Episode
A Love Written in Blood : The Elizabeth Haysom & Jens Söring Case
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- Mysteries and Histories
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- Jun 24, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 3008
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Summary
The Jens Söring and Elizabeth Haysom case starts like a doomed campus romance and ends in a blood‑soaked farmhouse and a lifetime of questions. In 1985, the wealthy, respectable Haysom parents were butchered in their Virginia home, their daughter Elizabeth and her boyfriend Jens soon fleeing across Europe, spinning tangled stories about who had really taken the knives to her mother and stepfather. Decades later, after confessions, recantations, trials, and a fiercely disputed conviction, the case still sits in that uncomfortable space between a love story, a family annihilation, and a crime where the truth never quite feels settled.