Triple murder takes toll on family

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) -- The gruesome Thanksgiving Day triple murder has taken a toll on the family and friends of the accused man.

The paint is chipped, the house in various stages of disrepair, rusty cars sit in the driveway, and the yard is surrendering to wild growth. 154 Naomi Drive has an uncomfortable feel to it, especially when you realize what happened there.

"It's tough, it's tough. I mean, justice will be due. Justice is going to happen," David Bednarz told News 8.

David Bednarz returned to the East Hartford home Monday, the first visit in a long time, after he learned his half-brother Brett Bednarz, was arrested for capital murder.

"Why? I still don't understand why," Bednarz said. "There's other ways around it. You don't kill your mother because things aren't working out."

Thanksgiving Day, two years ago, Brett's mother, 74-year-old Beverly Therrien, and her two tenants, 53-year-old Michael Ramsey, and 60-year-old Pamela Johns, were found savagely beaten, murdered, in the East Hartford home.

The arrest warrant for Bednarz is a gruesome read, but of course, also reveals what happened before and after this crime. In it, Beverly Therrien said was fearful of Brett. He would push her, hurt her, lock her in a room. At one point, she wrote a letter to the State's Attorney, saying quote, "I lay here night after night, wondering if Brett is going to come back, and hurt me again."

"She was a frail 100 pound lady, 70 something years old, she couldn't walk. Couldn't do nothing, and you're going to kill her?" David Bednarz, said.

Brett Bednarz is being held on a three million dollars bond.

When News 8 asked, "Do you believe he was capable of doing something like this?", his sister Candace, first thought of as a person of interest, ran from reporters as she made her way to her car.

Physical evidence, as well as Brett's DNA on a tissue, link him to the house, the lonely house on Naomi Drive.

"Hopefully he gets put to death, that's the way I feel about it. You just don't kill your mother, you don't kill your parents," David Bednarz said.