Soering served 33 years in prison in a case that garnered worldwide attention. His new court filing seeks to erase his two convictions.
Doug Pardue
Doug Pardue is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has spent nearly 50 years in a newspaper career, mostly as an investigative reporter and editor. He was the lead reporter on a four-member team at The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., that won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the Pulitzer’s top award. That five-part investigative series, “Till Death Do Us Part,” examined why South Carolina was one of the ten deadliest states for women.
Before joining The Post and Courier in 2003 as its first investigations editor, Pardue worked for USA Today, where he created that newspaper’s first Investigative reporting team. Prior to joining USA Today Pardue started and ran the first investigative reporting teams at The Tampa Tribune and The State(Columbia, S.C.). From 1976 to 1993, he was a law enforcement and investigative reporter for The Roanoke Times & World-News in Virginia where he and a small team of reporters and photographers were 1990 Pulitzer Prize finalists in general news for their coverage of the year-long Pittston Coal strike
