Dad who ‘massacred’ family ‘stabbed his wife and kids’ who lay dead inside their Disney rental for close to a month
THE Florida man who is accused of massacring his family over the holidays stabbed his wife and two sons in the abdomen, according to a preliminary autopsy report.
The Sun has obtained records from the Office of the Medical Examiner that reveal Megan Todt was stabbed twice while Aleksander and Tyler were each stabbed once, then left to rot at their Disney rental property.
Daughter Zoe was not stabbed however and there is still no determination as to how the family members were killed by patriarch Anthony Todt pending toxicology reports, which will not be released until later this year.
The reports do reveal however that all four victims had skin slippage and their skin had begun to brown, signs that the bodies had been laying dead for at least three weeks by the time they were discovered by police.
Megan, whose body was only tentatively identified, had been stabbed twice in the upper abdomen according to the report.
One of those wounds was 3.2 x 1.1 cm wound in the area of the body that houses the liver, right kidney, gallbladder, pancreas, and large and small intestine.
Her body was in a state of putrefactive decomposition, and she was wearing pants, a shirt and socks.
Aleksander, 13, and Tyler, 11, were both identified by records provided by their dentist.
The older brother was only wearing his underwear and had a single stab wound measuring 5.9 x 3 cm on his left abdomen.
Tyler, who was wearing pants, a shirt and underwear, had a 10.7 x 2.1 cm wound on the upper abdomen.
The youngest member of the family, 4-year-old Zoe, had no visible signs of injury and was only tentatively identified.
Medical examiners will now have to wait for the results of other tests before they can announce a cause of death for each person in the quadruple homicide.
DRIVEN BY DEBT
It seems that the brutal massacre may have been fuelled by Anthony’s own financial ruin.
In court papers, he claims to have just $1500 in assets, coupled with debts totalling $200,000.
Anthony shared this for the first time last week in a bid to secure himself a public defender ahead of his upcoming trial.
Other filings obtained by The Sun also reveal that Anthony waived his Miranda Rights during his arrest and willingly turned himself in to police two days after he was taken into custody.
Officers elected to put Anthony under observation at a hospital for two days after he was apprehended in his Florida rental home, over concerns for his mental health.
Anthony’s money troubles started to amplify one year prior when he was evicted from one of his Connecticut offices.
He received an eviction notice for another Connecticut office on January 6 for his physical therapy practice.
Anthony also learned in November that the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, had began investigating him since April.
That investigation discovered he had filed multiple fraudulent claims to insurers and Medicare, which he admitted too when confronted with the findings of that probe.
He told federal agents that his wife was unaware and promised to cooperate with the investigation, but then stopped returning their calls.
Those agents and many of Anthony’s employees said they had not seen him for over a month at the time of the murders
Anthony had continued to work in Connecticut despite his wife Meghan and their three children relocating to their property in Florida.
The couple purchased a home in Celebration back in 2005, a few years before they welcomed their first child.
Records show that they struggled at times to cover their mortgage and community fees at the gated community, located just one mile away from the Walt Disney World theme parks.
Liens were placed on their property on three occasions but in each instance the situation seemed to remedy itself a short while later.
Anthony began taking out loans around the same time as that first lien back in 2009, and at the time of the murders owned money to over 20 different companies and creditors.
FINAL NOTICE
There were also new financial troubles for the family around the time of the murder.
Anthony and Meghan were being evicted from a rental home in that same gated community, which they had signed a lease for one year prior.
That home, which boasted a large pool and separate apartment over the garage, was located just 500 feet from the property the couple had owned for 15 years.
A final eviction notice had been served on December 27 and posted at the rental property.
Court papers obtained by The Sun show that the electricity was cut at the property on that same date.
Those same court papers show that Anthony was formally arrested on Wednesday, two days after police discovered him inside the home with the bodies of his alleged victims.
He waived his Miranda Rights according to court filings
It took police three days to finish gathering evidence at the home after finding the bodies of Meghan, Aleksander, Tyler and Zoe.
Authorities had visited the home twice prior to that discovery, performing welfare checks on December 29 and January 9.
On both dates the responding officer saw nothing out of the ordinary and did not attempt to enter the home.
The family frequently travelled so it was not out of the ordinary for the home to be vacant, and the electricity had been cut off by that time.
Anthony was also the only living person occupying the residence by that time.
The landlord was finally allowed into the rental home late last week, after obtaining an ex-parte emergency motion from the court.
PRISONER
Anthony has been cooperating with police The Sun has learned, but he said nothing at his first court appearance last week.
He could be seen in a feed from the jail sitting in the back of the room in one of two locked cages.
Anthony was then led to the podium where he listened as the judge said that she believed there was probable cause for all four homicide charges and the animal cruelty count.
The accused murderer then nodded as the judge announced he would not be offered bail in the case.
Guards then came and led Anthony back to his cell at the Osceola County Jail.
Anthony was taken there on Wednesday after being released from a local hospital where he had been under examination after telling police he had ingested pills in what authorities feared might have been a suicide attempt.
The entire proceeding lasting less than 30 seconds.
Moments later, the defendant’s sister Christy released a statement on behalf of the family.
“Tony and Megan were devoted loving parents who loved their children and Breezy every day and were so involved in their community,” it read in part.
“The families of Tony and Megan ask for privacy during this difficult time in our lives as we mourn the lose [sic] of our families.”