10-27-2010, 10:12 PM
poor monster!! he was abused and has a FUCKING SMELLY SNEAKER FETISH! 
that explains everything! sorry, nothing funny about this case, but i had to laugh at that one! sick pathetic fucker.
Childhood Abuse Is Cited for a Convicted Killer of 3
NY TIMES
Published: October 27, 2010
NEW HAVEN — The man convicted of killing three people in Cheshire, Conn., grew up in a “very dysfunctional” family, with a violent father and an alcohol-abusing mother and was sexually abused as a child, jurors who will decide whether to sentence him to death were told on Wednesday.
The testimony came from a psychiatrist who interviewed the convicted killer, Steven J. Hayes, in prison while he was awaiting trial. It represented the first move by the defense toward seeking sympathy for Mr. Hayes, who has been the subject of intense animosity since his arrest.
The witness, Dr. Eric Goldsmith, portrayed Mr. Hayes, now 47, as suffering from attention deficit disorder as a child and described his family as chaotic, with his father beating him and a brother and pitting one child against another in fistfights. Dr. Goldsmith said records showed that Mr. Hayes’s father once hit one of Mr. Hayes’s two younger brothers so severely that he broke the boy’s leg and a tooth.
“Steven very early on turns toward drugs as a way to basically cope with his emotional problems,” Dr. Goldsmith testified in what is expected to be the last week of testimony. For much of his life, Mr. Hayes abused alcohol and drugs, including crack cocaine, the jurors have heard from other witnesses.
Mr. Hayes was convicted on Oct. 5 of killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters in a home invasion in Cheshire on July 23, 2007. The same jury, which heard Dr. Goldsmith’s testimony and that of several other witnesses, is expected to begin deliberations about what penalty to impose next week.
The defense move toward a request for sympathy appeared to contradict a pledge that one of the defense lawyers, Patrick Culligan, made during his opening statement as the jury began considering what punishment to impose.
Mr. Culligan said then that the defense would not be presenting evidence about any “terrible childhood” as it argued for a sentence of life without the possibility of release. “That simply is just not going to be part” of the defense, he said.
The defense lawyers offered the jurors no explanation for their change. Under a court order, the lawyers are barred from making statements about the case outside of court.
But in the courtroom, Dr. Goldsmith’s testimony left no doubt about the bleak picture the defense was presenting. He testified that Mr. Hayes was beaten by his father, began committing crimes to pay for drugs as a teenager and has a sexual fetish because of sexual abuse by a baby sitter when he was 10. Dr. Goldsmith said Mr. Hayes’s fetish was an erotic fixation with used sneakers. OH SHIT! I HAVE NOW HEARD EVERYTHING!
that explains everything! sorry, nothing funny about this case, but i had to laugh at that one! sick pathetic fucker.Childhood Abuse Is Cited for a Convicted Killer of 3
NY TIMES
Published: October 27, 2010
NEW HAVEN — The man convicted of killing three people in Cheshire, Conn., grew up in a “very dysfunctional” family, with a violent father and an alcohol-abusing mother and was sexually abused as a child, jurors who will decide whether to sentence him to death were told on Wednesday.
The testimony came from a psychiatrist who interviewed the convicted killer, Steven J. Hayes, in prison while he was awaiting trial. It represented the first move by the defense toward seeking sympathy for Mr. Hayes, who has been the subject of intense animosity since his arrest.
The witness, Dr. Eric Goldsmith, portrayed Mr. Hayes, now 47, as suffering from attention deficit disorder as a child and described his family as chaotic, with his father beating him and a brother and pitting one child against another in fistfights. Dr. Goldsmith said records showed that Mr. Hayes’s father once hit one of Mr. Hayes’s two younger brothers so severely that he broke the boy’s leg and a tooth.
“Steven very early on turns toward drugs as a way to basically cope with his emotional problems,” Dr. Goldsmith testified in what is expected to be the last week of testimony. For much of his life, Mr. Hayes abused alcohol and drugs, including crack cocaine, the jurors have heard from other witnesses.
Mr. Hayes was convicted on Oct. 5 of killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters in a home invasion in Cheshire on July 23, 2007. The same jury, which heard Dr. Goldsmith’s testimony and that of several other witnesses, is expected to begin deliberations about what penalty to impose next week.
The defense move toward a request for sympathy appeared to contradict a pledge that one of the defense lawyers, Patrick Culligan, made during his opening statement as the jury began considering what punishment to impose.
Mr. Culligan said then that the defense would not be presenting evidence about any “terrible childhood” as it argued for a sentence of life without the possibility of release. “That simply is just not going to be part” of the defense, he said.
The defense lawyers offered the jurors no explanation for their change. Under a court order, the lawyers are barred from making statements about the case outside of court.
But in the courtroom, Dr. Goldsmith’s testimony left no doubt about the bleak picture the defense was presenting. He testified that Mr. Hayes was beaten by his father, began committing crimes to pay for drugs as a teenager and has a sexual fetish because of sexual abuse by a baby sitter when he was 10. Dr. Goldsmith said Mr. Hayes’s fetish was an erotic fixation with used sneakers. OH SHIT! I HAVE NOW HEARD EVERYTHING!