Is There Anyone Willing to Speak for Jens Söring Left? Anyone? Bueller?

Journalists are trying to find people willing to publicly support Jens Söring, but are finding it a difficult task.

Everyone’s talking about Netflix!

As readers of this blog know, we are in the final countdown phase to the worldwide release of a major new 5-part Netflix documentary about the case of Jens Söring, whose English title is “Till Murder Do Us Part: Soering vs. Haysom”. The Netflix description page is still blank, since the unofficial release date has been pushed back several times. My sources indicate it will probably come out late this year.

In all my interactions with the media, I’ve noticed how influential Netflix is. They’ve got money, they’ve got talent, they’ve got reach. So everybody in the media world pays very close attention to what Netflix is doing, and writers and podcasters and producers try to attach themselves to Netflix like remoras using their “sucking disc” to hitchhike on sharks. I’m a proud remora, and am going to publish my book on the Söring case on the day the Netflix series comes out. After all, I’ll be one of the talking heads in the series, so why not profit by my newfound fame? Fear not, though, my book will be based in facts, evidence, and logic. But still, hopefully, a gripping read.

So, everybody’s eyes are on Netflix. I have been in touch with media people from several countries recently. They are planning their own projects on this case, and they quickly become aware that I’m the go-to guy for an honest, fact-based critique of Söring’s claims, and how the media have covered Söring’s case. I accept most interview requests, because I like the sound of my own voice, and I also think it’s important to have someone on screen who’s willing to bluntly state the proven historical truth: there is “overwhelming” evidence Jens Söring “personally” murdered Derek and Nancy Haysom on March 30, 1985, in Boonsboro, Virginia. The sky is blue, humans walked on the moon, Al-Qaeda flew planes into the Twin Towers, Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK, Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare, and Jens Söring killed the Haysoms. Someone has to have the guts to counter Söring’s gaslighting and directly state this fact.

But these journalists and producers and editors face a problem:

Where are Söring’s Prominent Supporters?

Söring once boasted a phalanx of celebrities and politicians willing to support him in public. The list includes Martin Sheen (since 2006!), Jason Flom, John Grisham, Amanda Knox, film producer Marcus Vetter and journalist Karin Steinberger, former German President Christian Wulff, and German politicians Peter Beyer and Knut Abraham. We can also name slightly less illustrious Germans who have publicly supported Söring in the past, including actor Anna Utzerath, religion teacher Bernadette Faber, and literary agent Petra Hermanns.

Here we see a photo of four of these persons welcoming Söring back to Germany in December 2019.

© EPA. From left to right, Peter Beyer, Bundestag Member and then German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Coordinator for Transatlantic Policy, literary agent Petra Hermanns, and religion teacher Bernadette Faber

You might expect some, or even all, of these people will be happy to provide long interviews to Netflix and all the other media organizations planning their coverage near the Netflix series release date. After all, Söring has now enjoyed over three years in freedom. Now his ultimate moment in the sun is approaching: A five-part Netflix documentary which will be watched by millions worldwide! These friends of Söring must be eager to share passionate pleas for his innocence, and charming human-interest anecdotes about their adventures with the man they worked so hard to free.

Alas for Söring, this seems not to be the case. Since May 2022, I can find no public statements of support for Jens Söring’s claims from John Grisham, Amanda Knox, Jason Flom, Martin Sheen, Peter Beyer, Knut Abraham, Christian Wulff, Anna Utzerath, Bernadette Faber, Petra Hermanns, or any other prominent or long-term supporter of Söring. Of course, I have repeatedly offered to conduct a friendly, civilized debate — in German or English — about Jens Söring’s innocence claims and the media coverage of his case with all of these people.

Flom? Sheen? Abraham? Wulff? Grisham? Steinberger? Bueller?

Only one has even responded, but that person has so far not agreed to discuss the case publicly. I sincerely hope that changes. According to my sources, when contacted by journalists, many of these people declined to give interviews about Söring. Believe it or not, a journalist recently asked me if I could provide the name of someone who supported Söring, since none of his well-known supporters whom this person contacted would agree to an interview. I happily obliged, since I’m all in favor of balanced reporting.

Many of Söring’s own projects also seem to be moving very slowly indeed, if they’re ongoing at all. In March 2022, Söring announced to an audience in a Cologne restaurant that he was going to be coming out with something “big” in collaboration with American lawyer and bestselling author John Grisham, who has refused all of my offers to debate this case with him. We’ve still heard nothing more about this.

Is John Grisham still willing to stake his public reputation on Jens Söring’s innocence claims, even after all we now know? It certainly doesn’t appear so. Grisham has to know that every statement he makes will immediately be analyzed by myself and other well-informed case experts, which now include many prominent figures in the German media landscape. I wonder what Grisham thinks about Söring’s insistent refusal to consent to cutting-edge new DNA tests which will cost Söring nothing and expose him to no legal liability?

In 2022, Söring was courting German media figures trying to get them to help produce some sort of project, perhaps a podcast, in which Judge Ralph Guise-Rübe would go over Söring’s case and proclaim that Söring would not have been convicted in Germany. So far, the only thing that’s come out of this project is an controversial interview in Die Welt and a December 2022 speech in which Söring barely mentioned his innocence claims. Perhaps Guise-Rübe is still willing to stake his reputation on Söring’s innocence claims, and we’ll see an in-depth podcast or documentary in which Guise-Rübe ties his reputation to Jens Söring’s reliability.

As for me, I have my doubts.