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Joshua Komisarjevsky

December 10, 2011 by · Comments Off on Joshua Komisarjevsky 

Joshua Komisarjevsky, Jurors decided Friday on the death penalty for Cheshire home invasion killer Joshua Komisarjevsky, rejecting weeks of defense evidence that portrayed him as a man damaged by childhood sexual abuse and a strict religious upbringing while struggling with longtime mental health issues.

A family bound for hours as two masked men ransacked their home. A mother raped and strangled. Two daughters, tied to their beds, one sexually assaulted, the other able to break free, but unable to escape her burning home. A father, viciously beaten with a baseball bat and left in the basement.

After deliberating for nearly 20 hours over five days, a jury of seven women and five men decided that Komisarjevsky, 31, a serial burglar from Cheshire, should be executed for the murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, and her daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, during a home invasion and arson at their Cheshire home on July 23, 2007.

Komisarjevsky admitted spotting Hawke-Petit and Michaela at a local supermarket hours before the crime and following them home.

Connecticut Home Invasion

September 17, 2010 by · Comments Off on Connecticut Home Invasion 

Connecticut Home Invasion, Authorities have released the surveillance video and 911 tapes during a deadly home invasion in Connecticut in 2007.

Is evidence that raises new questions about whether they could have done to save the Pettit family?

Surveillance photos showed a child victim Jennifer Pettit Hawk an hour before his death. Was seen by the withdrawal and 15,000 … and told the bank teller was his entire family hostage in their home.

She said she needed the money for the rescue.

At 9:21, the manager of the bank made a 911 call.

“We have a lady who is on our bench right now who says her husband and children are detained at home … people are in a car outside the bank, which is receiving $ 15 000 to take to that if the police are told to kill the children and the husband, “said the bank manager of the 911 operator.

Prosecutors said Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky were terrorizing the family. Dr. William Pettit beaten with a baseball bat and tied him to a pole in the basement. His two daughters were tied to their beds upstairs.

Investigators said they were tortured all night until sunrise, and the bank opened.

“They are bound, he said. She is taking, and 15,000 off your credit line,” said bank manager in the call to 911. “They said I would not do any harm if she returned there with the money and believe them.”

The officers were sent home, but according to police records, were told by the captain not to approach the house and stay back until they could establish a security perimeter.

Thirty minutes after the first 911 calls had not yet ambulances or fire trucks and emergency crews could not move in.

At that time, Jennifer was back home with the money, his family and the attackers.

William Pettit said he heard his family being tortured above.

Somehow, bound and beaten, he managed to escape, go to a neighbor’s house for help.

Minutes later, there was a ball of fire, and prosecutors said the suspects raped and strangled Jennifer Petit and burned the house.

The mother and her two daughters all died.

In court Wednesday, the judge had to dismiss all the principles. Photographic evidence was so disturbing, all the jury was crying.

Steven Hayes

September 14, 2010 by · Comments Off on Steven Hayes 

Steven Hayes, In the afternoon the second day of trial Steven Hayes in brutal home invasion in Cheshire, the jury has lost another member of the jury.

The jury said he is having trouble remembering the evidence because it is diorganized, adding that he is confused by the state’s case and the lack of preparation.

The state moved to dimiss the juror and the judge agreed, but asked that an interjection extraordinary development in any case and said he was concerned about the pollution of the cancellation of the jury trial and possible.

Four jurors have left the case since it began Monday. The new composition of seven women and five men.

The jury made its report on the case the day the sole survivor of the brutal home invasion that left three dead women took the stand and gave emotional testimony.

Dr. William Petit had been saying, in chilling detail the story of the ordeal he and his family went through on July 22 and 23, 2007, 300 Sorghum Mill Drive in Cheshire.

Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky are accused of beating Dr. Petit and the rape and murder of his wife of 22 years, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, and kill her two daughters, Micaela, 11, and Hayley, 17.

Dr. Petit began with the family to dinner the night of July 22 and is what the jury through the events that continue for hours until his wife and daughters died in the house and found Dr. Petit can not be beaten at the entrance.

In addition to its history, which also shed light on who the three women were brutally murdered as in life.

Michaela was one of the Girl Scouts who took piano and flute. Hayley attended Miss Porter’s School and was accepted at Dartmouth. Jennifer, a registered nurse, had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998.

Hayes and Komisarjevsky, who is awaiting trial, have tried to blame others for escalating crime. Both defendants had offered to plead guilty in exchange for life imprisonment, but prosecutors pressed for death penalty trials, defense lawyers have said.

Authorities say a chance meeting at a local supermarket led to the home invasion in July 2007.

Komisarjevsky saw Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters in the store and followed her home and returned later with Hayes, authorities said.

Authorities say Hayes and Komisarjevsky, two burglars on parole, broke into the house, tied Dr. William Petit and beat him before taking his family hostage and force his wife to withdraw money from a bank.

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