her name is jennifer pettite. she says they are being very nice, they have their faces covered.ied. she wasn't going to call the police, but i came to my office and i did. >> okay she still is in the bank? >> yes she is. >> her husband and family -- >> yes, they are tied up she said. she is taking $15,000 out of a credit line. they told her they won't hurt anybody if she got back there with the money. she believes them. i think she is walking out now, she is walking out now. >> reporter: well they didn't keep that promise allegedly. after jennifer pettite gave the men that money they drove her back to the house and that's where the rest of the crimes were committed. police say that she was sexually assaulted and then strangled. her daughters hailey 17 in the back wearing the whitehouse and malay today 11 in the front also assaulted and then tied to their beds and doused with gasoline and then the house was set on fire. police caught the defendants as they were trying to escape the scene in the pettite family car. steven hayes is on the right. it's his trial that is going on righ

. >> by the time police arrived about, an hour later, jennifer pettit and her two young daughters were dead. their house was set on fire. her husband, a doctor, william pettitte, was beaten but survived. steven hayes and joshua are charged in the case. at their trial yesterday, questions centered on whether police could have done more to save the family. >>> fairfax county police are looking for a man who tried to rob a woman as she sat in her car at a traffic light. some are wondering if it is connected to a high profile murder in the same area. vanessa pham was found stabbed to death in h vehicle last month. the vehicle was in a ditch off gallows road. it happened not far away. pat collins isn virginia with more on this. >> reporter: it is a bizarre attempted robbery on lee highway. is it somehow linked to the murder of vanessa pham? no, say pice. but -- woman robbed while sitting in traffic. ordinarily cops say they wouldn't talk about an attempted crime like this. but because it happen close by the vanessa pham murder scene, they're talking. and showing sketces of the suspect just

prosecutors allege that steven hayes sexually assaulted the mother jennifer hawk pettit before stranglings. joshua majewski who is expected to face trial next year is accused assaulting 11-year-old pettit before helping hayes light the house on fire. all three were killed in this attack. jurors heard from a fire marshal today that testified that an accelerant like gasoline was poured directly on to the pettit daughters as they lied tied up in their bed that was testimony that sent family members out of the courthouse in tears today, jon? >> jon: what about what happened outside the courtroom? tell us about that. >> yeah there was certainly high emotions happening right out here on the courthouse steps. the lawyer for joshua majewski made a surprise statement today in the courthouse outside the courthouse to clear up what he called a misconception about his client. remember, everybody is under a gag order in this case. this lawyer jeremiah donovan said that his client did not sexually assault mckayla pettit, despite the evidence, which he said he hoped would provide some small solace for t

the defense admits, yes, our compliant raped and killed jennifer hawk-pettit, but they say this is aouldn't be given the death penalty. he should be given life in prison. both defendants have told prosecutors we'll plead guilty if you take the death penalty off the table. prosecutors said, no, we have such an airtight case we want to go after the death penalty. here we are on trial on day number two. the bombshell with the juror saying he wants to leave. >> it shakes you to the core. this as we know that the doctor has to go through this entire thing again listening to the testimony. i know you'll be watching that case for us in connecticut. >>> california goocandidate has apologized to former president clinton. he called out brown for raising taxes during his last stint as governor. that led to brown making these comments about clinton. meg whitman she stops at nothing. she's even got clinton lying about me. that's right. >> democrat against fellow democrat. brown saying whitman should take the ad down. a spokesperson says they standby that ad. >>> since we're in the silly season. t