So the perp could return to stalk his daughter again?
In Texas we can chase you as you run from our house, after trying to break in. So beware. The people trying to break in are criminals. If they get into your house, they will rob you, possibly rape, torture and kill you. THEY ARE NOT BREAKING IN TO WATER YOUR PLANTS OR FEED YOUR DOG!
If they don’t want to be shot, they should not be breaking in to homes! They all deserve to be shot dead! Any time they break in and find someone at home, that resident is in eminent danger of death!
MONSTER HOME INVADER STEVEN HAYES FOUND GUILTY IN CONNECTICUT MURDERS
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Next step: Will he get the needle?
Monster home invader Steven Hayes has been convicted of capital murder in connection with the brutal 2007 slaughters of a Connecticut nurse and her two daughters.
The conviction, which brought family members, including the father who survived the attacks, to tears, means the same jury must now suffer through weeks more of harrowing evidence and render a second verdict on whether Hayes deserves to be put to death.
For now, the jury has agreed that Hayes, a 47-year-old crack-addicted career burglar, raped and strangled the nurse, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, as she lay bound at the wrists and ankles on the living room floor of her home north of New Haven.
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Steven Hayes was found guilty of murdering a Connecticut doctor’s wife and two daughters.
see more videos Hayes was also found guilty of joining with partner-in-terror Joshua Komisarjevsky, 29, in the hideous deaths of the daughters, Hayley, 17 and Michaela, 11.
Only Dr. William Petit survived the senseless, random attack that killed his wife and two girls. Clubbed nearly to death and still bound at the ankles, Petit broke free moments before his house erupted in flames, rolling himself across two back yards to summon help.
In a news conference outside the courthouse, Petit said the verdict could not bring back his family.
“There is some relief, but my family is still gone,” he said. “It doesn’t bring them back. It doesn’t bring back the home that we had.”
Asked whether he has the strength to go through the penalty phase, he said, “Why do you do it or how do you do it? I think most of you out here, you know, are good human beings. I think that you probably would all do the same things for your family if your family was destroyed by evil.
“I think that you would all try to do the same thing and be there for your family. I mean, it’s the one thing you can do. So ... Do I really want to do it? Do I look forward to the ride everyday? No. I have a little nausea everytime i get off the exit ramp.”
The girls had been bound to their beds, doused with gasoline, and literally ignited alive. Both died of smoke inhalation after suffering unimaginable cruelty.
Michaela, according to DNA evidence, had been raped by Komisarjevsky, who is to stand trial next year. Forensic evidence showed Hayley collapsed, while still on fire, in the landing outside her bedroom after the flames burned through the restraints holding her to her bed.
Hayes has confessed to raping and strangling the mom, though claiming it was at Komisarjevsky’s insistence, to “square things up” after Komisarjevsky raped the little girl.
Jurors had appeared to struggle with the question of just how responsible, legally, Hayes was for the girls deaths. Hayes had told a fellow inmate that he helped pour the gas, but only along a stairway.
“Define start of fire,” jurors asked yesterday, in a note to the judge. “Is the pouring of gasoline considered starting?” The judge answered no — the fire starts when it is actually lit.
Still, prosecutors said, it was enough that Hayes had been caught on surveillance tape purchasing gasoline, was soaked to his socks in gas when he and Komisarjevsky were captured outside the house, and had been overheard admitting to a fellow inmate
Then there’s the fact that he did nothing to stop the fiery carnage — even if he didn’t strike the match. The two were acting together throughout the attack, prosecutors said.
“Ask yourselves, feeling that liquid being poured over their bodies, smelling the unmistakable smell of gasoline, is it reasonable to assume they were screaming for help?” prosecutor Gary Nicholson had said of the two girls in dramatic closing arguments.
“Hayley and Michaela Petit knew their deaths were near ... What did the defendant do while they were screaming for their lives?” the prosecutor asked. “Did he lift a finger to help them?”
Prosecutors believe Komisarjevsky, a fellow coke-head and career burglar who’d known Hayes from rehab, was the one to target the family, having spotted the mother and daughters the day before in a supermarket parking lot.
Komisarjevsky has admitted breaking in to the home through an unlocked cellar door on a predawn Monday morning in July. He has admitted repeatedly clubbing the father in the head with a baseball bat from the family’s basement.
Together, prosecutors say, the pair tied up the entire family. Just after 9 a.m., after some six hours, Hayes drove the mother to a nearby bank, where she withdrew $15,000 in cash ransom and calmly alerted the teller to the attack.
No effort was made to chase Hayes and the mom as they drove away, though the bank is only a couple-minutes drive from the police station and the teller was describing the car as it left the bank.
It took cops 40 minutes to leap into action — once they saw the two men fleeing the home, where they’d been waiting after establishing a perimeter.