jennifer, hayley and michaela, they were kind and they were sweet. they looked out for other people. they cared about other people. and spent their time helping people. so for them to suffer, you know, horrific, horrific deaths seems incredibly injust. it would seem incredibly injust for anybody. but obviously, they re the three people i knew and loved the best in the world. and it just contra contra the opposition of the just absolute evil that attacked us versus the goodness they represented. it s just worlds apart. a benign visit to the grocery store to get milk, bread, toilet paper.
dispatch, you can t help but walk away thinking there was another tragedy within the tragedy that occurred to the petit family here. initial call comes into the police department, 911. and this is the call that was actually from the bank manager. i will watch and see what kind of car she gets in. i m in the office with the lights off. my teller says she saw the driver, he had a black hood over a hoodie and a baseball cap on. i m going to keep you on hold for a couple minutes, all right? okay. some police officers were actually at the scene within second or minutes of when steven hayes and jennifer petit get back to the house. they had the phone number of the
house early on. nobody made a call. nobody knocked on the door. 9:56, two suspects are moving into chrysler. 9:57. there is a fire also at the scene. initial call comes in at 9:21. this is over a half an hour later. they were actually at the scene for 30 minutes. the strangulation of jennifer petit occurred. the rape of jennifer petit occurred. the pouring of gasoline occurred throughout the house. and the actual setting on fire of the house. all of this is taking place while the police are watching
and as the state of connecticut grew, as the cities surrounding the town of cheshire grew, it became a budding community, which is probably the way most people think of cheshire. returning to tonight s top story, a mother and two daughters dead, their father severely injured, after a home invasion stunned the town of cheshire. the suspects set the house on fire. jennifer petit, her cause of death, asphyxiation from strangulation. her daughters, haylee and mckayla, died from smoke inhalation.
part of her saying stare at him and don t take your eyes off of him, like he cannot be trusted. i d like to say a few things to these guys. i d like them to answer me the question do they know what it is to be terrorized? after waiting more than three years the petit and hawke families are ready for this trial to begin and hopeful that justice will prevail. we think of jennifer, haley and michaela of every second of everyday. it is a system, you know. and you know people say that it s the best system in the world, but it s a maddening system at best.