The police went to his home to arrest him for health fraud, but they discovered that he had murdered his entire family. What they found there was four bodies.
Anthony Todt murdered his entire family and lived with the corpses for several days.
On January 13, 2020, FBI agents went to the home of Anthony Todt, a 46-year-old physical therapist from the United States, with a warrant for his arrest for health fraud. An investigation accused him of defrauding insurance at his physiotherapy clinic, however, upon arriving at his home, the agents found a scene of terror that they never imagined: an entire family had been riddled with bullets.
The Connecticut man, who had been living in Florida for some time, had committed a quadruple homicide and FBI officers found the bodies of his wife Megan Todt, 42, and their children Alek, 13, Tyler, 11, and their daughter Zoe, 4 years old . The man had even killed his dog Breezy.
The decomposing bodies of the victims were wrapped in blankets, had stab wounds, and were found to contain toxic amounts of Benadryl. According to autopsy reports, Todt lived with the bodies in his house for several days. In that first instance, the man confessed to the Police that he had killed his family of him. Though later, he had changed his statement.
"I loved my wife. I loved my children," he told the judge. "They were the first and most important thing in my life. I did not do this. I took care of my wife and the children. I did everything I could," said the man who tried to make his wife look guilty, pointing out that she suffered from an illness .
"She was too ill for almost 0 years, but then she was treated and has already recovered," Stewart Peil, Megan Todt's uncle, told the Orlando Sentinel. “Every time I saw her, she was fine. There was never any hint that she was frail or weak. This whole story about her being an invalid that he had to take care of her, was not true."
Local media reported that the family lived in a rented house by the Walt Disney Company near the Orlando theme parks. A place too expensive for a family that no longer had the income of other times.
Todt did not want to reduce his expenses but instead began to ask for loans and in the urgency to get money he devised a fraud scheme in his health care clinic.
Before he murdered his entire family, Todt was under investigation by the FBI for defrauding insurance companies and government programs out of $130,000 in bogus bills. He had been paid for client visits that never happened. Cornered, the man took out his frustrations on his family from him.
For the rest of his life he will know that he wiped out his family because his business failed and he couldn't bear to tell them that their business failed , that they would have to start over.
Assistant State Attorney Danielle Pinnell reported that after killing his wife, three children and a dog, Todt used their phones to tell family members they were all sick. It was a desperate attempt to cover up his cruel slaughter of him.
They began investigating Todt's sister. At that time she received a text message from Megan Todt's phone in which she was talking about believing in the apocalypse. It was one among the various versions with which the murderer tried to save lots of himself but finally the justice condemned him, after seven hours of deliberations by the jury.
At Thursday's sentencing hearing, Todt blamed his wife for his or her children's deaths, saying he came home to seek out the kids dead and blood on her shirt. He added that he was distraught, that's why he tried to cover up for his wife from him and that he had attempted suicide several times.
The final verdict was a life sentence. Judge Keith A. Carsten called him a "destroyer" and said he will have no chance of parole, according to the Orlando-Sentinel.