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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Connecticut man convicted of a deadly home invasion in Cheshire in 2007 bragged in a letter from death row that he killed 17 people.
The New Haven Register reported Sunday that it had acquired a letter that Steven Hayes allegedly wrote from prison.
Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky were convicted of murder, sexual assault and other charges in the deaths of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11.
Komisarjevsky is to be sentenced Tuesday.
State’s Attorney Michael Dearington and an FBI spokesman have declined to say whether authorities know of 17 unsolved homicides matching details in Hayes’ letters.
Hayes and Komisarjevsky blamed each other during their trials for escalating the violence that left the Petit women dead.
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