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Big Mad True Crime

25. [FLORIDA] The Todt Family

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🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Learn about the life behind the man everyone seemed to love... Until one day... Everything changed.  For photos and maps pertaining to this case, check out the Todt Family's highlight at the top of my Instagram profile at www.instagram.com/TheHeatherAshley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everyone and welcome back to Big Mad True Crime where we get Big Mad over True Crime.

0:05.4

I'm your host Heather Ashley and today's case is fresh. Like straight out the box fresh.

0:11.2

If you thought Chris Watts was a monster, hold onto your shorts. Small talk is worth less than an

0:16.8

empty Easter egg, so let's dive in.

0:30.9

Once upon a time, just roll with it, there was a man named Robert Tote. He was a special

0:36.6

education teacher and a wrestling coach for Ben Salem High School in Pennsylvania. One day

0:41.8

in 1980, he called up one of his former learning disabled students, 20-year-old John Chairmont,

0:48.5

who was known to have a drug and alcohol problem and offered him a solid $800 if he'd shoot

0:54.3

Robert's so-called babysitter. According to Heavy.com, John really didn't have to do anything

1:00.8

but the killing. Robert supplied the directions and the gun. Robert drove John to the hospital that

1:07.2

his wife, not babysitter, Loretta worked at, and instructed John to wait for her to get off of work

1:13.0

and surprised her when she got into the car. He told him to drive her to some back road,

1:17.1

shoot her and leave her there. But John couldn't bring himself to do it and when I say couldn't

1:21.9

bring himself to do it, I mean that he didn't like the whole surprise bad guy in the car bit.

1:25.8

He was still down to kill Loretta, just not that way. So instead, Robert gave John a key to his

1:31.9

family home. On the evening of March 19th, 1980, Robert headed out claiming he was going to attend

1:37.9

some night school classes, but he wasn't at school. He was with his fiance, Colleen Foucault,

1:44.0

who was a former student of his turned a nurse. She had no idea he was married and they had planned

1:50.0

a wedding for April 19th, 1980, just a month later. To add insult to injury, not only did Robert

1:58.2

have a wife and a fiance, he also had a teenage girlfriend who was also a student of his

2:05.7

Judy Worthington. Robert had made a promise to Judy that he would take her on vacation with the

2:11.9

money from his wife's inheritance. Not long after Robert the homicidal pimp left, John entered

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