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The thing inside
of me, it's like...

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the appetite,
It's like a wolf that's...

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feeling... the hunger.

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Anthony Todt is what we would
call a family annihilator.

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And this is somebody
who murders their family

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typically because of factors
and circumstances

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that have made the family
feel untenable.

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The family annihilator
wants to be in control.

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When everything
began to unravel

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with the insurance fraud,
it's possible that he decided

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to annihilate his family because
he didn't know how to face them,

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didn't want to deal with it.

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It was the one area in which
he had control.

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The flat affect is
the most striking.

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This is somebody
who's lost his wife,

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and his three young children to
a violent crime.

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He's now come out of
the hospital,

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and he's very matter-of-fact
in the interview.

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We don't see any gestures
of emotion.

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We don't even see somebody
who's pretending to be

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emotionally broken up.

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To be completely devoid of any
emotion and speaking about all

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of this matter-of-factly,
that's something we wouldn't

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see in most normal people that
are not psychopathic.

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He's comfortable in his own
skin, and he's comfortable in

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that scenario, and that is
incredibly alarming.

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Todt, I think,
convinced himself over

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a long period of time that
this is the story

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that he's going to be using,

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and he has a perfect scapegoat,
his wife.

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Todt claimed that his wife,
Megan, had been battling

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Lyme disease,
but according to the family,

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she had had it under control.

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It is certainly possible that
his wife hid her illness

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from family members
and hid these thoughts that

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she was having
from family members.

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That is absolutely possible.

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But again, if he was
a supportive spouse,

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he would have done everything
he could to get them the help,

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but instead, his family members
were interacting with

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an undiscovered psychopath,
a psychopath that needed

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pressure and instigation
and a catalyst in order to

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engage in the psychopathic
end game

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that he was looking for.

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We didn't see that he was
capable of doing this until

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he started
defrauding the government.

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And it's when he started
defrauding the government that

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all of the rest of
the pressures started to build.

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This is all part of the setup
for Todt and his story.

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Again, is it plausible that
the family members,

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two parents, had a conversation
about life and death

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with their children?
It 100% is plausible.

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Is it plausible that
the children said,

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"No, we don't want to die.
We don't want you to die.

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If we are going to die,
we want to die with you"?

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Of course, they're children.

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But Todt has to have
an explanation for why there's

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so many stab wounds.

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So he says, "exsanguination."
I think he killed them

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because he wanted to kill them.

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He wanted to kill them for
various reasons, but he needed

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to come up with an excuse,

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a thing that would
make it seem plausible,

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that the investigators
would believe.

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This was the best way
he could come up with.

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With Todt,
as a family annihilator,

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he was just
disposing of a problem.

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It's like taking stinky trash
out in the kitchen.

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That's how he handled it.

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This is a psychopathic
individual who has no remorse,

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shows a level of
callousness that is

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particularly significant,

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and lacks any willingness

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to take responsibility
for his actions.

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It's likely that
Todt wasn't expecting

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the investigator to
be so direct.

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"So you're responsible for
the life loss.

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"No, actually, let's call it
what it is.

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You're responsible for murder."

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And, you know, at that point,

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though, he doesn't try
to deny it.

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He said, "Yes."

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It almost feels
like he's trying to

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exculpate himself.

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"Well, it was my wife that came
to me with this idea about

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the apocalypse, and all of us
being together."

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Individuals with
psychopathic traits

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do that exact type of thing.

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They will, even in the face of
evidence after evidence

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after evidence,
they will continue to deny

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their own responsibility.

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There's a strange contrast in
how he is talking about

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the details of his murdering of
his children,

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each and every
one of them.

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But when it comes to the dog,

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he's devoid of any details
and he's lying.

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He's saying that he suffocated
the dog, and we know

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the dog was stabbed.

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Despite being incredibly
psychopathic, he has enough

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self-awareness about how
Society sees people who kill

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their children and people
who kill animals.

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It doesn't go so well
for them in prison.

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It seems inconceivable that
she would stab herself and then

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lay there for 45 minutes
and not really feel anything.

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Like, it's not really
a big deal.

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He is completely
unemotionally involved

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or invested as
he's telling this story.

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We know from the records that
after he suffocated his wife,

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he went out,
he bought Starbucks.

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That says something about
his lack of empathy,

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his lack of remorse,
and his callousness,

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which are also traits that can
be seen in psychopathy.

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While I do think that he is
partially correct

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in that financial stressors

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did not cause him to
harm his family, what is true,

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when it came to
how these two things

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interact with one another,

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is that he expected to have
a life in which he experienced

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no frustrations and no problems.

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He expected to have
the idyllic life in Connecticut,

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in Florida, with his wife,
with his children.

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He expected everything
to be perfect.

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When it couldn't be that way,

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he needed to do something
about it.

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There's no real way to
get rid of them,

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because he doesn't want to
get-- he wants them.

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He wants them to be a family,
but he wants them to be

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a family on his terms,

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not theirs.

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It takes a particularly
psychopathic person

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to kill their entire family.

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This is a psychopathic
person who

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isn't willing to admit he did
anything wrong,

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but he's gonna take it
a step further

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and he's gonna blame his wife.

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So the jury, and all of you,
are supposed to believe

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that his wife, who clearly loved
being a mother,

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killed each and every one of
her children and then went

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and stabbed herself.

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And we're supposed to believe
that he was so broken up,

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he called out of a for help,

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but all of his paternal,
parental instinct to save

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his children somehow went
out the window.

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It's just not believable.

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His narcissism and
his overinflated sense of

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self-importance is only
relevant to him.