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Home invasion survivor questions prison interviews

November 6, 2009

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NEW HAVEN, Conn.—The lone survivor of a deadly 2007 Connecticut home invasion wants an investigation into why prison officials let an author interview one of the defendants behind bars for a book on the case.

William Petit, whose wife and daughters were killed in their Cheshire home, is asking state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to investigate what he calls "gaffes" and "miscues" involving Joshua Komisarjevsky's interviews with Brian McDonald.

McDonald recently published a book detailing Komisarjevsky's version of the events, in which he blames his co-defendant, Steven Hayes.

Komisarjevsky and Hayes face the possibility of the death penalty in the killings of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela.