Connecticut dad told cops he killed family because they needed to ‘pass over’ before apocalypse, jury hears

The Connecticut dad who confessed to murdering his household of their Florida home close to Disney World had needed them to “move over to the opposite aspect collectively” earlier than the apocalypse, his trial heard this week.

Bodily therapist Anthony Todt, 46, had confessed to poisoning and stabbing his spouse, three children and canine after he was present in January 2020 dwelling with their decomposing our bodies of their new house in Celebration.

He later switched the blame to his now-dead spouse, Megan, with jurors on Thursday beginning deliberations on 4 first-degree homicide costs, all of which he now denies, in accordance with the Orlando Sentinel.

Nevertheless, the jury was proven Todt’s videotaped confession on Tuesday, through which he detailed stabbing and smothering sons Alek, 13, and Tyler, 11, after first smothering 4-year-old daughter Zoe, the report stated.

He then “took a pillow and suffocated” his 42-year-old spouse, Megan, after she stabbed herself within the abdomen as a part of their dying pact — one they’d even mentioned earlier with the youngsters, the trial heard.

Todt then instructed detectives that “all people wanted to die to be able to move over to the opposite aspect collectively as a result of the apocalypse was coming,” Assistant State Lawyer Danielle Pinnell instructed Osceola County Courthouse, in accordance with the Sentinel.

He stated he had then tried to kill himself a number of occasions, attempting to overdose on Benadryl and hold himself, although he “chickened out” of stabbing himself to dying, the report famous.

He confessed after being discovered with the decomposing our bodies throughout a Jan. 13 FBI raid to arrest him on federal well being care fraud costs associated to his Connecticut bodily remedy enterprise, the courtroom heard.

Jurors watched bodycam footage that confirmed Todt telling deputies and FBI brokers that his spouse was simply sleeping, even yelling out her identify.

As an alternative, officers discovered the Todt’s spouse, youngsters and canine wrapped in blankets in the master suite, the place they appeared to have been for weeks, the Sentinel report famous.

“The our bodies had been discolored — black and blue,” one of many federal officers, Michael Phelps, instructed the trial. Todt has additionally been charged with one depend of animal cruelty for killing the household canine, Breezy.

Regardless of his detailed confession, Todt later denied any involvement — passing all blame onto his now-dead spouse.

“I got here house and my children had been lifeless,” Todt testified Wednesday, claiming his spouse was nonetheless alive and confessed to killing them with a poisoned pie, in accordance with the Sentinel’s reviews.

“It was essentially the most horrible day of my life. What made it extra horrible was my spouse died in entrance of me additionally,” he stated.

He insisted his spouse had change into turned fixated with reincarnation following a sequence of well being issues, saying she was satisfied they’d be reborn to a greater life in the event that they “burned the household karma.”

Regardless of this, he insisted he had no method of stopping the slaughter.

“Every little thing was good. … I didn’t see this coming,” he insisted, in accordance with the Sentinel.

He instructed the courtroom that he had no reminiscence of constructing the confession that jurors watched for hours on Tuesday.

“I used to be protecting for my spouse … Clearly, unsuccessfully. I had no clue how my children died,” he insisted.

“My testimony in the present day is the truth that Megan killed her children and killed herself … I stated issues which have been confirmed incorrect,” he instructed the courtroom, in accordance with the Sentinel.

The jury was on Thursday deliberating the 4 homicide costs, in addition to
one depend of animal cruelty for allegedly additionally killing the household canine, Breezy.