Just a quick note to our listeners, this is episode 11 of the series.

If you haven't already, you should go back and listen to the first 10 episodes so that you're up to date.

We are going to begin the case of the state of Florida versus Anthony John Tote.

Megan Tote and himself had an agreement that everybody needed to die.

You observed him to be incoherent.

Yes, some of the things he was saying weren't coming out, clearly, could not decipher them.

That's something that could be sustained if someone were stabbing themselves or if they were being stabbed by somebody else.

It's not possible to assess definitively whether diphthygamine was the cause of death.

You take four responsibility once it's done.

So did you kill your family?

No.

From the day in New London, Connecticut, I'm Sten Spinella, and this is looking for the Tote family.

You, Anthony John Tote, are a destroyer of worlds.

We assume many of the people listening to this podcast have paid some attention to Tony's trial and know that he's been convicted for murdering his family and the family dog.

All we can do, all we've tried to do from the beginning, is to report to you in the clear as possible

way what is going on with this case. For more than two years we have been following the

Tote family's story. That has required digging, finding the truth when it wasn't readily available.

This time it was all laid out for us in the trial, what we'd been waiting for since January

of 2020.

We had questions that we hoped the trial would resolve, like, why were their zip ties and

a gun in crime scene photos? Did Tony sleep all night in the driver's seat of his van?

What did he tell police in his alleged confession? What was his

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