as a united methodist minister, i am a minister of a church at large that is opposed to capital punishment. that has put me between a rock and a hard place. we certainly don t approve of torture of people. but we feel that there has to be some justice in how people are dealt with when they are so inhumane in their treatment of others. you know, it just makes me want to cry. jennifer, hayley and michaela,
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. people spend at lot of time parsing words instead of really
became a bedding 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, hayley and michaela, died from smoke inhalation. i had a phone call here monday afternoon from billy s sister.
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.
own as the betting capital of connecticut, for betting plants. it was historically a farming community, a lot of family farms. 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. 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.