9:17 am in the small town of Chesire, Conecticut a wife and mother goes into a bank and withdraws 15 thousand dollars from her banking account. July 23, 2007 her husband and two daughters were being held hostage. The mom hoped that the 15 thousand dollars would convince the two men who broke into her families home to spare their lives. When the mom was at the bank one of the two men was right outside the bank. The bank manager calls for help. 9:21 am the police first learn of the home invasion. A couple minutes later she leaves the bank with the ransom money. 9:26 am she gets in the car with suspect Steven Haes. Officers are sent to the house to set up a perimeter but not to aproach the house. No other athorities were allerted about the situation. 40 minutes later the police found out that the mom had been strangled. She and one of her daughters sexualy assulted. Dr. P explained how he had been beaten with a baseball bat and tied to a pole. He managed to free himself through a basement door but later found out that the house was on fire. His wife and daughters dead. At 10 am the two suspects get out of the driveway in the families SUV and then smashing into police vehicles. At that moment the officers realize that the situation was much more urgent then what they thought.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2010/09/17/kaye.home.invasion.cnn
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