LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — Virginia’s attorney general is urging the Virginia Court of Appeals to reject Jens Soering’s latest effort to overturn his decades-old convictions in the 1985 stabbing deaths of Derek and Nancy Haysom in Bedford County.
Soering filed a petition for a writ of actual innocence in February, arguing that new evidence could change the understanding of the killings.
His petition cites DNA testing that he says raises questions about who was at the crime scene. The petition argues the DNA testing results indicate that two male relatives of the Haysoms cannot be excluded as possible sources of male blood found at the scene…