Anthony and Megan Todt meet in college, marrying shortly after graduation. The couple opens a practice together in Colchester, Connecticut. When the couple welcomes children Aleksander, Tyler, and Zoe, Megan stays home fulltime to care for them. In 2019, the family moves to Florida, just miles away from Disney World. Anthony Todt continues working in Connecticut, travelling back to Florida for family weekends.
Anthony Todt struggles to support his family in Florida. He loses his lease on the Connecticut Physical Therapy Office, and is in default on several loans. Todt begins charging insurance for care patients did not receive. By December, the feds discover Todt’s fraudulent activity. The father claims his family has no idea of his crimes and he will cooperate fully to keep it that way. Todt stops communicating with authorities, and in January, they have a warrant for his arrest.
Investigators stake out the Todts’ seemingly vacant Florida home. Mail is piled on
the porch and an eviction notice is taped to the door. The feds are leaving when Todt walks
outside, stumbling and convulsing. They miss their chance to arrest Todt before he returns
inside, but worried about his health, officers push open the front door to a horrible stench.
Todt tells officers his wife is sleeping and he doesn’t know where his children are. Investigators
find Megan, Aleksander, Tyler, Zoe, and the family dog badly decomposing in the Todts’
bedroom.
Investigators find Aleksander and Tyler on a mattress in the Todts’ bedroom, next to the bed,
where Megan is covered with a blanket. Officers search the whole house for Zoe, before
realizing her badly decomposed body is under a blanket at her mom’s feet. The bodies were
‘black as leather’ and an autopsy could not determine exactly how the victims died. All of the
victims were drugged with Benadryl and had stab wounds. The children’s wounds we were
inflicted post-mortem, and the medical examiner says they were likely suffocated.
Todt initially confesses to the killings, saying both he and Megan were concerned about the
possible 2020 apocalypse, and wanted to make sure their family died together and without
pain. Todt claims the parents came up with a plan to drug, then kill the children and then
themselves. At trial, Todt claims he made that confession out of a desire to protect his wife,
claiming she actually killed the children while he was away, and killed herself in front of him
after confessing what she had done.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Cheryln Cadle - Author of “Suffer the Little Children: Into the Hands of Evil” and "The Murders of Christopher Watts” and “The Many Faces of Christopher Watts: A 5-year Update”, website: www.cherylncadle.com
- Caryn Stark - Forensic Psychologist, www.carynstark.com, Instagram: carynpsych, FB: Caryn Stark Private Practice
- Joseph Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan", Instagram @JoScottForensic
- Sydney Sumner - Investigative Reporter, ‘Crime Stories’
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