'They didn’t break me': German man convicted of double murder freed after 33 years
Jens Soering stepped off a plane to become a free man in his native Germany on Tuesday, 33 years after he was locked up for a Virginia double murder that he insists he did not commit.
The quest that was his “full-time job” behind bars — proving his innocence to a state that agreed last month to parole but not pardon him — will carry into his life on the outside.Soering, 53, kicked off his fresh start with a swirl of interviews in Germany, where he will live with a wealthy supporter in an undisclosed city. After the airport news conference, he was off to a television studio to do the “Dr. Phil” show via satellite.He has lawyers ready to renew his pardon petition to Gov.
He later recanted, saying he was the one at the hotel while Haysom committed the murders to avenge sexual abuse by her mother. He said his initial confession was an effort to protect Haysom from the electric chair under the mistaken belief that his father’s position gave him diplomatic immunity. He was convicted and sentenced to two life terms in a sensational 1990 trial.
Soering won attention and believers over the years for writing books on his case, his conversion to Catholicism and prison reform. His supporters have long raised questions about the case that were never broached by his original lawyer, who was later disbarred and acknowledged suffering from a mental impairment during the trial.They noted that Soering got some key details of the crime scene wrong in his confession.
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