Still no Sign of Daniela Hillers' Söring Book

Plus, a few Freudian slips from Söring himself.

Hello everyone — just a few updates.

• I’m working every day on the German version of the Söring book. However, I’ve been lucky enough to get some very interesting translation jobs lately, and that’s how I pay my rent. I am still making steady progress, but it’s been slower than I hoped.

• I filed a criminal complaint against the prominent German media lawyer Ralf Höcker for calling me, without provocation, a “sick, misanthropic, merciless, arrogant, biased, obsessed person who has found no meaning in his life and will probably never find any”. I claimed that this constituted an illegal insult in violation of German Criminal Code § 185, which punishes insults by up to a year in prison. The Cologne, Germany public prosecutor’s office officially opened an investigation into the case on 19 January 2024. This doesn’t mean they’ll file charges. Personally, I’ve always had my doubts whether it makes sense to allow people to go to court over insults (I asked Höcker to remove the tweet and would have left it at that), but that’s German law allows it, and I believe Höcker’s comment qualifies as vilification (Schmähkritik), which is defined as an insult which seeks only to personally humiliate and ridicule another person without contributing to the discussion on the merits of the issue. If Höcker’s tweet isn’t Schmähkritik, what is?

• Someone on YouTube asked how they could support me in my efforts on this case, which is still mostly a labor of love. I appreciate the thought! I think I’m about to set up a Patreon and will let you know when it’s done.

• Daniela Hillers, you may recall, announced plans to release a book in English and in German on the Söring case called “Reasonable Doubt” in English and “In Dubio pro Reo” (in cases of doubt for the defendant) in German. There’s still no sign of either of these books. Hillers was forced to announce recently that John Grisham would no longer be writing a foreword for the book, and it has become clear that some of the law enforcement figures in the case have become fed up with having their competence and integrity challenged, and who can blame them? They’re gonna read every line to catch any factual mistakes or defamatory statements under German, UK, and/or American law. Of course, I’ll be doing the same thing, both on their behalf and on my own.
  
  Hillers is apparently getting more and more annoyed by the delay and the response to it. In her latest Facebook post, she complains that a “small group of selected idiots” is sending “fake mails” about the book. I’m not sure what a “fake mail” is — an email which purports to be from Hillers? In any case, I certainly haven’t sent her any “fake mails” or emails claiming to be her, which could be illegal. Heck, I am eagerly awaiting my copy of her book, which will certainly provide fodder for a few posts here and some YouTube videos.

• In some of his recent videos addressing his case, Söring has made some Freudian slips. Terry Wright spotted this one from an interview broadcast with British ex-con and alien enthusiast Shaun Attwood:

  Söring caught himself just in time. To me, this next one is even more revealing. This is from an episode of Söring and Simmen, a podcast Söring co-hosts with a former reality TV star named Dominik Simmen. The episode is called “F*cked by Netflix”, which speaks for itself:

  “Them, or him”. To those familiar with the case, every preferred narrative from Team Söring has involved Elizabeth killing her parents along with at least one, and possibly two, unknown male accomplices. The only version in which only one male is at the crime scene is the one Söring confessed to at least five times.

  
  Of course, we shouldn’t read too much into these slips. But then again, we shouldn’t read too little. In each of these interviews, Söring is allowed to tell his story with few interruptions. He has told this story literally thousands of times over nearly 24 years. If he still can’t avoid slip-ups which place him at the crime scene, what does that tell us?

  
  This is all especially ironic in that Söring is still flogging a brief ironic joke Elizabeth made during one of her interrogations as an actual “confession”:

  So, as the old saying goes, turnabout is fair play. When Söring congratulates himself for successfully removing traces of his presence at the crime scene and recalls enjoying a “snack” with the Haysoms, he is telling us more than he knows.

• Stay tuned for Part 4 of my YouTube series, in which Söring’s stories just get wilder and woollier!