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were beyond brutal. >> he swung the bat as hard as he could. before they tied anybody up, before the fire was set, joshua tried to kill dr. petit on the couch. >> reporter: i'm rani kaye in cheshire, connecticut. tonight, a cnn special report. what happened to a wife, a husband and their two daughters in a home that became a house of horror and terror? "pure evil, the killings in connecticut." for the petit family in this quiet connecticut suburb, there was never any hint of the violence that was to come. >> the epitome of the all-american family. a beautiful mother and two beautiful...

>> he swung the bat as hard as he could. before they tied anybody up, before the fire was set, joshua tried to kill dr. petit on the couch. >> reporter: i'm rani kaye in cheshire, connecticut. tonight, a cnn special report. what happened to a wife, a husband and their two daughters in a home that became a house of horror and terror? "pure evil, the killings in connecticut." for the petit family in this quiet connecticut suburb, there was never any hint of the violence that was to come. >> the epitome of the all-american family. a beautiful mother and two beautiful daughters. >> repor...

tried to kill dr. petit on the couch. >> reporter: i'm rani kaye in cheshire, connecticut. tonight, a cnn special report. what happened to a wife, a husband and their two daughters in a home that became a house of horror and terror? "pure evil, the killings in connecticut." for the petit family in this quiet connecticut suburb, there was never any hint of the violence that was to come. >> the epitome of the all-american family. a beautiful mother and two beautiful daughters. >> reporter: never any clue their vibrant home on this road in the town of cheshire would soon become a house ...

number two engine. >> we felt this loud boom. >> shepard: tonight, what went wrong on the world's largest passenger plane. plus, this is somebody's car that was parked in the garage. this is one of the fdn line's trucks. >> shepard: art facts of tragedy. >> this is ladder three. you can see the absolute damage that took place. >> shepard: tonight, the effort to preserve the pieces of 9/11. but first from fox this thursday night, there are new signs of compromise in washington as the president invites congressional leaders to the white house. we're told a total of 8 house and senate l...