April 15, 1964, Salisbury, Rhodesia) is a Canadian citizen who, along with her then boyfriend, Jens Söring, was convicted of orchestrating the 1985 double murder of her parents, Derek and Nancy Haysom, in Bedford County, Virginia.
Following the Haysoms' murders, Haysom and Söring were arrested in London, England, for check fraud and shoplifting.
Haysom was serving 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.
She and Jens Soering were paroled from jail on Monday, November 25 2019 - more than 30 years after they were first convicted in the gruesome slayings of Haysom’s parents in 1985.Elizabeth Haysom was the child of Derek William Reginald Haysom, a retired Nova Scotia steel executive, and Nancy Astor Benedict Haysom, an artist.
Derek and Nancy had a combined total of five children from previous marriages.
Born in April 1964, Elizabeth attended boarding schools in Switzerland and England (Wycombe Abbey) before enrolling at the University of Virginia.
It was there she met her 18-year-old boyfriend Jens Söring, the son of a German diplomat and a Jefferson Scholar at the university.