Killing for Love

2018TV-MAEnglish1 Season

Obsessed young lovers, heinous murders, a sensational trial, and a shocking miscarriage of justice. Killing for Love is a riveting dissection of the 1985 courtroom battle that played out on television, and its disturbing aftermath. Convicted of brutally murdering his girlfriend’s parents, Jens Soering has been in prison for over 30 years. The series reveals for the first time the mounting evidence of his innocence. Highly cinematic in the way of The Staircase, as suspenseful as Serial, and as confounding as Making of a Murderer, Killing for Love is your next true crime binge.

1. First Love

Three months into Elizabeth and Jens’ passionate love affair, her parents are brutally murdered.

29min

2. The Betrayal

On the run in Asia and Europe using false identities, Elizabeth and Jens are eventually arrested in London.

28min

3. The Confession

Jens confesses and is extradited to the U.S. to stand trial for the murder of Elizabeth's parents. He then withdraws his confession and begins to fight for his life.

27min

4. The Footprint

As Jens struggles to win the sympathy of the jury, he and Elizabeth present conflicting alibis.

29min

5. College Friends

The trial takes a dramatic turn when Elizabeth takes the witness stand, describing herself as Lady MacBeth.

24min

6. Chasing Freedom

Despite new evidence supporting Jens’ innocence, Elizabeth breaks a 20-year silence to keep him in prison. Is the real murderer still out there?

27min

Pod 1: The Catalyst

In this episode, Amanda Knox dives deep into the tangled web of dark secrets surrounding the Haysom murders, and finds chilling echoes of her own case.

30min

Pod 2: Two Crimes

The killing of Derek and Nancy Haysom was a brutal crime that happened in a single turbulent moment on March 30th, 1985. Ever since then, the pool of evidence has been growing, calling Jens Soering’s murder conviction into question. The newly tested DNA reveals that there's a second crime here beyond the murders of the Haysoms. And this crime hit Amanda even closer to home.

35min

Pod 3: Martin Sheen - Life Lines

In a special bonus episode, Amanda Knox asks one of the most outspoken advocates for Jen’s freedom what it means to throw out that lifeline of support, and what it means for Jens to grab hold on it.

33min

Pod 4: The Confession

Fifteen months after the Haysoms’ murder, Jens Soering found himself in an interrogation room in England, confessing to a crime he didn’t commit. But who’s truly to blame for his continued imprisonment?

41min

Pod 5: Big Crime, Small Town

When authorities convicted Jens Soering of double homicide, did investigators truly follow the evidence? Did the courts put justice first? And did the county give Jens the chance he deserved?

37min

Pod 6: The Black Box

Pivotal in the conviction of Jens Soering, Elizabeth Haysom remains silent about the truth of her parents’ murders. But strip away all of the lies and hyperbole surrounding her, and who is she really?

42min

Pod 7: Grinding Gears

Imprisoned by a justice system run by the flawed and fallible citizens it protects, what hope does Jens Soering have to be released? What political and psychological blocks are standing in his way?

35min

Pod 8: The Cost

How does a wrongful conviction change a person, a society, a system? In the final episode of the season, Amanda looks at the cost paid by everyone involved in Jens’s wrongful conviction.

44min

Member Reviews

It is a great shame to the state of Virginia that Jens is still in prison. Ricky Gardner and Jim Updike built their careers on this case. All the while the real killer is s stillout there.

GhettoHippie

23 days ago

The show is clearly intended to convince the viewer than Soering is innocent. But other than some convoluted logic and some half-baked theories, the film-makers are not able to provide any detailed evidence of this.

adla111

a month ago

Well done. Amazing, and yet sad, story.

rsmithson70

2 months ago

A must watch..the story evolves slowly and is riveting.

LindaB1435903146.0

3 months ago

Excellent!

TJo