave Watson.

I'm trying to get a hold of
Mr James Farmer.

You say your son is ill,
do you know how I can reach him?

Back in the '80s, I was a police
officer up in Northern Virginia.

Right.

You were a judge, where, in Bedford?

What I want to do is talk with him
to see what his relationship was

with this girl, Elizabeth.

You know what
I'm talking about, or...?

OK.

Jens Soering testified
that Elizabeth was going
to meet Jim that night.

I think that was part of her alibi.

That... OK.

All right.

Is there any way that I'd be able
to talk with your son?

PHONE HANGS UP

His son did give her
a ride to Lynchburg one time.

He was friends with the Haysoms,
the parents.

We knew that Elizabeth had
gotten a ride home with him.

But on the weekend
that they were murdered,

Jim Farmer's name was never
mentioned in any...in any scenario,

until the trial of Jens Soering
in... Five years later.

So how could we
have asked him anything

if we didn't know it at the time?

I mean, this is coulda, shoulda,
woulda hindsight.

Jens and Elizabeth rented a car!

Jim Farmer's name
was not on the rental car.

She never said anything about it.

He never said to me, Jim,
well, that was... I...

Jim Farmer drove...

When did...?

I don't know, I mean...

After you agreed to do this,
did she drive off?

Well, we got in the car, and she
just drove me down to the theatre

that was playing Witness.

How many tickets?
I bought two tickets, as per plan.

And approximately what time of
the afternoon was this?

About five o'clock.

After the film was over,
what did you do?

Caught a taxi back to the hotel.

I cashed a cheque at
the front desk of the hotel,

using the credit card
as a guarantee.

They write the number on the back,

and that guarantees
that the cheque will be paid.

Did you sign for it?

Yes, I did, that was the point.

Did you stay in the room?

For a while, yes. But not very long.

Because in case
she didn't come back,

I should then continue with
this alibi production business.

THEY CHANT

When you got back to the hotel,
was she there?

No, she wasn't.

It was around two o'clock, I guess.

She came to the room, knocked,
stormed past me into the room.

She started basically repeating
the same things over and over again.

"I've killed my parents,
I've killed my parents."

You know, "It wasn't me, it
was the drugs that made me do it."

"You've got to help me. If you
don't help me, they'll kill me."

I had to protect her.

I could not turn her in.

Were you in love with her then?

Well, of course.

And...

I loved the girl.

And I almost saw her as a sort of
third victim of this...tragedy

that apparently had happened.

It is a far, far better thing
I do than I have ever done.

We basically expected the police to
arrive within the next few hours.

And we thought, we have to make a
decision now, come up with a plan,

how I would have done it,
and what for me to tell the police

to make the whole story believable.

The script of what
had happened that day.

Give the jury an example
of how that conversation took place.

For example, what happened at the
house, what was her mother doing?

Your Honour, I asked the defendant
what his position was.

His position, as far as
what happened, and, Your Honour,

he maintained the position
throughout,

and his position was that
he killed Derek and Nancy Haysom.

And he admitted that.

And I feel, Your Honour,
that that's improper.

That you cannot take a position
earlier in a legal proceeding

and then later take one
that is entirely different.

It's not proper and it's not honest.

October 4, 1986.

You state that there came
a point when you became angry.

That you stood up, Mr Haysom
pushed you back into the corner,

and that you bumped your head?

That's what I said here, yes.

That you grabbed a knife, and that
you came around behind Mr Haysom?

That's what I said.

And that you cut him
across the neck, left to right.

You stated that?
That's what I said here, yes.

You know, it's very well-known
that people have confessed to crimes

that they didn't commit.

He felt he had
that diplomatic immunity,

and she was such a manipulator
to that young boy that, yes,

he would take a rap for her,
knowing that, well, if I get caught,

they'll send me back to Germany,
I'll pull a couple of years

and I'm out of it, and then me
and Elizabeth will be back together.

If you look at those,

do you recognise them as some
correspondence that was obtained

from a flat in England,
April of 1986?

Love is a form of meditation,

and the ultimate, quote,
weapon against your parents.

What it says right here is love,
our love.

Elizabeth's love for me
and mine for her.

That was supposed to be the quote,
unquote, weapon against her parents.

This business about her
father being cold and unfeeling

and her mother being very cruel.

I loved Elizabeth,
and I believed that my love for her

had become more mature, real love.

That's how I felt about it, anyway.

The motion hearing will resume
tomorrow morning at 9:30,

when witnesses will include
British authorities

who also questioned
Soering in England.

Judge William Sweeney will
then decide whether or not

incriminating statements made by
Soering will be used against him.

Pam Windsor, News Centre 13,
Bedford County.

State your name, please, sir?
Kenneth Beever.

Your profession, please?

I'm a Detective Inspector
at the London Metropolitan Police.

Very good.

Look at those.

The items of correspondence
were inside, sir, this diary.

Where were those items recovered?

They were recovered
at a flat in London.

And, in fact,
Mr Soering took me to the flat.

On that day, sir,
he had a reddish-coloured hair

and he was wearing
a false moustache,

somewhat similar to yours, sir.

LAUGHTER

My name is Terry Wright.
I'm a Detective Constable.

At that particular time

I was attached to Richmond Police
Station in London, England.

What led you to make
the phone calls to Virginia?

Yes, sir, there was
a photocopy of a letter

which was actually addressed
to Officers Reid and Gardner.

Ooh!

Hello? Gail, David.

Yes. What have you found out?

Farmer is deceased.

Oh, goodness.

He passed away two weeks ago.

If he was involved in this thing
he carried forever,

can you believe that no detective
went and talked to him?

Oh, my dear.

I'll let you look.

This letter is in handwriting

that I recognise as belonging
to Elizabeth Haysom.

"My dearest Jens.

"I think I shall seriously
take up black magic.

"My father has put Vera Lynn on, and
her first song was Lili Marlene."

# Underneath the lantern

# By the barrack gate. #

"My mother begins her sixth gin,

"and then on her ninth gin,
Jim Farmer calls.

"A party, he says,

"breaking my concentration on
the many murder stories I have read.

"An unshaven homosexual
having a drink with my parents."

"My father calls,
like an alarm clock.

"I must turn him off
and put him on snooze.

"The scene of
a feckless dinner party.

"William Styron, (Sophie's Choice).

"I'm sitting in the bath
with lots of bubbles.

"It makes me sleepy,
and I've drunk lots of beer.

"The days go slowly.

"Why don't my parents
just lie down and die?

"I despise them so much."

"We can either wait until we
graduate and then leave them behind,

"or we can get rid of them soon."

And your objective here?
Was to tell the truth.

And to convince these jurors that
you didn't do anything, correct?

That's the truth, yes.

You are capable of doing that,
right?

Of telling the truth?

If you are capable of
lying to protect yourself,

then you are almost certainly
capable of lying to these people

to avoid these charges.
But that's not what I'm doing.

Aren't you capable of doing it?

Theoretically, because in one case
I'm lying to protect Elizabeth,

and here I'm just
telling what happened.

At this point, you can't do anything
to Elizabeth any more.

Jens was very bright.

He was a Jefferson scholar
and an Eccles scholar.

The incidence of those scholarships
being visited upon one person

is beyond rare.

She, too, was academically
a very talented person.

And it was the proximity
of their IQs

that seemed to bring them together,
at least initially.

Is it an intellectual challenge
for you? No, it isn't.

Is it...? It certainly
wouldn't be a challenge for you

with your intellect to outwit me,
would it?

Well, I think, so far,
you've been outwitting me.

There is a burden
that comes with being so bright,

and there's some folks don't like
you very much because you're bright.

And sometimes bright people
don't hide their brightness

or mask it very well.

And so, to a certain extent,
Jens had...

..some challenges.

I just can't understand, sir,

why you, at times, are sitting up
there under these circumstances,

on trial for murder, laughing.

I'm not laughing.

Haven't you laughed, didn't you
laugh just a few minutes ago?

I smiled because
you're trying to mislead the jury.

Well, I would like to discuss that
with you a little bit more.

You have to recast this situation

in such a way that
we appeal to the humanity,

and that is why I have initiated
the pulling together

of a small group of people
to look at this case

differently from how they have
looked at it in the past.

Good morning. Good morning. Hi.

Good to see you all.
Hi, good morning.

Hi.

This memo is from Virginia citizens
interested in the release

and repatriation of Jens Soering.

The Virginia Parole Board considered
his parole eight times before today.

I have known Jens Soering
since he was 11 years old.

I would accept him to live with me
right this minute.

As long as he wants to.

I've been involved in
prison ministry for over 35 years.

I got a letter from Jens Soering
asking for help to get a priest.

He'd had this crisis in faith.

His grandmother wrote a letter to
him that the honourable thing to do

would be to commit suicide.

So we started meeting regularly
once a month.

And have been ever since then.

27 years in prison,
he has absolutely no infractions.

And, to my knowledge,

there is no-one in our prison system
that has a record like his.

So that convinced me
that he never had the ability

to act the way
those crimes happened.

It's just not...

This is not part of his make-up.

There is absolutely no risk to
society. It's in your power...

I was in the Attorney General's
Office for eight years.

A friend of mine in the office was
a friend of Jens's father, Klaus.

And he said, I have
a very interesting case,

I would like you to try
to help this young man,

who had a very unfair trial.

So I brought all the files in.

And I read all the police reports.

And I looked at
everything in the case.

And I said, "This man is innocent."

"We've got the wrong man,
this man didn't do it."

State your name please, ma'am.
Annie Robertson Massie.

Could you just briefly describe
the circumstances that led you

to go to the victim's house?

Elizabeth had telephoned
from Charlottesville

that she had not been able
to reach her parents,

and asked if I knew where they were.

And I told her, no,
I had been trying as well.

What did you do then?
I telephoned my husband.

We planned to go
directly to the house.

I opened the door.

And what did you see?

I saw Derek, dead.

Where was he?

He was lying
to the left of the door.

The body had not been moved.

So Bill and I drove
to Charlottesville

to tell Elizabeth in person
about the deaths of her parents.

Did you see the defendant while
you were there in Charlottesville

on that occasion?
Yes, I did.

The family were gathering.

And I also invited her roommate,
Christine Kim.

And so we brought the three back.

Mrs Massie, I'd like
to ask you some questions

of a rather sensitive nature.

Had Nancy Haysom ever shown you
any nude photographs

of Elizabeth Haysom?

No, Nancy had not.

Was there ever an incident
at Loose Chippings

when you complimented Elizabeth
Haysom on her physical appearance

and tweaked one of her breasts?

Objection, your honour.

Well, I...

Have you ever talked
to Elizabeth Haysom

about whether she was there
on the night of March the 30th?

No.

No? No, I asked her once.

Objection.

The question has certainly
started off wrong.

I don't know how
it would have ended up,

but based on the way
it started off, I sustain.

Mr Neaton had been a friend
of Jens's father, Klaus.

He was not from Virginia.

And Virginia has some very...

peculiar rules about procedure,
default rules,

so that you can lose
your opportunity to make
a certain argument

if you don't do it procedurally,
exactly the correct way.

You know, some facts would
suggest that Elizabeth Haysom...

Objection. Mr Neaton,
that's an improper question.

I sustain the objection.
You're an experienced trial lawyer.

It's going at it a different way.
Sustain.

With reference to item 11B,

a hair sample obtained
from the bathroom sink.

Did you have the occasion
to compare this

with the defendant's hair sample?

Yes, sir, I did.

The head hair was dissimilar
to the submitted head hair sample

reportedly from Jens Soering.

Any further questions? No, sir.

The witness may step down.
The witness is excused.

Mr Young,
you were submitted fingerprints

for comparison purposes.

Item 17LR, which would be
the liquor bottles over here.

Yes, sir, there were 14 fingerprints
developed on these bottles.

Nine fingerprints of Derek Haysom.

Two that were later identified
as whose prints?

Those were identified with

the submitted fingerprints
of Elizabeth Haysom,

which were lifted from
the Absolut Vodka bottle.

So, nine of the prints were Derek's,

two of the prints
were Elizabeth Haysom's.

The other three were not identified

with any of
the submitted fingerprints.

This interview is taking place
in Bedford, Virginia.

The person being interviewed
is Charles Reid.

Chuck Reid. Chuck Reid. Former...

I was a criminal investigator
for the Bedford Sheriff's Office.

And that was you, Ricky Gardner...

You see, Ricky had just came in.

That was the first murder case
Ricky had worked,

let me put it to you that way.

We took over 1,000 pictures.

The way the bodies
were laying on the floor,

their heads were pointing
in a northerly direction.

I don't think Elizabeth alone
did it, by no means.

There's no doubt in my mind
some other people to be involved.

TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN:

Still, to this day, after 30 years,
there's a question in my mind.

The physical evidence was not there.

They were just overwhelming
convinced with that sock print

found in the house, and blood.

By observing the form
of this foot, LR3,

and Jens Soering's
walking impression,

I could not make an elimination

that this foot could not have
made that impression.

Well, in the first place,
this man was not a sock print

or a footprint expert -
he was a tyre expert.

And he should never have been
allowed to have an opinion.

If that is the suspect print
found at the scene,

and if this is
Jens Soering's footprint,

and you lay them on top
of one another like that

and it fits like a glove...

You pull that out, and it matches,
and it fits like a glove.

This was so out of professionalism
or any expertise.

This is senseless.
This is not science.

This is ridiculous.

Nobody can tell anybody's foot
from a...

A smeared sock print.

The footprint basically is what,

besides his statement
of admitting to it,

put him where he's at.

75% of the people that are in jail
today, their mouth put them there.

It's not the evidence,
it's their mouth.

And that's exactly
what put Jens where he's at.

Mr Gardner, did you have
information that the shoe print

that was left in the Haysom house
was consistent

with a woman's size 8-8.5 shoe?

I'm not certain, Mr Neaton,

because I don't know
when we got the report back

from the lab in Richmond.

Mr Gardner, you were present during
Elizabeth Haysom's interviews,

is that correct? Yes, I was.

And at that interview, did Elizabeth
Haysom tell you that her shoe size

was a size eight?
Objection, your honour.

The jury either be excluded
or we open up this area entirely.

Well, I think this is a matter
that we need to send the jury out.

Members of the jury, I'll ask you
to go to your room, please.

Lynchburg Cablevision
presents same-day coverage

of the Jens Soering trial from
the Bedford County Circuit Court,

brought to you as a public service
by Lynchburg Cablevision.

So, let me make sure,
from Baker's report,

somebody said the shoe type was,
what, a New Balance?

Size... Is that correct?

Yes, sir.

And that it was a women's what size?

It was an 8.5 shoe, woman's size.

8.5 in woman's size.

So that tells me there are
other people to look at here.

Was a profile requested
by your department?

Ed's back. He and another individual
came in and did the profile.

But, see, that wasn't
brought up in court.

It was not.

Gardner said it didn't happen.

The existence of a profile

not provided to the defence?

That's a pretty high bar.

Sit down.

Would you tell the jury your name?

I'm Jean Bass.
I lived on Holcomb Rock Road,

just beyond the Haysom house.

Do you recall driving by
the Haysom house that night?

Yes.

It was either Saturday night,
Sunday night or Monday night.

It was just getting dark.

We saw every light inside
and outside of the house on.

And we saw cars parked

on the driveway, all the way up that
driveway as far as we could see.

I would say there were
at least five or six cars.

I just want to make sure, there were
cars all the way down the driveway?

The end of the last car
was within two or three feet

of Holcomb Rock Road.

And all the way up the driveway?
Yes, as far as we could see.

Why would she rent the car
in her name,

but yet let him drive it back
over there and kill some people

when anybody could take a chance

to see that and recognise that car
there that night?

So who's to say that she didn't
rent it and he stayed in DC?

She comes back in the car,
parks the car somewhere else

and get with some people in another
car and goes to the crime scene.

If another group of people
in a different car commit the crime,

go back and get in the rental car,

then they can trace the car
back to her.

I'm just saying, hey,
you know, anything is possible.

Can I ask you about Jim Farmer?

I knew his dad, the judge.

Farmer was a general district judge
in Bedford.

So, you were in Washington
on Saturday.

And Elizabeth Haysom says to you,

I've got to take some drugs back to
an individual in Charlottesville?

That's correct.

She was supposed to
pick up drugs in Washington, DC,

with the person that she told me
was her drug dealer, Jim Farmer.

Why are you so interested
in attacking that individual?

I haven't asked you about him.

I mean, it's what she said to me.

Jens, had Elizabeth ever told you

that she had purchased
the 10:15 ticket?

No. Elizabeth basically
got the times confused,

because she wasn't there
when I bought the tickets in DC.

Just like I got the position
of the bodies confused

because I wasn't in Lynchburg.

OK. Can you step down? And we're
going to have to do some explaining.

When Elizabeth went to clean up
the house with her brothers,

she wrote me a letter
in which she said

that the house was different from
when she'd left it

and somebody else must have
come after her to the house.

She said the bodies were aligned
along the same axis.

See, this is the living room, right?

Now, when she said to me
in the doorway,

I naturally assumed that she meant
in the doorway like that, right?

Which is wrong.

What she meant in the doorway was
that Mr Haysom was lying like that,

blocking the doorway.

And that's why I changed
Mrs Haysom's body from that

to that. OK, we can resume
this statement.

What happened to that letter?

I threw that away.
Because I thought

this letter made it quite clear
that she had killed the Haysoms.

But it didn't occur to me
that somebody else

was part of a conspiracy
to kill her parents.

Here it is. This is from inside.

Elizabeth is a very good writer.

She wrote for this little paper
from prison.

Everyday Issues,
by Elizabeth Haysom.

"When I first arrived
at Fluvanna in 1998,

"I got my head stuck
in my four-inch window.

"My day consists of being told to
sit, stand, go faster, go slower,

"be quieter, be louder,

"of spending my entire 20-minute
lunch breaks

"being told to tighten up,
hurry up, finish up and get up.

"I live a few feet from Death Row
in segregation,

"which is a reminder
of the thin line I walk.

"My green dog reminds me that dreams

"and opportunities don't always
arrive in quite the way we expect.

"This is a punishment,
it's meant to be tough."

REPORTER: Two weeks of testimony
from numerous witnesses.

Tomorrow, Elizabeth Haysom
will take the stand.

It will be the first time
that Haysom and Jens Soering

will face each other since both
were returned to the US.

Pam Windsor, News Centre 13,
Bedford.

Good morning, Miss Haysom.
Good morning, sir.

If you need a break at any time
during the questioning,

indicate to me
and we'll take a break.

Elizabeth is beautiful.

She's a beautiful girl.

Miss Haysom, before Mr Soering
left Washington...

..did you provide him with
any information concerning

the location of...?
INDISTINCT

Yes, I did, sir. How was that?

I drew it on a map.
You drew him a map.

He's very well-dressed.

And we'll always remember him
by his large glasses.

After I'd been interviewed
by the police the first time,

Jens and I got together
with my roommate, Christine,

and we created a packet
of our alibi.

Christine wrote the document out.

We sort of dictated it to her.

I'm not quite sure
why we had her do it.

Maybe to have a third person
involved.

So, we created this alibi
in diary form,

going from the Friday up
until the time

that we stayed with the Massies.

And did both you and Jens Soering
then dictate this to Christine?

Yes, we did. Christine Kim?

Yes, that's correct.

PHONE RINGS

'This is Global Tel Mate.

'I have a prepaid call from...'
Jens Soering.

'..an inmate in Buckingham
Correctional Centre.

'Dial zero now.'

'Your call is being connected.'

Good morning. Good morning. Yes.

We still have that beer that
we're going to have in Germany

when you get out.

I'm coming over and you're
going to show me around, OK?

I wanted to say something about
the fact that,

in the trial in 1990, there was this
document that was kind of a timeline

for what happened on that weekend.

There was some thought that
I might have written this document

and that was clearly not the case.

ELIZABETH: Friday, March 29th.

16-19, Washington trip,
arrived at 7pm.

19-22, checked into hotel,
room service, sex.

Saturday, 22-24,
Stranger In Paradise.

0-2, Rocky Horror Picture Show,
late.

2-3, drunken encounter.

Turn left on Cadys Alley Northwest.

Monday, 11:30-3am, E called
our parents after movie.

Wednesday, E called Massies.

Call-back 11:10.

And then it has "Massie's"
written underneath.

Thank you for reading that. If you
can identify the handwriting...

Yes, this is Christine Kim's
handwriting.

JENS: But the prosecution
never asked Christine Kim

to testify at my trial.

Somebody told me that
Christine Kim's

some kind of BLEEP Professor
at BLEEP University, maybe.

Hey, Dave. It's Gail.

Hey, Gail. Yes.

What have you found out?

Miss Kim left me a voicemail.

She said that if I came on the
property of the university again,

she would call the police on me.

SHE LAUGHS

I have no idea why she would be
reacting that way.

Miss Haysom,

I'd like you to read
the highlighted portion

on page three of that letter.

"I hated my love for you
for a long time.

"I had always believed that
I made men fall in love with me

"so that I could screw them,
physically and emotionally,

"and take out all the hatred
I felt for them.

"I would make a man humiliate
himself and, in the end,

"I would give him the best fuck
he's ever likely to get

"and then walk out."

That's what you did to Jens,
wasn't it?

No, I don't think that
that's what I did to Jens.

Did you ever tell my client
that Mrs Massie

had somehow done things to you?
Objection, your honour.

I apologise, but I have to do it.
I feel that it's my duty.

Did you ever tell Jens Soering

that your mother's good friend,
Mrs Massie, touched you in any way?

Yes, she did. When you
ask a question like that,

you've got to prove it.

You can't just ask questions and
then not back it up with proof.

And if you don't, I'm going
to strike the question

and I'm going to strike the answer.

There were rumours
that there were...

I just don't think we ought to talk
about the rumours, honey.

Well... I mean, really... I don't
think that adds anything to it.

None of them were true!
Well, I know that.

All kinds of rumours. Because
that might involve other people,

and I just don't think
we ought to go into that.

You said that your mother
slept with you.

Yes, sir.

Objection, your honour.

That's not a relevant question.

She abused you, right?

Was that true?

Yes, sir, it was.

Well, when you testified
at your guilty plea here,

in October of 1987,
you said that was false.

You were asked,
was she a sexual abuser?

If she didn't, for God's sake,
clear her name now.

And have I said today
that she sexually abused me?

You said yes today, right?

I said that she abused me. I did
not specify that it was sexual.

Then you didn't lie to us?

No, I did not.

It actually is
a mitigating circumstance

if you are abused and you're young

and who knows how long the abuse has
gone on and why it all happened?

The prosecutor knows.

It's the key to everything.

I was there when Updike pushed her.

That was the nexus,

that was the crucible
in which all of this was cooked.

I still see him talking with
Elizabeth and discounting a motive.

And he said, "This is the chance to
clear your mother's name,"

and she said... She cleared it.

Your mother's been butchered.

Yes, she has, sir. You called her
a liar and an alcoholic.

I did not call her an alcoholic.
Was she a sexual abuser?

Did she sexually abuse you?

If she didn't, for God's sake,
clear her name now.

She did not sexually abuse me.
Thank you.

You said that to get a deal, right?

In order to try to get yourself
a light sentence.

You had the services of an attorney,
Mr Rosenfield. That is correct.

There are all sorts of promises
that get made to prisoners

that induces them to plead guilty.

Sometimes a family member
will not be prosecuted

because of a deal worked out.

That's a favourite one
by prosecutors.

"If you plead guilty,
we won't charge your mother."

And so, Elizabeth Haysom made a deal
with the government that,

if she pled guilty
and testified against Jens,

that the death penalty
would be removed

because neither Elizabeth nor Jens

wanted to come back to Virginia
and face the death penalty.

There's a certain irony
that 27 years after that,

I was contacted by somebody
acting on Jens' behalf

to get him transferred to Germany

and I attempted to
get that accomplished.

'I have a prepaid call from...'
Jens Soering.

'..an inmate in Buckingham
Correctional Center.

'Your call is being connected. Thank
you for using Global Tel Mate.'

Hi, Steve. Jens, how you doing?

Oh, peachy(!) And you?

HE LAUGHS

I wanted to say something about the
fact that the judge in this case,

Bill Sweeney, was a very close
friend of Natalie Haysom's brother,

Rick Benedict. The Benedicts were
a prominent Lynchburg family.

I think that is a really important
component to all of this.

Back then, it was not common

to speak about
child sexual abuse openly.

Both of them nude together
in the bathtub

and had sex in the bathroom.

And the judge knowing
Nancy Haysom when he was growing up

was obviously strong
personal motivation.

These naked pictures
was in her teenage years?

Late teens. Late teens.

And Nancy Haysom
had shown those photographs

around to friends of hers.

So these photographs
were placed under seal

and basically went into hiding.

You're still here in Virginia,
right?

ELIZABETH: I guess so.

You came back to plead guilty,
right?

Yes, I did. To tell the truth.

Right? To plead guilty.

That's different
than telling the truth?

You said, on June the 8th, 1986,

you set up the alibi
in the car and he said,

"Buy a couple of movie tickets,"
and that was a lie, right?

Sometime, early in the afternoon,
Jens dropped me off at the cinema.

He left and I went to the movie.

Miss Haysom, on June 8th, 1986,

you testified that you didn't go
to the movies, right?

You want to think about that
for a minute?

Make sure you've got it straight?

What's your shoe size?

8.5-9.

It is possible, then, that somebody
who was involved in the murders

is still at large.

There's no question
in my mind...

'You have 60 seconds remaining.'

I would like to say that
I'm looking forward to the end,

but I'll believe it
when I step off the plane

and experience a German grey sky

with lots of drizzle
and no sunshine.

Can't wait.
'You have ten seconds remaining.'

I'll call back, all right?

Did you want him to kill them?

Yes, I did.

I was much more concerned
that he would not kill them

than that he would,
because, er... Why?

Well, the whole idea of Jens killing
anybody is so oddly fantastic.

What happened next?

He came back. He said that he had
killed my parents.

He said that my father
just wouldn't lie down and die.

We go back up to the room,
Jens took a shower.

What did you do? I was sick.

It is a very odd feeling to have
somebody in the room with you who,

in a period of 12 hours,
killed two people.

You start having odd thoughts like,

are they going to roll over
and kill you, too?

He made a joke about how tired
he was and that it was exhausting.

I said, "Well, I guess it is."

Did you say anything
to the police officers

about what you've just told
the jury? No, I did not.

I, erm...

I lied about some...

You know, what happened.

I denied it.
I had nothing to do with it.

He told me to go down to the car and
take a bottle of Coca-Cola with me,

and to clean the blood in the car.

With...a bottle of Coca-Cola?

With Coca-Cola, yes, because
apparently Coca-Cola eats anything.

Then I returned back
to the room and...

..Jens had gone to bed.
He had gone to bed? Yes.

She said Jens came back
and he was in a bloody sheet,

and the car was filled with blood,

and they went back to the hotel

and he told her to go down and wash
the blood off with Coca-Cola.

I went to Charlottesville and I
luminoled the inside of the car -

the floor board, the brake pedal,
the gas pedal,

where blood or anything
could have been -

and never got the first hit
off of it.

If it's that much blood,

why did I not find some in the
rental car when I luminoled it?

State your name, please, ma'am.

Sylvia Moore. Miss Moore,
where are you employed?

Texaco and National Car Rental.

Pertaining to the rental
of a Tibet automobile,

rented on the 29th of March,
returned on the 31st of March,

how badly did it need cleaned?

The car didn't need cleaning at all.

It didn't need cleaning at all?
No. It was spotless.

I know they clean the cars up,
but I'm going to tell you,

somebody had to spend some time
cleaning it up.

If there was any blood whatsoever
in that car,

somebody had to do
some real cleaning.

A couple of years ago,
a guy in Lynchburg

said they brought a car to him
to clean up

that had blood in it
and all this kind of stuff.

He's saying that Elizabeth
and another individual,

not Jens Soering,

brought this car to his shop
for them to clean blood out of it.

I wanted to come and listen,
see what you had to say.

The car was in my parking lot.

Some college kids had it towed.

Apparently they was stuck,
or whatever.

Right.

This is the girl, as far as
I'm concerned, was in the shop.

They had to sit there in front
of me for at least 30 minutes.

The guy who signed, his hair had
maybe a highlight in it

or his hair was funny.

This is the guy I'm thinking
was in the shop.

Looks like the guy
that was in the shop.

He's got some kind of doo-doo
in his hair there.

Like he had six cans of hairspray
in it to make it stand.

You know, stand out.

Dear Mr BLEEP,

you may be aware that a witness,
Tony Buchanan,

was shown a picture of you
and he recognised you

as the person who came to
pick up a car

that contained a bloody knife
that was placed in the front seat.

Jim Farmer, Ned BLEEP

and Elizabeth
were in the same club at UVA.

It was called the Gay Club.

They were friends
and they had similar aspects

to their lives and activities.

And the fact was that Ned
rented out a room

to Elizabeth and Jens
the summer of 1985.

About how long was it
after all this came out

that they came to your place?

It was after hunting season.

Bubba's Towing brought
that car in on a weekend.

He had said that it had come
from some college kids.

The knife was down between
the console and the seat.

Later on that year,

the police department
had a picture in the paper.

They said, "This is the guy
supposed to have did the murder,"

and all this stuff.

I said, "This ain't the guy
that came by the shop."

I said, "I think somebody else
is involved in this murder."

So I called, I said,

"I think somebody else's involved

"and this is the way
to check and see."

Right. He was just trying
to brush me off.

I've never talked to Tony Buchanan
about a knife being in a vehicle

and blood all in the vehicle?

That doesn't make any sense at all.

Because I had long distance.

'He's lying. It didn't happen.'

I don't know what
Buchanan's motivation is.

I don't know if he's trying to

get his five minutes of fame
or whatever,

but I certainly don't appreciate him

trying to interject himself
in a homicide.

Tony Buchanan
has no credibility to me.

I wouldn't know Tony Buchanan
if he walked in that door right now.

This information that you're giving
out, if nobody follows up on it,

we possibly could still have
a murder suspect

running around out here.

There's always two sides to a story.

And you have to prove beyond
a reasonable doubt.

I don't see where that's
beyond a reasonable doubt.

Hi. Hello. I'm trying to locate
a Ned BLEEP that may live next door.

He's probably working at the hotel
in town. OK, thank you.

I'm trying to contact Ned BLEEP.

Is he here, by any chance?

Not here today. It's about a case
where two people were killed.

The people that have been arrested
and charged with that

are in prison for life
and everything.

He won't know what it is about.

He is obviously not in any trouble
whatsoever.

So, if he could give me a call,
if I'm still in the area,

I'll stop by,
have a beer with him. OK.

Wasn't he a bird-watcher or
something? He's a bird-watcher,

yes, he is. All right?

I've been going through this crap
all day long, you know?

All right.

He responded and he said...

"Mrs Ball, I have no intention of
becoming embroiled in this matter.

"I know nothing about the murders

"and I have no opinion
about the murders.

"I have nothing else to say
in this matter.

"Edward BLEEP."

State your name, please, sir.

Klaus Soering.

You are the father of the defendant,
Jens Soering?

Yes. I'd like to show you
some documents.

These were among Jen's things
which I took from his dorm.

The tickets to a movie, witness.

Yes. Same things.

You don't have to repeat it
every time.

Mr Soering, then you began
developing different plans

as to how you were going to
get out of this. No.

You did not? No.

"If I go to Germany..."

It's about three-quarters
of the way down.

"If I go to Germany
and get convicted,

"I will go away for only a few years
and your trial in the US will not be

"a hyped-up emotional publicity
thing since the star attraction, me,

"is missing." Thank you.

That's why... I was hoping
to go to Germany, like I said.

You're the star attraction,
Mr Soering? Well... Yes, obviously.

Because you're the one who did it.

I was the one
who SAID I did it, yes.

Down that same page,
writing to Elizabeth,

"My optimism is well-founded,
sweetie.

"Remember, I'm always the pessimist.

"Not you. Those yokels don't know
what's coming to them."

That's right, I wrote that. And you
wrote it right after you'd made

a reference to me, didn't you?
Here's the actual letter.

Well...

Mr Updike, the reason why I wrote
that is that I was personally

surprised that we managed
to convince you people. Shut up.

He's my client. I know that, and I'm
not criticising you for saying that.

I encourage you to say it
any time you want.

So much of the case depends on
whether jurors

believe Jens Soering's story
or Elizabeth Haysom.

Attorneys from both sides will get
one final chance to sway the jury

in closing arguments tomorrow, then
the rest will be in their hands.

Pan Windsor, News Center 13,
Bedford.

I have been asked by the parents
of my client

to read a statement to the court
on their behalf.

They are unable to be here today.

"We find it very hard to believe
that our son could have committed

"such a violent crime.
The killing of anything or anyone

"has always been so
totally against his nature.

"We know that Jens
loved Elizabeth Haysom very much.

"And he was blind to
her obvious storytelling.

"However, despite our son's
deep love for Elizabeth,

"we do not believe that Jens
killed Elizabeth's parents.

"We also have some questions
about the trial.

"Why did Judge Sweeney not
remove himself from Jens's case

"after it became known that
he had been a friend

"of Mrs Haysom's brother
for about 40 years?"

Thank you.

I would only say, in my own defence,
that the public is my judge.

A lot of people saw this case.

If they feel that the trial which
I conducted was conducted unfairly

because of some relationship
with one of the parties,

not a close relationship,
then so be it.

The German Federal Government
strongly promotes parole

and the subsequent deportation
of Mr Soering.

Soering has shown excellent
institutional adjustment

with absolutely no record
of institutional infractions.

Soering has not had a history of
violence before his arrest.

Germany stands ready to take
Mr Soering back to our country

immediately
and without any precondition.

And we know that Virginians
believe in mercy

and we think that the time has come
to have mercy with Jens Soering.

Thank you.

Members of the jury, you have
a commonwealth that's saying

that Jens Soering did it alone

and you have a defence that says
Elizabeth Haysom did it,

and more likely with one other
accomplice at the scene.

He doesn't want to give any blood,

he doesn't want to give
any footprints,

what Jens Soering wants to do
is get out of the country!

On the tickets right here,
the time is 10:15pm.

Elizabeth Haysom,
who was supposedly the alibi, said,

"I definitely bought the last ticket

"at about four o'clock
in the afternoon,"

and, ladies and gentlemen,

you can't go to a four o'clock movie
at 10:15pm at night.

That is a reasonable doubt
in this case.

Now, he gets up here and he said,

"Elizabeth was up there
buying the tickets,

"Elizabeth was doing this..."

All right, so he hauls it
out of the country...

goes all over Europe
and they get caught in England.

Now, at that point,
ladies and gentlemen,

they write letters
to each other again.

"All along, I made the mistakes."

He is writing this
to Elizabeth Haysom.

It's cold-blooded, calculated,
mean and violent.

This man can get on this stand,
first-degree murder charges,

talk about this, try to put on
a little performance

and laugh at times.

Cold.

This cheque, ladies and gentlemen,
that Jens says that he cashed,

it's clearly cashed at
the Marriot in Washington, DC.

It's his signature on it.

Elizabeth Haysom does not testify
about any cheque being cashed.

Why? Because she didn't know
that it was cashed,

because she wasn't there when it was
cashed, ladies and gentlemen.

I say to you that there is stronger
evidence at the scene of the crime

that suggests that
Elizabeth Haysom was there

and she was with an accomplice
who is still in Bedford County,

or some place in these
United States.

Cold.

He needs to be convicted
of first-degree murder,

sentenced to life imprisonment.

It's the only just punishment.

The burden of proof
is on the Commonwealth.

Unless they can prove he was there
beyond a reasonable doubt,

you have to acquit.

I think the fact
he was not from that county

and she was

did play a role.

The jury had a choice of saying,

"Oh, this young girl who grew up
right down the street from us

"killed her parents," or, "This
outsider that we don't know did it."

It very difficult for a jury to...

..decide that a person actually
killed their own parents.

That's a thought you don't even want
to have in your own head.

Jens Soering, would you stand?

Jens Soering, do you know
of any reason why this court

should not now pronounce judgment
and sentence in your case?

Yes, I do. You may speak.

I'm innocent.

In accordance with the jury verdict,

the court sentences you
to life imprisonment

in each of the two cases.

The sentences are to run
consecutively and not concurrently.

That's all.
The accused is remanded to jail.

CLAMOUR

Do you still say you're innocent?
Anything, Jens?

I told you to back off of me.

Get back on the sidewalk.

She's been turned down for parole
15 times.

She has mandatory parole in...

..2032.

She'll be 68 years old.

And remember how young they were
when they were...

..together.

They're both middle-aged now.

Jens Soering is still
clinging to hope

that he's going to find something,
something that will set him free.

Soering continues to maintain
his innocence and tonight,

there is a new twist to his case.

A page right out of The Fugitive.

We ought to kick him out
as soon as we safely can.

In this instance, we could safely
do it with a guarantee

that he wouldn't come back

and I felt that was sufficient
to make a recommendation

to the Justice Department.

I went down to visit him
in Buckingham County

after it was announced that Kaine
was going to have him deported

and, of course, he was ecstatic.

He was just crazy, here he was,
he couldn't believe how free he was.

Because he felt that they were going
to pick him up, throw him in a car

and take him to the airport
and deport him.

And it was the happiest
I'd ever seen him.

Please welcome Virginia Governor
Bob McDonnell.

Thank you.

Then, of course, everything
started to fall apart.

Good evening, my fellow Republicans.

When I was trying to have his

conviction overturned...

..the Virginia authorities
threatened that,

if the conviction was overturned,

they would try him
with the death penalty.

That was their threat,

that if the trial got overturned
and we had to try him again,

all bets were off.

The system in Virginia...

..seems broken.

I will do what I can
to make it right.

"I'm writing these lines
Saturday morning at ten.

"Pretty much certain
2013 is another lost year.

"All outside rec is cancelled
due to extreme fog.

"That's where I am
this first day of 2013.

"It's just that it's so lonely.

"26 years, eight months,
four days of this crap.

"And oh, so many more to come.

"Yes, last night I watched a movie
made in 2011

"about the making of
Paul Simon's Graceland.

"I remember that album.

"It was a huge hit in 1986,
the year I was arrested.

"The hair, the eyeglasses of that
era, the last time I was free.

"And the music, of course,
brought me back to that time.

"Seeing how Paul Simon aged

"just opened up inside of me
a feeling of vertigo.

"Joy and happiness were
not only possible for me in 1986,

"they were actually real.

"I remembered them even though
I haven't felt them in 27 years.

"What I really wanted to write
to you about is the next visit.

"When do you want to come?
You last came on 11th December.

"Do you want to come
on the 15th of January?

"I want to thank you so much for
continuing to fight with me.

"You're doing so much,
but also on an emotional level,

"I'm also glad you're with me.

"I regret losing my faith.

"It's not what I wanted to choose.

"I'm so tired of being alone.

"Thank you for everything.

"All the best and thank you again,
yours, Jens."

You ready? Yeah.

# I put a spell on you

# Because you're mine

# You better stop the things
that you're doing

# I ain't lyin'

# No, I ain't lyin'

# I just can't stand it, babe

# The way you always put me down

# I just can't stand it

# The way you're always
runnin' round

# I put a spell on you

# Because you're mine

# I put a spell on you

# Because you're mine

# You better stop the
things that you do

# Oh, Lord

# I know, I know, I know,
I know I'm not lyin

# Yeah, you know I'm not lyin'

# I just can't stand it, babe

# No, the way you
always runnin' round

# I just can't stand it

# Oh, no

# The way you always put me down

# I put a spell on you

# Because, because you're mine

# You gotta show me one time
and I know

# I know you're mine

# I put a spell on you

# I just can't stand it

# I put a spell

# I put a spell on you...

# I put a spell on you. #