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I was in disbelief when I read somewhere that Söring was fighting with his brother and father over his late grandmother‘s estate. You‘d think that even if he were innocent, he‘d let this go in recognition of not only the financial burden that he has been to his family, but also as a small compensation for the sorrow and heartache he brought upon his family. I can only think of two possible explanations for Söring‘s attitude: Plain old greed and a fear that waiving his inheritance could be viewed as an admission of guilt.

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You read it here. Söring was openly insulting his father and brother as dishonest throughout 2019. It seems he believed he was going to be released soon, and wished he had the half-million Euros he says he inherited from his grandmother once he was free. After his release, he suddenly realized one of the first questions from reporters would be how his family had reacted to the news. So he decided to adopt a new line in which he refused to explain what the breach was about and asked reporters to respect his family's privacy...which he had been openly violating as late as December 2019. https://thesoeringcase.substack.com/p/why-jens-soring-has-no-contact-with

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Sep 25, 2023·edited Sep 25, 2023

In the referring blog entry you are pointing out the following:

2. Ken Englade, "Beyond Reason”, Ch. 39. Englade here describes a debriefing interview between Elizabeth Haysom and Ricky Gardner conducted in 1987, after Haysom had voluntarily returned to Virginia to stand trial as an accessory before the fact to the murder of her parents:

[Gardner] invited [Elizabeth] to tell him in more detail about Jens’s murder plans.

She collected her thoughts. “Take his grandmother,” Elizabeth said. “He wanted her money.” He had a plan, she said, whereby she and Jens would go to his grandmother’s house in Germany and lock themselves inside. “Then he wanted to hook her up to some kind of electric gizmo and torture her until she gave us money.

**Then afterwards we obviously would kill her.”**

I read this the first time and had to rub my eyes. Sometimes Haysom seems to have some clear moments in her manipulative periods of POTs (e. g. when telling Lemley in '89 about selling jewelry in DC for 400USD) . Or she is loosing her strict path to save her own butt.

Does anybody have access to Elizabeth's interviews with Gardner during the investigations (85/87)? Unfortunately those transscripts didn't exist in Jens' case files. We know from "the promise," that those interviews had been recorded on tape and also had been transscripted.

That Haysom uses the expression "we obviously would kill her" sounds like a serial killer couple habit.

Quite interesting why she did so, cause in '87 her mission was to shift blame on him in front of Gardner/Updike/court.

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Just what is a “fair share” after what Söring has put his own family through?

In an early prison Interview that appears to be no longer available, he actually does take some responsibility for the hardship and sorrow he caused his parents, especially his mother. He says “Ich bin schuld daran, dass sich meine Mutter zu Tode gesoffen hat.”

Söring being Söring, of course, has changed his tune since then, in keeping with his self stylized image of the martyr and Freiheitskämpfer. He now depicts himself as the result of a dysfunctional family with an emotionally distant father and a weak alcoholic mother. Low shots, given that his father and brother will not comment publicly, and his mother is no longer here to defend herself.

And who do you think paid for Söring‘s enormous legal expenses, at least in the early years? He had a scholarship that dried up the moment he abandoned his studies, but apparently no money beyond that. After their flight from the US, he and Haysom got by on various fraud schemes that ultimately led to their arrests.

And it was Söring‘s father who hired not one, but two highly regarded trial lawyers for his son. It is one of the more compelling scenes in “Killing for love” when Klaus Söring‘s old friend is still moved to tears decades later, when recalling the phone call he received from Söring senior, asking for help finding an attorney for Jens.

It is of course sad, but would have been entirely realistic to expect Söring to die in jail. I‘m sure that was obvious to Söring himself as well as his family. It is practically unheard of for a convicted double murderer to be paroled without so much as admitting any guilt or taking any responsibility.

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Oh, Jeeez… Now you have arrived at some good old-fashioned “it’s the mother’s fault”? I’m out of here.

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I have not and will not “message” you. If you post comments in Substack however, you’d have to expect other people to comment as well.

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With the “very minor” difference, that Jens Söring - and not his brother or father - brought this suffering upon himself and everybody else.

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