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Looking For The Todt Family

Episode 1 - Off the Grid

Looking For The Todt Family

The Day

True Crime

4.7714 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

A seemingly happy family from small town Connecticut goes missing. At first, relatives thought that the Todt family was sick with the flu. Then, when no one could reach them, people speculated that the Todts had "gone off the grid" on vacation or on the run. They soon learned that the truth was much worse than that. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Podbean For all of our coverage of the Todt family murders, visit https://www.lookingforthetodtfamily.com

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0:00.0

I'm wondering if somebody can do a wellness check on my brother and his family.

0:08.0

They've been really sick for probably the past week and a half, and I can't seem to get a hold of them.

0:14.0

A couple of sheriffs went upstairs.

0:18.0

That's when they notified that there were a couple of sevens, which the sheriff notified me was deceased bodies.

0:24.6

Police in Florida have not officially identified the four people found dead, but the possibility that it is a family from Colchester has a lot of people in that town shaken tonight.

0:33.6

The reports of the autopsy determined that the cause of death with the four decedents inside

0:38.4

the home to be homicide.

0:42.0

It just didn't, it just didn't make sense.

0:44.9

It still doesn't make sense.

0:46.3

It's just hard to understand.

0:49.7

From the day in New London, Connecticut, I'm Taylor Hartz.

0:52.9

And I'm Sten Spinella. And this is looking for the Toad family.

0:57.0

I've tried to imagine what it must have been like to be a patient of Tony Toots.

1:03.0

Dawn Barden brought her daughter Courtney to see Tony for a slew of medical conditions

1:08.0

that cause her chronic pain and make her joints pop out of place almost

1:11.7

every day.

1:12.4

She has been diagnosed with Elis Daniels syndrome type 3, amplified musculoskeletal

1:19.6

chronic joint pain, Pats syndrome.

1:23.3

Courtney saw countless doctors and therapists who couldn't seem to help her.

1:27.3

Dawn felt hopeless, like no one could ease her daughter's pain, until they found Tony.

1:32.5

We had gotten recommended, of course, we didn't have any high hopes because we had already

1:36.1

been to so many therapists already for her.

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