The Cheshire Murders Page #7

The one and only time we had an

execution here, in my lifetime,

in Connecticut, was

this guy Michael Ross,

and that was after 25 years of

drama to get to that point,

and the guy asked

to be executed.

The reality is that you'll feel like

you're making progress every day,

but it's gonna go on forever.

It'll probably be two years before

they even start selecting of the jury.

I'm getting pretty old.

I hope I live long enough so

that I can attend the trial.

I want to see justice done.

"Attention

Detective Fran Budwitz

"of the Connecticut

State Police.

"I give this statement

to aid and assist those"

"who now have the burden and huge

responsibility of seeking justice."

"My earliest memories of Steve

go back to age four or five.

"Steve presented himself as

the apple of everyone's eye.

"What many people did not see

was the brother I knew.

"Being young and naive, I arrived

home from school in seventh grade.

"Steven and his friends were using

the oven to dry out some marijuana.

"He turned on the

burner on the stove.

"He told me it was really cool

and put my hand over it.

"'It's cool.

You won't get hurt.'

"As soon as I put

my hand over the burner,

"he pushed my hand

onto the hot burner

"and I had ring scars

that lasted for months.

"To say there hasn't

been a history of violence,

"well, this should, this should serve

to say the predisposition was there.

"It was always there.

"Within two months of moving, Steve took my

mother's car in the middle of the night.

"Upon calling the police,

the relationship

"with my mom, Steven, and the law

enforcement officials began.

"Steven is not sick.

"Steven is cunning

and calculating.

"Please exercise discretion.

"I will assist how I can.

"However, there is enough to hang

him without any family involvement.

"Steven is alone.

He will answer to God,

"he will answer to the law,

and my prayer is"

"he will answer to himself, before

fate hands him his final sentence."

I don't know.

I'd like to be there from the beginning of

each trial through the end of each one.

If there are things to look

at that they had to endure,

I feel like it's part

of my life to know

what they lived through

or died through,

and I just feel like it's

not to punish ourselves,

it's just to know in the end

and have that finality of...

"Oh, this is how it looked. This

is what they say they did."

"A thief in the

night, I've come to steal

"not jewels and money, but your

personal safety, privacy, and security.

"I violate your inner

asylum of intimacy.

"I piss on your optical illusion

of peace and innocence.

"I feast on your animosity."

"The Petit family passed

through their fear

"into the calm waters

of abject terror,

"like mesmerized rabbits cornered

by a springing predator.

"To see that fear, that

emotional pain I feel every day

"manifested on another's face validates

that this pain in me is real.

"The shockwaves of

my self's hopelessness

"reverberated its bitterness

through my rocked soul

"at the realization that I crossed

life's bridge of depravity.

"The awakening of my shadow, repressed

within, reaching its zenith that morning

"with rapturous control

of Michaela."

"Her age was insignificant."

Come on, Shadow.

Come on, Rummy.

Inside. Let's go.

Let's go. Inside.

On the phone, Joshua

denied raping the 11-year-old,

but I knew Joshua raped

that 11-year-old.

I just knew. And he kept...

Joshua kept telling me that he

didn't and I didn't believe him.

I couldn't believe him.

Because I was raped

in ninth grade, and...

Hold on a minute.

Before I left,

I told him about it.

I know he didn't know

Michaela at the time,

but I feel like maybe he

was thinking of a Michaela

while he was doing

that stuff to me.

Punishment that would

be good enough for him

would be having done to him

what he'd done to them.

Roll cue to video.

Sure. One, two,

three, four, five.

There are two suspects, but

Steven Hayes goes on trial first.

He is in court today.

But he looks very different

from his mug shot.

He's lost weight, he's in a

regular striped shirt and pants.

No handcuffs on him

in front of the jury.

And it is because this case

has gotten so much publicity

that picking an impartial

jury could be difficult.

Sunny, you were

inside the courtroom today.

What sort of state did

Komisarjevsky appear to be in?

He's much heavier now.

He sort of has a buzz cut.

Komisarjevsky is dressed

in a suit and engaged in the process.

Now, if you're wondering how

long this is all going to last,

we're talking about

several months.

This morning,

the judge told the...

From the courthouse,

I don't think Cheshire's

but about a 15 minute drive.

Everybody knew this case.

Terry Nichols, Timothy McVeigh,

the Oklahoma City bombing cases

were number two and three.

Komisarjevsky was number one.

Talking to almost 2,000

prospective jurors,

everyone had made conclusions

based on the publicity,

and that conclusion

was very clear.

Joshua Komisarjevsky was guilty.

75% also expressed the opinion

that Joshua should die.

I've never had a jury selection where

people would jump out of their seats...

"I'll kill him now."

It's in the news, Internet.

How could you miss it?

What did you think

when you saw him?

Um, I just think

he's a murderer.

"Frustrating day, but

two more jurors were selected.

That came in at

8:
13 this morning.

"Still need four more jurors, six

alternates, and two substitutes."

So it's

about 11:
00, this morning,

my time, Pacific time, and one

of Steven's attorney's called.

They went in to check on him this

morning and he was unresponsive.

Steven's lying in a coma induced

by, you know, a medical team.

They're not sharing why.

You know, the attorney said

that he could very well die.

And they're expected to be

back in court tomorrow.

They can't proceed

without him in the room.

Steven squirreled away nine

or so doses of Thorazine

and Klonopin.

And you might question

how this could happen.

About a year before this, Steven

Hayes had made a suicide attempt

and one of the things they found

in his cell was a suicide note.

I quote, "I am sorry.

All I want to do is die."

"It is the only way to end

the pain I go through

"every day 24/7,

and more important,

"the pain that trial

will bring to others.

"Time to go to the last

undiscovered country.

"Although I am not the monster that

Josh is, I am one nevertheless.

"A coward, because I could

not do what was right.

"Looking back on my life,

I was nothing

"but a self-centered a**hole

who cared only of himself.

"But the ironic facet to this is I have

always had the ability to change."

"But cowards don't change.

They become me."

The judge actually

toured Hayes' cell yesterday.

It's called a safe cell, which will

protect him from harming himself.

He learned a lot. He also wears

something called Ferguson clothing,

which an inmate wears if they're

in jeopardy of killing themselves,

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