The Murder of Derek and Nancy Haysom (Part 1)

On April 3, 1985, Derek and Nancy Haysom were found dead in their home in Bedford County, Virginia. They had been slashed and stabbed to death, throats slit until they were nearly decapitated. Although investigators hoped to rule out the family, they soon began to zero in on the couple's youngest daughter, Elizabeth, and her boyfriend, Jens Soering, as the perpetrators. Join Briana and Brittany on the first half of the next big two-parter where they discuss the crime and the unlikely capture of the two young lovers abroad.

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Sources we used for this episode:

• https://www.sundancenow.com/series/watch/killing-for-love/66461ad4d34ab087?season=1
• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/09/blood-ties
• https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-new-chapter-in-a-double-murder-case
• https://deadline.com/2020/09/blood-ties-movie-gugu-mbatha-raw-kiernan-shipka-cole-sprouse-aaron-katz-toronto-film-festival-1234574488/
• https://murderpedia.org/female.H/images/haysom-elizabeth/scenario.pdf
• https://soeringguiltyascharged.com/2018/03/15/transcript-of-jens-soerings-interview-with-the-german-prosecutor-30-december-1986/
• https://www.cbs19news.com/story/42418003/local-podcast-investigates-dna-evidence-in-haysom-murders-jens-soering-case
• https://art19.com/shows/the-truth-about-true-crime/episodes/e42542d4-58fb-42bf-a08e-ac9d7a29e144
• https://wset.com/news/local/convicted-murderer-of-1985-crimes-appears-on-dr-phil-show
• https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/soering-jens.htm
• https://murderpedia.org/female.H/h/haysom-elizabeth.htm
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-news/they-didnt-break-me-german-man-convicted-of-va-double-murder-freed-after-33-years/2019/12/17/d10409a2-20ea-11ea-a153-dce4b94e4249_story.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_S%C3%B6ring
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Haysom
• https://quillette.com/2020/03/08/fabricated-innocence-the-self-exoneration-and-re-incrimination-of-jens-soering/
• https://hammeltranslations.com/2020/07/14/the-experts-agree-no-unknown-dna-at-the-soring-crime-scene/
• https://richmond.com/news/local/crime/ex-girlfriend-jens-soering-killed-her-parents-because-mom-had-sexually-abused-her/article_5b0a3614-33fa-5304-af0c-381fc5640a61.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_%C3%A0_deux