At one point she can be seen leaning over the counter herve leger white bandage dress and whispering in an attempt to save her family.
"To me, she was trying to get done what she was sent into the bank to get done, so she could return to her family," Lyons said.
The bank manager said she watched as Hawke-Petit drove away with a man wearing a hoodie.
Shortly after leaving the bank, Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters Hayley, 17, and Michaela Petit, 11, would be dead. Hawke-Petit was raped and strangled and the girls died from smoke inhalation as they were tied to their beds when their house was set ablaze.
Komisarjevsky's lawyer opened the procedings by blaming his client's accomplice for the rape and triple murder in Cheshire, Connecticut.
The attorney admitted it was Komisarjevsky who singled out Hawke-Petit and Michaela in a supermarket, trailed them to their house, and returned later that night with Hayes. He also admits that it was Komisarjevsky who attacked herve leger pink bandage dress the father with a bat and that he masturbated in front of the younger daughter.
Nevertheless, defense lawyer Walter C. Bansley III painted his client as a man who was "confused" and easily led but who never meant to kill anyone, so that when the horrific events of that night spiraled out of control, Komisarjevsky was helpless to stop them.
Komisarjevsky had confessed to the crime and offered to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty, an offer the prosecution rejected. His defense hopes to save him from death by lethal injection.
His accomplice Steven Hayes was convicted in a trial last year that was so graphic the jurors received counseling when the case was over. Hayes was sentenced to death and is currently on death row.
The number of sworn law enforcement officers has fluctuated, shrinking since white bandage dress 2008, before which it had grown substantially, according to the FBI report.
That decline coincides with government agencies struggling to maintain services while suffering from declining tax revenue.
The number of reported arrests nationally has dropped substantially in recent years, from 14.4 million in 2006 to 13.1 million in 2010.
A drop in the number of arrests could be attributable to a number of factors, and not simply because there were fewer reports of crimes.
Blumstein noted that the numbers of blacks arrested had dropped noticeably more than the numbers for whites.
"I was struck by the difference," he said.
Homicide numbers are difficult to fudge. Pennsylvania recorded a slight drop, and New Jersey and Delaware had increases in murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, which is how the FBI defines the category.
All three states reported declines in forcible rapes.
