A website is selling poems and artwork it claims Cheshire home invasion killer Joshua Komisarjevsky wrote and drew, as well as some of his prison books and clothes.
Komisarjevsky is one of two men on death row for killing a Cheshire family and burning down their house in 2007.
Website darkvomit.com lists multiple Komisarjevsky items for sale that range from $30 to $275, including a drawing on an Edgar Allen Poe poem, a drawing called "The Bride of the Monster, a supposed original poem called "Poem of Suffering," prison paperwork that the site says is Komisarjevsky's, sweatshirts the website says he wore in prison and books that the site claims he owned as an inmate. The website is self-described as "Dark vomit's True Crime Museum & Prison Art Gallery" and sells crime-related collectibles.
The Hartford Courant reported that prison officials began investigating how the website obtained items listed as Komisarjevsky's after a victim advocate in Texas came across it.
Kelly Hutchison, the artist and dealer who runs dark vomit.com, told the Hartford Courant that he got the belongings from Komisarjevsky's pen pal and that he didn't buy them from the death row inmate.
It hasn't been verified whether the items for sale actually belonged to Komisarjevsky.
Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes were convicted in 2011 for brutally attacking Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters in their Sorghum Mill Drive home in Cheshire in 2007. Komisarjevsky appealed the verdict and requested a new trial.
