Petit Family Murderer Steven Hayes Boasts Of '17 Kills,' Calls Victims 'Adventure Buddies'
Oct. 24 2011, Published 4:30 a.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
As the death penalty phase of the trial for convicted killer Joshua Komisarjevsky begins on Tuesday, it is his accomplice in the Petit family murders who has made a shocking confession in a series of chilling letters, Breaking Celebrity News has learned.
Steven Hayes, who was convicted last year for his part in the Cheshire, Connecticut home invasion that spiraled into a triple homicide, is awaiting execution on death row and wrote to a woman from prison claiming he was "sharing a dark secret,” reported the New Haven Register.
The 48-year-old convict described with relish how he had tied up and killed two women and admitted to murdering many more.
“Yes, I’ve killed before,” Hayes boasted. “I have 17 kills throughout the Northeast United States. Perfect victims and well executed, controlled endeavors.”
As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Hayes admitted to raping and strangling Jennifer Hawke-Petit during the July 23, 2007 attack. Her daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, were tied to their beds and died of smoke inhalation when the family home was set on fire.
After "ranting and raving about leaving DNA," Hayes told his partner in crime, "'We've got to kill them.' Kill the family and burn the house down,'" Komisarjevsky claimed in his taped confession to police.
In what has been dubbed the "Dear Lynn" letters to his pen pal in Wilson, North Carolina, Hayes takes pleasure in revealing the most graphic details about his obscene past crimes.
The correspondence, which includes three to four letters, was confiscated by Connecticut Department of Correction official