two suspects whose actions were beyond brutal. he swung the bat as hard as he could. before they tied anybody up, before the fire was set, joshua tried to kill dr. petit on the couch. reporter: i m rani kaye in cheshire, connecticut. tonight, a cnn special report. what happened to a wife, a husband and their two daughters in a home that became a house of horror and terror? pure evil, the killings in connecticut. for the petit family in this quiet connecticut suburb, there was never any hint of the violence that was to come. the epitome of the all-american family. a beautiful mother and two beautiful daughters. reporter: never any clue their vibrant home on this road in the town of cheshire would soon become a house of horrors. their last day together as a family was a classic summer sunday. dr. william petit, a prominent connecticut doctor, a leading expert in the field of diabetes played golf with his dad. earlier that day, his wife of 22 years, jennifer hawke-pe
two suspects whose actions were beyond brutal. he swung the bat as hard as he could. before they tied anybody up, before the fire was set, joshua tried to kill dr. petit on the couch. reporter: i m rani kaye in cheshire, connecticut. tonight, a cnn special report. what happened to a wife, a husband and their two daughters in a home that became a house of horror and terror? pure evil, the killings in connecticut. for the petit family in this quiet connecticut suburb, there was never any hint of the violence that was to come. the epitome of the all-american family. a beautiful mother and two beautiful daughters. reporter: never any clue their vibrant home on this road in the town of cheshire would soon become a house of horrors. their last day together as a family was a classic summer sunday. dr. william petit, a prominent connecticut doctor, a leading expert in the field of diabetes played golf with his dad. earlier that day, his wife of 22 years, jennifer hawke-pe
couch. reporter: i m rani kaye in cheshire, connecticut. tonight, a cnn special report. what happened to a wife, a husband and their two daughters in a home that became a house of horror and terror? pure evil, the killings in connecticut. for the petit family in this quiet connecticut suburb, there was never any hint of the violence that was to come. the epitome of the all-american family. a beautiful mother and two beautiful daughters. reporter: never any clue their vibrant home on this road in the town of cheshire would soon become a house of horrors. their last day together as a family was a classic summer sunday. dr. william petit, a prominent connecticut doctor, a leading expert in the field of diabetes played golf with his dad. earlier that day, his wife of 22 years, jennifer hawke-petit, and her daughter, michaela, 11, had gone grocery shopping at this stop & shop supermarket. the younger daughter was going to make a special dinner for her family. so she and
protests have taken place. as demonstrations enter their fifth week, you cannot deny these simple facts. it is power in numbers. just look at the scenes here playing out all over the country. but f as this continues, protesters are increasingly being ordered out of public parks by city leaders who say they have rules to enforce. but protesters say it s a ruse to end their protest. in atlanta, occupy protesters have been camping out in a downtown park for the past week but have been ordered to leave by monday. in new york, protesters barely escaped a stand-off with police after being ordered to leave a park in manhattan. mayor michael bloomberg says the company that opened the park called off its decision to clean the park after it was bombarded with calls from public officials who threatened them. occupy wall street protesters seeing this as a big victory. susan candiotti is in new york city in the middle of it all. susan, how are the protesters reacting to this delayed clean
the man on the right hand side of the screen, josh komisarjevsky and the first defendant in the case is already on death row. today in court, one of the officers who questioned komisarjevsky said that the suspect admitted he was planning on sending explicit photos of the 11-year-old daughter do his accomplice to get the mother to cooperate. police say komisarjevsky admitted to sexually assaulting the young are girl in a graphic taped confession. in the same recording the jury heard him describe the attack on the father quoting i hit him in the head with a baseball bat and he got up and let out an unearthly scream and i could not take the scream so i kept hitting him. the suspect tied up the family, robbed them, and burned their home to the ground. only the father managed to escape. and now, live from new york newsroom. laura, we learned more this court today about that fire.