Murder in Connecticut by Michael Benson

Author:Michael Benson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2008-09-24T00:00:00+00:00

The affidavit requesting the search warrant was signed by Detectives James Canon and Joseph Vitello.

When the search warrant was executed by Detective Canon, he seized at the Komisarjevsky home twenty-one cable ties of various sizes, white in color. They were found in the kitchen drawer. The Komisarjevskys’ laptop computer was taken, as were two brown cloth work gloves.

A second and third search warrants were drawn up, also by Canon and Vitello, seeking permission to search clothing items seized from Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky and held at the Central District Major Crime Evidence Room in Meriden.

Since the evidence on the items and material being searched for was minute, sometimes microscopic, Hayes’s clothes would be sent to the Connecticut State Police Forensic Laboratory for analysis. The lab had the equipment, personnel, and expertise to “conduct physical examination for scientific analysis, physical examination, biological and chemical testing, fingerprinting, photograph, criminalistic testing, and comparison, analysis, and reconstruction in order to locate, identify, compare, and reconstruct items of evidence and trace evidence to aid in establishing the circumstances of the crime and identity of the participants involved in the crime.”

Because this search warrant dealt with the sexual aspects of the crimes against the Petits, it was released to the public only in redacted form.

A fourth warrant was drawn up requesting legal permission to seize “any and all account information associated with AT&T telephone number [deleted by author], including but not limited to all subscriber information, to include records, dates and times of any and all local [Automated Message Accounting or AMA tapes] and long-distance incoming and outgoing telephone numbers, billing record information, any additional telephone numbers associated with the account, any account identification information, and account history to include any and all master telephone numbers and billing records for the telephone number [deleted by author] for the period of July 22, 2007, at 0001 hours to July 24, 2007, at 0001 hours.”

There was no guarantee that Komisarjevsky and Hayes were working alone in this criminal enterprise. For all law enforcement knew, the two they had caught might have been just the tip of a criminal iceberg. If the criminals were communicating with cohorts by phone during the attack, phone records would reveal that information.

The phone in question was the Petit house phone. It was known that at least one phone call was made from the Petit home during the home invasion. Police needed to know complete information about all incoming and outgoing calls from that phone during the key period of time.

The warrant would give the detectives permission to enter and search the local AT&T headquarters, specifically the office of the custodian of records, located at 310 Orange Street in New Haven.

Similar warrants were drawn up for the cell phone found in the road at the time of Komisarjevsky’s apprehension and later determined to be his cell phone, and for the pink cell phone found in Komisarjevsky’s pocket. The search warrant for the Petit house phone differed from the search warrant for the pink phone in the time frame for which records were being sought.

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