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Looking For The Todt Family

Episode 10 - Incoming Call

Looking For The Todt Family

The Day

True Crime

4.7714 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

After reporting on this story for more than a year, there is still a lot we don't know. We have been unable to speak with the only person who knows for sure what happened inside 202 Reserve Place, until now. If you have questions for a Q&A episode with Taylor and Sten, send us a voice memo or an email at todtpodcast@theday.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:04.0

And I'm Stens Spinella.

0:06.0

And this is looking for the Tote family.

0:10.0

More than a year into our investigation, there are still so many things we don't know about what happened to the Tote family.

0:18.0

We have some answers, but we don't have the answers everybody, including us, wants.

0:23.6

We don't know who did it, and we can't conclusively answer the big question of why.

0:29.6

But we do have a better understanding of the details.

0:33.6

We have a sense of how the murders affected Colchester, Connecticut, and Celebration, Florida.

0:39.3

And we're able to put together the story of this family's life.

0:43.3

We've spoken to so many people who knew them and loved them and mourn them.

0:48.3

And with everything we've learned, we can hold some of Tony's claims up to the light.

0:53.3

It's tempting to accept the idea

0:56.8

that Tony is a guilty monster, that this was an evil act he committed. It can seem black and

1:04.0

white, cut and dry. Two days after his arrest, police say Tony confessed, and that's that. But we haven't seen Tony's alleged confession, and he hasn't been convicted yet.

1:16.6

In fact, he's pleaded not guilty.

1:19.6

Unfortunately, we can't ask anyone else what happened on Reserve Place that night.

1:25.6

And until last week, we hadn't been able to talk to Tony.

1:30.5

But then, right before we were about to publish this episode, I got an unexpected phone call.

1:37.4

Tony Tote called me from jail, and I finally got a chance to speak to the only person who was

1:42.5

inside that house and was still alive to talk about it.

1:46.0

We're going to let you hear that phone call, but first, we want to walk you through everything we know so far.

1:52.0

While reporting on this case, our chief concern has always been presenting the facts.

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