The Cheshire Murders Page #3

This is something

that's unnatural.

This is pure talent.

He had to have practiced this

and worked on this for years.

But when we talk about the...

Just the pure evil.

How am I gonna go in there and tell

them that this was a good kid,

and that I was

really close to him,

after what he did?

Joshua was a little,

skinny, frail kid.

I saw him behind the bars.

He had on his, uh,

cream-colored jail uniform.

He was slight.

He was polite.

He's adopted.

He went from regular school

special ed to home school.

This whole package

didn't make sense to me.

Burglary, burglary, burglary,

burglary, and burglary.

Genius that he is, and he is

a genius in some respects,

with a photographic memory

and attention to detail

that no normal mind

could possibly retain,

he told them every

burglary he did.

He knew every item he took, passports,

what dumpsters he threw it in.

Joshua could get into

a third floor,

steal things, know which

denominations of bills he took,

a year later, two years later.

Tell you where each wallet was, what

kind of pants they were taken from,

where the pants were on the floor,

or on the bedpost, in the closet.

Stay there for hours,

not get caught.

Joshua used relatively sophisticated

equipment for a burglar.

Night vision goggles,

latex gloves.

After he robbed the house,

he would stay there,

on occasion, and listen

to the people breathing,

and go from room to room, listening

to the occupants breathing,

for no apparent purpose.

That was the frightening

part of it.

He'd rob state troopers'

houses, which takes some guts.

"And I said," Judge,

he needs to be watched.

"This kid is sick.

"You're never gonna

see him again

"or he's gonna be the worst criminal

to pass through these doors,

"because that's the kind

of a mind he's got."

There was no

obvious flag here...

"No obvious flag," the new chairman

of the Board of Pardons and Paroles

says that the two

suspects in the brutal.

Cheshire home invasion

and triple murder

were capable of doing

what they allegedly did.

There's no evidence

that we've seen yet

that they were recently...

Uh, failed any drug tests.

They were both employed.

They were both living in what

appeared to be stable households.

Komisarjevsky was

arrested for 18 home invasions,

and the warning bells in there

should have been

ringing very loudly.

Under a ten-year-old law, the

prosecutors are supposed to

order a transcript of

the sentencing preceding

and send that along

to the parole board.

I mean, I used to be

a prosecutor.

I helped write this law

I'm talking about.

Because I knew that

it's at the sentencing

that you really find out

everything you need to know

about this offender

and the crime.

The problem is,

none of this ever got

to the Department

of Corrections.

None of this ever got

to the parole board.

So, from the point of view of

the Department of Corrections,

they got a first time ever

incarcerated inmate.

Young, white, bright,

home schooled, remorseful,

never identified as a person

with high mental health needs

because he didn't come across

as that type of person.

He was a real manipulator.

The typical sentence

for burglary

is a maximum of ten years

in prison for each offense.

Komisarjevsky could have still

been locked up for two lifetimes.

It was possible.

It didn't happen.

I went to Bank of

America to open a new account

and Mrs. Petit

was at the counter.

All I saw was white blond hair

and a white piece of paper.

The teller handing it

to the manager

and the manager really just running

right behind me to her office.

And she just left.

It's very delicate.

Three lives were taken

that should not have been.

Things happened

in a manner that...

And I'm not saying the police...

Because when you have a hostage

situation, you wait until...

You have to assess.

But she was screaming

for her life.

He's in the basement. Conscious.

Bound by the ankles.

Daughter loose upstairs.

She was a very strong girl.

How did it happen?

Cheshire Police.

No one is talking.

No one.

Lieutenant, good morning, sir.

Good morning, Dan.

First of all, uh,

the Cheshire Police Department

in their response

to this initial call

was absolutely outstanding.

Uh, they did a stellar job.

Uh, the Chief and all those

personnel in Cheshire PD

deserve a lot of

praise and credit...

People are

asking about a timeline, you know,

when did this occur,

when did that occur?

We don't detail

that information.

That's... That's...

That's not something

that really the public really needs to

be concerned about at this point in time

and it has more of an impact

on the case itself.

Um, you know, the type

of injury, the scene

that one may try to

envision in their mind,

we're not gonna detail that.

We're not gonna discuss, um,

you know, how someone died...

Over and above manner and cause,

which, we'll give manner

and cause of death,

but we're not gonna get into great

graphic detailed description.

Um, you know, we're not

gonna talk about assaults.

We're not gonna

talk about weapons.

Say what we don't know.

What happened?

And the next...

...the ensuing half-hour.

Yeah.

Between the time

Hayes and Hawke-Petit

returned home?

- Mmm-hmm.

- And the time...

I don't want to say, "The first

Cheshire police." MAN 1: No.

They were arrested

coming out of the house?

Time they were arrested.

Yeah.

"That may only be

answered at trial."

If you can answer some of the

questions, go ahead and do that.

Yup.

And then, uh...

There's so little

information and there's so many

rumors and innuendo circulating.

People are clamoring

to find out what happened.

The Day possibly proposed

that William Petit was

somehow involved.

Speculation.

The sooner, I think, we

get all the information,

the sooner folks can

really start healing,

because the unknown is just as

frightening as what happened, in a way.

You have all these people saying

all this stuff, you know?

Just tell us what happened, and,

uh, then we can deal with it.

It's almost

like not knowing is...

Kind of keeps that

wound open, you know?

I don't know. It's gonna be a

while 'till we see trial, so...

It's starting to pan out that

the state's claim is pretty strong.

Overwhelmingly strong.

And that what's at stake at

this case is life or death.

You have the gasoline

aspect of it.

You know, the sexual assault.

Horrible crime scene photos.

You have the right defendant.

You have the right perpetrator.

What do we do?

Isn't this the case

that death is warranted?

And, um...

And I can't accept that.

Once you allow the death

penalty to go forward,

then the next case comes along,

and it's okay for the next case

because that crime was horrifying,

and what if that's a mistake?

What if that's an innocent guy?

And this notion that, if you execute

somebody, you know, you'll save money.

You know, that's the furthest

thing from the truth.

You know, we have

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