Tony At 10: SUSPICION IN THE AIR: BLOG NUMBER 2013; JAN 01,2016

THE MESSAGE:

There are several very obvious questions that come to my mind when I review the facts that the Media presented surrounding the home invasion that took lace in Cheshire Connecticut. I wonder if the family's father was somehow involved with one of the killers. Did this killer and the doctor have a plan that money would flow to the killers benefit.? Did the doctor and the killers believe that they would escape and remain unidentified and at large? Did the doctor want his wife out of the way? Did he figure that his two daughters would escape the burning home instead of ending up dead? Another question would be that if he believed the girls would not be harmed, did he linger quietly as a bound victim in the basement of his home while his wife was raped and murdered? What took him so long to escape? IS THIS STORY A CASE FOR 'THE FIRST 48'?

THE STORY

Steven Hayes and his accomplice, Joshua Komisarjevsky, followed Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, and her two daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, to their Cheshire, Connecticut home on July 23, 2007, as part of a planned home invasion and robbery. Hayes had previously observed the women and followed them home.

The two men weren’t killers. They dealt drugs and took drugs. They were, until that night, two down-and-out white guys in a state with some of the richest white people in the nation. They later said they thought the robbery at 300 Sorghum Mill Drive would be a simple transaction, conducted with minimal violence.

THE FAMILY

Jennifer Hawke-Petit, and her two daughters, Hayley, top left and Michaela were murdered during a home invasion in Cheshire, Conn. in 2007. Husband and father William Petit Jr.(right) was able to escape.

On the night of the invasion, they attacked the husband and father with a baseball bat, taped his feet and hands and tied him to a post in the basement.

During the lengthy ordeal, while the family remained in their home under the watchful eye of Komisarjevsky. Hayes drove Hawke-Petit to a bank and forced to her to withdraw money.

The murderers held the Petit family hostage for seven terrifying hours. The wife was raped and strangled and the youngest daughter sexually assaulted. All were tied up and their house set afire. Both girls died of smoke inhalation. Haley had escaped her bonds but succumbed to smoke at the top of the stairs. Petit escaped with his life.

Both Komisarjevsky and Hayes were captured as they fled the burning home and crashed into a police cruiser. The bank had alerted local police and they had set up a perimeter around the house.

Recently it was revealed that police were dispatched to stop the car driven by Hayes before it returned from the bank to the house. Apparently they somehow failed to do so. Perhaps the murders could have been preempted.

Joshua Komisarjevsky's lawyers are asking for a new trial after he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 2007 for the killings of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters. From prison, Komisarjevsky called Dr. Petit coward. His lawyers are asking that the guilty verdict be overturned due to a lack of evidence. They claim that the police have withheld records of calls between dispatch and police cars in the field.

Convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of three during a 2007 home invasion in Cheshire, Steven Hayes, 50, was revived by staff and taken to the hospital after he was found unresponsive in his cell. The convicted killer has spoken in the past of wanting to die because of his immense guilt over the crime.

THE QUESTIONS:

Why had Dr. Petit not escaped sooner. Why had it taken him over six hours to free himself? Why had he run out of the house, instead of to the second floor to try to save his family?