Horrifying New Details In The Petit Murder Trial Drive Family Out Of The Courtroom
Sept. 29 2011, Published 2:45 p.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
Just when you think the evidence in Joshua Komisarjevsky's death penalty trial for his part in the Petit family murders couldn't get any worse, it took another grisly turn on Wednesday.
Just minutes after the state's chief medical examiner Dr. H. Wayne Carver took the stand to testify, grieving father and husband Dr. William Petit and more than a dozen other distraught family members left the courtroom, reported the Hartford Courant.
As Breaking Celebrity News has previously reported, Komisarjevsky is charged with 17 counts including murder, abduction and assault in the triple homicide of a mother and her two children, and the beating of their father.
The grisly case revolves around the seven-hour abduction of Dr. William Petit, his wife Jennifer Hawke-Petit and their daughters Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, who were held hostage in their Cheshire, Connecticut home on July 22, 2007.
The death penalty trial of the 31-year-old murder suspect began on September 19 and each day's proceedings has brought new abhorrent details of Connecticut's most horrific crime.
The mass exodus from the New Haven, Connecticut courtroom on Wednesday was no doubt sparked by the family's past experience of Dr. Carver's spare-no-details testimony during last year's trial of Komisarjevsky's alleged accomplice, Steven Hayes, when several jury members were brought to tears.
It took just hours for a jury to find Hayes guilty, after which he told the court that, "death would be a welcome relief." He will