300 Sorghum Mill Drive
USA /
Connecticut /
Cheshire /
Sorghum Mill Drive, 300
World
/ USA
/ Connecticut
/ Cheshire
World / United States / Connecticut
house, arson, murder site
Petit Home (Crime Site)
July 2007 - Authorities say two men with long criminal histories broke into Petit's Cheshire home and held the family hostage for several hours. One forced Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, to make a withdrawal at a bank later that morning, triggering suspicion among bank employees, police said. Police rushed to the house, found it on fire and encountered the suspects fleeing. The two were arrested after crashing the Petits' car into police cruisers.
Petit was severely beaten and bound in the basement but managed to escape the fire. The bodies of his relatives were found in the smoldering home. Hawke-Petit was strangled, while Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, died of smoke inhalation.
This home was destroyed in late June of 2008.
July 2007 - Authorities say two men with long criminal histories broke into Petit's Cheshire home and held the family hostage for several hours. One forced Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, to make a withdrawal at a bank later that morning, triggering suspicion among bank employees, police said. Police rushed to the house, found it on fire and encountered the suspects fleeing. The two were arrested after crashing the Petits' car into police cruisers.
Petit was severely beaten and bound in the basement but managed to escape the fire. The bodies of his relatives were found in the smoldering home. Hawke-Petit was strangled, while Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, died of smoke inhalation.
This home was destroyed in late June of 2008.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 41°29'39"N 72°55'45"W
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- Wadsworth Mansion at Long Hill Estate 22 km
- Mill Meadow Marsh 50 km
- The Mansions 53 km
- Harkness Memorial State Park 71 km
- University of Connecticut at Avery Point 74 km
- Courtlands 90 km
- Hamlet Lodge 90 km
- Glen Elsinore 90 km
- Woodstock Castle 92 km
- Cheshire, Connecticut 1.7 km
- Prospect, Connecticut 2.8 km
- Broad Brook Reservoir 6 km
- Sleeping Giant State Park 8 km
- Quinnipiac University 9 km
- Choate Rosemary Hall, Secondary School 11 km
- Quinnipiac River State Park 11 km
- New Haven County, Connecticut 11 km
- West Rock Ridge State Park 14 km
- Tyler's Mill/MTB/Motocross 14 km