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This Is Monsters

The Search for the Todt Family

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Anthony Todt seemed like a loving husband and father who owned a successful business, but after he got caught in an insurance scam, he and his family disappeared.


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0:00.0

When a respected family of five disappeared from Connecticut in 2020,

0:05.0

it didn't take long for word to spread across social media.

0:09.0

A Facebook page called Looking for the Todd family was filled with desperate pleased to keep an eye out and report any sightings.

0:17.0

Then FBI agents came knocking at a holiday home next door to the happiest place on earth in Florida.

0:24.5

But this is no Disney fairy tale.

0:27.1

This is monsters. I'm going to be here. Anthony. Anthony Todd was born on September 29th, 1975 to parents Robert and Loretta and Ben Salem, Pennsylvania.

1:02.0

From the minute he entered the world, Tony, as he was known to his friends, was surrounded by dysfunction.

1:08.0

His father was a high school teacher with a disturbing taste for young girls.

1:13.0

While his wife stayed home and looked after Anthony,

1:16.0

Robert was having sexual relationships with 16 and 17 year old students from his class.

1:22.0

But these were no casual flings. Robert was engaged to a nurse from a neighboring town at the same time as maintaining a relationship with a 17-year-old who lived a couple of streets over.

1:34.0

After several years of putting on the mask of a loving husband and father,

1:39.0

Robert became tired of hiding who he truly was.

1:42.0

He wanted to make the children he was involved with, more of a permanent

1:45.6

feature in his life. He had already talked to the priest who was going to perform the marriage

1:50.9

between him and his fiance.

1:53.2

Now all he needed to do is remove his wife from the equation,

1:57.2

permanently.

1:58.8

Anthony was just four years old when he was

2:00.9

awoken in the middle of the night by the sound of his mother screaming.

2:05.2

Then there was the sound of a single gunshot and the scream stopped.

2:09.7

Young Tony looked out his bedroom window and noticed a man running down the street into the darkness.

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