Dr.: Conn. man said he raped woman post-strangling

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A man convicted of killing a woman and her two daughters in a 2007 home invasion told a psychiatrist he strangled and then raped the woman in a rage triggered after his co-defendant told him he had killed the girls.

But the psychiatrist, who was called by the defense, acknowledged Steven Hayes' account was at odds with what he told police immediately after the crime.

Hayes' attorneys are trying to persuade a jury to spare him the death penalty by arguing Hayes was a follower and Joshua Komisarjevky, who awaits trial, was the mastermind who escalated the violence. The psychiatrist, Dr. Eric Goldsmith, concluded Hayes was in an extreme emotional state at …