It was a typical Thursday on 21 March 1996 when Anita Patel showed up to her parent's house at 9 Massow Dr in Windsor, Ct around 8:20 am. Champa, who is Anita's mother, had been helping her out by watching her youngest child Rohan a couple of days a week while her and her husband worked, and their daughter, Priya 4, was at school. Anita parked in the driveway and then got the kids out of their Ford Windstar. She used the garage door opener that her parents gave her to enter the house, then went to the door that lead into the house. When Anita opened the door, she could tell that something was wrong. She turned to her two kids and told them to run.
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| Area of Connecticut where the murders happened. |
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| 9 Massow Lane Zoomed in. |
Only being 4 years old Priya didn't know what to make of her mother's demands to run. However, the tone in her mother's voice was enough to do what her mother had asked her. First, she led Rohan back to the van. She waited, hoping that her mother would return, and she would head to school. After what seemed like a long time, Priya lead Rohan back to the house and looked in the windows. Not seeing her mother on the first floor, but then seeing her on the second floor. Her mother was with a man that was dressed in a black snowsuit and a white ski mask covering his face.
At this point, Priya lead Rohan away from the house. Walking up Massow La past a bunch of houses that were built just like her Grandmothers. She was hoping to see an adult. Someone that might help her mother. They turned left down Andrew Lane and walked until they got to Dudley Town road.
I happen to live not far from here, and my Grandfather owned his house in the Rainbow section of Windsor from 1954 until 2009. Dudley Town Road is one of the arteries that supply's traffic to the tens if not hundreds of warehouses that occupy old farm land in Bloomfield, Ct. I would consider it a main drag, with cars doing in excess of 50 mph down that road, completely in autopilot on their way to work in the morning.
Debbie Laramie had seen the two of them across the street from her house on Dudley town road. She had just assumed that they were playing, and that one of their parents was watching them from the house. Debbie ran a day care out of her home, and had her own kids to tend to. However, she got concerned when they both ran across the street. Then sort of relieved when they came up to the door and knocked.
Priya told Debbie that "a bad man" did something to Mommy. Debbie, knowing that something was off, called 911. When the police showed up, Priya repeated the story to the police. When they tried to get her to go in the police car, she refused, but agreed to walk back to her grandmothers house.
Police entered the house they found 2 small fires, so they called the fire department to extinguish the blazes. The two small fires were set on both Anita and Champa Patel.
Windsor police said it was one of the most gruesome scenes that they had ever come across. Champa Patel was bound with duct tape behind her back, she was gagged and had plastic wrap pulled around her face. Anita was found stabbed a number of times and found with scissors still in her back.
The killer left in the Family's ford Windstar. Which was found a short time later parked at a Church. Next to exit 36 on Interstate 91.
April- May 1996.
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