Rhino
10-24-2007, 12:18 PM
New Documents Offer Details of Connecticut Home Invasion
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The suspects in a deadly home invasion in Cheshire poured gasoline on and around a mother and two daughters, then set their house on fire and fled, according to search warrants released by a judge Tuesday.
The 11 heavily edited warrants provide the first official version of the events of July 23. Jennifer Hawke-Petit, and her daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, were killed. Hawke-Petit's husband, Dr. William Petit, was badly beaten but escaped.
Investigators found traces of rope-like material around the ankles of all three victims and tied to the two girls' wrists and bedposts, according to the warrants. They also found three partially melted one-gallon gas containers.
"One of the deceased was burned beyond recognition, with indications that an accelerant was liberally poured on her," investigators wrote...
...Hawke-Petit was strangled and the two girls died of smoke inhalation...http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,304496,00.html
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The suspects in a deadly home invasion in Cheshire poured gasoline on and around a mother and two daughters, then set their house on fire and fled, according to search warrants released by a judge Tuesday.
The 11 heavily edited warrants provide the first official version of the events of July 23. Jennifer Hawke-Petit, and her daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, were killed. Hawke-Petit's husband, Dr. William Petit, was badly beaten but escaped.
Investigators found traces of rope-like material around the ankles of all three victims and tied to the two girls' wrists and bedposts, according to the warrants. They also found three partially melted one-gallon gas containers.
"One of the deceased was burned beyond recognition, with indications that an accelerant was liberally poured on her," investigators wrote...
...Hawke-Petit was strangled and the two girls died of smoke inhalation...http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,304496,00.html