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The bloody knitting: who really entered: The double homicide of Derek and Nancy Heam

Three women arrived to play cards one April morning in 1985 and found two bodies with over 80 wounds each. The doors were locked, the lights were on, and dinner was untouched on the table. A silhouette standing in bloody knitting marked the path from the corpses to the door. How many killers were there really?

In this episode, we explore the two contradictory confessions of Jens Sorin, the DNA that does not match the convicted, and the disappearance of the third person involved. Letters from December 1984 reveal written planning of the murder. The odometer of the rented car implicates the couple. A luminol blood test and an unidentified genetic profile would reopen the case 24 years later: who was the third person, and why were both released without answers?

Victims: Derek Heam and Nancy Heam
Date: March 30, 1985
Location: Bedford, Virginia, United States
Status: Both convicted, released 2019; case technically open

- Jens Sorin confessed alone, then accused Elizabeth of being the material author with a deceased drug dealer.
- DNA from 42 samples at the scene did not match Jens, tested on September 24, 2009.
- An unidentified third person left their DNA at the scene in December 2010; James Farmer was never questioned before he died.
- Elizabeth built an alibi in Washington DC with movie tickets, but the car traveled 695 kilometers without justification.

Derek Heam, Nancy Heam, Bedford Virginia 1985, murder, investigation, DNA, unsolved mystery, contradictory confessions, forensic, true crime, Spanish true crime

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