Ex: CT Triple Murder Suspect Bragged About Crime

Joshua Komisarjevsky, and ex Caroline Mesel

Earlier this week, Steven Hayes was found guilty on 16 of 17 counts related to the brutal 2007 home invasion of a Connecticut family which led to the murder of three people. Jurors will decide whether of not to give Hayes the death penalty when sentencing starts Oct. 18; some are wondering just how persuasive defense attorney Tom Ullmann, who saved a man from the death penalty a few years ago, can be. But the other storyline now emerging is that of Hayes' partner in the crime, Joshua Komisarjevsky, whom Ullmann accused of being the mastermind of the plot.

Komisarjevsky goes on trial next year, but already sickening details have begun to emerge about him: his ex-girlfriend told Inside Edition yesterday that she fears that she was Komisarjevsky's muse. Caroline Mesel moved to Arkansas while she was dating Komisarjevsky, just prior to the home invasion; she told IE he was desperate to raise $15,000 to bring her back. "He's like, 'I would even rob a bank, you know, to get the money for you,'" she told them. She also said that she talked to Komisarjevsky a week after the crime, and he bragged about beating up William Petit with a baseball bat: "Kind of like, 'Oh, he was such a big guy but I took him out.'"

In Hayes' trial, Komisarjevsky's name has come up many times—he's been attributed with first targeting the Petit family, and linked with the rape of 11-year-old Michaela via DNA (and cell phone pictures). His lawyer, Jeremiah Donovan, is also facing contempt charges for holding a press conference in the middle of Hayes' trial.

When Mesel first heard about the crime, she felt instantly responsible, and held no sympathy for her ex: "I did go through that whole guilt thing, like this is my fault. Maybe if I was in Connecticut, they would still be alive today. Because I could probably have probably prevented it....I get so mad thinking about it. I kind of wish I could do to him what he did to the girls. I kind of wish he could feel what they went through."

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By Ben Yakas in News on October 7, 2010 5:11 PM

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billyjack44

Would love to hear what the anti-death penalty jack-o**s have to say about these guys. (cue the sound of crickets...)

bigdaff

just burn the two sick fucks and never speak of them again.

John L

How do animals like these have girlfriends?

momziam

This Mesel chick is full of BS. Per her online blog 5 months after the murders:

Jan 18, 2008 "Ain't Life Grand"

Time to update on everything that has happend in my life! well as you all should know I am 19 now. I graduated high school then moved to Arkansas with my family *Woot*. Yeah josh and I are no longer together. Thank Satan! I realized I didnt love him and that I was in love with the picture of getting married and having a family, when at the same time I really didn't want one. I don't know how that all works out I just know I realized I didn't love the guy. I was glad that I moved because after two weeks of living in Arkansas josh and his butt buddy steve killed three people and one of them was and eleven year old girl that they had raped.

Well with that all behind me and now moving on. The real reason that I am estatic why I moved is because there is another man in my life. I would love to tell you his name but for confidentiality reasons I am just gonna call him Mater.

He is the most amazing redneck hunk I have ever met! I have these strong feelings for him.

justthinkin

So, she went from a relationship with a mass murderer to one with a redneck hunk, and thanks Satan for it. A perfect example of compressed Darwinian evolution.