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.
fire. jennifer petit, her cause of death, asphyxiation from strangulation. her daughters, haylee and mckayla, died from smoke inhalation. i had a phone call here monday afternoon from billy s sister. and i said, hannah, it s about the girls, isn t it? and she said, these two men came in, what they think was 3:00 in the morning, and they beat billy really badly with a baseball bat. and his head s all split apart. and then they proceeded to do all these awful things to the girls.
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 eve 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. people spend at lot of time parsing words instead of really trying to get to what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil. but it is the system we have, and so we are hoping, hoping that the system we have will give us justice. today s date is july 23rd, 2007. statement taking place at the cheshire police department
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g center manager. we have a lady who is in our bank right now. who says that her husband and children are being held at their house. the people are in a car outside the bank. she is getting $15,000. to bring out to them. that if the police are told, they will kill her children and the husband. her name is jennifer petit, p-e-t-i-t. okay. is she still in the bank? yes, she is. okay. she s being held or her husband her husband and family is being held? yes. at their house? yes. they re tied up. she said they drove her here. i m trying to look and see where she has gone. wait, i see her walking now. she is petrified. tonight, police removed the body of one of the victims after a home invasion leaves a mother and her two daughters dead.