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Episode 67: Deadly Daughters

REAL

Naomi Channell

Documentary, News, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8726 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In 2015, 85-year-old Anthony Tomaselli died at his home in Florida. His family mourned this sad loss and Anthony was laid to rest.


But after a series of nightmares, Anthony's daughter Linda told her lover something. Something that was so bad, he hit record on his mobile phone. And the truth behind how Anthony really died turned out to be the ultimate betrayal.


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0:00.0

Warning, this is a true crime podcast and is not suitable for all audiences. Please use discretion.

0:07.6

What would you do if someone confessed to a murder? To you. Out of the blue, without warning.

0:17.7

Someone you knew. Someone you trusted. someone close to you. Would you keep quiet? Would you

0:26.7

encourage them to tell the police? Or would you interrogate them, keep them talking, getting every

0:34.1

bit of information out of them, so justice could be served.

0:40.3

I'm Naomi Channel and this is real.

1:23.5

I'm Today's case takes us to Florida in America.

1:31.8

Anthony Tomaselli was a former barber who lived in a beautiful part of Florida called Palm Harbour.

1:38.6

He loved watching TV shows like The Wheel of Fortune and watching sunsets.

1:46.8

He had Italian heritage and he was a religious man, often praying in both English and Italian.

1:56.7

His favourite drink was vodka and Coke. In 2015, Anthony found himself living alone after his living girlfriend passed away. Anthony was 85 years old. He had two daughters,

2:04.3

Linda and Mary Beth, both of whom were in their late 50s in 2015. He was showing early signs

2:12.0

of dementia, but he was still able to live life, and he got enjoyment from it.

2:21.2

Just a few weeks after Anthony's girlfriend died,

2:27.8

his doctor called his daughter Linda to tell her that her father had a mass on his lung that needed to be investigated.

2:31.1

He had previously had lung cancer,

2:33.1

and Linda and her sister Mary Beth feared that it was back.

2:39.4

Other than the mass, Anthony was fairly well for a man in his mid-80s, so he was surprised when his daughters told him they wanted him to move into an assisted living facility. He didn't want this

2:54.3

and he didn't feel like he needed this either, so he refused to do so. The sisters had even

3:02.1

started to look at facilities and got everything in place for him to move into one, but he stood his ground and told them he wouldn't be going.

3:11.2

But these arguments about where Anthony was going to live soon ended.

3:17.1

Because at 5.53am on the 6th of March 2015,

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