dr. william petit had to relive all that during the guilt or innocence phase of the first of two trials just now concluding. >> reporter: can any of us imagine what it's like being dr. william petit these last three years? speaking with dignity and kpoesher to courthouse reporters this week about the murders ever his wife and two daughters. a crime as horrific in its details as any in recent memory. >> over the last couple of weeks i've just kept trying to tell myself that good will overcome evil and we'll keep trying to do good things and try to refocus myself on the positive and stay away from the negative. >> reporter: they were the family like so many we know in america. jennifer, mom and wife, a school nurse. hayley, 17 on her way to dartmouth in the fall. mikaela, 11, a tv cooking fan and the doctor in their central connecticut town of cheshire. they seemed to suit their home

dr. william petit was asleep when intruders broke into his connecticut home, beat him and bound him then the intruders turned viciously on dr. petit's wife and two daughters. today, the doctor passed a milestone in his ordeal. one of the intruders was convicted on murder. tonight, dr. petit talks about how the nightmare unfolded. ashleigh banfield reports. >> reporter: on the steps of a connecticut courthouse, dr. william petit emerges stoic, but relieveded. >> we did our best to keep our faith in god that justice would be served. >> reporter: a guilty verdict for stephen hayes. he's the first of two men to be tried of an unimaginable crime against dr. petit's family three years ago. >> there is some relief, but my family is still gone. it doesn't bring them back. it doesn't bring back the home that we had. >> reporter: dr. petit has come here, day after excruciating day, relieving a nightmare. >> if your family was destroyed by evil, i think that you would all try to do the same thing, and be there for your family. i mean, it's -- the one thing you can do. >> reporter: dr. petit endured

dr. william petit. he was in court when one of the accused men was found guilty.is is not the end of the petits' nightmare. >> reporter: on the steps of a connecticut courthouse dr. william petit emerges stoic but relieved. >> we did our best to keep our faith in god that justice would be served. >> reporter: a guilty verdict for steven hayes. he's the first of two men to be tried for an unimaginable crime against dr. petit's family three years ago. >> there is some relief, but my -- my family is still -- still gone. it doesn't bring them back. it doesn't bring back the home that we had. >> reporter: dr. petit has come here day after excruciating day, reliving a nightmare. >> if your family was destroyed by evil, i think that you would all try to do the same thing and be there for your family. i mean, it's the one thing you can do. >> reporter: dr. petit endured wrenching testimony about the way his wife and daughters were tortured and murdered. it was jl july 23 2007. two men broke into their home in cheshire, connecticut, beating him with a baseball bat. they ti

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dr. william petit who waited three years for this day. steven hayes, found guilty. the man that tortured and killed his wife, jennifer and their two daughters, 11-year-old michaele and 17-year-old haley, now faces possible execution. >> what was going through your mind as they read each count, guilty, guilty, guilty? >> just tears of relief. that's all. just -- i was trying to maintain my composure. >> reporter: prosecutors say they broke into the petit home as the family slept in 2007. tying william petit to this pole in the basement and his two girls to their bed posts upstairs. i heard the moaning and thumpbs, he testified. surveillance tape shows jennifer petit withdrawing $15,000 from a local bank to pay the men threatening her family. while the bank manager called 911. >> we have a lady who is in our bank right now who says that her husband and children are being held at their house. that if the police are told they will kill the children and husband. >> reporter: jennifer petit was sexually assaulted and strangled and then the suspects set fire to the house.

dr. william petit with a baseball bat, left him in the basement, then sexually assaulted and strangled his wife before setting the family's house on fire. both of the man's daughters died of smoke inhalation. dr. petit managed to escape before the house became engulfed in flames, went to the neighbor's house and called 911. yesterday fighting back tears, mr. petit thanked the jurors for the conviction. >> there is some relief, but my family is still gone. it doesn't bring them back. it doesn't bring back the home that we had. but certainly a guilty verdict is a much better sense of relief than guilty of -- a verdict of nonguilty. >> that man was an absolute picture of courage yesterday. the second defendant goes on trial next year. also faces the death penalty if convicted. the penalty phase for this first trial begins in a couple of weeks. >>> michael steele does not know the minimum wage. that's the headline that's emerging from lawrence o'donnell's interview last night with the rnc chairman on lawrence's show the last word. steel asserted that the republican party is in lock step with t

dr. william petit is the sole survivor of the attack. >> there's some relief. but my family is still gone. it doesn't bring them back. it doesn't bring back the home that we had. >> in my 22 years of being a prosecutor, i can't imagine anything that was as horrendous as the attack that we uncovered and heard about during this trial. if there ever was a case that deserved the death penalty, this is it. >> jurors must still decide whether hayes should be given the death penalty for his crime. >>> police in mexico are now questioning claims by an american woman that her husband was killed by pirates while jet skiing near the border. tiffany hartley told police that men on speedboat shot her husband in the head. but there's no sign of david hartley's body or his jet ski. tiffany says she understands why investigators might think her story is untrue. but she says she would never hurt her husband. >>> in houston, dozen os huge cargo ships are being kept from the nation's second-busiest port, by this, an electric tower teetering over houston's ship canal. the economic

dr. william petit, spoke. >> it doesn't bring them back. it doesn't bring back the home that we had, but certainly, guilty verdict is a much better sense of relief. >> the invader convicted today was an excon, and he could face the death penalty. >>> a house fire usually doesn't make national news, but what happened overnight in rural tennessee has left people stunned. a family's home went up in flames, and as it did, firefighters stood by and did nothing, simply watching it burn. why? as barbara pinto reports, it was all about $75. >> reporter: what's left of paulette and gene cranick's home is smoldering -- so is the anger -- after firefighters refused to answer their frantic calls for help. television station wpsd captured the alarming video of firefighters watching the krhou burn to the ground. >> we had everything -- just stuff my wife's grandmother had. stuff her great grandmother had. >> reporter: the city of south fulton charges rural residents outside city limits for fire protection. the family says they forgot to pay. and without

dr. william petit, was asked if the convict verdict brought any relief. >> there's some relief, but my family is still gone. it doesn't bring them back. it doesn't bring back the home that we had. >> reporter: prosecutors say hayes, then 44, and 26-year-old joshua komisarjevsky, both parolees, broke into the petit home in suburban connecticut in july, 2007. they beat william petit unconscious with a baseball bat, tying up his family overnight. later, hayes forced jennifer-hawke petit to withdraw $15,000 from the bank. surveillance video shows her pleading with a bank teller. a bank manager called 911. >> reporter: she returned home and police did respond, but they could not prevent hays from raping and strangling jennifer hawk petit. komisarjevsky had already sexual assaulted young mikaila. before fleeing, the intruders doused the mothers and daughters with gasoline and set the home on fire. both defendants offered to plead guilty in exchange for life sentences but prosecutors said no, spurred on by dr. petit himself, who has been outspoken in his support of the death penalty. >> most of you

dr. william petit had waited in pain for three years for this moment. tuesday the jury found this man, stephen hayes guilty of torturing and killing petit's family, his wife jennifer, and their girls michaela and hayley. >> what happened when they were reading the verdict, guilty, guilty, guilty. >> just relief, trying to maintain my kmoez your. >> prosecutors showed the jury some disturbing images about how the defendants tied pet -- and video of jennifer petit's time act, trying to pay the suspects off at a local bank. and then prosecutors say hayes and his accomplice burned the house down killing this mother and her children still inside. yet william petit came to court every day to face the man who did it. >> if your family was destroyed by evil, i think that you would all try to do the same thing and be there for your family. >> reporter: the jury found stephen hayes guilty of 16 crimes including murder, kidnapping and sexual assault. hayes is now facing a possible execution by lethal injection. >> over the last couple of weeks, i just kept trying

dr. william petit. he has been here every single day with his family and he has said that he wanted to wait to find out what the verdict was before he made a comment to us, megyn. megyn: the nation has just extended him such sympathy as we've waited and watched this trial along with him. that man sat there through every bit of gruesome testimony and crime scene photos. the only time he got up to leave was when the coroner got up and spoke about the autopsies and they spoke about exactly the con of the -- the condition of the bodies which was too much for him. we understand the family is leaving the courtroom, he's there, he's being supported by his surviving family members. to hear from him directly after this horrific case where everybody asked how could one go on and lead a life after seeing what he saw and knowing what he knows happened to his family. he has been an example in courage for many in the country. now we wait to hear from him and hear his reaction in the wake of these verdicts in this cas

dr. william petit, who lost his family, is speaking out. ashleigh banfield has followed the trial since day one. it's been emotional, to say the least. >> reporter: very difficult case. guilty across the board, but for 1 of the 17 counts against steven hayes. and basically, that propels this to a death penalty phase, which means a jury is going to have to decide if he lives or dies for what he did to william petit's family. >> we did our best to keep our faith in god that justice would be served. >> reporter: exhausted, relieved and surrounded by family. dr. william petit broke his silence tuesday. >> there is some relief. my family is still gone. it doesn't bring them back. its doesn't bring back the home we had. >> reporter: for three weeks, petit endured testimony for the trial of steven haze. how hayes and an accomplice robbed, and murdered william petit and his wife and two daughters. >> if there ever was a case that deserved the death penalty, this certainly is one. >> reporter: the evidence was disturbing. photos of his daughter's be

dr. william petit was tied up and left for dead in the 2007 assault. s wife was sent to a bank to get money. jennifer petit withdrew $15,000 and alerted the teller to what was going on back at her house. when she returned home, she was raped. her 11-year-old daughter michaela was also sexually assaulted. then, gasoline was poured on the girls, who were tied to their beds. then they set the house on fire. the police arrested hayes and an alleged accomplice, who hayes says was the instigator as they fled the house. police have been criticized for not moving in sooner. jennifer petit's father says he is satisfied with the progress of the trial. >> we feel that as far as the trial has gone, justice is being served. >> reporter: dr. petit, who is in court day in and day out, was asked how he made it through the gruesome testimony and crime scene photos. >> if your family was destroyed by evil, i think that you would all try to do the same thing and be there for your family. >> reporter: the jury will now decide whether hayes will get the death penalty. then

dr. william petit thanked the jury and offered his thoughts on their verdict. >> there's some relief, buthe home that we had. but certainly a guilty verdict is a much better sense of relief than a verdict of not guilty. >> nbc's jeff rossen has been covering the trial from the beginning. just watching dr. petit there, it's just heartbreaking. most of us felt the verdict was a fore gone conclusion. so what happens next? >> so this jury that decided that steven hayes is guilty on 16 of 17 felons. that includes six capital charges that do carry the death penalty, this jury goes home for a couple weeks. on october 18th they come back to the courthouse. the same people who today decided that steven hayes is guilty of terrorizing, torturing and killing his family, jennifer petit and her two daughters, 11 and 17, they come back and will decide if he's put to death by lethal injection or if he gets life in prison. the defense has said, yes, my client did these crimes. but they tried to put all the blame on the other accomplice, saying he was the master mind. this was simply a robbery gone bad. st

dr. william petit was the sole survivor.he courthouse. >> reporter: he sat through some of the most gruesome testimony you could possibly imagine involving the death of his wife and children only once did he have to walk out of court. otherwise he's been very strong. the jury got the case within the past hour. now they begin their deliberations. they're in a back room going over all the evidence. his life may be on the line here. he has 17 charges against him. six of them are capitol felons if the jury comes back with even one capital felon. they have to decide if he'll get life in prison or be executed, whichsy lowed here in the state of of connecticut. dr. petit is here in the court. it's been very difficult for him and his family. now we just wait. i just got a note moments ago from the producer that the first knock from the jury has just come in to ask a question, so we'll keep you posted on what happens. the judge will give the jury until 4:30 p.m. to possibly reach a verdict, then ask them if they're close. if they're

dr. william petit and the charge went from first degree assault to second degree assault.e was badly beaten with a baseball bat during the home invasion before his wife and daughters were killed and the charge, reduction of that has not been able to be discussed, with the attorneys, there is a gag order in the case and maybe today we have a producer inside the courtroom, and we'll let you know when we find out an explanation as to why that charge was reduced. bill? bill: you wonder how the man has gone through all of this and you think of what he has had to listen to throughout the course of the trial, is today another day like that of devastating testimony? >> reporter: well, what we will hear is when the jury is charged, the judge will go over all of the 17 charges, and, this is expected to take hours, we have been told this morning. there are 46 pages, in the charging document, then there are 200 exhibits, that will be put into the jury room, when they start deliberations, the judge already warned the family to get through this portion of hearing the charging of the jur

dr. william petit is waiting for justice. today, closing arguments will get underway inside of a courtroom in connecticut. >> they killed the most important people in my life and i can't dignify that insinewation with a response and i think the evidence put on by the prosecution speaks for itself. bill: it is an absolute mess in pennsylvania. fox weather alert now, nearly a foot of rain, thousands without power, and if you've seen the radar, this thing is a supersoaker. steve keelie is with wtxf in kha*rtsworth, pennsylvania. how are things there? >> it's plain ugly and you know what 10 inches of rain equates to? every inch of rain equates to 10 inches of snow, so when you have 10 inches of rain, that's 100 inches of snow. we would have had 8 feet of snow. and what a year 2010 has been. we started out with more blizzards than on record and a week ago, it was reporting on a drought watch and this town right now, 10 inches of rain and you can see, still counting. we have a lot of local roads closed like this one and look what h

dr. william petit whose wife and two daughters were murdered in 2007 during a home invasion.hours convicted steven hayes of capital murder and kidnapping. prosecutors are going to ask for the death penalty. as you know the attack on the petit family was savage. jennifer hawke-petit was sexually assaulted and strangled, her daughters were tied to beds, rooms doused in gasoline and set ablaze. dr. petit was beaten with a baseball bat. he survived though he spoke outside court today. >> there is some relief, but my -- my family is still, still gone. it doesn't bring them back. it doesn't bring back the home that we had. but certainly guilty verdict is a much better sense of relief than a guilty -- a verdict of not guilty. >> steven hayes' alleged accomplice joseph komisarjevsky will be tried at another date. sunny hostin and michael field, inside the courtroom today. michael what was it like inside the courtroom when the verdict was read? what was steven hayes' reaction? >> you know, verdicts are always tense, anderson. steven hayes really didn't have much reaction to this. he s

dr. william petit escaped, though he was brutally beaten. ly summer day. the petit family went to church. dr. petit played golf and picked up corn to have with dinner on his way home. his wife and daughters went to the super market. the defense closed by suggesting it was komisarjevsky who goes on trial later, not steven hayes, who is to blame. hayes' defense attorney admitted, quote, he's guilty of sexual assault of mrs. petit. there isn't any question about it. but he added he kills jennifer petit at the request of joshua komisarjevsky. the defense told the jury hayes is no angel but said it was komisarjevsky who controlled the situation and that things just got out of control. the prosecution fired back saying he said things got out of control. it wasn't things, it was them. they were out of control. this is the moment jurors may never forget. that's mrs. hawke-petit at her bank, 9:17 a.m. surveillance video shows her desperate attempt to save her family. withdrawing $15,000 from her bank. she hoped that money would be enough to convince t

dr. william petit spoke after the hearing. >> there is some relief, but my family is still gone.k. >>> now to the case of the rutgers student who committed suicide after two other students allegedly broadcast him on the internet in a sexual encounter. lawyers for one of the students, molly wwei, say she's not guilt. in their statement they call her a wonderful, caring and talented young woman. >>> an construction worker is being called a hero after saving an 8-year-old california girl after being reported as abducted. he spotted a truck matching the kidnapper's vehicle and actually chased it down, found the young girl in the passenger seat and the suspect is now in police custody. >>> two utah teenager wurz hit by lightning when they were standing under a tree to get out of the rain. they were airlifted to a las vegas hospital with life-threatening injuries. >>> scholastic indicates a new report, listen to this, 39% of 9 to 17 year olds polled believe the information they find on the web is always correct. >>> you've probably heard this horrifying story by now. firefighters stood

dr. william petit will not make a victim's impact statement when the man convicted of murdering his wifeprosecutors will seek the death penalty for hayes. petit claims the law allowing him to speak at the trial is vague and his words could become grounds for shirley sherrod vidd her making racist remarks, that was shown not to be the case. >>> and a derogatory word hurled at republican meg whitman caught on tape. >> we want to put an ad out. i've been warned if i crack down on pensions, i will go to whitman, and whit man will cut them a deal and i won't. she's a whore. the brown campaign has apologized. back to "bullying, no escape" in a moment. i know the best card you're holding. you do? your medicare card. [ laughing ] but don't let me or anyone see it except your doctor or their staff. and don't tell anyone your card or social security number over the phone. guard your card. [ woman 2 ] i hear unauthorized card use is a big source of fraud. the new healthcare law lets us crack down on criminals and win against fraud. making medicare stronger. and speaking of winning... [ man 2 ] not

dr. william petit will not make a victim's impact statement when the man convicted of murdering his wifee prosecutors will seek the death penalty for hayes. petit claims the law allowing him to speak at the trial is vague and his words could become grounds for shirley sherrod video showed her making racist remarks, that was shown not to be the case. >>> and a derogatory word hurled at republican meg whitman caught on tape. >> we want to put an ad out. i've been warned if i crack down on pensions, i will go to whitman, and whit man will cut them a deal and i won't. she's a whore. the brown campaign has apologized. back to "bullying, no escape" in a moment. on your next business trip, pack your marriott rewards visa card. get triple points every time you use your card at marriott. apply now and earn 22,500 bonus points when you use your card and enjoy a free night stay. so, before you know it, work time becomes well-deserved downtime. apply now at marriott.com/freenightstay. you've got staying power. >> do something. don't sit -- don't just sit there and don't do anything about it. you do

dr. william petit will not make a victim's impact statement when the man convicted of murdering his wife daughters is sentenced. that's because prosecutors will seek the death penalty for steven hayes. petit claims the law allowing him to speak at the trial is vague and his words could become grounds for appeal. >>> obama administration e-mails prove shirley sherrod was fired from the agriculture department before the full text of a speech she gave was known. an edited version online posted online appeared to show her making racist remarks, it was soon learned that was not the case. >>> the california governor's race has turned nasty. someone in democrat jerry brown's campaign hurled a derogatory word at republican meg whitman and it was caught on tape. >> we want to put an ad out. i've been warned if i crack down on pensions, i will go to whitman, and whitman will cut them a deal that i won't. she's a whore. the brown campaign has apologized. i'm randi kaye. back to "bullying, no escape" in a moment. ike that? huh? it's just an "us" thing. yeah, it's a little something we do. who else i

dr. william petit, back at the courthouse. what's going through your mind right now?> just waiting to see what the jury decides. >> reporter: he's waited three years for this moment. it was 2007 when prosecutors say steven hayes and his cohort broke into the petit home, beat william and tied him up and tied the two girls to their bedposts upstairs and heard the moaning and thumps, he testified. the video saw jennifer petit's final moments at a bank withdrawing $15,000 to pay the ransom. and they heard the bank manager's chilli ining 911 call. >> we have a lady in our bank right now who says that her husband and children are being held at their house. if the police are told, they will kill the children and the husband. >> reporter: prosecutors say they sexually assaulted and strangled jennifer before burning the house down. this mother and her two girls were killed. now steven hayes is charged with 17 crimes. 6 of them capital felonies. if convicted of just one, he could face execution. now william petit waits for the verdict. and so here's the time line now. if the ju

dr. william petit, the lone survivor badly beaten by the intruders now has to face another trial. dr. ow he finds the strength to relive the horror again through the courtroom testimony. >> most of you out here are good human beings, i think you would probably all do the same thing for your family if your family was destroyed by evil. >> reporter: the other man accused of hayes accomplice is joshua komisarjevsky. >> he has told stories of jobs he has done robbing houses. >> komisarjevsky's former girlfriend jennifer norton calls that the man she recalls as a petty thief used to get a thrill out of breaking into houses when he knew people were inside. >> he had said that robbing houses was better than any drug he's ever tried. >> komisarjevsky's trial is supposed to starred next year. we're through one trial, another still to go and it just seems to be an endless or deal for dr. petit and you have to admire the dignity and strength that she's showing in the face f this tragedy. >>> up next, we'll -- from land to sea. when yor you become a different person. ♪ are you ready? you taste foo

dr. william petit was beaten with a baseball bat and tied up but he survived the ordeal. reporters after the verdict and it's our sound effect. >> you've got a penalty phase, another trial, another penalty phase, three more trials to sit through. >> people keep asking that question. why do you do it or how do you do it. i think most of you out here, you know, are good human beings. i think you would all probably do the same thing for your families if your family was destroyed by evil. i think that you would all try to do the same thing and be there for your family. i mean, it's the one thing you can do. so do i really want to do it? do i look forward to the ride every day? no. i have a little nausea every time i get off the exit ramp, a little nausea every time i get out of the car and walk across the street. but i think -- i do it for my family, but i think all of you, i think, would do the same thing for your families. >> petit was referring to the fact that not only is he there to see these prosecutions through, he's been particularly involved in his community. many pe

dr. william petit has waited in pain for three years for this moment. tuesday the jury found this man, stephen hayes guilty of torturing and killing petit's family, his wife jennifer, and their girls michaela and hayley. >> what was going through your mind as they read each count, guilty, guilty, guilty? >> just crying, tears of relief. that's all. just trying to maintain my composure. >> and it hasn't been easy reliving his family's final moments in court. prosecutors showed the jury disturbing images, how they say the two defendants tied petit to this pole in the basement and beat him with a baseball bat. and then prosecutors say hayes and his accomplice burned the house down killing this mother and her children still inside. yet william petit came to court every day to face the man who did it. >> if your family was destroyed by evil, i think that you would all try to do the same thing and be there for your family. >> reporter: the jury found stephen hayes guilty of 16 crimes including murder, kidnapping and sexual assault. six of them are capital fel

dr. william petit, the sole survivor of the horrific home invasion attended every day of the trial, listening to the details of how his wife was raped and strangled. he later responded to the verdict. >> there is some relief, but my family is still gone. it doesn't bring them back. it doesn't bring back the home that we had, but certainly guilty verdict is a much better sense of relief than a verdict of not guilty. >> let's look at what is next to come in this case. joining us from new york, sunny hostin. great to see you. what a horrible case here. >> reporter: good to see you. >> we talked about it for days and weeks and months over the couple of years of how gruesome it is. how likely is it that stephen hayes will get the death penalty? >> reporter: well, i think it's hard to say. the supreme court always says death is different. the judge in this case indicated that this phase of the case could take up to a month, and this trial only took approximately eight days. so we don't know. the prosecution certainly has to prove aggravating factors. that's what they have to do, and one of those ag

dr. william petit closed the door on one phase of this case, the lone survivor of a horrific home invasion prepared himself for what comes next. in 12 days jurors will begin deciding whether steven hayes is to receive the death penalty and he will sit through more grueling testimony. he was asked how he could push on when both defendants agreed to plead guilty in exchange for life in prison sparing any trials. >> i think you would all dot same things for your families if your family was destroyed by e vail. >> mainly the defense must on evidence of why he should live and there's no limit on what they can put on. >> the question from the jury will be does what the defense put on outweigh the heinousness of the facts. >> reporter: jurors took only four and a half hours deliberating to find him guilty on 16 counts. petit asked if hayes still matters to him. >> what matters to me most is my family and memories of my -- my family and, i don't know, over the last couple of weeks, i just kept trying to tell myself that good will overcome evil. >> reporter: the evil hayes, then 44 and joshua komis

dr. william petit back at the courthouse. what's going through your mind right now? >> just waiting to see what the jury decides. >> reporter: he's waited three years for this moment. it was 2007 when prosecutors say two men broke into the petit home, beat william and tied him up and tied his two girls to the bed upstairs. the jury saw video of jennifer petit at a local bank, withdrawing $15,000 to may the ransom. and they heard the chilling 911 call. >> we have a lady who's in the bank right now who says that their husband and children are being held at their house. if the police are told, they will kill the children and the husband. >> reporter: prosecutors say they sexual assaulted and strangled jennifer petit before burning the house down. this mother and her two girls were killed. now stephen hayes is charged with 17 crimes, six of them capital felonies. if convicted of just one, he could face execution. now william petit waits for the verdict. here's the timeline going forward, if the jury reaches a guilty verdict, especially on one of the capital felony counts