1 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:10,960 Speaker 1: What happens to an entire family seemingly going missing in 2 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: or about their Disney condo. I'm taking a look at 3 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: their photo right now, the mom and three beautiful children. 4 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: What so many people would not give to have a 5 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: gorgeous family like this. Two boys, I mean they all 6 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: have on matching It looks like Pj's all of them. 7 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: The dad, the mom, two boys, a girl, and the 8 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 1: dog poking up at the bottom of the photo. It's 9 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: an all American dream. What goes wrong with the whole 10 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 1: family goes missing? I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories, 11 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace and the owner on Family 12 00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: Physical Therapy. Tony Tott, his wife, and their three young 13 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: children and dog have not been seen or heard from 14 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: in weeks, and my staff realized that something's amiss, and 15 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 1: they followed him, followed the online stuff and said he's 16 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:15,119 Speaker 1: really missing. A Facebook page created over a week ago 17 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: by family and friends of the family of five looking 18 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 1: for answers and their disappearance. They say the Todd family 19 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:25,559 Speaker 1: had recently moved to Celebration, Florida from Colchester, but say 20 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: that Tony had traveled back and forth to continue to 21 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: run his Colchester business. The community still waiting for many 22 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 1: answers to the questions about a family that was loved 23 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: by so many in this community. Over the years in town, 24 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: he always seemed very generous, helpful. They were always doing 25 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 1: things for the community. I know around Christmas they were 26 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: taking a collection for a family and need really nice guy. 27 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: You're hearing our friends at sixty one. That's actually Afonso 28 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: speaking what happens to an entire family. I'm Nancy Grace. 29 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. 30 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: It is extremely rare for an entire family to just 31 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 1: drop off the map. I've covered several cases like that, 32 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,239 Speaker 1: investigated several cases like that, and they are extremely rare. 33 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 1: Just a handful of cases with me to break it 34 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 1: down and put it back together again. Renown defense attorney 35 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: former prosecutor out of the Atlanta jurisdiction. Daryl Cohen, detective, 36 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 1: author of Outside Your Door. You can find him at 37 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: Stephen Lampley dot com. Stephen Lampley psychoanalyst, two celebs. Doctor 38 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall joining me out of Beverly Hills at doctor 39 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:39,959 Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall dot com. Renounce South Carolina Medical Examiner, author 40 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 1: of homicide investigation field guy doctor Michelle Dupre But right 41 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: now to crime online dot Com investigate every reporter, Lee Egan, 42 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: Let's start at the beginning. When did the Now I'm 43 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:56,799 Speaker 1: understanding it's pronounced Tote family go missing has not been 44 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: seen since mid December by some neighbors, November by other neighbors. Wow, 45 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: but their family says that they spoke to them or 46 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 1: texted them on January sixth, speaking only to the father, 47 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: none of the other family. So if those accounts are 48 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: to be believed, we know that the entire family was 49 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: seen in mid December, just before Christmas. The dad was 50 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:26,639 Speaker 1: texting normally at the beginning of January. The whole family 51 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:31,359 Speaker 1: goes missing, though out of sight, and it all seems 52 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: to be swirling around the Disney, the Disney complex and 53 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: celebration in Florida. Now, let's talk about that for one moment. 54 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 1: Daryl Cohen, defense attorney, joining us out of Atlanta. Daryl, 55 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: I know, with all your children you must have gone 56 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: to Disney. I actually got to live down there for 57 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 1: I guess six months. When I was covering the top 58 00:03:55,200 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: Mom Casey Anthony case. We went to Disney all the time, 59 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: all the time, because I would be in court all 60 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: day and my husband and two babysitters would take the 61 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: children to Disney, and I would pass celebration en route 62 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: to the entrance to Disney. I didn't know what it was, 63 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 1: I said, David, what is that. It's this beautiful kind 64 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: of a resort community built for Disney lovers, That's what 65 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 1: it is, Darryl. Yeah, Nancy, I've been to Disney so 66 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 1: many times. I think I grew my own mouse ears. 67 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: But yeah, I love it, and it's very, very close, 68 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: and it's supposed to be the epitome of good and family, 69 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: fun and wholesomeness. Well, I don't like what you just said, 70 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: Daryl Cohen. It's supposed to be, because in my mind 71 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 1: it is. I mean, you don't even step on a 72 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: piece of gum at Disney. That's just not going to happen, Okay, 73 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,559 Speaker 1: And you can not that I would do it because 74 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,839 Speaker 1: I don't want them kidnapped to murder. But at Disney 75 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 1: there are so many employees, both in uniform and non uniform. 76 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: A lot of parents let their children walk free because 77 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: it really is the happiest place on earth. In fact, 78 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: I was so inspired we started going on Disney Cruises 79 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 1: because we loved Disney so much, and this celebration is 80 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 1: a giant community for Disney lovers. You know, there's those people. 81 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: I actually worked with one of them, doctor Bethany Marshall. 82 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: You remember my friend who was my first line producer ever, 83 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:27,720 Speaker 1: Justin Freeman. He's now at Fox Business. He was with 84 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 1: me at Court TV. Then he came with me to 85 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:34,160 Speaker 1: HLN and has been a friend and co worker for years. 86 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 1: He worked at Disney. He told me all the ins 87 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: and outs. It's almost like a cult in a good way, 88 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 1: because once you're there, you love at Bethany, and people 89 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: actually move and rebuild their lives to be near Disney. Bethany. 90 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: It is definitely a club. And not only do they 91 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: move and change their whole lives, but you know some 92 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 1: people I have patience my practice like this, who get 93 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: yearly passes and whenever they have a free day head 94 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 1: down to Disneyland. And it's not just because they have children. 95 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: These are people in their twenties, thirties, forties. But it 96 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: is a whole, entire community. And it is a wholesome community. 97 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 1: I mean, that's what you're talking about is built on 98 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: family values, fun and kind of a wish to return 99 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 1: to childhood to you know, the innocence and the care 100 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 1: free nature of that part of life. So there's nothing sinister. 101 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 1: I know this is a crime story that we're talking about, 102 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 1: that there's nothing sinister about Disneyland. It is the happiest 103 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 1: place on earth. Okay, you can all judge me if 104 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,039 Speaker 1: you want to. But do you know how many times 105 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 1: I've been through it's a small world at Disney in Orlando. 106 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 1: I don't even know how many, well, well over twenty 107 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: five times, because we would get out and get right 108 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,679 Speaker 1: back in the rhine and go around and around. Look, 109 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,239 Speaker 1: this is a fairytale Florida community and it was built 110 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 1: by Disney World, and people who love Disney actually go 111 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,599 Speaker 1: and live there, and other people who want a pretty 112 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 1: much crime free, sunny climate, positive attitude at least on 113 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: the outside, as far as I can see, moved to celebration. 114 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 1: That is exactly where this family went. But then suddenly 115 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: something goes very very wrong because they go missing. Take 116 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: a listen to our friends at w FSB Eyewitness News three. 117 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: This is Kevin Hogan. The family is saying they relocated 118 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 1: from Colchester to Celebration Florida. Tonight, we have documents showing 119 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: Tony's license to practice here in Connecticut was not renewed 120 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 1: last September, and in December they were evicted from the 121 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: house that they lived in Celebration, Florida, and shortly after Thanksgiving, 122 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: a digital marketing rep visited the Colchester office to talk 123 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: to Tony about his website and was confronted by what 124 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 1: she thought were investigators. I didn't see any badges, but 125 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: it was a big black truck, and of course that 126 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: looked this was locked. I couldn't get to the door. Okay, 127 00:07:55,440 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 1: hold on just a moment. Did I just hear eviction? Eviction? That? Oh? Okay, 128 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: when you get evicted, Darryl Cohen, I need a lawyer. 129 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: Everybody put a brake on it. When you have an 130 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: actual eviction, you have gotten all sorts months and months. 131 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: I've notices that you're going to be thrown out on 132 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: the street. They don't just show up one day and 133 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: grab you by the arms, knock on the door, grab 134 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: you and throw you out on the sidewalk. It doesn't 135 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 1: happen like that, Daryl Cohen. When somebody is finally evicted, 136 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: that's the culmination, literally of months of legal notices of 137 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 1: then putting notes on your door, emails, letters, the whole shebang. 138 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: Explained it to me, I've never really done landlord, tenant 139 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: or homeowner law. But even though you are a defense attorney, 140 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 1: you have to have people connected to your practice that 141 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 1: have been evicted or trying to avoid foreclosure. How much 142 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:51,719 Speaker 1: notice do you have before you're finally tossed out on 143 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 1: the street, well evicted. It's really very simple, Nansie. The 144 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:59,080 Speaker 1: landlord wants his or her money, and the people that 145 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: are being defied that they're going to be evicted haven't paid. 146 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: You normally get months you're behind, Please pay me, you're behind, 147 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: Please pay me, And then it goes to a certified letter. 148 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: You're behind, Please pay me. Then it goes to a 149 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: certified letter. If you don't pay, we're going to serve 150 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 1: you eviction notice. Then the sheriff comes out and gives 151 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: give a little bit of notice, puts a note on 152 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: your door if you're not there. If not, gives it 153 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: to you personally. You're going to be evicted if you 154 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: don't pay, and then you have a court date. And 155 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 1: then if you show up the court date, you could 156 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,199 Speaker 1: normally get a little bit of time. If you choose 157 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: to ignore it, then they will give you a week, 158 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: maybe two weeks to get out. So, Nancy, you're absolutely correct. 159 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: You get so much notice. They want their money. They 160 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 1: don't care, They just don't care. Well, here's the deal. 161 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: If someone is being evicted, that means that this family, 162 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: this mom and dad, or at least the dad had 163 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: because he was the one that it was all registered too. 164 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 1: He was getting legal notices. The other day, the twins 165 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 1: were at some school trip and I had gone along, 166 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 1: and while they were in their quote nature class, I 167 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,199 Speaker 1: went for a jog. I jogged by Daryl co in 168 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: this gorgeous home out in the middle kind of in 169 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,439 Speaker 1: this nature preserve area, in the little slice where you 170 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 1: could build homes, and I went, wow, they sure haven't 171 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 1: kept up their yard compared to all these other people, 172 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: these big, beautiful houses. Here. I am trumped through my 173 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: beat up clothes and tennis shoes, and then as I 174 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:36,680 Speaker 1: got closer, I saw a note, a bunch of notes 175 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: letters on the door. The garage door was up. It 176 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 1: looked vacant. One of the windows was broken on top, 177 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 1: like a third story window. And I could look at 178 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: a distance and see. The notes were like pale pink, 179 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: you know, the pink slip. It was an eviction in 180 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: that beautiful home, and there were there had to be 181 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: four letters on the door where they to warn the people. 182 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: My point is there were problems looming for this family 183 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: just before they get missing crime stories with Nancy Grace. 184 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 1: People living your Bia say the couple had three young 185 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 1: children and they fear the worst has happened. Despite no 186 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: confirmation from the sheriff's deputies, Lane Schladder says he played 187 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: basketball with the Todd children. They were very nice and 188 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: it's our dealers of run. A next door neighbor took 189 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 1: a picture of a man being put in handcuffs at 190 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 1: the home Monday morning. The neighbor says that man in 191 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: the photo appears to be Tony Todd. I haven't seen 192 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 1: the family in weeks. That used to always park right 193 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: in front of us, so we'd see them every day, 194 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:56,560 Speaker 1: come in and out with the kids. And the last 195 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: time I saw them was round Thanksgiving time. This is 196 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 1: seemingly the all American family. People back home where they 197 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: originally came from. At Colchester recounted as the search was 198 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: on for the family, one guy talked about coaching soccer 199 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 1: with the dad, Anthony Tote, and for years they had 200 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 1: coached soccer together, their children had played together, and then suddenly, 201 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 1: out of the blue, bam, they go missing. Now we 202 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: know that Toads were in the process of being sued 203 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 1: for failure to pay rent at a separate residence. They 204 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 1: owed well over four grand. That Celebration, Florida condominium, their 205 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: reserved place, is what we're talking about. A tenant eviction 206 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 1: notice was filed on December twenty two. We also know 207 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: that notes had been left on the home. There was 208 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 1: a one year lease on that home where they had relocated. 209 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 1: They owed about five grand in December rent and then 210 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 1: they owed money elsewhere. They had sold their home back 211 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 1: home in Colchester in twenty seventeen for about three hundred 212 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars. What happened to that money? Now 213 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: we know. Celebration is about an eleven square mile quote 214 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: master plan a PUD a plan unit development community right 215 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:24,319 Speaker 1: beside Walt Disney Resort. They're about seven thousand or so 216 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 1: people that live there, and it's divided into very distinct 217 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 1: villages of sorts, but very high scale gated community. A 218 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 1: great place to raise your children? Lee Egan question, do 219 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 1: you Lee Egan joining me Crime online dot com investigative reporter. 220 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 1: Why wasn't it reported the children were not in school, 221 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 1: They were being homeschooled by the mother, So the mom 222 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 1: was homeschooling. Plus it was Thanksgiving and Christmas vacation, so 223 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 1: a lot of children, including my own, were out during 224 00:13:56,520 --> 00:14:00,200 Speaker 1: that time, so there are little playmates. Probably did not 225 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 1: even notice something was wrong. Stephen Lampley he detective author 226 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: of Outside Your Door. You can find him at Stephen 227 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 1: Lampley dot com. Steve, how often have you ever seen 228 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 1: an entire family just go missing? You hear of a 229 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:16,839 Speaker 1: mom or a dad or a child going missing, but 230 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 1: the whole family, and it very rarely happens. And in 231 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: the incident incidents where it does happen, usually not all 232 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 1: the time, but usually you're centered around a domestic situation 233 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 1: and the family knows, so it's not alarightening. But whenever 234 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 1: you have in the min my experience, whenever you have 235 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: a whole family that disappears and nobody knows anything, it 236 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 1: doesn't look good. Bacti Leagan. The Toad family owns a 237 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 1: business in Colchester, Connecticut, and I've been commuting back and 238 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: forth to Celebration, Florida for how long and what kind 239 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: of business was it? The dad ownedly he owned a 240 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 1: physical therapy business. He was a physical therapist, and he 241 00:14:56,640 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 1: himself is the one that traveled back and forth from 242 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: Florida to Connecticut. I believe he was working during the 243 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 1: week at the physical therapy business, and on the weekends 244 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 1: and holidays he would spend in Florida with his family. 245 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: Take a listener our friends at w FSB I Witness News. 246 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 1: This is Curly mccraze. Tony Todd. He ran this business 247 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: here in town, so he's well known in this community 248 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: because he operated the family Physical Therapy. But we spoke 249 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: with the manager yesterday and she says she hasn't seen 250 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 1: him in weeks. No one has heard from the Todd 251 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 1: family since last Monday. Relatives created a Facebook group dedicated 252 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 1: to finding Tony Todd. We've blurred out his wife and 253 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 1: three children. In a post, his sister pleaded, Tony, if 254 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: you happen to come across this, please let us know 255 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: that you guys are okay. Yesterday, police in Celebration, Florida 256 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: investigated a death at a home the family owned since 257 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 1: two thousand and five. It's terrible, definitely, it's terrible. You 258 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 1: can't imagine that, you just could be happening costs on 259 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 1: the corner, you know, beside you. You can't imagine that. 260 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 1: And thus begins they saga of what has happened to 261 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 1: the family. We first learned there is one body in 262 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 1: the area of their celebration home to Lee Egan, investigative 263 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: reporter Crime online dot com, how did police initially find 264 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 1: the body? Well, the first time they went out there 265 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: was for a welfare check. They returned on January ninth 266 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 1: to serve a warrant, and at that time they notice something. 267 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: I believe it was like a smell or something unusual. 268 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: M Doctor Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst joining us out of Beverly 269 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: Yields at doctor Bethany Marshall dot com. Doctor Bethany, why 270 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 1: is it people would rather die than go through life 271 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 1: without their money? You know, Nancy, that is such a 272 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: good question. Do you go that forty four percent of 273 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 1: all crimes are related to property or money in some way, 274 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 1: either fear of losing it, not having enough, taking it 275 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 1: from other people, envying it it, stealing it, money is 276 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:06,359 Speaker 1: really at the root of so many bad happenings in 277 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 1: our society. Obviously, not that money is bad, but all 278 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:13,880 Speaker 1: the meanings attached to it. And when I hear that, 279 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 1: you know, there was these fiction notices on the door. 280 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:20,439 Speaker 1: The license wasn't renewed, I began to think, you know 281 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 1: it did. Was there some foul play that befell this 282 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 1: family because they didn't have money? Or in some way 283 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 1: were they preparing to die? And were they stopping paying 284 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 1: the rent? Were they not renewing their license? Was there 285 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:43,480 Speaker 1: some kind of a lead up phase to this demise 286 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: that befell them? In other words, they were preparing to 287 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,439 Speaker 1: not be on this earth any longer. And I'm not 288 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,360 Speaker 1: sure you know which way it is with this family, 289 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 1: Lee Egan, Crime Online dot Com and Destigative Reporter. You 290 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 1: stated that they sheriff's had gone by for a will 291 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 1: or check when family back coming Connecticut could not find 292 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,360 Speaker 1: the Tote family nothing. They couldn't find anything, all right, 293 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:10,160 Speaker 1: So they go back, you said, as I recall Lee, 294 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:16,640 Speaker 1: to affect a warrant. What was the warrant? They went back. 295 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 1: That's when they smelled d Coomp through the front door. 296 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: The warrant was for an investigation going on. Federal investigators 297 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 1: were investigating the father for Medicare and other private insurance fraud. 298 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 1: He was allegedly billing these insurance companies for visits that 299 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: never happened. Like some families would come maybe once or 300 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: twice a week to his practice, but he would say 301 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:47,440 Speaker 1: they were there five times a week. He was doing 302 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:50,879 Speaker 1: this with many, many, many patients, and the money had 303 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 1: wrecked up to the point where they were serving a 304 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: warrant for his arrest for that. You know, Daryl Cohen, 305 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,399 Speaker 1: as I always say, when you look out your kitchen 306 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 1: window you see the fans picking through your trash, you 307 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:15,440 Speaker 1: got a problem. I Nancy Grace breaking crime news. Now. 308 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:17,919 Speaker 1: A Florida daycare worker calls appear to say your three 309 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 1: year old has a bump on his leg from kicking 310 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: a chair. That's not what happened. Surrell Len's video shows 311 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 1: the twenty four year old panning the legs to the floor, 312 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: breaking it. Stephanie Acosta now facing aggravated child A beast 313 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:33,160 Speaker 1: charges two men argue while riding a Staten Island bus 314 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: and Mica Ruticus mad enough breaking the windshield. Cops charge 315 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:40,400 Speaker 1: a twenty five year old with criminal mischief, menacing, reckless 316 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:44,360 Speaker 1: endangerment and harassment. With this crimal alert, I Nancy Grace. Guys, 317 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: the secret is out. If you want healthy intimacy, your 318 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: body needs nitric oxide, and now you can boost your 319 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,679 Speaker 1: nitric oxide production faster than you thought possible with Ageless 320 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: Mail Tonight, the absurdly fast formula from the number one 321 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 1: brand in mail enhancement. Just take one capsule an hour 322 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: before romantic activity. You'll get clinically tested ingredients that rapidly 323 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: boost nitric oxide production and it won't go unnoticed. Rush 324 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 1: to Walmart and get Angeless Mail Tonight. Crime Stories with 325 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:29,919 Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. On January thirteen, twenty twenty, Ossila County Sherif's 326 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 1: Deputies responded to two thousand and two reserved places in 327 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 1: celebration to assist federal agents of the Department of Health 328 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 1: and Human Services and serving the federal arrest larrant for 329 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 1: Anthony Toad Anthony Toast date of birth in September twenty ninth, 330 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five. Deputes made contact with Anthony and the 331 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,680 Speaker 1: home along with federal agents, and he was immediately detained. 332 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 1: A safety check of the home was conducted where deputy's 333 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:02,640 Speaker 1: discovered for deceased individuals inside. The home was immediately secured 334 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 1: and a search warrant was obtained by architectives. Detectives and 335 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,879 Speaker 1: forensic investigators began their investigation and crime scene processing. The 336 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:15,399 Speaker 1: Medical Examiner's office also responded to the scene and as 337 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 1: an autoxy was done the following day. The reports of 338 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: the autopsy determined that the cause of death of the 339 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 1: four proceedings inside the home to be cast. So this 340 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: is not some suicide pact. There were four dead bodies 341 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 1: in that home. Lee Agan, investigative reporter crime online dot com. 342 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 1: Who were the bodies whose bodies were found inside the 343 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,879 Speaker 1: Disney condo home? Well, Nancy, what we're learning is a 344 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 1: suspect was living in his in the rented Celebration, Florida 345 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 1: home with his deceased family, Megan to the mother, their 346 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 1: three children Alec thirteen, Tyler eleven, and little Zoe was four, 347 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:01,680 Speaker 1: and the family dog, Breezy, for at least a week. 348 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 1: It could be longer, but we know for sure at 349 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 1: least a week. During that time, his electricity was shut off, 350 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: no hot water, and when he was walking out of 351 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 1: the home in handcuffs. When police arrested him. A local 352 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 1: reporter with Spectrum News said that they could smell a 353 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 1: strong odor coming from him. WHOA okay, so he killed 354 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 1: the dog too? Yes, okay, Doctor Bethany Marshall's psychoanles, we 355 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 1: know this guy's a hundred thousand dollars in debt minimum 356 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 1: minimum plus the fans are about three inches up his 357 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:36,840 Speaker 1: rear end for false claims. Hold hold on, Bethany, Daryl, 358 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 1: explain how that works. I recall what help there was? 359 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: Somebody rear ended me all my way to the courthouse. 360 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,680 Speaker 1: I might add Daryl for a court for a court calendar, 361 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: and you know I just got their name in Van 362 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 1: Moose because I didn't want to be late to court, 363 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: do you know? And may I call the police after that? 364 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 1: Do you know? The moment I got home that night, 365 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 1: my thing was ringing? Picked it up. It was a runner, Daryl, 366 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 1: the guy I wouldn't identify himself, and he wanted to 367 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: send me to a doctor. Okay, how did that happen? 368 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 1: Darryl Cohen? Now explain to me how doctors and rehabs 369 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 1: sometimes pad their expenses. Explain how it works. In a nutshell, 370 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,199 Speaker 1: Daryl in a nutshell. They put down that they have 371 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: given you this type of therapy and that type of 372 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 1: therapy and this type oftherapy. What in fact, you have 373 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 1: just been there and had one thing done to you. 374 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:32,439 Speaker 1: You may have had a heat pack, you may have 375 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:37,440 Speaker 1: had some sort of stretching exercise. But they put down 376 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 1: that they've done all of this stuff because the more 377 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 1: they've done, the more money they're going to make. And 378 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,639 Speaker 1: when you have your settlement or if you have to 379 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: follow lawsuit, there's more money for you there because of 380 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,680 Speaker 1: all the money you've expended. So that's how it works. 381 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: Back to Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst joining us out of Beverly Hills, 382 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,439 Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany, I want to focus on, just for a moment, 383 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:04,239 Speaker 1: shooting your dog. Do you remember an ancient agent when 384 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,560 Speaker 1: the pharaohs would be buried and their wives you would 385 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: find all their pets entombed. Well, what is that about, Nancy. 386 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 1: That's a really good question. I mean, in terms of 387 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,480 Speaker 1: ancient Egypt, they wanted their pets to go with them 388 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 1: into the afterlife. But this is a very different situation. Obviously, 389 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:25,119 Speaker 1: the Feds were closing in on the father in this family, Nancy, 390 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: you do not want to mess with Medicare. You go 391 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: to jail for a long long time when you defraud 392 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,720 Speaker 1: the government. I had this huge chiropractic practice next to 393 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 1: my office in Beverly Hills, patients coming in and out 394 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 1: all the time, blinding down the halls. I kept wondering 395 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: why they had so many patients. It was like a mill. 396 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,439 Speaker 1: One day I came to work, the whole office was 397 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,119 Speaker 1: shuttered up, no patients, nothing there. I've read in the 398 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,680 Speaker 1: paper the next day that the chiropractors had been over 399 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,679 Speaker 1: billing Medicare and they all went to jail, and the 400 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:57,919 Speaker 1: government pursues. The Feds pursue these cases for months before 401 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 1: they finally ensue an arrest warrant. And they are serious. 402 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 1: So the Toad family must have already known about this. 403 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 1: And in terms of killing the dog, my sense is 404 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 1: that he knew he was going to go to jail. 405 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,639 Speaker 1: He stopped paying for things, he stopped paying his mortgage, 406 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: he didn't renew his license. He knew that it was 407 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 1: all going downhill from there, and he simply did not 408 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: want his family to be free. He didn't want to 409 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 1: be separated from them. He did not want them to 410 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: have a free life while he was in jail. He's 411 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:34,920 Speaker 1: probably personality disordered, jealous, possessive, wanted them all to himself, 412 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 1: and he'd rather them be dead than be parted from them. 413 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,360 Speaker 1: And it's sick and it's twisted, but I think that's 414 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,680 Speaker 1: what happened. What an act of hatred to murder your 415 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: wife and your three children. I keep just looking at 416 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: this photo of the whole family in matching pejas or outfits, 417 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:58,439 Speaker 1: and the dog. It just looks like everybody's dream to 418 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 1: have three beautiful chill aldren and the dog and the home. 419 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:07,960 Speaker 1: But we know Anthony Tote was under pressure from creditors, landlords, 420 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 1: medicaid investigators, and even federal agents. And if I've said 421 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:14,880 Speaker 1: at once, I've said it a million times, do not 422 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: mess with the Feds, and I'm talking about the irs. 423 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 1: They will get you if it is the last thing 424 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:31,160 Speaker 1: they do, Isn't it right? Daryl Cohen? That capone al capone. 425 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 1: I don't know how many people he murdered, and he 426 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,920 Speaker 1: kept getting not guilty, not guilty, hung jury, hung jury, 427 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 1: until finally the taxman got him and he went down. 428 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,879 Speaker 1: Am I rewriting history here? Isn't that what happened to. 429 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 1: If you're a rewriting history, you're rewriting it with me. Absolutely. 430 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,480 Speaker 1: They tried to get him on every possible, every conceivable murder, 431 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 1: but it wasn't to be. But the United States government 432 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 1: was able to arrest him, and he was convicted and 433 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:03,920 Speaker 1: served time for income tax fraud, income tax evasion. You're 434 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,439 Speaker 1: absolutely right, dang, and I know it. Nobody wants that 435 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:11,640 Speaker 1: tax bill, but pay it timpum fifty dollars for Pete's sake. 436 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 1: Do not mess with the fits when they are investigating you. 437 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 1: All right, now, this is what I know. You can 438 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,119 Speaker 1: look at Facebook all you want to listen to all 439 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 1: the neighbors describing their family, their children, the beautiful wife. 440 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:30,640 Speaker 1: But public records tell another story to feeling heat from 441 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:35,200 Speaker 1: his landlords, creditors, medicaid investigators, and even the Attorney General 442 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: of Connecticut. He was a Colchester physical therapist. And this 443 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:44,120 Speaker 1: is what we know. According to police sources, after he 444 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: brutally murders his family, he takes a handful of Benadrill pills. 445 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:56,120 Speaker 1: Oh please stop Benadrill? Are you serious, doctor Michelle Dupree? 446 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,359 Speaker 1: I mean, how much Benagrill do you have to take 447 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: to die, Nancy, you would be an awfully lot ben 448 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: and drul really is as you know, it's not the 449 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: kind of setative or CNS depressent that is going to 450 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 1: cause a horrible outcome. You will just most likely get sick. 451 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 1: This is also what we have learned searching for a motive, 452 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 1: which of course the state does not have to prove. 453 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: Public records and court affidavit's show Tot's private life was 454 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:31,400 Speaker 1: a mess under investigation, exorbitant spending, unpaid bills, eviction notice. 455 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,920 Speaker 1: He operated that physical therapy practice listed as Performance Edge 456 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 1: Sports LLLC, also known as Family Physical Therapy there in Colchester. 457 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 1: He had another office in Westchester, another section of tim 458 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 1: Now we know around Thanksgiving suddenly the Park Avenue office 459 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 1: closed quickly and patients who are in the middle of 460 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 1: treatment had to go to other therapists. We also know 461 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 1: his physical therapy license expired September thirty and he did 462 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: not renew it, probably because he was under investigation and 463 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 1: he thought he wouldn't get renewed. Crime stories with Nancy Grace. 464 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 1: The Osceola County Sheriff's Office says four people were found 465 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 1: dead inside this home. I don't know what happens. I 466 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 1: want answers, but I don't know we'll ever got the answers. 467 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 1: Michelle and other neighbors confirmed this is a photo of 468 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 1: the father, Tony Todd. Marcelo Rodriguez took the photo when 469 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 1: deputies put Tony Tott in handcuffs yesterday morning. The father 470 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: was always friendly in waiting. The Sheriff's office will not 471 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,240 Speaker 1: say if he's under arrest or being questioned in the 472 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 1: deaths of the four people inside. I wasn't being surprised 473 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 1: to us right now because we can't even manage that, 474 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 1: you know, because pretty much is our happy family. Everybody's 475 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: so happy. Court records show that Tony and Meghan Tott 476 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: were evicted from this home for not paying rent. You 477 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: are hearing our friends at wt in h News eight. 478 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 1: That's Laurence Seabrook. What we're learning is that Taught was heavily, 479 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:15,160 Speaker 1: heavily in debt, up to five hundred thousand dollars in 480 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:20,000 Speaker 1: civil judgments already obtained out to you. Lee Egan, Crime 481 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,240 Speaker 1: online dot Com investigative reporter. What was he spending all 482 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 1: that money on? That's what everyone wants to know. He 483 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 1: bought a lot of money from lenders for what. We're 484 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 1: not sure, but a lot of that money was being 485 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,000 Speaker 1: paid back to him, but he didn't have that money 486 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 1: coming in, so it just became a vicious cycle. So 487 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: how does that work? You build up dead and then 488 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,960 Speaker 1: you take out short term loans to pay it off 489 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 1: or at least pay the bare minimum. To doctor Michelle Dupre, 490 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,960 Speaker 1: South Carolina Medical Examiner, author of Homicide Investigation Field Guide, 491 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:56,520 Speaker 1: Doctor Dupree, this clearly is not a suicide pact. So 492 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 1: how can you look at the bodies and determine they 493 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 1: were murder? They did not commit suicide, decide to all 494 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,040 Speaker 1: go to heaven together? Well, Nancy, that is exactly what 495 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:07,840 Speaker 1: we do. Is we look at the body, We look 496 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 1: at what types of injuries there are. We look to 497 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 1: see if is it possible that that person could have 498 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: done this to themselves and if the answer is no, 499 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,960 Speaker 1: then it is obviously not a suicide. So it's going 500 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 1: to depend on the injuries and how they were done. Well, 501 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:26,080 Speaker 1: what do you mean by that? I mean, I know 502 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,240 Speaker 1: that makes sense in your mind, but to all of 503 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 1: us who don't have a medical degree, how can you 504 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 1: look at the injuries and determine this was not a suicide. Well, 505 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 1: for example, we can if there was some type of 506 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 1: foul play like a gunshot wound or sharp forced injuries, 507 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 1: which we don't have the information on that right now. 508 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,720 Speaker 1: So we may look at some type of poisoning. Well, 509 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 1: if someone took an overdose of pills accidentally, then that's 510 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,520 Speaker 1: going to be a different amount of substance in their body. 511 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,720 Speaker 1: Can the children actually do that themselves? We will look 512 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 1: at again if there are any injuries, will look at 513 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: what they are and can that person do it to 514 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 1: themselves or does someone else have to do it to 515 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: take a listen to it. The Osceola County share for 516 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 1: US Gibson as decay. We're still being a positive identification 517 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 1: of the four deceased persons recovered in the home by 518 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 1: the Medical Examder's office, but based on our investigation and 519 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 1: the suspect's statements, we strongly believe that they are that 520 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:26,760 Speaker 1: of Megan, Alec, Tyler, and Zoe based on the initial 521 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 1: investigation to include the suspect's statements, The deaths have been 522 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 1: determined to have occurred sometime towards the end of December. 523 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 1: Throughout the course of this investigation, our agency has been 524 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 1: in close communication with the family of the victims, and 525 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 1: we've also worked very closely, as you can imagine, with 526 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: the Medical Examder's office as well as our State attorney's office. 527 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,440 Speaker 1: This investigation is ongoing and we will continue to work 528 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,120 Speaker 1: together all evidence as it presents itself for those of 529 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:58,800 Speaker 1: you just joining us. In Kassimmee, Florida, near Disney, a 530 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 1: physical therapist confesses to killing his wife, their three young children, 531 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:08,920 Speaker 1: and even the family dog in an upscale Florida suburb 532 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,560 Speaker 1: right there in the shadows of Walt Disney World, and 533 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:15,920 Speaker 1: leaving their bodies there for days and days. The sheriff, 534 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 1: Russey Gibson, said that Anthony Tote faces homicide charges in 535 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:27,240 Speaker 1: all three human murders. I still don't understand how he 536 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 1: blew through three hundred and fifty thousand dollars from the 537 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 1: cell of his home back in Connecticut. How people rack 538 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,320 Speaker 1: up those types of bills? How do they do it? 539 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany Marshall. I mean, I've heard of shopaholics that 540 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 1: watch the Home Shopping Network all day long and have 541 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,120 Speaker 1: huge stacks of boxes at their door every day. They 542 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:51,160 Speaker 1: hardly ever opened them. What is it an element? Is 543 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:55,600 Speaker 1: it an illnest like alcoholism, well, dancy. When I thought 544 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,160 Speaker 1: about all the depth that he's racked up, it made 545 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: me think that this is a very impulse of man, 546 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:05,120 Speaker 1: and impulsivity might be the underlying factor in the homicide 547 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:10,200 Speaker 1: as well. You have to be really impulsive, compulsive, somebody 548 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,400 Speaker 1: who does not want to pay back debt. It speaks 549 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:17,040 Speaker 1: to somebody who's lacks a conscience, who lives in the moment, 550 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,360 Speaker 1: does not have big picture or cause and effect thinking. 551 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,960 Speaker 1: And at the very heart of this too is the 552 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:28,239 Speaker 1: same psychology as domestic homicide and domestic abuse. On some level, 553 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,880 Speaker 1: he did not want his family on this planet. He 554 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:34,040 Speaker 1: felt that they were negatively affecting his well being, that 555 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,279 Speaker 1: they were harming him in some way. I mean, we're 556 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 1: seeing this idyllic community, we're seeing this physical therapist, but 557 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:49,760 Speaker 1: the individual, the perpetrator himself, must have been very personality disordered, jealous, impulsive, angry, resentful, 558 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,960 Speaker 1: not wanting his family around. I don't think he murdered 559 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,879 Speaker 1: because of money. I think he murdered because he's homicidal 560 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,040 Speaker 1: and hatred and hateful. Hey, I hope you're sitting down, 561 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:05,320 Speaker 1: doctor Bethany, But this guy, Anthony Tote the Colchester business 562 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:10,440 Speaker 1: owner who relocates his family to Disney. When he was 563 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:14,880 Speaker 1: just four years old, was a witness to his mother's 564 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:21,800 Speaker 1: attempted murder in Pennsylvania. His dad was convicted and served 565 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:26,600 Speaker 1: hard jail time. Now, this is what we understand happened 566 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,200 Speaker 1: that March. He as a little boy, was asleep in 567 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:33,319 Speaker 1: the family home Pennsylvania, wakes up to his mom screaming. 568 00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,319 Speaker 1: He runs out in the hallway and he sees a 569 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:42,680 Speaker 1: guy wrestling with mom, and another guy picks him up 570 00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:46,360 Speaker 1: and brings him back to his bed. The mother, Loretta, 571 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:50,360 Speaker 1: had been shot in the face while sleeping in the 572 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:56,160 Speaker 1: family home. She survived, but the bullet destroyed her left 573 00:35:56,200 --> 00:36:02,880 Speaker 1: eye and remained lodged in her skull. She only remembered 574 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:07,239 Speaker 1: taking her children to bed. The dad, the now dad, 575 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:11,400 Speaker 1: Anthony Toat, and his sister in bad. She goes to 576 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,759 Speaker 1: bad and next thing you know, she's shot in the head. 577 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:19,040 Speaker 1: And you know he, Anthony Toat, remembers this. What do 578 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,120 Speaker 1: you make of that, Bethany Marshall. We know some families 579 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,800 Speaker 1: have a suicide legacy. You can see suicide being passed 580 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:31,279 Speaker 1: down intergenerationally. Other families have a homicide legacy that homicide 581 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:35,319 Speaker 1: seems acceptable, It seems like a good way to solve problems. 582 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:40,600 Speaker 1: It's not just that he witnessed the attempted homicide of 583 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:45,080 Speaker 1: his mother, but somehow killing another person to resolve your 584 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:49,520 Speaker 1: interpersonal conflicts is a part of the psychology of the 585 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:55,799 Speaker 1: father who raised him, right, it's in that attachment system. Violence, hatred, 586 00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:59,439 Speaker 1: and snuffing out another person's rights are what you do 587 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,360 Speaker 1: when you have in a personal conflict. So this is 588 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,080 Speaker 1: this man's legacy, This is what he learned, this is 589 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,400 Speaker 1: what he knows, and this is what he resorted to 590 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,680 Speaker 1: when his life started unraveling. We wait as just as 591 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:15,080 Speaker 1: unfolds Nancy Gray's crime's tory signing off Goodbye friend,