Florida Father Found Guilty Of First Degree Murder For Brutal Slayings Of His Family & Dog: 'I Needed To Save Her Soul'

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The verdict is in for the father on trial for murdering his wife, three children, and their dog in 2020. According to WESH2, on Thursday, the jury found Anthony Todt guilty on multiple counts of first-degree murder and animal cruelty in the brutal killings of his wife Megan Todt, their 13-year-old son Alek, 11-year-old son Tyler, and 4-year-old daughter Zoe, as well as the body of their dog Breezy.

The guilty verdict came in a couple of days after the start of the trial. As we previously reported, the 46-year-old dad was arrested on January 13, 2020, by FBI agents and Osceola County when they arrived at his home in Celebration, Florida, to serve a federal warrant for health care fraud charges regarding his physical therapy business.

But while searching the home, they discovered the four family members’ bodies all wrapped up in blankets in the master bedroom. Related: Gabby Petito & Brian Laundrie’s Families To Fight It Out As Court Date Set! Anthony had been living with the human remains for more than a week, with authorities believing he killed the family toward the end of December.

Autopsies later discovered that there had been toxic amounts of Benadryl in their systems. When the first day of the trial on Monday, Assistant State Attorney Danielle Pinnell claimed Anthony admitted that he and Megan made a pact to murder the entire family because they need “to die in order to pass over to the other side together” before the start of the end of the world.