FL - Todt Fam *MEDIA only*Megan, Alek, Tyler, & Zoe, in Celebration, 6 Jan 2020 *Tony arrested

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In a statement from Connecticut state police, the agency said it learned of the ongoing investigation through media reports and said any updates would come from the Osceola County Sheriff’s Department.

“The news reports out of Celebration, Florida are heartbreaking and as an agency we want to express our deepest condolences to the families of the victims,” the statement read. “It is common that with any criminal investigations police agencies will assist one another in terms of providing relevant information that may aid in an investigation. To date, the Connecticut State Police has not received any request from local authorities in the Florida area to assist in this investigation. We are confident in their ability to conduct a thorough investigation.”
Fears mount for missing family
 
At trial, the Commonwealth’s most important witness was John Chairmonte. Chairmonte, a former student in Bensalem High School’s program for students with learning disabilities, was an alcohol and drug abuser with a criminal record. His involvement with the attack upon Loretta Todt was revealed after his arrest on an unrelated charge. John Chairmonte admitted that he shot Loretta Todt at Robert Todt’s behest. In exchange for testimony against Todt, Chairmonte was promised that his sentence for shooting Loretta Todt would not exceed five years to be served in the Bucks County Prison.

Chairmonte testified that in March of 1980 Robert Todt offered him $800 to kill a woman Todt described as a babysitter. Todt gave Chairmonte a .32 caliber pistol and some bullets. Three days before the shooting Todt went to Chairmonte’s home, woke him up and brought him to Todt’s home. Todt and Chairmonte then drove to Frankford Hospital, where Loretta Todt worked. As explained by Chairmonte, the plan was for him to surprise Loretta Todt as she entered her car after work, take her to a back road and shoot her. Chairmonte was, however, too frightened to carry out this scheme.

A new scheme was developed, and Todt gave Chairmonte a key to Todt’s house. On March 19, 1980, Chairmonte entered the Todt house through the garage, shot Loretta Todt and rifled several drawers to make it look as though a burglary had taken place.

According to a Sept. 8, 1981 article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, police interviewed the Todts’ son, Anthony, then 4. “The boy said he woke up hearing his mother screaming.”

When he walked into the hallway, he said a “black man with a ‘T’ carved on his forehead picked the boy up and put him back in bed.” He saw another man “wrestling with Mommy on her bed.” The article describes the senior Todt as a “former special education teacher and wrestling coach at Bensalem High School.”

Tony Todt’s Father Robert Todt Served Time in Murder Plot | Heavy.com
 
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Florida Dad Arrested After Wife, 3 Kids, Dog Are Found Dead in Disney-Developed Home

Anthony Todt has been charged with murder after his wife and three children were found dead inside the home they were renting in Celebration, Florida

By KC Baker
January 15, 2020 12:42 PM
A Florida man was arrested after his wife and three children were found dead inside their Disney-developed home after the family had been reported missing, police confirm.
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Calling the murders “despicable,” Gibson alleged Todt confessed to killing his wife, Megan Todt, 42, and the couple’s three children, Alek, 13, Tyler, 11 and Zoey, 4. Todt also allegedly confessed to killing the family dog, Breezy.

Authorities believe the bodies of the mother and children had been inside the home since late December, Gibson said.
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Florida Dad Arrested After Wife, 3 Kids, Dog Are Found Dead in Disney-Developed Home
 
Wow, the Sleuth Award to you, @oviedo!! You have really been digging for info for us. :)..:cool:
Such a horrible and sad thing to happen.
What a horror for the other three after the first slaying occurred; then there were two; and then there was one. And that poor dog. And then nothing.
Can you imagine what their Connecticut friends and neighbors must be thinking?
 
Man’s insurance fraud scheme led investigators to Celebration home where family was found slain, court records say
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A brazen health care fraud scheme operated through Anthony Todt’s physical therapy business to pad his bank account was what led authorities to his family’s home in Celebration early Monday, where they found the bodies of his wife, children and family dog, according to court filings.

Todt was initially taken into custody on a federal health care fraud charge, but law enforcement soon found his entire family killed inside their home on Reserve Place. Todt, 44, has since been arrested on first-degree murder charges for the deaths of his wife, Megan Todt, 42, and his three children: Alek, 13; Tyler, 11; and Zoe, 4.

Federal court records related to the fraud case, unsealed Wednesday, exposed the extent of Todt’s spiraling finances and detailed the investigation that led up to Monday’s grisly discovery.

Todt had for years operated a health care fraud scheme from his Connecticut business, Family Physical Therapy, billing both the federal government through Medicaid and private health insurance companies for hundreds of hours of care that he never actually provided to patients, according to a 36-page affidavit filed in U.S. District Court of Connecticut.
 
ANTHONY Todt paid $278,908.51 to settle a lawsuit filed against his physical therapy practice just days before police believe he murdered his wife, three children and the family's dog.

The Sun has obtained court documents showing that Anthony satisfied the judgement on December 23, just days before he and his family were evicted from their Florida rental home.
Mystery deepens as 'killer' dad paid off $275K lawsuit days before he 'murdered family'
 
“Family Annihilators”: Understanding What Drives Fathers to Kill | TIME.com

“The picture that emerged shows that men who kill their families were most likely to commit their crimes on Sundays and in August, times when children are typically out of school. The most common method was stabbing; the second was carbon monoxide poisoning. More than half of the men were in their 30s and more than 80% committed or tried to commit suicide after killing their children. While previous research found that “annihilators” are often characterized by failure, most of the men in the current sample were employed — and had jobs ranging from surgeon to librarian to taxi driver.“

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10 Notorious Cases of Familicide - Oddee

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Why Ordinary People Murder Their Families

“Known as "family annihilators", these people, most always men, have a profound need for control that drives them to destroy their family when they can no longer provide for them financially or when the family has been divided by divorce. (With men who commit murder-suicides there tends to be a catalyst such as a financial or personal defeat that they view as catastrophic, while women who kill loved ones are more likely to have a history of mental-health conditions like postpartum psychosis, as in the case of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her five young children in 2001.)“

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Characteristics of family killers revealed by first taxonomy study

“Family annihilators have received little attention as a separate category of killer," said Professor David Wilson, one of the paper's three authors, and Director of the Centre of Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University. "Often they are treated like spree or serial murderers, a view which presupposes traits, such as the idea that the murderer 'snaps', or that after killing their partner or children the killer may force a stand-off with the police."“

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“Over half of these men, 55%, were in their thirties; 10% were in their twenties and the oldest was discovered to be 59.

August was found to be the most common month for the killing to take place, accounting for 20% of cases. Just under half of all murders were committed over weekends, especially on a Sunday.“

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“81% of the men attempted suicide after the act, which refutes the traditional idea that family annihilators may force the police to shoot them, as is common with spree murderers. There were no recorded cases of stand-offs with the law.”
The “civil reputable” killer, in contrast, is motivated by altruism where his identity is wrapped up in his family. Committing murder against all family members is, therefore, a way of saving them from the hardship and shame of financial troubles and bankruptcy and they will almost always commit suicide afterward.

If suicide after the act fails, in most cases which reach a court, the perpetrator will almost always plead some form of insanity as a defense, however not all believe this is an adequate explanation for such acts. As in all types of mass murder, there are different motivations and different methods of murder.

It was found that the most common method of killing in familicides involved firearms.
Family Annihilation: The Crimes and Psychology of Familicide | Crime Traveller
 
“Todt stated that he kept having to bill for services that were not rendered to keep pace with the personal loans that he took out. When asked if he was living above his means, Todt replied, ‘That’s the best way to put it.’ When the agents asked Todt if his wife, Megan, knew about his fraudulent billing practices, Todt responded, ‘No, only me.’ Todt then asked the agents how long the investigative process would last and stated that he wanted to plead guilty,” Anderson wrote.

Todt’s business was also heavily in debt. Over the course of late 2018 and early 2019, Todt was the subject of three civil judgments involving three creditors totaling more than $500,000.

Anthony Todt was a man under pressure – from creditors, landlords, Medicaid investigators and federal agents
 
Sheriff: Man killed wife, 3 kids in Celebration home

Sheriff: Man killed wife, 3 kids in Celebration home
Bodies were found as authorities were serving federal warrant
Adrienne Cutway, Web Editor

Published: January 15, 2020, 5:09 pmUpdated: January 15, 2020, 7:49 pm
Tags: Crime, Osceola County, Celebration

CELEBRATION, Fla. – A man killed his wife, their three children and the family dog at their Celebration home in late December, according to the Osceola County sheriff.

Deputies said the bodies of 42-year-old Megan Todt, 11-year-old Tyler Todt, 13-year-old Alec Todt, 4-year-old Zoe Todt and Breezy the dog were found Monday morning inside the home on Reserve Place as authorities were attempting to serve a federal arrest warrant for Anthony Todt.

Anthony Todt was being investigated by the United States Department of Health and Human Services for a matter unrelated to the deaths.


 
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