In 2003, double murderer Jens Soering told C-VILLE, "I would like to be exonerated. I would like the INS [Immigration and Naturalization Services] to give me a green card because I don’t want to leave, O.K.? And I would like to be sort of the resident UVA law school weenie responsible for being the gadfly on the Department of Corrections’ behind.”
Thanks to an action by former Gov Tim Kaine last Friday, Soering may indeed become that gadfly, though not in the way he fancied. He could be relocated to his native Germany.
Soering, once a promising UVA student, is serving time for the double murders of Derek and Nancy Haysom, the parents of his girlfriend Elizabeth, who is also serving time for the crimes. She is in the Fluvanna women’s prison. Soering is in the facility in Brunswick.
C-VILLE spoke with him in prison in 2003 in connection with his book, The Way of the Prisoner: Breaking the Chains of Self Through Centering Prayer and Centering Practice.
