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Accused family-killer Anthony Todt claims wife killed their kids, then herself

Anthony Todt, the man arrested after the bodies of his wife and children were found at a Celebration home in January, blamed his wife for the killings in a recent letter — claiming she poisoned the kids with a tainted dessert, murdered them while they slept, then took her own life.

“Long story short, she gave them the Benadryl/Tylenol PM pie, separated them, woke up at 11:30 [p.m.], stabbed and then suffocated each one,” Todt wrote in a letter to his estranged father, Robert Todt. “At the news of this I ran to the bathroom and puked — I was weak.