Jail Confession Is Retold In a Triple Murder Trial
By, William Glaberson
A three year old murder case has finally made is to trial. In Cheshire Connecticut in 2008, Steven Hayes murdered and raped Jennifer Hawke-Petit and murdered her two daughters Hayley and Michaela. Her husband, Dr. Petit was bound and badly beaten but escaped and went for help. Hayes and his accomplice Joshua Komisarjevsky robbed, raped, beat, murdered the Petits and then burned their house down. While Hayes has been imprisoned, two guards have retold things they overheard him saying to another inmate through vents and doors. He confessed to another inmate that his accomplice forced him to kill Mrs. Petit after they raped her and he told another that he believed Mr. Petit set fire to his own house to collect insurance. The guard said that Mr. Hayes told the inmate, he had only "poured gasoline down the stairs in the Cheshire house, but he had not lit the match, so he believed he could not be charged with arson." The trial will go on for months and will also deal with Hayes' accomplice.
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