Jens Soering denied parole again

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Soering denied parole again
BY BRYAN MCKENZIE Jan 30, 2019 2 min to read

Virginia’s parole board has for the 14th time denied parole to Jens Soering, according to his attorney, leaving the former University of Virginia student to continue serving two consecutive life sentences for a 1985 Bedford County double-murder. ... Soering, 52, the son of a former German diplomat, was convicted of killing of Derek and Nancy Haysom, who were found dead in their Lynchburg-area home with their throats cut ear-to-ear and their bodies mutilated by multiple knife wounds.

Soering has filed pleas for a pardon with the Virginia governor’s office and sought parole more than a dozen times. All efforts have been denied. ... “On behalf of Jens Soering and the many supporters working to secure his freedom from prison, I want to express my extreme disappointment at the recent decision by Virginia’s parole board to deny him parole,” said Steven D. Rosenfield, the Batesville attorney who has helped with the effort.
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By Soering’s count, posted on his website, he will have spent 32 years, 9 months and 3 days in prison by Thursday morning. Rosenfield said Soering’s prison history is clear of trouble and his list of accomplishments while imprisoned is significant.
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Elizabeth Haysom was found guilty of being an accessory in the killing of her parents while Soering, her boyfriend at the time, was convicted of both murders. Soering and Haysom were both UVa honors students at the time of the killings. ... Haysom was sentenced to 90 years but will receive mandatory parole in 2032, when she is 68. Both were convicted prior to Virginia’s elimination of parole. ... Soering has maintained his innocence during and after his trial. He’s said the several confessions he made to the crime were made to cover for Haysom.
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Bryan McKenzie is a reporter for The Daily Progress. Contact him at [phone], [e-mail] or @BK_McKenzie on Twitter.

[Pachamama]

1. I have long believed after following this case that Jens Soering is not guilty and he should either

...be paroled or even pardoned.

In Germany where there has long been reporting on this story, the evidence (and lack of evidence) beyond his confession which he has stated was to protect his girlfriend Elizabeth Haysom (she later testified against him) has left many feeling he was wrongly convicted.
There was never any DNA evidence at the crime scene linking him and even after new tests that are more advanced has any been found.

There was a movie done in Germany I saw called "Das Versprechen" (The Promise)

Basically, it tells that she killed her parents, he wanted to protect her and she set him up and blamed him.

Here is an article last year in New Yorker that also discusses the case: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-double-murder-case-that-still-haunts-me