The Cheshire Murders

True Crime All The Time

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True Crime, Truecrime, Podcast, Documentary, Murder, Exhibit C, Serial, Killers, Society & Culture

4.7 • 13.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Bill Petit and his wife Jennifer Hawke-Petit had built a wonderful life. They lived in the upscale neighborhood of Cheshire, Connecticut with their two amazing daughters 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela. In 2007, Jennifer and Michaela were at the grocery when they caught the eye of Joshua Komisarjevsky. Joshua followed them home and realized their house was the perfect burglary target for him and his partner. Joshua met fellow career criminal Steven Hayes early in 2007 at a halfway house and the two were looking to continue burglarizing houses. They broke into the Petit house on July 23, 2007, and in a bizarre set of events, burned down the house and murdered three of the four members of the family

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the horrific crimes committed against the Petit family. The paths of both Komisarjevsky and Hayes led them to serve time and then ultimately to meet each other just months before the murders. How did what they've stated was meant to be a home burglary end up in three murders and a husband left to grieve his wife and daughters?

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Hannah and I'm Sirete and we are the hosts of a Red Handed a weekly true crime podcast
0:05.7	Every week on Red Handed we get stuck into the most talked about cases from the Idaho student killings the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga
0:14.7	Last year we also started a second weekly show
0:17.6	Shorthand which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like
0:22.6	We've covered the death of Princess Diana and unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood
0:26.8	The gruesome history of European witch hunting and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction
0:32.8	Whatever the case we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior
0:37.8	Like can someone give consent to be cannibalized what drives a child to kill and what's the psychology of a terrorist
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1:30.3	Hello everyone and welcome to episode 139 of the true crime all the time podcast
1:35.5	I'm Mike Ferguson and with me as always is my partner in true crime might give some give me how are you hey man?
1:42.0	I'm doing good man. All right man. I love to hear it. You got a birthday coming up. Well
1:48.7	It's coming up from the time that we record this but
1:51.9	But when this episode is out you will be another your owner. Oh well, man
1:56.0	So happy birthday. Thank you. How are you doing man? I'm doing great doing great
2:00.4	Just got back from Gallenburg where my daughter was in a big dance competition and they did really well
2:06.2	Super excited for but I was so ready to get back
2:09.6	That's how I always am man if I go somewhere I'm okay for a couple of days, but pretty quickly. I'm ready to come back
2:16.4	Yeah, places I travel with you. You're pretty
2:20.0	Anci by the very next day. Yeah. Yeah, no doubt. I mean, we're going to Chicago here soon
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