Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers, and I'm Britt.

And happy Monday, everyone. I'm going to ruin your day.

This is the story of the tote family.

You know, those places that still feel like they're straight out of the 1950s, you know, were nothing bad ever happens.

That's celebration Florida.

The manicured lawns and picture perfect houses and condos cultivate a sense of tranquility.

It's a place where neighbors sit out on the front porch in the evening, soaking in the warm floor to sun and greeting their neighbors as they pass.

But on this day, January 13, 2020, a federal agent parked on reserve street isn't admiring the landscaping or enjoying the weather.

He's got his eyes trained on one house, the home of Anthony Tote.

There's three agents staked outside his house because they have a warrant for Tony's arrest because of insurance fraud.

He owns a physical therapy practice in Connecticut, and he had actually been building his patients insurance companies for like, I mean, we're talking tens of thousands of dollars for appointments that they just never actually had.

So this investigation has been going on for months, and they've actually been trying to track him down for the last two of those since he vanished from Connecticut.

Now, the agent watching the house doesn't see any movement inside.

The blinds are drawn, it doesn't look like there are any lights on, and he's actually just about to leave when suddenly the front door opens and out walks Tony.

Now, right away, the agent can tell that something's wrong because Tony does not look good.

I mean, he can hardly walk, he looks sick, and his behavior is just weird.

Like, he sits down in a chair, just kind of looking around, and then eventually he gets up and slowly, seemingly painfully, goes back inside.

So now that he has eyes on him, he calls for backup from officers at the Oceola County Sheriff's Office.

And actually, this isn't the first time that local officers have been to this house either because they had gotten several calls from Tony's sister asking for wellness checks, one on December 29th, and then one on January 10th.

And the one in December, apparently she had asked for someone to go check on them because she had been told the whole family got like super sick with the flu.

She hadn't spoken to them in days. She called Tony and his wife Megan, like one of their sons.

And although she had gotten some texts up until the 26th, the last time she actually spoke to any of them was like the 23rd or 24th.

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