HAYES, STEVEN & JOSHUA KOMISARJEVSKY: The Cheshire Murders TV - People Magazine Investigates TV -
Monday July 23 2007 9:21 a.m. … We have a lady who is in our bank right now. She says that her husband and children are being held at their house. The people are in a car outside the bank. She is getting $15,000 to bring out to them. If the police are told, they will kill the children and the husband. Her name is Jennifer Petit. The Cheshire Murders, 911 call, HBO 2013
All I can tell you right now is that we do have three confirmed fatalities, two female and we’re still checking on the third. ibid. rozzers’ press briefing
The suspects – 26-year-old Joshua Komisarjevsky of Cheshire and 44-year-old Steve Hayes of Winstead were caught while trying to escape in the Petits’ car. Now the only question remains – why did this happen to the Petit family? ibid. television news
In 2002 Komisarjevsky was sentenced to nine years in prison. He was paroled in April 2007. ibid. caption
November 7 2007: The court imposes a ‘gag order’ barring police, lawyers and witnesses from talking with news media. ibid.
Both Hayes and Komisarjevsky offer to plead guilty and accept life in prison without parole. ibid.
He raped a woman. He choked her to death. He poured gasoline on two little girls and he set them on fire. How does a person do that? ibid. victim
While all is quiet in the Petit home, two men are watching and waiting. People Magazine Investigates s2e4: Connecticut Horror Story, ID 2017
With Dr Petit unconscious and the women tied up, the intruders ransacked the home. ibid.
The house is consumed in flames … screaming at them to stop with guns drawn … The police rush the car … The men are apprehended. ibid.
HAYNES, ANTHONY: Life and Death Row TV -
Many states in America use the death penalty to punish the worst crimes. On average 45 prisoners are executed each year. Over half of those on Death Row were arrested for murder in their teens or twenties. For two of the youngest men on Death Row in Texas execution day has arrived. Life and Death Row s1e1: Execution, BBC 2014
‘Houston cop killer Anthony Haynes will be executed by lethal injection.’ ibid. news report
‘We received nothing from the US Supreme Court that Anthony Haynes received a stay of execution.’ ibid. legal statement
HAYSOM, ELIZABETH & JENS SOERING et al: Storyville: Killing for Love TV -
21 June 1990: We the jury find the defendant guilty of first-degree murder of Derek Haysom and Nancy Haysom. A fixed punishment of imprisonment for life. Storyville: Killing for Love, BBC 2021
The amount of overkill there was involved. And the amount of blood that was there. I’d never seen anything like that before. ibid. Ricky Gardner, investigating rozzer
You were creating the alibi while he was committing the crime. ibid. prosecutor in court
She’s doing everything she can to destroy me even more. ibid. boyfriend Soering
We’ve got the wrong man: this man didn’t do it. ibid. brief
HAZELL, STUART: Tonight: Living With a Killer: Tonight TV - The Guardian online - Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV - The Murder of Tia Sharp: My Daughter TV - Forensics: Catching a Killer TV -
Face to face with a child killer. And a family betrayed ... With the country basking in the glory of the Olympic Games, here in South London Tia Sharp disappeared from her grandmother’s home and was never seen again. Tonight: Living With a Killer, ITV 2013
Christine’s house was searched for a third time and this time police discovered Tia's body wrapped in sheets in the loft. But the failure to find her earlier was widely criticised. ibid.
He was sentenced to Life in prison with a minimum of thirty-eight years. ibid.
Stuart Hazell has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 12-year-old Tia Sharp and must serve a minimum of 38 years before he can be considered for release.
The 37-year-old escaped a whole-life sentence, which would have meant he was never released, after the judge said he could not be sure that the murder was sexually motivated.
Mr Justice Nicol said Hazell had been sexually interested in Tia, sexually assaulted her and photographed the child's body in a sexual pose.
There were shouts of ‘beast’ from the public gallery at the Old Bailey and some relatives outside court said of the sentence: ‘Nowhere near long enough.’ The Guardian online article 14th May 2013, ‘Tia Sharp murder: Stuart Hazell to serve a minimum of 38 years in prison’
The day before she’d been reported missing CCTV cameras recorded Tia out shopping with Stuart Hazell … Some things weren’t adding up. Faking It: Tears of a Crime II, ID 2017
Hazell was a violent drug addict who had been to prison repeatedly. ibid.
Tia was dead and hidden upstairs in the loft. ibid.
A 12-year-old girl, her whole life ahead of her, who vanished without a trace. A desperate hunt. This is the story of an innocent girl murdered in her family home. Exploited by a person she called grandad. A monster hiding in plain sight. The Murder of Tia Sharp: My Daughter, Channel 5 2017
As the last person to see her alive, Hazell’s account of what happened just prior to her disappearance was crucial. ibid.
Four days after she disappeared there was still no sign of Tia anywhere, no trace of her leaving the estate on the CCTV. ibid.
‘When he was interviewed he made no comment.’ ibid. rozzer
The police also found child pornography. ibid.
‘A horrible horrible man.’ ibid. local publican
Stuart Hazell had murdered 12 year old Tia Sharp, and hidden her body in the loft of her grandmother’s home; he was hiding in plain sight. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s1e9: Stuart Hazell, Real Lives 2017
It was a crime that horrified the nation. ibid.
But the relationship was in no way conventional: after they split up, he began seeing Natalie’s mother, Christine Sharp. ibid.
Body-language expert Robert Phipps was certain Hazell was lying. ibid.
A young girl is reported missing. A community and a family in a race against time to find her. A search that starts with a small area but whittles down to one small space. And the most damning evidence of all. Forensics: Catching the Killer s2e2: Murder Caught on Camera. Sky Crime 2022
Now detectives had proof that Stuart Hazell had paedophilic obsessions, and that he had been with Tia’s body after she had died. ibid.