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There was only one occasion when Soering could have been served a strong drink by Derek Haysom. That was Saturday, March 30, 1985. Derek Haysom was not at the welcoming cookout at Watson dorm at the beginning of the fall semester. Nancy had driven her daughter over to Charlottesville from Boonsboro. At the disastrous Macadoo's lunch on the corner, I doubt Soering could have been served alcohol. But if so, it might have been a draft beer, and the staff at the restaurant would have fixed any drinks. SO. There is no other time that Derek Haysom could have even given Soering a drink much less a 'strong' one.

Both parents were known as moderate drinkers. I was told this by a number of people including one of their close friends on Cape Breton. The friends there, as elsewhere, were two drinks before supper and no affairs, good family types and basically very correct and successful people. Both Derek and Nancy were in very good shape. Derek was said to have had the physique of a much younger man.

Neither Nancy or Derek Haysom had ever had any trouble with children's protective services or whatever on Cape Breton or anywhere else. This is yet another amazing and defamatory accusation created by Elizabeth Haysom. One of a deadly psychotic series. The dog bite incident was considered to have been Elizabeth's fault.

She was treated like a little princess, with beautiful clothes. She was a very good student and a good classmate in the group, one who contributed to the class and was well thought of. How she turned out shocked the teachers I talked to. And saddened them.

There was no hospitalization for alcohol poisoning. It was Jens Soering's mind, tragically, that was poisoned.

If you accept that the Victor mousetrap had been placed on dried blood, presumably because there was no blood or an insufficient amount of blood staining on its bottom --and this was the forensic conclusion--then someone had to put it there. The Victor mousetrap has a ghost in the V if you look at it upside down. It is considered to be a useful satanic object. My question is--how did it get into that house? Did Jens take it there with him? I don't think that house had a mouse problem, but that would be hard to show. The Haysoms were away on long weekends a lot in those months. The house was kept neat as a pin. Very little food in the refrigerator. There was no basement. It seems possible that Soering either took it there or knew about it having been put there by Elizabeth or simply noticed it second time back in the house and placed it nearer to Nancy Haysom's body. There is also the question of a chicken feather. Where had that come from? What I think happened was that the lack of evidence simply meant that the whole paranormal elements of the crime had to be kept mostly out of the prosecution's presentation.

I think that both Elizabth and Jens were far more interested in the paranormal than we know. Not that they were adepts, had ever done a grimoire, or anything like that, though Elizabeth had a story about a black mass in Italy which I don't happen to believe. I think she told this to Jens, as well. I know that she did. At Genoa.

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