Petit Family Murders in CT-2007 SOLVED-Death Sentence for both men.

[MuffyBee]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/connecticut-rapist-killer-snapped-article-1.1449691#axzz2ePBty8Pl

Connecticut home invasion rapist/killer Steven Hayes says he ‘just snapped’ in jailhouse interview
By Nina Golgowski  / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Monday, September 9, 2013, 9:00 AM


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/connecticut-rapist-killer-snapped-article-1.1449691#ixzz2ePCG2nco
The death row inmate says he's left wracked with 'guilt, shame and remorse' after that July 2007 robbery which left Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, Michaela, 11, and Hayley, 17, raped and murdered.
 
"It took a year before I could even remember what happened in those last few minutes," Hayes told the paper. "I was told it was rage and stress or something. I just know that for a couple of minutes I became somebody else."

It wasn't supposed to end this way, according to Hayes. Still he says: "I can't blame anybody but myself for the decisions that I made."

After four and a half years of being sober and years of successful drug treatment, Hayes relapsed. His mother kicked him out of her home when she found out, and he had nowhere to go.

He needed money. "Quick money," he calls it, so joined up with Komisarjevsky when they spotted Hawke-Petit and her daughter Michaela buying groceries at a Cheshire convenience store on July 22.

 
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It's just my opinion, but this horrible event could have stopped at any time as it occurred.  (and even before it occurred) There were numerous opportunities to just stop it, starting from the time Dr. Petit's wife and daughter were spotted at the store. After Hawke-Petit met the demands of withdrawing cash, it could have stopped right there.  It shouldn't have even begun, but it did, and it could have stopped.  "Quick cash" isn't strangulation, rape, arson, murder by fire, bashing a man's head etc.  It's good Hayes feels remorse, but it doesn't help now.  What happened to the family wasn't just "those last few minutes".     The terror and mayhem was already under way.  Hayes said in the article "I
was told it was rage and stress or something..."    It was much more.  It was the sum of all things that passed prior to the last few minutes.  Just deciding to target the family for starters.  Tying children to their beds and etc.  Hayes could have stopped.  He says he doesn't blame anyone but himself, which is correct.     JMHO 

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Well said Muffers. And just to add...he is a POS who does not deserve one bit of sympathy.

[MuffyBee]

Well said Muffers. And just to add...he is a POS who does not deserve one bit of sympathy.

 

[Sister]

Well said Muffers. And just to add...he is a POS who does not deserve one bit of sympathy.

 

    

[MuffyBee]

A waste of oxygen, imo.   

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2853497/Judge-rejects-complaint-killer-Steven-Hayes-Petit-family-home-invasion-claimed-food-death-row-not-kosher.html
Judge rejects bid by Petit family killer to be served kosher food on death row
November 28, 2014

*  Steven Hayes filed a lawsuit claiming the food is not genuinely kosher because of contamination
* Hayes describes himself as an Orthodox Jew and said he's been requesting a kosher diet since May 2013
* Hayes is on death row for the murder of a mother and her two daughters in a grisly 2007 home invasion in Connecticut
* Hayes and an accomplice, Joshua Komisarjevsky, killed Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, and her daughters Hayley Petit, 17, and Michaela Petit, 11
* They left their father, Dr. William Petit for dead - but he survived
* Hayes tried to commit suicide during his 2010 trial

A federal judge in Connecticut has clamped down on a death row inmate’s complaints that the food he is being served in prison is not kosher.

Steven Hayes, who is awaiting execution for the brutal rape, torture and murder of the Petit family, sued the Department of Correction in August, alleging the preparation practices for kosher meals in the kitchen at the state's highest-security prison do not conform to Jewish dietary laws.

Hayes describes himself in the lawsuit as an Orthodox Jew and says he's been requesting a kosher diet since May 2013.

He says he has suffered ‘almost two years of emotional injury from having to choose between following God and starving or choosing sin to survive.’

Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky were sentenced to die for the 2007 murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela, at the family's home in Cheshire.

The victims were tied up, two of them were sexually assaulted and their bodies were found after the home was set on fire. Hawke-Petit's husband, Dr. William Petit, was severely beaten, but survived.

U.S. District Court Judge Alvin Thompson, in a ruling dated Tuesday, rejected Hayes' motions for a hearing and a temporary injunction.

The judge noted that Hayes is offered kosher meals, and the state Department of Correction has two rabbis who periodically monitor the preparation of kosher foods in the prison system.

The judge said both rabbis certified that the food and the food preparation process comply with dietary laws.

‘Although (Hayes) raises as an issue the lack of a reliable orthodox certificate or an onsite Jewish overseer, he provides no evidence suggesting that their absence leads to a finding that the meals are not kosher,’ the judge wrote.

Thompson did not throw out the lawsuit. But in rejecting the motions, he found there is not a likelihood that it will succeed.
 


Horrifying: Dr. William Petit Jr.(left) with his daughters Michaela, (front), Hayley, (back left), and his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit. In June 2007. Petit was beaten and his wife and two daughters killed during a home invasion in Cheshire, Connecticut


Shocking: Hayes raped and strangled Jennifer Hawke-Petit. Her daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, died of smoke inhalation after they were doused with gasoline and the house was set on fire


A photo from the crime scene shows the extent of the blaze set by Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky, which killed Petit's family

Dr Petit was severely beaten and dumped in the basement as his daughters Michaela, 11, Hayley, 17, were tied to their beds.

After the 11-year-old was raped and her mother raped and strangled to death, the intruders set the home ablaze and left all but Petit dead.

Hayes tried to commit suicide during his 2010 trial and upon hearing he would face the death penalty, told a New Haven court 'Death, to me, will be a welcome relief.'

The pair spotted Hawke-Petit at a supermarket and followed her to her home in Cheshire, Connecticut, where they tied up the family.

Hayes raped and strangled Hawke-Petit and Komisarjevsky sexually assaulted Michaela. Both Michaela and her sister, Hayley, were tied to their beds and died of smoke inhalation after the men doused the home with gas and set it on fire.

Connecticut repealed the death penalty in 2012, but the does law not apply to those who had already been sentenced to death.

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Maybe he'll stop eating and die, and save us all money

[Sister]

Maybe he'll stop eating and die, and save us all money

 

 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2853497/Judge-rejects-complaint-killer-Steven-Hayes-Petit-family-home-invasion-claimed-food-death-row-not-kosher.html

He says he has suffered ‘almost two years of emotional injury from having to choose between following God and starving or choosing sin to survive.’


BBM

I would say following dietary rules would be the least of his concerns with God!

[MuffyBee]

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/article/Calls-detail-how-police-reacted-in-Cheshire-home-6630926.php
Calls detail how police reacted in deadly home invasion
November 13, 2015

CHESHIRE, Conn. (AP) — Information documenting calls to police during a 2007 home invasion that left a mother and her two daughters dead show that officers tried to intercept the vehicle in which the woman was driven to a bank shortly before she and the girls were killed.
Filings by lawyers for convicted killer Joshua Komisarjevsky show an officer was blocks from the bank when Komisarjevksy's partner, Steven Hayes, drove Jennifer Hawke-Petit to withdraw money, The Hartford Courant (http://cour.at/1McAW0A ) reported Friday.
Documents indicate a responding officer was instructed to "head down toward that area and see if we can intercept this car," but it's not clear if he did. Cheshire police Chief Neil Dryfe said he couldn't comment on the specific phone call to the officer or what he may have done afterward.
Komisarjevsky had been holding Hawke-Petit's daughters, Hayley and Michaela Petit, as captives. When Hayes and Hawke-Petit returned from the bank, the victims were tied up, two of them were sexually assaulted and their bodies were found after the home was set on fire. Hawke-Petit's husband, Dr. William Petit, was severely beaten but survived.
Police set up a roadblock and captured Hayes and Komisarjevsky as they fled the burning house. They were convicted of murder and sentenced to die before Connecticut's highest court struck down the death penalty.
Calls to Cheshire police form the basis of Komisarjevsky's request for a new trial. Defense lawyers say police did not release several calls, which have been turned over to prosecutors and are being considered evidence for a possible court hearing.
Komisarjevsky's lawyers say police withheld evidence — recorded phone calls to the dispatch center from a private line or cellphones.
Dryfe said all the information has been turned over to New Haven State's Attorney Michael Dearington for review.

[Sister]

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/article/Calls-detail-how-police-reacted-in-Cheshire-home-6630926.php
Calls detail how police reacted in deadly home invasion
November 13, 2015

CHESHIRE, Conn. (AP) — Information documenting calls to police during a 2007 home invasion that left a mother and her two daughters dead show that officers tried to intercept the vehicle in which the woman was driven to a bank shortly before she and the girls were killed.
Filings by lawyers for convicted killer Joshua Komisarjevsky show an officer was blocks from the bank when Komisarjevksy's partner, Steven Hayes, drove Jennifer Hawke-Petit to withdraw money, The Hartford Courant (http://cour.at/1McAW0A ) reported Friday.
Documents indicate a responding officer was instructed to "head down toward that area and see if we can intercept this car," but it's not clear if he did. Cheshire police Chief Neil Dryfe said he couldn't comment on the specific phone call to the officer or what he may have done afterward.
Komisarjevsky had been holding Hawke-Petit's daughters, Hayley and Michaela Petit, as captives. When Hayes and Hawke-Petit returned from the bank, the victims were tied up, two of them were sexually assaulted and their bodies were found after the home was set on fire. Hawke-Petit's husband, Dr. William Petit, was severely beaten but survived.
Police set up a roadblock and captured Hayes and Komisarjevsky as they fled the burning house. They were convicted of murder and sentenced to die before Connecticut's highest court struck down the death penalty.
Calls to Cheshire police form the basis of Komisarjevsky's request for a new trial. Defense lawyers say police did not release several calls, which have been turned over to prosecutors and are being considered evidence for a possible court hearing.
Komisarjevsky's lawyers say police withheld evidence — recorded phone calls to the dispatch center from a private line or cellphones.
Dryfe said all the information has been turned over to New Haven State's Attorney Michael Dearington for review.

Thank you MuffyBee for the update.

Those POS will try anything to get a new trial.  I would say shame on them . . . but alas, there is no shame.

 

[MuffyBee]

http://www.people.com/article/william-petit-running-office-family-murdered-invasion-home
Dr. William Petit Jr., Connecticut Father Whose Family Was Killed in a Home Invasion, Running for State Legislature
May 19, 2016

William Petit Jr., the Connecticut doctor whose wife and daughters were brutally murdered during a 2007 home invasion, is running for the state's legislature, reports say.

The 59-year-old is the Connecticut Republican Party's nominee for the 22nd House District, which includes Plainville and New Britain, according to The Hartford Courant. He is expected to issue an official statement next week.

The run comes nearly a decade after Petit lost his wife, 48-year-old Jennifer Hawke-Petit, and young daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, in a horrific home invasion in July 2007.

Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes broke into the family's Cheshire home, bludgeoned Petit with a baseball bat and tied him to a pole in the basement before turning their attention to his wife and daughters.

The pair forced Jennifer to drive to a nearby bank and withdraw $15,000. She tipped off a bank teller as the men waited outside in a car.

Back at the home, the men strangled and raped Jennifer. They also sexually assaulted one of Petit's daughters before setting the house on fire. Petit was the only survivor.

Both men have been sentenced to death row but are appealing their convictions.

In the years following the incident, Petit married Christine Paluf and the couple welcomed a son in 2013.

Petit has become an outspoken activist against repealing the state's death penalty and even considered a run for Congress in 2013, according to Politico.

The doctor founded the Petit Family Foundation after the tragedy to honor his slain wife and children.

[MuffyBee]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/death-row-inmate-convicted-of-connecticut-slayings-resentenced-to-life/
Death row inmate convicted of Conn. slayings resentenced to life
June 15, 2016

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- One of two men sentenced to death for the slayings of a mother and her two daughters during a 2007 home invasion in a wealthy suburb was resentenced Wednesday to life in prison.

Steven Hayes is the first of 11 death row inmates to be resentenced since the state Supreme Court ruled in August that their sentences violated the state constitution's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and was out of step with contemporary standards of decency.

The court reaffirmed that ruling last month in considering a 2012 law passed by Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the Democrat-controlled legislature that abolished the death penalty for future cases.

Malloy and the legislature had insisted on that as a condition of their support for repeal in a long-running debate that focused on the Cheshire home invasion. The law left 11 men, including Hayes, still facing execution.

The majority in last year's landmark ruling essentially said it wouldn't be fair to execute the remaining death row inmates when lawmakers had determined the death penalty was no longer needed for future killers.

Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky were convicted of the murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley Petit and 11-year-old Michaela Petit. Hawke-Petit and Michaela were sexually assaulted before Hawke-Petit was strangled and their house was doused with gasoline and set on fire. Hayley and Michaela died in the fire.

A judge on Wednesday imposed six consecutive life sentences on Hayes, who did not speak during the brief hearing.

Hawke-Petit's husband and the girls' father, Dr. William Petit, was badly beaten during the home invasion but survived. He did not attend the hearing but issued a statement critical of the resentencing.

"It is a very sad day when a prolonged trial and decision and sentencing by a jury that took 4.5 months to seat is overturned by a legislature that ignores the wishes of the people of CT," he said in the emailed statement. "The insult is compounded by a Supreme Court that rules on not one but 2 cases based on personal opinions and politics and not the law."

A hearing originally scheduled for Friday to resentence Komisarjevsky has been postponed. His attorneys are seeking a new trial, arguing the defense did not receive all the evidence to which it was entitled, including some police dispatch tapes.

Hayes was convicted of six capital felony charges, three murder counts and two charges of sexually assaulting Hawke-Petit. His attorneys tried to persuade jurors to spare him the death penalty by portraying him as a clumsy, drug-addicted thief who never committed violence until the home invasion, and they called Komisarjevsky the mastermind and said he escalated the violence.

The men's attorneys have asserted that an inadequate police response contributed to the deaths.

Resentencing hearings for the remainder of the death row inmates have yet to be scheduled.