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. 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. >> i had a phone call here