The Cheshire Murders Page #9

cell phone before the bank.

The first set of photographs,

you know, showed Michaela.

There were leg shots and genital

area shots, but they were clothed.

The last shots while they were at

the bank were much more graphic.

Really awful, awful,

awful photographs.

Those are the kinds of

things you never forget.

They kind of become

emblazoned in your mind.

It just shows the level of

depravity of Joshua Komisarjevsky.

Joshua was committed, against

the wishes of his parents,

he was committed and spent, I

think, two weeks at Elmcrest.

He was clearly in terrible

shape and suicidal.

The records

are very clear that Joshua

wanted to try the medication, Joshua wanted

the therapy, but the parents rejected it.

Not only did the parents reject it,

but they immediately took him up

to the Alton Bay

Christian Center.

People would say that he was

seeing demons and he believed that.

And would pray

that they'd go away.

And people would gather around

him and pray over him

and lay hands on him and speak

in tongues over him.

Exorcism?

That was kind of a regular part of our lives

when it came to dealing with anxiety.

He ended up breaking into my room at the

discipleship house to come and see me.

He was essentially

excommunicated for doing that.

His whole life, everything,

was just gone. Overnight.

There was no addressing that

perhaps this was a desperate kid

who actually didn't, wasn't

wrestling with the devil

but had experienced trauma

and was losing his grip.

Some people called our

office asking if we would,

we would take Josh on,

in spite of,

some of his legal difficulties

as a member of our tour.

I just gave Josh a little

bit of responsibility

and let him know that I expected him

to be a leader, and he blossomed.

He just loved it.

We came to the end of that

tour and it was a good tour.

I think it wasn't long after that

that Josh joined the Reserves.

Then he was discharged.

And then that's when

his troubles started again.

Morning rolls around.

They untie Mrs. Petit.

Steven takes her to the bank.

Mrs. Petit is in the bank.

It's taking longer

than he thought.

- You performed oral sex on KK?

- On KK.

Did you take pictures of her?

Now, did you say you

let her get dressed again?

How, how is it she came

upon being undressed?

Because you originally

said she was dressed.

No one disputes

that he committed this crime.

Eventually, he tells

the police officer

that while Hayes is gone, he goes

upstairs and sexually assaults KK.

At that point, the judge

stops the tape.

He says, "A juror

is having problems"

"with this testimony,

with this evidence,"

and that he's gonna

stop it for the day

and they will continue

again tomorrow.

A very difficult day

in court here.

We're good.

Thank you very much.

Komisarjevsky was

calling my youngest niece "KK."

Like, you know, who are

you to be using that term

and calling her this, like,

term of endearment that we use?

Okay, you show me

that baseball bat again

that you hit Billy with and

I'll show you how it feels.

You want them to

lose a daughter.

You want their house

to burn down.

You want them to see

how it feels.

And, and other times,

you think, "Gosh, who am I?"

Like, "This is wicked. How

could I wish this on anybody?"

Steven is becoming anxious.

He calls Joshua.

Joshua tells him, "Everything's gonna

be fine. The plan is gonna work."

After a period of time, Mrs. Petit

comes out of the bank with money.

When they arrive

back at the house,

Steven is under the belief that the

crime is over. Now they could leave.

But Joshua tells Steven

that, "We have a problem."

He had left DNA with

one of the children

and he had to kill them

and their dad,

and Dr. Petit had died

from the injuries,

and that now he had to get his

hands dirty and kill Mrs. Petit.

I believe Steven.

But from the first time that

Josh talked to the police,

he tried to save himself by blaming Steven

for all the horrific stuff that occurred.

Steven tells me

that he felt betrayed by Josh,

that he felt dragged into

this horror of a crime,

and he also felt, in a crazy

way, betrayed by Mrs. Petit,

because he looks out the window

and he sees police cars.

And he realizes that Mrs. Petit

must have informed bank officials.

He is triggered into

this state of rage.

He strangles

Jennifer Hawke-Petit,

he pulls down her pants,

pulls her legs up,

and he vaginally rapes her

after he strangles her.

Which is where the dad was.

Steven hears Josh

telling him they have to leave.

Spread the gasoline

and let's get out of here.

Why did you close the doors?

I don't, I don't...

You knew they were tied,

but you closed the doors.

Empty bottles of...

Of gasoline, so he went

back up with another bottle?

Okay.

All of these family

members that have had to relive

the horror of what happened inside of that

home the night they were all tied up,

has been heartbreaking to

watch inside of the courtroom.

The images have been absolutely

devastating of the crime scene...

When it's all put out in

front of you, it's very gruesome.

It's, it's insane to just hear and

it's just affected the whole town

and it's like the whole town

is just reliving it all again,

and it's not easy for all of us.

These are pictures of, like, the

accelerant pattern that they showed.

How they went from, like, where

Hayley's body was upstairs

into her bedroom

and onto her bed

and then down the hall and into

Michaela's bedroom and onto her bed.

And when they finally put the

fire detective on the stand,

I saw Michaela was tied and she

had gasoline dumped on her

while she was alive and alert,

and that at least

Hayley, I know,

was probably burning

while she was breathing.

And that was just a really

hard thing to learn,

because I never really knew if the girls

were alive when they were burning or not,

and it kind of was

made true to us

that, that was

the case with Hayley,

that she had walked

while she was on fire,

because she fell down

and the front of her

was more burned than

the back of her.

I was crying

and I just felt like.

I wanted to get out of that courtroom

and scream and just say, you know,

"I can't believe what's

going on in there."

You know, I just...

It's making me so angry,

and I can't understand

why somebody couldn't have

ventilated that house for the girls

while they were still alive,

and I just...

I want it to be so different.

We're finally seeing the defense

giving tough questioning to the Cheshire

police officers who initially responded

to the call of

that home invasion.

The officers said

they followed protocol.

Doctor William Petit

has always supported

the actions of the

Cheshire Police Department.

One captain testifying

that the incident

did not make sense

at first, and he said,

"It still doesn't

make sense today."

Steven admitted

to killing the mom.

He admitted to raping the mom.

He admitted to

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