Posted on 07/23/2007 2:12:41 PM PDT by Andonius_99
I rather hope he decides to channel his grief and anger into an effective public assault on the legal and political system that let these career criminals back out on the streets yet again.
Two more examples (the perps) and four more arguments (the vics) for prolonged electrocution as the exit route for such as these perps. Buh bye, perps!
If so, he needs electrocution too. If not, not.
Guenevere: See Ken5050’s #19 in which he complied with your concern long before your #47.
Ken's a longtime friend...he knew it was a gentle prodding.
I forgive you..(G)
I hope you’re not a DA...
Thanks for that information. Will pray for the good doctor. How devastating this crime is! The perps deserve nothing but death, the sooner the better.
Authorities say Cheshire rampage included beatings, rapes, death
BY BEN CONERY, STEVE GAMBINI, PAUL SINGLEY and GENNADY SHEYNER
REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
CHESHIRE — As Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her 11-year-old daughter Michaela drove away from a supermarket Sunday in their white Mercedes-Benz, two career criminals stalked them. The men followed them from the Stop & Shop on Highland Avenue to the Petit family home at 300 Sorghum Mill Drive, where they set in motion events that would lead to what authorities believe were multiple rapes, savage beatings and murder, sources familiar with the investigation told the Republican-American.
Authorities are still building their account of what happened Monday morning, but they told the newspaper that their investigation so far indicates that the following events took place:
After staking out the Petit house, the men — Joshua Komisarjevsky, 26, and Steven Hayes, 44, — drove to a Wal-Mart, where they bought an air rifle and rope.
They came back and waited about a mile-and-a-half away until about 3 a.m. Monday, when they slipped into the house through an unlocked door.
Komisarjevsky and Hayes attacked Hawke-Petit's husband, Dr. William Petit Jr., then threw him down the basement stairs and beat him viciously. Sources said the men bound Petit and left him in the basement, where he remained for the next six hours.
The men then restrained Hawke-Petit and her daughters — Michaela and 17-year-old Hayley — and raped them repeatedly, the sources said.
About 9 a.m., one of the suspects drove Hawke-Petit to the Bank of America on Route 10 in Cheshire and forced her to withdraw $15,000 in cash while he waited outside. Hawke-Petite managed to convey to a bank teller that there was a problem at her home. The teller called police.
At some point during that excursion, the man with Hawke-Petit stopped and bought a container of gasoline.
After they returned to the home, the attackers strangled Hawke-Petit, doused the home with gasoline and set it ablaze.
Dr. Petit, who remained hospitalized Tuesday at Saint Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, was able to free himself and crawl into the yard. Police arrived about the same time and arrested Komisarjevsky and Hayes after the two men tried to barrel through a police roadblock.
Inside the Petit home, authorities found the bodies of Hawke-Petit and her two daughters.
The chief medical examiner's office determined after autopsies Tuesday that the two girls died of smoke inhalation. The medical examiner's office did not release any information regarding the sexual assaults.
The two men appeared Tuesday morning in Superior Court in Meriden to answer a plethora of charges, including sexual assault, kidnapping, assault and arson.
Already facing decades in prison, the men may soon face additional charges that could bring them the death penalty.
Shackled and wearing orange prison jump suits, Komisarjevsky, of 840 North Brooksvale Road, and Hayes, of 5-H Horn Ave. in Winsted, stared at the floor as they appeared individually in Judge Christina G. Dunnell's courtroom.
As the suspects' long criminal records were read to a standing-room-only crowd of about 100 people, a woman related to the Petits clutched green rosary beads in her lap and cried hysterically as court officials tried unsuccessfully to console her. She and three other family members were escorted from the court by judicial marshals.
Before the suspects left the courthouse, an unidentified man in the back of room yelled out "scumbags" to Hayes and Komisarjevsky.
The suspects did not enter pleas Tuesday, and their case has been moved to New Haven Superior Court. They are each being held on $15 million bonds, and their next court date is Aug. 7.
One of Petit's patients, Nancy Manning, attended Tuesday's arraignment to show her support for her doctor. "This man's life is destroyed," she said.
Cheshire townspeople struggled Tuesday to comprehend the tragedy. Portions of the 300 block of Sorghum Mill Drive that remained closed off with police tape served as a visible reminder.
Cheshire police, state police and the state fire marshal's office continued investigating.
"This is everyone's worst nightmare," said Lt. Jay Markella, Cheshire police spokesman. "It's by far the worst thing any of us have ever seen."
A detective visited William Petit at the hospital Monday to interview him about the incident, Markella said. Despite his injuries, Petit was lucid. He told authorities he heard nothing during his six hours in the basement.
Administrators at Cheshire Academy spent much of Monday sending e-mails to students and alumni all over the world, informing them about the death of Hawke-Petit, the beloved co-director of the academy's health center. On Tuesday, her colleagues were still in shock.
Barbara Dupre, who works in the office of the academy's associate headmaster, described Hawke-Petit as a highly intelligent, empathetic and family-oriented individual whose untimely death is impossible to comprehend.
"If your children go to Cheshire Academy, she is exactly the kind of person you would want to take care of them," Dupre said. "We still can't wrap our heads around it."
Chase Collegiate School in Waterbury, where Michaela Petit was a student, is hosting a gathering this morning to console people associated with the school.
The Cheshire United Methodist Church, where the family was heavily involved, held an open forum Monday night that attracted about 150 parishioners, church officials said. The church also held special prayer sessions Tuesday and will do so again today and Thursday, from 3 to 8 p.m. A psychiatric nurse and a grief counselor also will be available from 4 to 7 p.m. today at the church, 205 Academy Road.
William Petit's colleagues at the Hospital of Central Connecticut in New Britain also continued to pray for him and his family Tuesday.
"He was very kind to his patients," said Anita Sienicki, a nurse who works with Petit, a prominent diabetes expert. "He's a good staff member. This is just heartbreaking."
during my lady’s near-death bout last year, we came in contact with a Dr. Petit. wonder...?
You have to wonder now, is there such thing as a “non violent” criminal? How many other dirtbags are out there who would suddenly snap and rape and kill. No wonder the 2 pieces of excrement were emboldened to do what they did when they have never spent enough meaningful time in prison.
A door was unlocked?? How can that be in this day and age? Perhaps this all could have been prevented. If anyone else in that town does not have an alarm system they’d better get one now.
Now it turns out the young punk was even a daddy. So I suppose they will exploit his unfortunate child to try to get him leniency. What is needed instead is an angry mob with pitchforks and clubs at the door to the prison. Maybe if other potential killers see that they will be dissuaded from committing more crimes.
Of course the older scumbag in the Dec 2000 Wichita rapes/killings had a child too. All the lectures from Bill Cosby and others about getting an education, taking responsibility and all that empty talk mean absolutely nothing when you are made of pure evil.
All the comments in the local paper this morning of course expressed outrage and demanded that they be killed immediately. Fine. But I wonder how many of these people who make these comments vote for politicians who are soft on crime.
The only type of "non-violent" criminals that I can think of are those who commit so-called "white collar" crimes, like Martha Stewart or Ken Lay.
A door was unlocked?? How can that be in this day and age?
Looking at where the house was located, and the fact that it was in Cheshire, I'm not surprised if doors occasionally get unlocked. My doors are always locked and deadbolted when we go to bed at night. I live in Waterbury.
geez. (sigh!) and to think he didn’t lock his door.
funny thing is that I am now starting to get suspicious. They took him downstair and the females were left upstairs - why didn’t anyone grab a phone?
better yet - why didn’t anyone grab a gun?
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