The girls died of smoke inhalation. Hawke-Petit and Michaela were also sexually assaulted. The crimes and their viciousness drew worldwide attention, drawing comparisons to the killings portrayed in Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood'' and becoming the subjects of TV shows, documentaries and books. Both Komisarjevsky and Hayes were sentenced to death, but the punishments were changed to life in prison without the possibility of release after Connecticut abolished the death penalty in Komisarjevsky's appeal also claimed the state failed to disclose evidence, placed him in unconstitutionally strict prison conditions and failed to correct false expert testimony against him.
Skip to content. Only the father, Dr. William Petit, survived. Brutally beaten and left bound in the basement, he managed to make his way out to a neighbor's home. Petit has sat in the courtroom through almost all of the trial, openly crying when jurors were shown pictures of his slain wife and children, and walking out as the medical examiner testified how Petit's year-old daughter was brutalized.
State's Attorney Michael Dearington told jurors that Hayes was equally guilty for the carnage, saying they could "count the opportunities that [Hayes] had to walk away from this.
It was them. They were out of control. Dearington blasted the defense for trying to convince the jury that Hayes simply got caught up in the moment. Hayes have a motive to have those two girls killed? Yes he did," he added. The details exposed during Hayes' trial were gruesome and disturbing, from the text messages allegedly sent between Hayes and Komisarjevsky to the fire that ravaged the building and its occupants that July day.
Testimony revealed that Hawke-Petit had been strangled to death after she'd been raped, while Hayley and Michaela died of smoke inhalation.
Computer and technology expert John Farnham was shown eight pictures off Komisarjevsky's cell phone, taken while he and defendant Hayes allegedly assaulted their victims. The jury was spared the shocking images, but Farnham was asked to describe each one. In two of the photos, he said, Komisarjevsky -- who will face trial after Hayes -- was photographed nude and posing suggestively.
Five showed a young female with her arms tied above her head, with a cloth over her face and a close up of her underwear. Corrections Officer Jeremiah Krob, who has been responsible for the continuous observation of Hayes while he sits in prison, testified that he overheard conversations Hayes has had with another inmate, Vernon Cowan, in which he admitted killing Hawke-Petit.
Hayes allegedly told Cowan that he didn't know if he could "go through" with killing Petit-Hawke, according to Krob, but when he spotted police cruisers outside the family's home that July day, he did it.
He just stated that he did kill Mrs. Petit," Krob testified. Some of what Krob heard was in conversations between Hayes and other inmates using an inmate communication system. Krob said Hayes talked with his cell neighbor by placing "empty toilet paper rolls and placing it over the sink drain and talking to each other through that system.
Guilty: Sex-1 use of threat or force against Jennifer Hawke-Petit Guilty: Murder, victim of sex assault 1, in the slaying of Jennifer Hawke Petit.
Guilty: Third-degree burglary of the Petit home. Not guilty: First-degree felony arson of the Petit home. Guilty: Second-degree assault of Dr. William Petit. The charges accused Hayes of meaning to intend to hurt Dr.
Petit with a dangerous instrument, namely a bat, and aiding the other suspect in hurting the doctor. In the murder of Hayley Petit, Judge John Blue told the jury that whether they think Hayes was the principal or accessory, he's still to be found guilty. To find Hayes guilty of murder, victim of sex assault 1, the jury would have to determine that the state proved that Hayes sexually assaulted the mother of two and murdered her immediately before, during or after the fact, the judge said.
For Hayes to be found guilty of felony murder, multiple victims, the state would have to prove that the murders happened at the same time or that the murders happened as part of a plan. Skip to content.
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