NEW BRITAIN, Conn. -- Leslie Williams told police he entered an unlocked New Britain home looking for money and a car, but when two women inside got a good look at his face, he had no choice but to shoot them.

According to court documents, he was sleeping in an unlocked car Sunday morning when he saw MaryEllen Welsh walk into Carol Larese's house to have coffee and followed her inside.

Court Documents Detail Home Invasion

Welsh, 62, was abducted. Police found her body early Monday in a wooded area in Bristol about 10 miles away.

Larese, 65, was shot but is expected to survive. She told police she pretended to be dead, then stayed in her basement for an hour to make sure the intruder had left.

Police said they arrested Williams, 31, when he crashed Welsh's car in Watertown after a police chase about five hours later.

"He told police he had made many mistakes such as allowing the females time to memorize his face," according to the documents. "That is when Williams realized he would have to kill both females."

Williams was charged with criminal attempt to commit murder, robbery, kidnapping with a firearm and other crimes related to the attack on Larese.

He appeared in New Britain Superior Court on Monday to face those charges but did not enter a plea. Judge Joan Alexander set bond at $5 million.

Prosecutors said they were preparing to file more serious charges connected with Welsh's death but did not know when that might happen.

Williams' attorney, Public Defender Todd A. Edgington, said he expected the new charges within the next day or two.

Court Documents Show Criminal History

Williams was released March 4 from the medium-security Osborne Correctional Institution in Somers after serving eight years in prison for convictions in 2000 of sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor, according to state Department of Correction records.

Police in Waterbury, where Williams lived before he went to prison, said the conviction was for the 1998 sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl he knew.

Lt. Chris Corbett said Waterbury police had also arrested Williams for two burglaries, breach of peace and selling drugs.

Brian Garnett, a correction spokesman, said Monday that Williams was disciplined twice in prison for making threats, once for violating provisions of a program there, and once for tampering with security.

He was denied parole in March 2006, and was placed on five years probation when he was released from prison this month, Garnett said.

"He'd been charged with narcotics arrests and burglary arrests in the past. (He's) very well known to the system," Gagliardi said.

Court officers said that Williams moved into the McKinney Homeless Shelter in Hartford four days ago.

Channel 3 Eyewitness News reporter Len Besthoff reported that the state agency that oversaw Williams' probation, which was supposed to be for 10 years, said he seemed to be moving in the right direction, and that he met with his probation officer five times since his release.

Home Invasion Inspires Calls For New Laws

Gov. Jodi Rell called the home invasion an "Utterly reprehensible crime of violence" on Monday.

She called for the General Assembly to pass legislation establishing a "three strikes law." (Related Story)

"The time for excuses and rationalization has passed," she said. "We need a law that says if you commit three violent offenses, you will be sent to prison for the rest of your life, period."

She also asked for funding for increased GPS monitoring of those on probation and parole and for required GPS monitoring of all sex offenders.

Williams' attorney said he asked to have Williams placed in protective custody in prison because he is concerned other inmates might blame him if state officials crack down the way they did after a deadly July home invasion in Cheshire.

That crime, in which two paroled burglars allegedly killed a mother and two daughters, led to a temporary ban on parole for all offenders.

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