On the afternoon of Friday, March 29, 1985, Elizabeth Haysom and Jens Söring rented a gray Chevette and drove to Washington, D.C., where he used his father's Visa card to book a room at the Georgetown Marriott. After checking in, they went to see the movie "Porky's Revenge!" They spent Saturday midday wandering around the neighborhood, then went for a late lunch at a restaurant with a train theme. Soering made a joke about the phallic iconography of the image, in the Freudian paradigm.
On Sunday, they drove back to Charlottesville. Haysom was notified of her parents' murders on Wednesday, when the bodies were discovered. What later interested investigators was the odometer on the Chevette. According to rental records, the car had been driven six hundred and sixty-nine miles between its rental and its return-some four hundred miles more than a trip to and from Washington, D.C. This was the distance from Charlottesville to Washington, Washington to Loose Chippings, and back along the same route.
