By Lynn R. Mitchell
Murderer Jens Soering is back in the news. Thankfully, Delegate Rob Bell (R-58th House District) is alerting Virginians of the latest about this heinous case:
This week the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that Governor McAuliffe is reviewing a request by murderer Jens Soering for early release.
Soering and his girlfriend Elizabeth Haysom were U.Va. students who in 1985 decided to murder her parents, Derek and Nancy Haysom. To create an alibi, they bought two tickets to a movie and kept the stubs. Soering then drove a rental car down to Bedford. He ate dinner with the Haysoms, then stabbed Mr. Haysom 36 times and Mrs. Haysom 8 times, killing them both.
It was only extraordinary police work by Bedford Deputy Ricky Gardner that broke the case. Gardner checked the rental car odometer, which showed the distance from Washington D.C. to Bedford. When Gardner asked Soering for a blood sample, Soering stalled, and then fled the country with Elizabeth. They obtained false papers and went on an international crime spree, traveling to Yugoslavia, Bangkok, and Moscow, before finally being arrested in England for check fraud.
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