Söring Unintentionally Highlights a Hole in his Story

Why didn't he surrender in Stuttgart? Also, what's up with the Söring/Right-wing residents of Cologne nexus?

UPDATE: Just hours after this post went live today, Kristian Beara took the website “Der Lügenbaron” private. Of course I saved a copy, so just send me a message if you’d like to admire this masterpiece!

I hope everyone is having a pleasant 2026. There’s not much going on specifically related to Söring’s innocence claims these days. No more statements from Sheena Haysom, which is no surprise. Nor has she produced the results of the DNA test she claimed to have requested. That depressing distraction seems to have vanished.

Richard Haysom’s New Book

In much more positive news, Richard Haysom has published a moving and very readable account of the effect the murders of his parents had on his family:

There is a lot of information about Jens, Elizabeth, and the Haysom family in this book, coming from a first-hand source with personal experience. I have read the book and may post a kind of review later, focusing on what the book tells us about Söring’s character and culpability. The main purpose of the book, however, is to show the devastating effects Jens Söring’s crime had on the Haysom family and so many other people. Richard Haysom writes with verve and authenticity and real feeling.

Söring on Tour

As for Jens Söring, he’s quite busy these days traveling Germany, giving his talk “Behind the Mask of Evil”, which consists mostly of stories about prison life and famous inmates Söring knew. As far as I know, there are no major media appearances or podcast interviews in the works, although you never know when Söring will stumble on a new mark.

The pattern is almost always the same: Söring gets to know someone personally, perhaps at one of his events. Let’s call her Dietlinde. Söring senses that Dietlinde feels an affinity for him. If Dietlinde has some sort of position of authority or especially media influence, Söring goes on a charm offensive, mixing flattery with his poignant tale of being betrayed by the feckless, feculent frauds at NDR and Netflix. Once the personal connection is established, at best by direct face-to-face contact, Söring subtly — or maybe not-so-subtly — makes it clear that continued friendly relations depend on Dietlinde accepting his story.

If Dietlinde is willing to do so, we’re off to the races! Should Dietlinde be at all curious about the case, she will of course get a Media Pack. After that, it’s only a matter of preparing for the podcast or speech. Naturally, if Söring gets even a hint that he may be faced with informed, critical questions, he will back out.

This process may be underway even as we speak! If that happens, I will be sure to let you know. My informal rule is that I usually don’t comment on Söring’s appearances unless they happen in (1) an actual newspaper or magazine or TV channel; or (2) a podcast or channel with over 10,000 subscribers.

Speaking of that, the Swiss newspaper Basler Zeitung just published an article about an upcoming Söring appearance in Basel, Switzlerand. This article, refreshingly enough, is anything but the typical uninformed puff-piece. The headline refers to Söring as a “convicted double-murderer”. The author, Tania Opiasa, notes that the Sueddeutsche Zeitung saw itself obliged to apologize for the “bias” in reporter Karin Steinberger’s decades-long coverage of the Söring case. Opiasa also describes Annabel H.’s decision to withdraw support from Söring, and even quotes little old me confirming that Söring lost all of his appeals.

I have a vision of Söring, steam shooting from his ears, furiously composing a 5,000-word screed to the editor of the Basler Zeitung.

Söring/Right-wing Cologne nexus

Thanks very much to a reader of hammelwords who alerted me to the existence of a website called Der Lügenbaron:

The “Baron of Lies” is of course Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Münchhausen. I can’t find a date on this website, but I presume it was created sometime in late 2024. It’s a time-capsule of Söring’s arguments as of that era, which are mostly based on the Chuck Reid report. No comments have been posted on it, and I have never heard Jens Söring mention it.

The man behind the website is one Kristian Beara:

Beara claims to be a “security expert” for the German police union, an adjunct professor of administrative law, and an author. He is also head of the “working group on security” for the Cologne branch of the German center-right party, the CDU. Beara is also currently running for the Cologne City Council. Beara is pretty active on social media, where he often posts about politics from a conservative angle.

So why exactly is this law-and-order conservative republishing a killer’s discredited arguments? I believe the clue may lie in this sentence: “Ich lernte Söring im Herbst 2024 bei einer Veranstaltung im Hause eines gemeinsamen Freundes kennen.” — “I met Söring in August 2024 in an event in the home of a mutual friend.” Could this friend be Cologne-based media lawyer Ralf Höcker? Höcker was, after all, for a time the speaker of the “Werte Union” (Values Union), an organization representing conservatives within the German center-right party the CDU.

Höcker is also a friend of Jens. After landing in Germany in late 2019, Söring arranged for Höcker to receive a copy of the now-discredited 2016 pro-Söring propaganda film “The Promise”. Höcker watched the film and was convinced that Söring was either innocent or at least that his trial was unfair. Höcker spoke for about an hour with Söring around this time, and still has contact with Söring. Höcker certainly reacted with unhinged rage when I suggested he read a copy of my book on the Söring case in late 2023. Further, Höcker’s firm is still representing Söring, filing a bullshit nuisance lawsuit against author Siegfried Stang just 5 months ago.

For whatever reason, Kristian Beara is willing to put his reputation on the line on behalf of Jens Söring. We all know how that turns out. So does Beara, perhaps. He’s not doing much to draw attention to the website, and neither is Söring. And their no-publicity campaign is working: The website has attracted no comments or any other form of attention, as far as I can tell. Until now!

The Stuttgart Conundrum

Soering is about to give one of his presentations in Stuttgart, Germany. This was what apparently prompted him to post a Facebook short about the last time he visited Stuttgart, which was during his globetrotting flight from the law in 1985 and 1986.

Söring says that in January 1985 (he means 1986), he was “almost arrested” after he and Elizabeth staged one of their “stupid check frauds” in Stuttgart, Germany. Police stormed an office near the American Express office they had just visited, and Söring briefly thought his number was up. However, the police weren’t searching for him. Söring then comments that it actually would have been better if he had been arrested in Germany, since Art. 16 of the German Basic Law forbids Germany from extraditing its citizens in criminal cases. He would never have been extradited to America!

This video shows just how sloppy Söring has gotten about his story lately. Even some of his clueless new fans saw the problem: If, as he claims, Söring wanted to be tried in Germany for the murders of the Haysoms, then why didn’t he turn himself in to the police in Stuttgart? Everything could have turned out perfectly, from his perspective: He confesses to the murders, gets 10 years under lenient youth-sentencing laws, serves his time in a German prison (much more pleasant than an American one), and leaves prison in 5 or 6 for good behavior, whereupon he heads straight into Liz’ loving arms.

Now of course there’s a slight hitch: within minutes of being questioned in London, Söring told police Elizabeth had helped him plan and cover up the murders, exposing her to a sentence of between 20 years and life in prison as an accessory before the fact to first-degree murder. So even though Söring is free to swan about the Fatherland as of 1992-93 under this scenario, Elizabeth gets extradited to the USA and goes to prison for decades. But we may assume Söring would have waited patiently for the love of his life, no matter how long it took. Right?

Of course, Söring has two explanations for why he didn’t turn himself in when he was in Stuttgart — Söring always has explanations. The first is that he and Elizabeth wanted to stay on the run as long as possible. The second is the universal jack-of-all-trades explanation for everything, which he posts constantly in one form or another in the comments to his videos: “I was young, foolish, and in love. That’s why I did all of these irrational things. What can I say?”

Those aren’t exactly the most convincing excuses, to put it mildly. However, they seem to be good enough for his new fans.