Dr. Petit managed to escape the basement and hop, roll and crawl across a yard to a neighbor's house for help too late to save his family.

After going home and putting his own daughter to bed, he and Steven Hayes, now 48, returned to the Petit house in the middle of the night, while the family was sleeping, to rob it.

Dr. Petit was beaten, tied up and taken to the basement. Michaela and Hayley, 17, were tied to their beds.