The Cheshire Murders Page #3

Lieutenant Jay Markella,

the Public Information Officer

for the Cheshire

Police Department.

Thank you for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

Very little detail coming

out about exactly what happened.

Was it when police showed up that

they found the house on fire

and caught these suspects?

Because they were caught

leaving the burning house.

Yeah. It worked out

so officers arrived on scene

just as the suspects

were leaving the residence.

Okay. I don't know how far

we should go back, but...

I'm a very

detective-like person.

I like to know details,

and until I know the details

around things, it's hard

to figure things out.

I would like to know why

my sister and Steven Hayes

weren't stopped at the bank?

Why she wasn't held at the bank?

There were some police

officers that, off the record,

said to people in the town

that they heard the girls

screaming in the end.

Did they try to enter or

did they not try to enter?

And why weren't there policemen

looking in the windows?

My sister had no blinds

on her windows.

I just want the facts.

And nobody has told us

what really happened.

And today,

a state prosecutor said

he'll seek the death penalty

for Komisarjevsky and Hayes.

Today, the state charged the men with six

counts each of capital felony murder.

I was driving back

from the Adirondacks with my wife,

coming through the Berkshires.

Not a care in the world.

And I get a cell phone call.

Probably why I turned

pale was because,

you know, I had

a sense as a lawyer

where this was headed

right from the beginning.

You know, capital case, death

penalty case, high profile.

And in my own head,

I knew right away

that that case was

coming in to this office

and that I'd be involved.

Steven Hayes

and Mr. Komisarjevsky

were coming into Meriden

court for arraignment.

Right from the first

time that we met,

Steven Hayes was

suicidal, depressed.

Just doesn't really understand

how this all happened.

His record is lengthy.

He's got all these burglaries.

Most involve car burglaries.

In this state, burglary

includes the break-in of a car.

And they were all daytime.

He'd sit and watch. People would park

their cars. They'd go walking on a trail.

Break into their car and take a

laptop or a radio or a phone.

So you were not

dealing with someone

who had the kind of classic

history of violence

and all of a sudden

stepped into the big time

in terms of the next level of violence.

You just didn't have it.

There was no reason that anyone would

ever look at that history and think,

"Well, this guy's gonna do

something really bad one day."

The first time

that I found out about my dad.

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