In the middle of the night on July 23, 2007, two men broke into a house in Cheshire, killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters and setting the house on fire. Only the victims' husband and ...

Jennifer Hawke-Petit, and their daughters, Michaela and Hayley) at its Cheshire, Conn., home goes right to the essence of a core American fear, an abject anxiety that motivates some of us to buy ...

Co-defendant Joshua Komisarjevsky, 30, of Cheshire, is to be tried next year. Under gentle questioning by Dearington, Petit talked about his 22-year marriage to Jennifer Hawke-Petit. He identified ...

and Michaela Petit, 11, were found dead in their Cheshire, Conn., home. William Petit managed to escape and survive despite being beaten with a baseball bat and tied to a pole in the home’s ...

But arguably, the 2007 triple-homicide of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, Hayley and Michaela, during a home invasion in Cheshire may be the most well known of those killings.

"That's probably what I'll get assigned to as the new guy." Petit was severely beaten in a 2007 home invasion in Cheshire. Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes were convicted of murdering his ...

Two men broke into the Cheshire home in 2007 and murdered Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, ages 11 and 17. Her husband, Dr. William Petit, was beaten but survived. Questions about the ...

The Petit house, meanwhile, burned as a summer rain fell on Cheshire. By the time firefighters made it inside, there was nobody left to save. Michaela had died of smoke inhalation in her bed while ...

one of two men who murdered Petit’s wife and two daughters in July 2007 in the Cheshire home invasion. (Courant file photo) On Oct. 6, 2010, Petit, sitting with a bowed head in the gallery of a ...

DEC. 18, 2007: William Petit sends legislators an e-mail asking them to quickly revise the state’s parole system. JAN. 6, 2008: More than 140,000 luminarias line Cheshire’s streets on for the ...

Police told a hostage negotiator he wasn’t needed at the Petit family home in Cheshire, Conn., before Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters were brutally murdered there, a shocking report ...