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

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

feeling... the hunger.

Anthony Todt is what we would call a family annihilator.

And this is somebody who murders their family

typically because of factors and circumstances

that have made the family feel untenable.

The family annihilator wants to be in control.

When everything began to unravel

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

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

didn't want to deal with it.

It was the one area in which he had control.

The flat affect is the most striking.

This is somebody who's lost his wife,

and his three young children to a violent crime.

He's now come out of the hospital,

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

We don't see any gestures of emotion.

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

emotionally broken up.

To be completely devoid of any emotion and speaking about all

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

see in most normal people that are not psychopathic.

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

that scenario, and that is incredibly alarming.

Todt, I think, convinced himself over

a long period of time that this is the story

that he's going to be using,

and he has a perfect scapegoat, his wife.

Todt claimed that his wife, Megan, had been battling

Lyme disease, but according to the family,

she had had it under control.

It is certainly possible that his wife hid her illness

from family members and hid these thoughts that

she was having from family members.

That is absolutely possible.

But again, if he was a supportive spouse,

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

but instead, his family members were interacting with

an undiscovered psychopath, a psychopath that needed

pressure and instigation and a catalyst in order to

engage in the psychopathic end game

that he was looking for.

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

he started defrauding the government.

And it's when he started defrauding the government that

all of the rest of the pressures started to build.

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

Again, is it plausible that the family members,

two parents, had a conversation about life and death

with their children? It 100% is plausible.

Is it plausible that the children said,

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

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

Of course, they're children.

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

so many stab wounds.

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

because he wanted to kill them.

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

to come up with an excuse,

a thing that would make it seem plausible,

that the investigators would believe.

This was the best way he could come up with.

With Todt, as a family annihilator,

he was just disposing of a problem.

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

That's how he handled it.

This is a psychopathic individual who has no remorse,

shows a level of callousness that is

particularly significant,

and lacks any willingness

to take responsibility for his actions.

It's likely that Todt wasn't expecting

the investigator to be so direct.

"So you're responsible for the life loss.

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

You're responsible for murder."

And, you know, at that point,

though, he doesn't try to deny it.

He said, "Yes."

It almost feels like he's trying to

exculpate himself.

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

the apocalypse, and all of us being together."

Individuals with psychopathic traits

do that exact type of thing.

They will, even in the face of evidence after evidence

after evidence, they will continue to deny

their own responsibility.

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

the details of his murdering of his children,

each and every one of them.

But when it comes to the dog,

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

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

the dog was stabbed.

Despite being incredibly psychopathic, he has enough

self-awareness about how Society sees people who kill

their children and people who kill animals.

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

It seems inconceivable that she would stab herself and then

lay there for 45 minutes and not really feel anything.

Like, it's not really a big deal.

He is completely unemotionally involved

or invested as he's telling this story.

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

he went out, he bought Starbucks.

That says something about his lack of empathy,

his lack of remorse, and his callousness,

which are also traits that can be seen in psychopathy.

While I do think that he is partially correct

in that financial stressors

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

when it came to how these two things

interact with one another,

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

no frustrations and no problems.

He expected to have the idyllic life in Connecticut,

in Florida, with his wife, with his children.

He expected everything to be perfect.

When it couldn't be that way,

he needed to do something about it.

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

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

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

a family on his terms,

not theirs.

It takes a particularly psychopathic person

to kill their entire family.

This is a psychopathic person who

isn't willing to admit he did anything wrong,

but he's gonna take it a step further

and he's gonna blame his wife.

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

that his wife, who clearly loved being a mother,

killed each and every one of her children and then went

and stabbed herself.

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

he called out of a for help,

but all of his paternal, parental instinct to save

his children somehow went out the window.

It's just not believable.

His narcissism and his overinflated sense of

self-importance is only relevant to him.