Elizabeth Roxanne Haysom (born April 15, 1964
[1] in
Salisbury, Rhodesia
[2]) is a Canadian citizen who, along with her boyfriend,
Jens Söring, was convicted of orchestrating the 1985 double murder of her parents Derek and Nancy Haysom in
Bedford County, Virginia.
[3] Following the Haysoms' murders, she and Söring were arrested in London, England, for cheque fraud and shoplifting.
[4] Haysom served 32 years of a 90-year prison sentence at the
Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Troy, Virginia after pleading guilty to two counts of
accessory to murder before the fact in 1987.
[3] She and Soering were paroled on November 25, 2019, more than 30 years after they were first convicted of the deaths of Haysom’s parents in 1985.
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