Hayley Petit

While he sat on Connecticut's death row late in 2011, the trial of his accomplice in the Cheshire home invasion killings was underway in a New Haven courtroom. Joshua Komisarjevsky's lawyers were rolling out a no-holds-barred, detailed defense,...

HARTFORD, CT -- While Steven Hayes sat on Connecticut's death row late in 2011, the trial of his accomplice in the Cheshire home invasion killings was underway in a New Haven courtroom. Joshua Komisarjevsky's lawyers were rolling out a no-holds-barred,...

A soot-covered piece of paper on top of a desk in the Petit family's home office caught the eye of prosecutor Michael Dearington the day he walked through the charred remains of 300 Sorghum Mill Drive in Cheshire. It was a letter announcing an...

On the day he was sentenced to execution for the slayings of a mother and her two daughters, Joshua Komisarjevsky kept his finger pointed at his accomplice and insisted he never meant for anyone to die during the July 2007 deadly home invasion in...

Recently defense counsel Walter Bansley III was quoted saying he will "have no practice left" when he finishes representing Joshua Komisarjevsky, who is charged in the slayings of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, in...

— Hayley Petit died of smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning, an associate state medical examiner who performed the autopsy on the 17-year-old victim of the Cheshire home invasion testified Monday afternoon in Joshua Komisarjevsky's trial....

Jurors in the trial of Joshua Komisarjevsky are expected to hear testimony Wednesday about the final hours of the life of 11-year-old Michaela Petit, the youngest victim of the 2007 Cheshire home invasion. Dr. H. Wayne Carver II, the state's chief...

Johanna Petit Chapman had the grim task of identifying the bodies of her nieces, Hayley and Michaela, after the 2007 deadly Cheshire home invasion. So when she learned Thursday that one of Joshua Komisarjevsky's defense lawyers had described her family's...

The gasoline-fueled arson fire that killed Michaela and Hayley Petit started in the first-floor family room of the Petit home, near the body of Jennifer Hawke-Petit, a state police fire investigator testified Friday in the trial of Joshua Komisarjevsky....

Ten days of disturbing testimony from more than 30 witnesses called by prosecutors — which at times brought some jurors to tears and prompted victims' loved ones to leave the courtroom — ended Monday, clearing the way for Joshua Komisarjevsky'...

— At one point during closing arguments in his triple-murder trial Tuesday, Joshua Komisarjevsky slowly rose to his feet to face the jury that will decide whether he lives or dies. He didn't speak and stood for a few seconds expressionless, dressed...

Joshua Komisarjevsky faces 17 charges in the Cheshire home invasion case, including six capital felony charges that carry the possibility of a death sentence. Conviction on one or more of the capital felony charges would move the case to a penalty phase....