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BY EMILY SPAIN
 
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Convicted murderer Steven Hayes now claims the three members of the Petit family from Connecticut weren’t his only victims. In confiscated letters Hayes confesses to 17 killings.

Here’s Fox News with what Hayes claims in the written notes.

“In the letters he allegedly brags about committing numerous sexual assaults and killing 17 other people. How he would drug his victims, take them to hotels and often videotape the crimes and then as you said steal their sneakers.”

In August and September the Department of Corrections intercepted four letters addressed to a woman named Lynn in North Carolina. The New Hampshire Register got to read one of the letters Hayes’ wrote and describes it this way:

“The 17-page, handwritten letter seen by the Register reads like a twisted pornographic fantasy. But before Hayes launched into his description of tying up and torturing two of his ‘victims,’ he criticized Komisarjevsky for failing to be a ‘worthy’ partner in the Cheshire crime.”

WABC goes onto report more of how Hayes bashed his supposed assistant Joshua Komisarjevsky.

“Hayes also wrote about Komisarjevsky saying he was not even worthy of being his partner in crime. In a letter Hayes wrote that Komisarjevsky had ‘the proper evil intent but lacked the most serious aspects, commitment and control.’”

Komisarjevsky was charged with all 17 counts against him earlier this month.  And ABC News writes the attorneys for the convicted accomplice tried to use the letters for their case’s benefit.

“The letters came to light when lawyers for … Joshua Komisarjevsky argued that the existence of the letters were grounds for a mistrial… Judge Jon C. Blue, who denied the request for a mistrial … expressed some skepticism about the veracity of the claims in Hayes letter.”

If the claims in Hayes’ letters are in fact true, it would make him a serial killer, responsible for 17 unsolved murders in the New England area between the 1980’s and 2007.
 
To read more about the letters visit this link.
 
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Petit Family Killer Claims He Killed 17 People

October 25, 2011
(1:54)
Steven Hayes, the murderer of a Connecticut family, wrote letters on death row confessing to killing 17 people.
   
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