Mike makes a single request of his viewers, to take care of themselves. Didn't beg for people to "smash" the like button or subscribe. I honestly appreciate that more than anything else.
Update: Todt was convicted of these crimes Thursday, April 14th 2022 and sentenced the same day. He received four life sentences without the possibility of parole, one for each family member that he murdered.
@@Miadolph Yeah, Florida has a reputation for not being afraid to impose the death penalty, even for women. I haven’t looked at the trial evidence, but maybe going in, the prosecutors felt Tony would be able to successfully argue a diminished mental state, so taking the death penalty off the table in advance would make conviction more likely.
@@Miadolph He'd clearly had a complete mental breakdown, and in all honestly, probably not competent to even stand trial. Usually in cases like this, the person gets locked up in a psychiatric hospital, rather than a prison. If they ever become well, I think they then get transferred to a prison for the remainder of the sentence, but if not, they remain in the hospital. Florida has a reputation/history of executing the 'mentally challenged', so at a guess, I'd think that they didn't want the additional hassle/embarrassment of doing the same thing again.
“It’s good to hear your voice” “Are you doing okay?” I could never ever ever ever speak to my brother again if he did something like this to my nephews, niece, and sister in law. Goodness.
Right? I guess the only excuse would be you believed them to be innocent, but Tony obviously guilty and I wouldn’t have anything to do with my brother if he did this. I’d be sick
Could be an undercover thing to get him to confided in someone maybe? 🤷♀️ would be the only reason I'd talk to someone that did this hideous act, but even then it would be extremely hard to do😥 those poor children and his wife.
I like the respect the Chief showed toward the victims when having the press conference where he not only mentions their name but also their birth date. Just something I noticed about him that he really cares and feels for the victims, families, and friends.
@Matt Olivier on most horrific murder cases the perpetrator gets famous and a lot of programs and documentaries make the perp the famous one. I'm simply glad they took the time with each victim to provide their name, birthdate, etc because they deserve to be remembered - No, I'm not insane and the concept of preventing the perp from getting famous and showing respect and remembering the victims is not a crazy idea....but it would take an emotionally complex person to understand and so I get why you're confused and/or have an issue with it... 😏
My daughter is 4. That cop having to regain his composure had me wiping my eyes. It doesn’t matter how bad you screw up, don’t kill your family to hide your shame.
You have to have always been a narcissistic psychopath to do this I think. And the fact he was doing all this outrageous scamming is another clue that that's what it was.
@@siouxd799 sorry..but i find it a bit insensitive to bring up the dog in a case like this. Who gives a shit sbout the dog, a 4 year old girl was murdered.
@@raudeloruna2600 it’s not insensitive and there’s no need to be rude, the point is the dog is also defenceless, it goes without saying that a little girl being killed by her own father is horrific.
He is a classical family annihilator. “My family would be so ashamed they wouldn’t want to live.” So he helped them out. Damn shame he didn’t start with himself.
Totally textbook. The minute I heard he was a PT but was wealthy, had money coming out his ears and that huge staff of assistants I knew it. The PT therapy and Medicaid fraud is well known and FBI have been going after it for over a decade.
Ah...you hit on it. Makes sense now. He was mentally able to rationalize the fraud scam-and also able to rationalize the murder of his family-to keep the Lie intact. Which was - He was not as successful as he appeared. (voted Most likely to succeed in high school)...he couldn't come to grips with admitting that to his family, better that they die. The past history with his father (Wow!) And the letter he sent to his father (filled with lies)...what exactly did he witness as a child when his father did the same thing?
It’s the people who should probably start with themselves that never do. Wouldn’t know if anyone was ashamed if he’s dead anyway. Cannot believe how sick this dude is.
I can never understand these where protection of ego is so important that you would rather murder your wife and own children rather than just say " sorry guys I fucked up can you forgive me". ??
The poor sheriff almost lost it when it came to the baby. The respect I have for cops, nurses, firefighters, EMT's and all first reponders is tremendous..
I’m retired military. I once thought I would be a firefighter after retiring, but then I realized that I don’t want to see shite like what’s in this video. Horrific.
When the sheriff choked up.... I felt that!! He could barely get out the little girls birthdate 😭 so sad and so upsetting. He’s a monster! There will never be a day that someone can have a good reason to kill a child, children are innocent, if you hate your life then take it out on yourself not your children or anyone else!!!!
I am a bit peeved that the cops, didn’t own that it was there second welfare check, had they been more thorough or given a dam earlier maybe 3weeks would not have passed albeit still difficult for the cops to press release .
It’s the first time I hear a murderer actually get charged with the murder of his pup. I am so glad he did because the dog was another innocent life taken in a brutal way.
That’s because most murderers (even the most brutal, depraved, and notorious of the lot) _don’t_ kill their own pets, and many never kill any animals at all, despite what poorly-researched, sloppily-written tabloids and dodgy clickbait listicles would have you believe. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley (the infamous ‘Moors Murderers’), for instance, were both noted animal lovers, as were serial killers Dennis Nilsen and John Wayne Gacy, murderous mob boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, _Reichsmarschall_ Hermann Göring, and, famously, even Adolf Hitler himself. David ‘Son of Sam’ Berkowitz did, at times, commit acts of violence against animals, but at least it can be said that he had enough respect for that one dog to ‘pick up what he was throwing down’.
@@bryangarcia5599 ...And tons more DID kill animals, especially in childhood. But you're really getting cause and effect mixed up here. Abusing animals is a predictor of violence towards humans later in life. Being a murderer isn't a predictor of also hurting animals.
I never imagined I could hate someone as much as I hate Chris Watts, so here’s this guy. It makes me sick to my stomach that he actually stayed with their bodies in the house for weeks. What a monster.
Watts haunts me. I hope they keep him UNDER the jail... There is soooo much more to that tragedy; we may NEVER know what happened. Too bad he never cracked his Bible BEFORE his horrific actions.
Exactly! Also who just watches their wife off herself without trying to stop her or even attempting to call 911? He didn’t blackout until after she died apparently so.....
Never realized you put out a video on this. Chrissy is close family friend with my parents and this absolutely tore her and their family apart. Super sad hearing her talk to the dispatchers. She’s the sweetest person you’ll ever meet you can tell she knew something was wrong
"Hey Tony, why don't you just accept responsibility for these heinous acts?" *"No, I think I will just blame my murdered wife in the most convoluted and improbable ways imaginable!"*
@@wmurch3 Yep. These men (called Family Annihilaters in the true crime community) are so delusional and egotistical. They honestly have no souls to be able to kill the ones in their lives that should have meant the most to them. Fathers and husbands are supposed to protect their families. Not kill them because they found another woman or somehow failed (usually monetarily) in their lives. I hate these stories.
Absolutely agree. Some people don't understand how important humor is to healthily processing some of the darkest parts of humanity... Y'all have never met any first responders or medical staff if you think Mike's humor is off.
Same. You can hear him starting to break and escalating as he's naming each child, the 13 year old, breaks a bit more with the 11 year old, then with Zoe it's like he just couldn't say it. I could feel from his voice he would lose it so was already bawling at that point. So sad :(
Hey Mike, I have one story for you. I hope you get to read this comment. I watch your videos almost daily but this one never showed up on my feed until today. This is good because out of about one hundred potential jurors, I was selected as one of the 12. I’m so glad that we did the right thing in finding him guilty on all charges and I hope that we honored the wife and children’s lives by giving this monster the Justice he deserved. This was my first time ever in a jury. Every time I close my eyes, I still see the horrible photos we had to examine during the trial. Some of the jurors went back to the courtroom to see the sentencing. I cried a lot when I came home after the sentencing was done and this horrible chapter was finally over.
I’m so glad he got what he deserves. Thank you for your service on the jury. Such a tragedy for the victims. Rest In Peace to all who lost their lives. Hope you have found peace and closure. Bless you and your family
That's what Chris Watts tried to claim during his first "confession" as a family annihilator. First he said his wife killed the kids and he killed her because she killed the kids. The truth came out in the end, as it always does.
Yeah, this was a house of cards. It was getting ready to tumble down & he was what? Gonna spare them? I don’t get it. That coupled w/ the trauma of his fathers crimes against his mother & not being the most respected successful man he portrayed himself to be. He probably went his whole life proving he was a better man than his father & in the end he was so much like him. He couldn’t even kill himself after ALL that. And now he has the “Watts-Nerve” to blame his poor dead wife for it all!!! It all says so much.
Ugh,... I know right?! What the ACTUAL f*ck. This guy definitely seems to have taken some notes from that loser Watts- poor excuse for a human being, both of them!
He said that? And after that he dumped the kids in oil and buried his wife? If someone is going to burn in hell forever it's him. Tell Hitler I said hi!
@@christiannilsen2835 he killed his wife either prior to killing his 2 little girls or after (it’s been debated), buried his wife at the oil site and then put his deceased girls bodies each in separate oil well/drums. THEN, when backed into a corner, he chose to blame his wife, after one of the detectives basically put that “theory” out there to him. Well, he took it and ran with it. Of course, thankfully his wife made all these beautiful videos of her with her kids, so no one (except some loony toons) believed him, thankfully!! Even if she hadn’t made all those videos, no one would believe him. Like they don’t believe this POS didn’t kill his own family and that instead, his wife did it all. So sad.
My eyes filled with tears as well.😢 Why are some people so evil?? She was a beautiful little girl with a head full of curls. I can’t imagine how terrified these children were. May they all Rest In Peace. ♥️
Yes! That was such a gut-punch for me to see as well. Knowing that, as a police chief, he's doubtless seen some terrible things in his time, yet seeing how much this particular crime got to him? You know it had to have been bad. Really bad. Just pure tragedy. So horrible.
Could've been a number of things it could've reminded him of one of his own children or family members or just the shear depravity of the crime. People often forget police officers are human too,they aren't all hard asses with no heart. I'm sure I couldn't do what LEO's do everyday,seeing death on the daily and then trying to compose myself for a press conference. Rip Todt family 💜
When you see an officer choked up describing the awful scene it hits that much harder. I can’t imagine, with this case, how difficult this scene was. Those poor babies 😩
I do believe that officer felt horrible about describing that scene and talking about the victims, especially the 4 year old. BUT. I watched that part over and over. When he choked up. Does anyone think he may have added that for the cameras without feeling that heavy of emotion at the time he was reading that? I watched his eyes. He started off reading from the paper, then looking up to the audience, like you do when speaking to a crowd or a speech. He continued doing this right after the "emotion" he was feeling and looked the same as when he started. When people get so emotional that it halts their words, they stop speaking, I've notice most of them can't immediately go back to having the same normal eye contact with the audience again. There are no micro expressions of grief or pain on his face during that moment. It looks like half of his mouth moves upwards, which usually means contempt. There is no movement in his eyebrows, especially in between, drawing together. There is no micro inflammation that comes into the eyes that happens when feeling emotion before there are even tears. His chest doesn't hitch or appear that he is holding his breath from the emotion he would be feeling. Plus, when feeling an emotion like that, it isn't fleeting. Words that could have triggered those emotions, such as reading about the 4 year old, the brain processes the information, the emotion is felt but it carries on even if speaking past the point of what triggered it. This officer goes right back into normal speech. At no point does any stress come into his speech at all. Emotions that stop someone's speech limit involve breathing and their vocal cords. I KNOW he believes it to be awful, horrible. I'm just saying, I've been watching body language analysts on UA-cam. I believe this man knows it will be a huge case and threw that in there. He observed that when people get emotional like that, the most noticable thing is they stop speaking and seem to struggle to speak again. Logan and his channel Observe has taught me so much. Watch Patsy and John Bennett Ramsey video. Logan explains that John shows emotion and then seconds later it is gone. He points an area when Patsy get emotional and she keeps feeling that pain. Sure the officer doesn't feel the same pain he would if he were related to the victims, but he is portraying an emotion he isn't feeling at the time.
@@jessicalynn6285 police officers get desensitized, so they wouldn’t have as strong a reaction as a random person, but it would seem weird for him to be stoic, so he is purposefully adding more emotion. That’s my take on it anyway.
@@Kerbedis1 I do not think it's a good thing to analyze people's reactions in the face of tragedy or grief as if we know how THEY felt at the time. Sure they can become desensitized after seeing horrific things over and over, but a case like this I imagine is quite rare. That an entire family would be decimated by the patriarch, including their children. This is my take on it -- the cop has kids, too. It's not just the murder of one child. It's the murder of all of them including the mother by their own father. Assuming he is a father himself it's VERY believable to me that he would have an emotional reaction to it, but whether or not it seems legitimate to us or not really isn't fair for us to decide as people process grief in different ways.
Probably haven't owned gun and all other ways of suicide are lets be honest panful. Could be reason he was high as shit when FBI arrived had no balls to kill himself so yea lets drink and swallow pills. Also that mention of world ending from his sister seems kinda off and weird
@Nah mate nobody said they care more about the animal, it's just nice they also got charged for murdering the dog aswell, also i do care more about animals lol
@Nah mate Just because we and the prosecutors have the capacity to also feel bad for the dog does not mean we care more for the dog. The whole thing is sad and disgusting 😔 I'm sure those kids loved that dog too.
Seeing that Christmas picture of the family and the dog is what got me, I'm married with 3 kids and I just don't understand how people can do this and this guy had a good life, my life sucks right now but my family is what keeps me from giving up.
Ik some can't have kids or find a partner and this pos throws them away bc of money not that any reason is a good one. It's funny he thinks he's getting out though.
@@cal2035 ripped by who? and what's so bad about it - everybody asking the same questions and getting no reaction from him so at least she tried something different
@@cal2035 Really sad all around. It's sad to say but I think besides the kids, the dog also hits different since we're only used to seeing adults involved in the tragedies that are normally on this channel.
So this kid got me at the start and I watched his whole video. Then he hooked me at the end when he said, "Please, if you can do anything for me..." and I'm expecting him to say the usual "hit the like button" or "my pay pal is in the description", but instead he says, "take care of yourself". I think this guy actually cares.
My first time watching him I was at a very low mental/emotional point from watching my dad die as I was holding his hand. The next year my husband packed up all his clothing as fast as he could when I left to go grocery shopping. I was a stay at home mom the last 9 years of our 15 year marriage and he walked away without having a conversation with me and without saying a word to our 3 children. He left us with nothing and threatened my life for asking him to pay child support to help our kids. When I gave him the heads up I actually filed he showed up and threatened to kill me. When we had court it was over zoom and he was there at my house threatening me and I had to get the person to bring his payments down to $600 a month instead of the $1,700 or he would’ve killed me. I had to lie and say he was paying my car insurance, cell phone, daughters phone, and my car payment. The following tax season he claimed our kids and kept all of the money from the child tax credit payments, as well as every single stimulus payment including mine. He did that the last 3 years. So he pays child support, has them 4 days per month and then claims them on his taxes.
Hahahaha, that was hilarious. People that die near narcissists are always so quick to compliment them as they have their last breath. Give me a break... smh
Crazy he was my physical therapist back then when I tore my acl, they found out he was still charging my insurance even though I haven’t been there in a year this whole case is crazy.
Another thing I remember getting investigated by the fbi and not being able to say anything for a while because they were still investigating but it’s crazy he was saying that everyone was attending his physical therapy 5 times a week for like 4 hours a day or sum. I remember hearing that and being shocked because I trusted him.
@rsullivanphotography Thank you for letting us know. I am so glad he got punished (although not enough) for killing little Breezy. Those eyes on that dog! It broke my heart he stabbed the dog.
That poor family. The police officer addressing the press got me. He was about to lose it and I can’t handle a grown man crying. This is just horrifying. I don’t get it. Why not just take yourself out. It’s obvious he snapped completely but how and why?!? So awful.
I thought he might have snapped but then I considered how he had clients rescheduled, told the FBI he'd be back in early December, told his employees that he'd be back in late December, and realized that it must have been planned. Maybe he snapped AFTER he carried out the murders, but the murders themselves sound premeditated to me.
@@gtw4546 I love how he says he can’t remember but he seems to recall an awful lot. Also, he was gone most of the time so he’s saying his wife wasn’t capable. She homeschooled those kids and was alone the majority of the time. You’re right the more this video went on the more I believe he didn’t snap at all.
Why? He and his family were living far beyond their means, and he didn't have the guts to call time on their extravagant lifestyle. I am sure that a physiotherapist who owns his own practice employing other physiotherpaists can make a very good living, but perhaps not what is needed to fund a family home in Celebration, FL, frequent flights to/from Florida, and a non-working wife. Curiously Chris Watts had had the same issue in Charlotte, NC, having declared bankruptcy a few years before relocating to Colorado, after he and his wife had had a large monthly mortgage payment that was beyond what they could afford on his here-and-there job/ career path.
I always want to know the why, too? Wonder if the wife was up to some bad things herself. A lot of times women will spend all the money trying to portray a richer lifestyle and she may have cheated on him and threatened to keep the kids away too. Maybe he was thinking she spent all my money, cheated on me and is going to take the children away and I'm left with nothing because of her. He decided to kill everyone. That's why he was blaming her for the deaths
Mike has sweetest heart. I feel like we are friends. Literally always so kind and consistent. Never asks for likes or for you to subscribe. But he doesn't have to, he's that awesome.
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@@ThatChapter its the only non fattening,non alcohol,healthy thing in my life i never gonna quit your a gentleman ,scholar and a rogue and may you always be a free man an a tree man x
What a horrible coward blaming his wife. It always gets to me when I see a cop struggling to continue when discussing crimes, particularly older cops who have seen so much. Thank you again Mike for an interesting, but disturbing video. I love you presentation 🥰
Only one close I can remember is Shanna Liz Golyar. She was convicted of second-degree arson for the fire that killed her two dogs, cat, and snake. Though it's possible the sentence would have been the same either way.
fucking hate guys like this. He has things I could only dream about (a beautiful family) and goes and kills them. I just wish I could have had what he had just for a few days. It's guys like this why I still support the death penalty.
After killing his family...and then confess...and then having memory loss...and then blaming his wife??? What a great human being he is, i hope he rots in jail
I actually lived in the same apartment buildings with this family for a couple years before the murders. Rode the elevator with the boys and their dog almost daily. They always seemed happy. This news was crazy and effected the entire town.
Im so sorry Tony..I cant even imagine your grief sir....my heart and prayers go out to you and that you may be able to move on..I understand exactly what you mean about moving on..I pray your STRENGTH!!!!
Ive have anxiety disorder and get mini panic attacks about having to answer the phone. I simply say I got scared or Ive been busy. Ive been so sick that I couldn't answer the phone tho, like I'm in the ICU. I'll call you back 😂
That’s not a physical disease. It’s your personality. Why describe personalities as illnesses? Just don’t talk if you don’t want to. If you want to, do.
@@animula6908 its real and called "personality disorders" 😂 and some disorders cant be treated. Bless your heart if you have a CLOSE friend with BPD and pathological lying
@@moxiemaxie3543 I have anxiety disorder and suffer with extreme panic attacks at times. If someone is that worried about me and a text to know if I’m still alive ? Yes - I have that much love in me that I can talk to them for a little few seconds to say “ I’m not dead, I’m still alive”. Because I have done that.
The old last standing in a mass murder defense. * I was spared/ I luckily escaped * I wasn't around when it happened *It was a murder suicide committed by *blank*family member
That police officer choking up when he's announcing the ages of the victims made me tear up. I watched the trial of this guy and in the end he just kept denying it all and saying what a great husband he was. That police officer had infinitely more empathy for those children he never even knew than their own father. So sad.
I'm glad they also recognized the dog. It also acts as proof of a level of callousness and shows intent as well, making an insanity plea harder. He most likely killed the dog so the neighbors wouldn't be able to hear barking and become suspicious.
People forget they are human beings too and not just there to state facts, like somebody else said in the comments he probably has a daughter or something that age too. Devastating.
My wife and I just love your shows and your style of presentation. We love your Irish accent and beautiful Irish colouring. My wife is from Belfast Ireland and loves to see someone that has skin like hers as it is a very Irish trait. You have a great sense of humour.
The phone conversation. "What's up cheese puff".. That greeting there does it. He is a manipulative narcissist. A dangerous psychopath fully aware of what he done.
Mike: "Please if you can do anything for me-" Me: "Mike, I hit like as soon as I start your videos." Mike: "- you can take care of yourself." Me: *cries* "thank u"
Mike you are very good at delivering these tragic stories. You're not boring and you have a great sense of humour and you have great timing which can help make the story a lot better to handle and in a way that's not disrespectful and that is a gift.
Dude: _kills entire family, goes into "hiding" in plain sight, just you know, closed the curtains... meanwhile, literally everyone in the family's life, from siblings to schools to neighbors and landlord, beg the sheriff's office to look into it, even just a little_ Sheriff: "welp, the curtains are closed you see, so there's really nothing we need to do here." Dude: _owes money to medicare_ Sheriff's office: "TIME TO USE THE SWAT GEAR!!"
You see in this case the “dumbass” is completely warranted because people like that making stupid statements about something they know nothing about only facilitates other people’s ignorance and at the same time drives a false narrative about what law enforcement is willing to do! Stupid people pontificating about topics they know nothing about is a huge problem with our society so try not to get too bent out of shape!
Yeah, and I lost it when his voice broke and he had to stop momentarily when talking about the 4-year old little girl. I can't imagine what they see in the line of duty...
17:57 "What about the dog? What about Breezy?" That tore my heart, but that reporter is asking the right questions. What did that dog do to deserve that T^T
Stephanie Harlowe is doing the looong version of this if anyone is interested. I'm so intrigued, I can't wait for her part 2. Thank you, *That Chaper* for sharing the shorthand version of this tragedy. RIP to the Todt family & Breez (fyi- Breezy was 5 yrs old).
This is why Mike is head and shoulders above most UA-camrs: instead of asking us to like and subscribe he asks us to take care of ourselves. Warms my heart every time ❤
Tony is kept in isolation for his own safety. Two things felons hate: 1. Family Annihilators 2. Dog abusers They would have given him a death sentence no doubt. Thanks Mike! 😊♥️
David no I’ve been to a level 3 in CA he would have had his paperwork checked and his charges are bad. They would have forced a crash dummy to crash out and stab him or at the very least roll him off the yard. Stop talking unless you been to a level 3 or 4. One and twos are daycares
@@mylesepps4950 If you don't mind me asking, is the paperwork something that inmates can see, if they work in the office/admin bit, or is that something that the guards pass along?
Thepanpiper You can just call somebody to look it up or when your going through classification for placement you have your paperwork and stuff with you in your belongings.
This man tried to act like his wife was insane, when homie LIVED IN THE HOUSE WITH ROTTING BODIES! And if he was trying to like "spare the shame" for his family. Why did he go after the dog? That dog doesn't know anything about what happened.
@@TheJthom9 sometimes it’s not about how the dog is more important, it’s about what this action showed if that makes sense. Like you already done the killing you need, killing the dog is just so unnecessarily cruel and really shows that there’s nothing left in the murder that make them human
Not just over the past year, he’s one of the best of all of them. His storytelling abilities, dark humor and killer editing skills make him off the chain in my book. Keep it up Mikey we’re loving it!
The bit he wrote about her meditating and thinking the world was going to end due to a virus...was written by him to his father DURING the covid outbreak. And HE told his sister about the world ending (when the virus was already going around too). He was setting his wife up for murder after she'd been dead more than a month.
That recorded phone call around the 20 minute mark is rough. That person he's talking to doesn't believe a word about him not remembering anything. Her sigh says it all.
As soon as I saw the picture of the family in front of the Christmas tree in matching pajama sets, I knew what happened. Every family annihilator has that same picture, so creepy! Anyone else notice that 🤔 weird huh...
Yeah, lots of people have that picture. But maybe it IS related. Like people who are very image obsessed are more likely to have that picture pose, and people who are image obsessed are more likely to murder their entire family rather murder than have their image sullied in the eyes of their family? I don’t know. I gave it a goo.
ThatChapter/Mike you have production, editing, and storytelling that every channel needs. We’re glad you brought this to true crime, it needed it, and we’re all hours in to the binge. Keep up the work
How can there be so many thumbs down. What's wrong with people Mike rocks this joint. He really should have his own show thumbs up for Mike having a tv show.
Out of over 30k, 300 thumbs down isnt too bad. I agree Mike is brilliant, I find that infuriating "smash the like and subscribe" I appreciate that Mike doesnt say that. I love how Mike tells the facts without sensationalising it with the right balance of humour and respect
The mind of Tony Tony: "Your honor I don't remember anything but I do remember my wife did it" Judge: "I believe you your free to go" Tony mind: "Yeah that will show em"
You would have to be making an income of a million to support a family of 5, the rent bill (which seems crazy high) considering the area, the flying back and forth ….not once but all the time and the running of a huge business. It looked like they had about ten or more employees. This family was living well beyond their means. I feel sick for the extended family members who had not seen their loved ones and then had to find out what really happened!
I'm from this town ..thats normal ...if they wanted cheaper they could of gone literally 5 miles away to Kissimmee . He was just not fiscally responsible
That poor dog. Breezy’s energy is now with the children. I think about had this poor dog had lived, Breezy would have stayed with those bodies, though, even with the decomposition . 😢
Right!!! Plus: -He had to do EVERYTHING -she woke up pain-free for the 1st time in year's...... (So he plunged a knife in her gut 2x’s so she could die slow & painful) -But its gonna be the hardest thing he’s ever done, when he has to sit there & tell them “she” did this!!! (I actually believe this) -But he still loves her “deeply” (Freudian slip??) - He has forgiven her!! I mean, he is a real piece of work, this one!!! My God.
My favorite thing about narcissistic sociopaths is that they always go to trial, and they always take the stand! And it sinks them every time. It's a beautiful thing to witness. 😆❤ Tony's testimony was everything I hoped it would be.
sad..... ? it's sad that crimes like these will inevitably continue to happen, but mike never running out of content is the one silver lining i can think of
@A. E. Harrison Yeah, no. She's asking for a welfare check because something is clearly wrong. Thinking your sibling has wiped out their family is not going to be the first conclusion jumped to!
@A. E. Harrison Yea id like to hear the full transcript of that call.Pretty weird thing to bring up on a wellness check and why didnt she mention that on the first call.?
He deserved to get butt kicked down the stairs. But his idiocy is his undoing. I fell down about 10 stairs and I had so many more bruises than a poor little hand that was supposedly handcuffed behind him. If you stab 4 people usually you lose some of your blood because the hand slips when blood gets on the knife (learned that from unsolved mysteries :) ) I am sure the police would have like to but knew he was the cause as well as the only monster.
Can we all agree that over the past year Mike has been the BEST true Crime UA-camr by a far
Absolutely
Yep!
I suppose I could agree to that.
This is the realest shit I read all day
28k in less then 30 minutes! I bet a lot of people agree, I sure do.
Mike makes a single request of his viewers, to take care of themselves. Didn't beg for people to "smash" the like button or subscribe. I honestly appreciate that more than anything else.
💯💯💯💯
69th like lol
Probably because there's money coming in from his parents or something.
No, I heard him say “smash that like button”
@@jltaco85 he’s getting money from the government
I like that the prosector didn’t leave out the death of the dog and charged him with animal cruelty
Finally someone posted about the dog.
It annoys me that it's just listed as animal cruelty and not animal murder.
Yes! The small little sliver of joy I got from that
It’s annoying as shit that people care so much about animals more than humans .
@@caldw615 Yeah...
Update: Todt was convicted of these crimes Thursday, April 14th 2022 and sentenced the same day. He received four life sentences without the possibility of parole, one for each family member that he murdered.
And time served for killing the dog, Breezy.
Y’all need to bring back the death penalty!
@@lauriesmith5340 Florida has the death penalty. Not sure why this monster didn’t get it.
@@Miadolph Yeah, Florida has a reputation for not being afraid to impose the death penalty, even for women. I haven’t looked at the trial evidence, but maybe going in, the prosecutors felt Tony would be able to successfully argue a diminished mental state, so taking the death penalty off the table in advance would make conviction more likely.
@@Miadolph He'd clearly had a complete mental breakdown, and in all honestly, probably not competent to even stand trial. Usually in cases like this, the person gets locked up in a psychiatric hospital, rather than a prison. If they ever become well, I think they then get transferred to a prison for the remainder of the sentence, but if not, they remain in the hospital. Florida has a reputation/history of executing the 'mentally challenged', so at a guess, I'd think that they didn't want the additional hassle/embarrassment of doing the same thing again.
I’ll never understand the “I lost everything important to me” thing. You didn’t “lose” it, you killed it!!??
He lost them because he killed them. Happy now?
@@clray123 Lol what’s your problem
@@clray123 ...
His family wasn't important to him. His $$ and reputation was.
Amazing when the evil heinous horrid person guilty caused... acts sad seeking sympathy like they were only victimized.
“It’s good to hear your voice”
“Are you doing okay?”
I could never ever ever ever speak to my brother again if he did something like this to my nephews, niece, and sister in law. Goodness.
I watch these crime stories Just Because Mike Does Them!!!!
Same 💛
Right? I guess the only excuse would be you believed them to be innocent, but Tony obviously guilty and I wouldn’t have anything to do with my brother if he did this. I’d be sick
@@MrBangbangjim right??? Me toooooo. Let’s be friends! We can discuss the videos haha :)
Could be an undercover thing to get him to confided in someone maybe? 🤷♀️ would be the only reason I'd talk to someone that did this hideous act, but even then it would be extremely hard to do😥 those poor children and his wife.
you can see how the police officer, is choked up when he talks about the deaths, it breaks my heart
especially when he was giving out the birth date of the little one. so sad
He probably imagined his own kids
@@jvalencia6876 I started crying
The tell-tale jaw clench...
They should make the firing squad exclusive for child murders/rapists.
Im 36 male and I started crying at this moment😥😭 I have 4yo boy and 6yo girl myself.
What a monster! 😡😡
I like the respect the Chief showed toward the victims when having the press conference where he not only mentions their name but also their birth date. Just something I noticed about him that he really cares and feels for the victims, families, and friends.
And even included the dog, Breezy. 💔
He got very clearly choked up over the youngest... hard stuff to read.
@@johndoe5432 ya, that really got to me.
@Matt Olivier on most horrific murder cases the perpetrator gets famous and a lot of programs and documentaries make the perp the famous one. I'm simply glad they took the time with each victim to provide their name, birthdate, etc because they deserve to be remembered - No, I'm not insane and the concept of preventing the perp from getting famous and showing respect and remembering the victims is not a crazy idea....but it would take an emotionally complex person to understand and so I get why you're confused and/or have an issue with it... 😏
@Matt Olivier are you insane?
My daughter is 4. That cop having to regain his composure had me wiping my eyes. It doesn’t matter how bad you screw up, don’t kill your family to hide your shame.
You have to have always been a narcissistic psychopath to do this I think. And the fact he was doing all this outrageous scamming is another clue that that's what it was.
And the poor doggie.
@@siouxd799 sorry..but i find it a bit insensitive to bring up the dog in a case like this. Who gives a shit sbout the dog, a 4 year old girl was murdered.
@@raudeloruna2600 it’s not insensitive and there’s no need to be rude, the point is the dog is also defenceless, it goes without saying that a little girl being killed by her own father is horrific.
@@raudeloruna2600
Children are like animals. I don't know why people always put human children above animals when they're so alike.
He is a classical family annihilator. “My family would be so ashamed they wouldn’t want to live.” So he helped them out. Damn shame he didn’t start with himself.
Totally textbook. The minute I heard he was a PT but was wealthy, had money coming out his ears and that huge staff of assistants I knew it. The PT therapy and Medicaid fraud is well known and FBI have been going after it for over a decade.
Ah...you hit on it. Makes sense now. He was mentally able to rationalize the fraud scam-and also able to rationalize the murder of his family-to keep the Lie intact. Which was - He was not as successful as he appeared. (voted Most likely to succeed in high school)...he couldn't come to grips with admitting that to his family, better that they die. The past history with his father (Wow!) And the letter he sent to his father (filled with lies)...what exactly did he witness as a child when his father did the same thing?
It’s the people who should probably start with themselves that never do. Wouldn’t know if anyone was ashamed if he’s dead anyway. Cannot believe how sick this dude is.
I can never understand these where protection of ego is so important that you would rather murder your wife and own children rather than just say " sorry guys I fucked up can you forgive me". ??
Yeah, definitely textbook family annihilator. Like John List.
The poor sheriff almost lost it when it came to the baby. The respect I have for cops, nurses, firefighters, EMT's and all first reponders is tremendous..
I’m retired military. I once thought I would be a firefighter after retiring, but then I realized that I don’t want to see shite like what’s in this video. Horrific.
When the sheriff choked up.... I felt that!! He could barely get out the little girls birthdate 😭 so sad and so upsetting. He’s a monster! There will never be a day that someone can have a good reason to kill a child, children are innocent, if you hate your life then take it out on yourself not your children or anyone else!!!!
Same
It made me tear up tbh
I agree and I hate children.
I agree. You should always leave the children out of it.
I am a bit peeved that the cops, didn’t own that it was there second welfare check, had they been more thorough or given a dam earlier maybe 3weeks would not have passed albeit still difficult for the cops to press release .
It’s the first time I hear a murderer actually get charged with the murder of his pup. I am so glad he did because the dog was another innocent life taken in a brutal way.
Finally someone bringing this up
That’s because most murderers (even the most brutal, depraved, and notorious of the lot) _don’t_ kill their own pets, and many never kill any animals at all, despite what poorly-researched, sloppily-written tabloids and dodgy clickbait listicles would have you believe. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley (the infamous ‘Moors Murderers’), for instance, were both noted animal lovers, as were serial killers Dennis Nilsen and John Wayne Gacy, murderous mob boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, _Reichsmarschall_ Hermann Göring, and, famously, even Adolf Hitler himself. David ‘Son of Sam’ Berkowitz did, at times, commit acts of violence against animals, but at least it can be said that he had enough respect for that one dog to ‘pick up what he was throwing down’.
@@bryangarcia5599 ...And tons more DID kill animals, especially in childhood. But you're really getting cause and effect mixed up here. Abusing animals is a predictor of violence towards humans later in life. Being a murderer isn't a predictor of also hurting animals.
@@amityislandchum thank you! I was just getting ready to reply, but you summed it up rather nicely. ✌🏻😊
Well, technically "murder" means the killing of a human by a human. But I agree with the sentiment.
His videos are legitimately Netflix-level documentaries
A few levels above really at least!
AGREEEEEEED!🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Factsss🙏🏿
Woah hey I have seen some Netflix originals and they’re garbage compared to this
Yes I agree
What a despicable pos. So glad he was found guilty for all FIVE murders!
RIP Todt family. 🙏💙
Wow, that officer got all choked up when announcing the death of the children, especially the 4-year-old girl. 🥺 I felt that one. 🥺
No doubt he was a dad
Shit, I got choked up just listening to him list off their ages..
I did too :(
Yeah 😢
I know it was tough to watch
I never imagined I could hate someone as much as I hate Chris Watts, so here’s this guy. It makes me sick to my stomach that he actually stayed with their bodies in the house for weeks. What a monster.
Totally agree.
I probably hate Grant Amato more than this guy
Yes, agreed..... oh.....but maybe - the monster crashed in the condo and Disneyville?
Watch the one about Josh Powell.. it makes me want to cry and cringe just thinking about it.
Watts haunts me.
I hope they keep him UNDER the jail...
There is soooo much more to that tragedy; we may NEVER know what happened.
Too bad he never cracked his Bible BEFORE his horrific actions.
right, he remembers NOTHING except every vivid detail about how his wife was the one who did this.
Yep bunch BS Insanity Ploy!
Lmao fr
And how the police pushed him down the stairs. He only remembers how bad the world was with him. Oh, he is GOING DOWN
Exactly! Also who just watches their wife off herself without trying to stop her or even attempting to call 911? He didn’t blackout until after she died apparently so.....
And they had hummus on toast. But he couldn't identify a blueberry pie on sight.
Never realized you put out a video on this. Chrissy is close family friend with my parents and this absolutely tore her and their family apart. Super sad hearing her talk to the dispatchers. She’s the sweetest person you’ll ever meet you can tell she knew something was wrong
"Hey Tony, why don't you just accept responsibility for these heinous acts?"
*"No, I think I will just blame my murdered wife in the most convoluted and improbable ways imaginable!"*
She actually killed the kids & dog After she killed herself. 🙄
This dude Sssssucks!!
isn't this exactly what the Watts guy tried to do?
@@wmurch3 Yep. These men (called Family Annihilaters in the true crime community) are so delusional and egotistical. They honestly have no souls to be able to kill the ones in their lives that should have meant the most to them. Fathers and husbands are supposed to protect their families. Not kill them because they found another woman or somehow failed (usually monetarily) in their lives. I hate these stories.
Narcissism.
same bullshit lie that chris watts told.
What I respect the most about Mike is he knows when to joke & when to show respect. Hands down the best on UA-cam.
This is obviously sarcasm
@@AlvinDishaw WTF?
@@laurieschneider5278 sarcasm.
Hope that helps.
Absolutely agree. Some people don't understand how important humor is to healthily processing some of the darkest parts of humanity... Y'all have never met any first responders or medical staff if you think Mike's humor is off.
@@Sam-go3mb yeah, funny how in court the judges and lawyers keep cracking jokes about murder lol
Actually cried when that officer had to pause after saying the 4 yr olds name...this was a heavy one mike but you did it respectfully x
Same. You can hear him starting to break and escalating as he's naming each child, the 13 year old, breaks a bit more with the 11 year old, then with Zoe it's like he just couldn't say it. I could feel from his voice he would lose it so was already bawling at that point. So sad :(
Same here. I had to pause the video at that point. When a police officer who has probably seen it all gets choked up, you know it's bad.
Same here
same that was wild for even a cop to be that disturbed
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Hey Mike, I have one story for you. I hope you get to read this comment. I watch your videos almost daily but this one never showed up on my feed until today. This is good because out of about one hundred potential jurors, I was selected as one of the 12.
I’m so glad that we did the right thing in finding him guilty on all charges and I hope that we honored the wife and children’s lives by giving this monster the Justice he deserved.
This was my first time ever in a jury. Every time I close my eyes, I still see the horrible photos we had to examine during the trial. Some of the jurors went back to the courtroom to see the sentencing. I cried a lot when I came home after the sentencing was done and this horrible chapter was finally over.
Wow that must have been a tough trial . What a sad story I’m sorry you got picked for jury hope all is well..
I’m so glad he got what he deserves. Thank you for your service on the jury. Such a tragedy for the victims. Rest In Peace to all who lost their lives. Hope you have found peace and closure. Bless you and your family
I’m glad you were one of the people to put him away forever! I am terribly sorry for what you experienced:/ must have been really hard
Thank you for bringing some type of justice to this monster. That must have been a terrible, stressful trial, looking at the creep every day.
Why do you think he did it?
Imagine killing your wife and then have the nerve to villainize her
This case was so wrong on so many levels I can’t wrap my head around it
That's what Chris Watts tried to claim during his first "confession" as a family annihilator. First he said his wife killed the kids and he killed her because she killed the kids. The truth came out in the end, as it always does.
So sick!
"Todt"al asshole, this guy.
He said she died telling him how great he was.
Wtf
Yeah, this was a house of cards. It was getting ready to tumble down & he was what? Gonna spare them? I don’t get it. That coupled w/ the trauma of his fathers crimes against his mother & not being the most respected successful man he portrayed himself to be. He probably went his whole life proving he was a better man than his father & in the end he was so much like him. He couldn’t even kill himself after ALL that. And now he has the “Watts-Nerve” to blame his poor dead wife for it all!!! It all says so much.
This should be called "The Chris Watts Defense" - blaming your dead wife for killing all her children and then herself.
Ugh,... I know right?! What the ACTUAL f*ck. This guy definitely seems to have taken some notes from that loser Watts- poor excuse for a human being, both of them!
Oh and in both cases the police-and basically EVERYONE else- could see right through both of their bull💩 excuses!
He said that? And after that he dumped the kids in oil and buried his wife? If someone is going to burn in hell forever it's him. Tell Hitler I said hi!
Agreed
@@christiannilsen2835 he killed his wife either prior to killing his 2 little girls or after (it’s been debated), buried his wife at the oil site and then put his deceased girls bodies each in separate oil well/drums. THEN, when backed into a corner, he chose to blame his wife, after one of the detectives basically put that “theory” out there to him. Well, he took it and ran with it. Of course, thankfully his wife made all these beautiful videos of her with her kids, so no one (except some loony toons) believed him, thankfully!! Even if she hadn’t made all those videos, no one would believe him. Like they don’t believe this POS didn’t kill his own family and that instead, his wife did it all. So sad.
I felt for the police chief when he was reading out the announcement and got choked up when he got to the youngest child's birthday :( so so sad.
My eyes filled with tears as well.😢
Why are some people so evil?? She was a beautiful little girl with a head full of curls. I can’t imagine how terrified these children were. May they all Rest In Peace. ♥️
Same, he paused and had to get it together to be able to continue reading. It baffles me, why, but why... children that JUST STARTED LIVING. Insane.
Yes! That was such a gut-punch for me to see as well. Knowing that, as a police chief, he's doubtless seen some terrible things in his time, yet seeing how much this particular crime got to him? You know it had to have been bad. Really bad.
Just pure tragedy. So horrible.
Very 😥
Me too. That was pretty gut wrenching.
Interesting thing, in German "Der Tod" is "the death" and "tot" is "(being) dead" so Todt is like a morbid combination.
Todt is the old spelling for "death" in German.
That's very interesting...and creepy...thanks !
I noticed this too.
wow!
Who the hell names themselves Death as a surname. Maybe the name itself is what inspired him to do it
You have to do something really heinous to make a sheriff choke up like that. Saying the little girl's birthdate brought home what a baby she was.
I guess it's because the image of her decomposed body flashed through his mind at that moment.
he was asked about that in a later news conference.
he actually became choked up due to the next sentence about the Dog, Breezy. 🙁
@@hushthesky jeez im a total animal lover too, but i would be upset about the baby being murdered too. T_T
Yeah, that landlord lady is sick, that “eviction letter” is such a joke
Could've been a number of things it could've reminded him of one of his own children or family members or just the shear depravity of the crime.
People often forget police officers are human too,they aren't all hard asses with no heart.
I'm sure I couldn't do what LEO's do everyday,seeing death on the daily and then trying to compose myself for a press conference.
Rip Todt family 💜
When you see an officer choked up describing the awful scene it hits that much harder. I can’t imagine, with this case, how difficult this scene was. Those poor babies 😩
So true
I do believe that officer felt horrible about describing that scene and talking about the victims, especially the 4 year old. BUT. I watched that part over and over. When he choked up. Does anyone think he may have added that for the cameras without feeling that heavy of emotion at the time he was reading that? I watched his eyes. He started off reading from the paper, then looking up to the audience, like you do when speaking to a crowd or a speech. He continued doing this right after the "emotion" he was feeling and looked the same as when he started. When people get so emotional that it halts their words, they stop speaking, I've notice most of them can't immediately go back to having the same normal eye contact with the audience again. There are no micro expressions of grief or pain on his face during that moment. It looks like half of his mouth moves upwards, which usually means contempt. There is no movement in his eyebrows, especially in between, drawing together. There is no micro inflammation that comes into the eyes that happens when feeling emotion before there are even tears. His chest doesn't hitch or appear that he is holding his breath from the emotion he would be feeling. Plus, when feeling an emotion like that, it isn't fleeting. Words that could have triggered those emotions, such as reading about the 4 year old, the brain processes the information, the emotion is felt but it carries on even if speaking past the point of what triggered it. This officer goes right back into normal speech. At no point does any stress come into his speech at all. Emotions that stop someone's speech limit involve breathing and their vocal cords. I KNOW he believes it to be awful, horrible. I'm just saying, I've been watching body language analysts on UA-cam. I believe this man knows it will be a huge case and threw that in there. He observed that when people get emotional like that, the most noticable thing is they stop speaking and seem to struggle to speak again. Logan and his channel Observe has taught me so much. Watch Patsy and John Bennett Ramsey video. Logan explains that John shows emotion and then seconds later it is gone. He points an area when Patsy get emotional and she keeps feeling that pain. Sure the officer doesn't feel the same pain he would if he were related to the victims, but he is portraying an emotion he isn't feeling at the time.
@@jessicalynn6285 I agree, he seemed to fake those emotions. But why did you have to write an essay about it tho?
@@jessicalynn6285 police officers get desensitized, so they wouldn’t have as strong a reaction as a random person, but it would seem weird for him to be stoic, so he is purposefully adding more emotion. That’s my take on it anyway.
@@Kerbedis1 I do not think it's a good thing to analyze people's reactions in the face of tragedy or grief as if we know how THEY felt at the time. Sure they can become desensitized after seeing horrific things over and over, but a case like this I imagine is quite rare. That an entire family would be decimated by the patriarch, including their children. This is my take on it -- the cop has kids, too. It's not just the murder of one child. It's the murder of all of them including the mother by their own father. Assuming he is a father himself it's VERY believable to me that he would have an emotional reaction to it, but whether or not it seems legitimate to us or not really isn't fair for us to decide as people process grief in different ways.
Aww he didn't have the heart to off the one he loved the most. Himself.
He should have been the first
Yeah this was an extended suicide that turned into murder when he couldt find the heart to off himself.
Probably haven't owned gun and all other ways of suicide are lets be honest panful. Could be reason he was high as shit when FBI arrived had no balls to kill himself so yea lets drink and swallow pills. Also that mention of world ending from his sister seems kinda off and weird
Fucking pity
Yes, you are right….I think he found it much easier to kill his wife and kids and dog than himself.
When the officer choked up, he made my heart break. You know for him to choke up like that means this was the worst thing he's seen in his career.
I love that someone asked him about Breezy and that they charged him with animal cruelty. This is all just so sad.
@Nah mate nobody said they care more about the animal, it's just nice they also got charged for murdering the dog aswell, also i do care more about animals lol
@Nah mate Just because we and the prosecutors have the capacity to also feel bad for the dog does not mean we care more for the dog. The whole thing is sad and disgusting 😔 I'm sure those kids loved that dog too.
Yeah, the landlord is a monster, sad that no one took that “eviction letter” seriously
That’s because Breezy could have killed them, and then Tony got revenge on the dog
@Nah mate you, and people like you, are the reason there are warnings on fast food coffee cups.
Seeing that Christmas picture of the family and the dog is what got me, I'm married with 3 kids and I just don't understand how people can do this and this guy had a good life, my life sucks right now but my family is what keeps me from giving up.
Ik some can't have kids or find a partner and this pos throws them away bc of money not that any reason is a good one. It's funny he thinks he's getting out though.
Hope life gets better!
@@nathantschappler9191 I know it will, thank you.
the dog looks like he's smiling like a human :(
@@blazerwilliams2260 Sending you the best. Hope things get better very soon! We have to keep pushing forward. Our families are a true blessing.
I lost it when that reporter shouted out "TONY WHAT ABOUT BREEZY!?" 😅
Yea. That reporter got ripped. Whole family dead and she’s bitching about the dog
@@cal2035 ripped by who? and what's so bad about it - everybody asking the same questions and getting no reaction from him so at least she tried something different
Same 😂
@@cal2035 Really sad all around. It's sad to say but I think besides the kids, the dog also hits different since we're only used to seeing adults involved in the tragedies that are normally on this channel.
@@alexmckinney9657 Also pretty random like it's not like a dog can be a witness or something
So this kid got me at the start and I watched his whole video. Then he hooked me at the end when he said, "Please, if you can do anything for me..." and I'm expecting him to say the usual "hit the like button" or "my pay pal is in the description", but instead he says, "take care of yourself". I think this guy actually cares.
My first time watching him I was at a very low mental/emotional point from watching my dad die as I was holding his hand. The next year my husband packed up all his clothing as fast as he could when I left to go grocery shopping. I was a stay at home mom the last 9 years of our 15 year marriage and he walked away without having a conversation with me and without saying a word to our 3 children. He left us with nothing and threatened my life for asking him to pay child support to help our kids. When I gave him the heads up I actually filed he showed up and threatened to kill me. When we had court it was over zoom and he was there at my house threatening me and I had to get the person to bring his payments down to $600 a month instead of the $1,700 or he would’ve killed me. I had to lie and say he was paying my car insurance, cell phone, daughters phone, and my car payment. The following tax season he claimed our kids and kept all of the money from the child tax credit payments, as well as every single stimulus payment including mine. He did that the last 3 years. So he pays child support, has them 4 days per month and then claims them on his taxes.
When the sheriff had to pause to repress emotion as he was reading out the ages of the children. Zoe, 4...
That was hard to watch
yeah i cried a little there
So close to home...two of my little ones are 4. So terrible. 😭
@@AbsyntheAndTears I have a 4 year old son and I can't even imagine 😢
Same. Gut wrenching
They way the sheriff stuttered when he realized how young the little girl was 😭😭😭 heart breaking
He probably had a kid or niece around the age, that would get me
Yes, he was upset, must be so very hard for the police dealing with such awful crimes. I feel for them
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'"Then she died, TELLING HIM HOW GREAT HE WAS"
What jury could possibly find such a great man guilty?
I literally felt my jaw drop when I heard that's what he claimed happened. Talk about a loo-loo!
Hahahaha, that was hilarious. People that die near narcissists are always so quick to compliment them as they have their last breath. Give me a break... smh
Right??? Not a great man at all. A guilty man that's for sure but never great.
Crazy he was my physical therapist back then when I tore my acl, they found out he was still charging my insurance even though I haven’t been there in a year this whole case is crazy.
You wouldn’t think he was crazy, whenever I was around him he was always happy and funny
Another thing I remember getting investigated by the fbi and not being able to say anything for a while because they were still investigating but it’s crazy he was saying that everyone was attending his physical therapy 5 times a week for like 4 hours a day or sum. I remember hearing that and being shocked because I trusted him.
BS
@@crolaa6137 how would yk
@@lojai5107 just feels like it
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
A new That Chapter?
Let's give it a goo!
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Yaaaaas
Yesss. This is my favorite comment. You win the internet today. 💖
Nice copy and paste. Stop fishing for easy likes.
That Chapter saving the work day. Let’s give ‘em a goo!
Hahahahahaaaahaha.
Everything i was just thinking
If I could give this comment more than 1 like I would 😁 Totally feel this bro lol
Glad I gave this comment a goo!
Doggone Zoom meetings...😬
The verdict and sentencing just came down--guilty on all counts. 4 life sentences for the family and a year for Breezy.
good!
Good! Breezy deserved some justice too!
@rsullivanphotography
Thank you for letting us know. I am so glad he got punished (although not enough) for killing little Breezy. Those eyes on that dog! It broke my heart he stabbed the dog.
@Gannon Reminded me of the Penguin from Batman Returns
Go Breezy! Glad you got a little justice when that’s often dismissed or overlooked.
That poor family. The police officer addressing the press got me. He was about to lose it and I can’t handle a grown man crying. This is just horrifying. I don’t get it. Why not just take yourself out. It’s obvious he snapped completely but how and why?!? So awful.
I thought he might have snapped but then I considered how he had clients rescheduled, told the FBI he'd be back in early December, told his employees that he'd be back in late December, and realized that it must have been planned. Maybe he snapped AFTER he carried out the murders, but the murders themselves sound premeditated to me.
@@gtw4546 I love how he says he can’t remember but he seems to recall an awful lot. Also, he was gone most of the time so he’s saying his wife wasn’t capable. She homeschooled those kids and was alone the majority of the time. You’re right the more this video went on the more I believe he didn’t snap at all.
Why? He and his family were living far beyond their means, and he didn't have the guts to call time on their extravagant lifestyle. I am sure that a physiotherapist who owns his own practice employing other physiotherpaists can make a very good living, but perhaps not what is needed to fund a family home in Celebration, FL, frequent flights to/from Florida, and a non-working wife.
Curiously Chris Watts had had the same issue in Charlotte, NC, having declared bankruptcy a few years before relocating to Colorado, after he and his wife had had a large monthly mortgage payment that was beyond what they could afford on his here-and-there job/ career path.
I always want to know the why, too? Wonder if the wife was up to some bad things herself. A lot of times women will spend all the money trying to portray a richer lifestyle and she may have cheated on him and threatened to keep the kids away too. Maybe he was thinking she spent all my money, cheated on me and is going to take the children away and I'm left with nothing because of her. He decided to kill everyone. That's why he was blaming her for the deaths
@TheMrCaptainStfu good God. Just once can ONE thing not be about race. People like you ARE the problem. Get a life.
Mike has sweetest heart. I feel like we are friends. Literally always so kind and consistent. Never asks for likes or for you to subscribe. But he doesn't have to, he's that awesome.
Hes not your friend surely you know that?
YEAH!!!!!
Michael is NOT Ur Friend!!!! He don’t even Like you!!!!!!!!! Em Kay?!!!! U do realize that right!!!!
Besides Mikey is already Best friends with
Marie Vickers and I….. So No Friendship for You!!!! No more room ! Seats Taken! List is Full! The Ship has Sailed! It Rained on your Parade! Don’t count ur chickens before they hatch! There’s No such Thing as Santa Clause! Make like A Tree and Beat it?? Make like some Peanut Butter and Jelly!! I’m all out!!!! And honestly I feel pretty Bad!!!
Soooo! I’m sorry!!! Mike can be ur friend too!! We can all be best friends okay!!! There there !! Don’t cry!!!! Maybe Mr Ballen can be our friend too!!!
Oh and Santa!!! I hope he gets u lots of friends n presents !! We can all ride his reindeer’s and drink beer n eat cookies !!!!
Have a nice day!!! New best friend!
Mike says Hi Too!! And Marie!!
Mike very Irish 👍 lots of Mike's here in Ireland 😊
Awwww....I was hoping we would give it a goo
wtf... did we not give it a goo?
I gave it a goo.... not sure about you. 🤷♂️?
😂😂😂
What are you talking about
@@hushthesky what
@@Peace_God76 why are you crying, what is everyone here talking about
"The family has been down and out over Christmas. The only one I've been able to speak to is my brother."
Oooh boy. That's a red flag.
Yup
Yeah, the landlord that said she tried to evict him probably did it
In hindsight
I pooped in my pants two weeks ago
@@hoochiecoochieman4530 have you cleaned yourself since?
Mike, you’re keeping all of us sane during this time ❤️
Making these video is keeping me sane so I'd say we're even
keeping us sane with family-exterminators and other mega-lunies.
@@tolvajakos Well damn, when you put it like that...
@@ThatChapter its the only non fattening,non alcohol,healthy thing in my life i never gonna quit your a gentleman ,scholar and a rogue and may you always be a free man an a tree man x
Well..... If you don't stay sane, you could be his next video topic. So.... Yeah, sanity is a good thing.
What a horrible coward blaming his wife. It always gets to me when I see a cop struggling to continue when discussing crimes, particularly older cops who have seen so much. Thank you again Mike for an interesting, but disturbing video. I love you presentation 🥰
This is the first time I have seen a killer charged with murdering the pupper. Which should happen more. Pets are family.
Only one close I can remember is Shanna Liz Golyar. She was convicted of second-degree arson for the fire that killed her two dogs, cat, and snake. Though it's possible the sentence would have been the same either way.
I'm so glad Breezy was mentioned throughout the video poor little dude
Exactly
What a "Todt"al asshole this guy was. RIP Breezy. 😭
@@bekaz13 That batshit nuts evil stalker, Shanna Liz. Ugh.
What we have here is a family annihilator who was too much of a coward to take his own life after he killed everyone else.
Cw
Aka Chris Watts
fucking hate guys like this. He has things I could only dream about (a beautiful family) and goes and kills them. I just wish I could have had what he had just for a few days. It's guys like this why I still support the death penalty.
Yes and then blames it on his wife! 😮 He’s obviously delusional. Thinks he’s gonna get out there. Smh
Sick F***.
Exactly! The pause from the sheriff before reading he killed his 4yr old.. A Monster!
I just KNOW that *'Mrs Mike'* has to make a guest appearance soon, unless she is busy arranging life insurance for Mike. 😂
OH MY GOSH I SNORTED FROM LAUGHING SO HARD
*life insurance dance*
She's busy dancing haha
😆
Watch your back Mike, she may be fixin to take all tree hundred tausund and turdy tree from your life insurance policy.
After killing his family...and then confess...and then having memory loss...and then blaming his wife??? What a great human being he is, i hope he rots in jail
Mike is the goat. He’s single handily gotten us over 2020 with something to look forward twice a week.
I actually lived in the same apartment buildings with this family for a couple years before the murders. Rode the elevator with the boys and their dog almost daily. They always seemed happy. This news was crazy and effected the entire town.
"My kids got brutally murdered, and so did my wife. But now... I just want to put this thing behind me and get on with my life"
I can’t believe he has the balls to say “when I get out of here”
Im so sorry Tony..I cant even imagine your grief sir....my heart and prayers go out to you and that you may be able to move on..I understand exactly what you mean about moving on..I pray your STRENGTH!!!!
Holy shit Tony at first I thought you were confessing something
@@icorrea143 that's how I read it too.Are you a Gemeni? Lol
Omg I feel like an idiot...I sometimes have the bad habit of reading the comments before I hear the story..lol Goofy me and no I am a proud Scorpio!!
Mike: “Too sick to talk on the phone. Who’s too sick to talk on the phone”
My antisocial ass: 👁👄👁
Ive have anxiety disorder and get mini panic attacks about having to answer the phone. I simply say I got scared or Ive been busy. Ive been so sick that I couldn't answer the phone tho, like I'm in the ICU. I'll call you back 😂
That’s not a physical disease. It’s your personality. Why describe personalities as illnesses? Just don’t talk if you don’t want to. If you want to, do.
@@animula6908 its real and called "personality disorders" 😂 and some disorders cant be treated. Bless your heart if you have a CLOSE friend with BPD and pathological lying
@@moxiemaxie3543
I have anxiety disorder and suffer with extreme panic attacks at times.
If someone is that worried about me and a text to know if I’m still alive ?
Yes - I have that much love in me that I can talk to them for a little few seconds to say “ I’m not dead, I’m still alive”.
Because I have done that.
@@animula6908 way to announce you’re ignorant and lack sympathy
Hearing the cop choke up when stating the birthdays of the kids shook me to the core. :(
Me too.:(
Me too.
This the best UA-cam channel I accidentally found
Hey, glad you did!
Best channel ever, imo and many others
Isn’t it just ♥️
Indeed 🌳
Welcome to the family, friend!
Ah, the old Chris Watt's defence of "my wife killed the kids, not me"
Maybe they had the same interrogators, haha.
I didn't, like, get what he, like, said, like.
@@ClosedEyeVisualisations " Every defence has been used and new ones will always arise" Isnt this statement internally inconsistent?
The old last standing in a mass murder defense.
* I was spared/ I luckily escaped
* I wasn't around when it happened
*It was a murder suicide committed by *blank*family member
@@moxiemaxie3543 well... not being around when it happened would be a pretty good defense though.
That police officer choking up when he's announcing the ages of the victims made me tear up. I watched the trial of this guy and in the end he just kept denying it all and saying what a great husband he was. That police officer had infinitely more empathy for those children he never even knew than their own father. So sad.
“And the family dog, too”
*john wick has entered the chat*
I shouldn’t laugh.. but I did hahahah
😂😂😂😂😂 I CACKLED!!!!
Guns. Lots of guns...-J.Wick
Brilliant!
I'm glad they also recognized the dog. It also acts as proof of a level of callousness and shows intent as well, making an insanity plea harder. He most likely killed the dog so the neighbors wouldn't be able to hear barking and become suspicious.
It's just a dog
@@mitchand9 The dog bothers me more than children. Children are evil, animals aren't.
@@jacqueline3782 WHAT????????????the hell are you talking about. Have ever held a child?
@@jacqueline3782 tf
@@jacqueline3782 this is weird
The sherriff pausing when he got to Zoe's age is so heartbreaking.
People forget they are human beings too and not just there to state facts, like somebody else said in the comments he probably has a daughter or something that age too. Devastating.
I was looking for a comment saying that. That was the worst part for me
He very well could have simply lost his place when reading and had to find it again. Just sayin’...
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Too long of a pause for that.
The sherrrriffff
My wife and I just love your shows and your style of presentation. We love your Irish accent and beautiful Irish colouring. My wife is from Belfast Ireland and loves to see someone that has skin like hers as it is a very Irish trait. You have a great sense of humour.
The phone conversation. "What's up cheese puff".. That greeting there does it. He is a manipulative narcissist. A dangerous psychopath fully aware of what he done.
Nice catch, hadnt realized but it is indeed very manipulative given the situation
Honestly, the hands-down, no-arguments best true crime channel on UA-cam. I look forward to new stories eagerly and enjoy them thoroughly.
Mike: "Please if you can do anything for me-"
Me: "Mike, I hit like as soon as I start your videos."
Mike: "- you can take care of yourself."
Me: *cries* "thank u"
Mike you are very good at delivering these tragic stories. You're not boring and you have a great sense of humour and you have great timing which can help make the story a lot better to handle and in a way that's not disrespectful and that is a gift.
Dude: _kills entire family, goes into "hiding" in plain sight, just you know, closed the curtains... meanwhile, literally everyone in the family's life, from siblings to schools to neighbors and landlord, beg the sheriff's office to look into it, even just a little_
Sheriff: "welp, the curtains are closed you see, so there's really nothing we need to do here."
Dude: _owes money to medicare_
Sheriff's office: "TIME TO USE THE SWAT GEAR!!"
@Joy Back Don't call someone a dumbass.
@Joy Back ugh, I was totally with you until the needless name calling. Educate if you must, but don't demean and degrade the person you tried to.
Tragic to a Fault
@@MongoLikeBeer I disagree if they are a dumbass then call it how u see it u reject
You see in this case the “dumbass” is completely warranted because people like that making stupid statements about something they know nothing about only facilitates other people’s ignorance and at the same time drives a false narrative about what law enforcement is willing to do! Stupid people pontificating about topics they know nothing about is a huge problem with our society so try not to get too bent out of shape!
That poor cop! When he was reading off the names, ages, & birthdays of the kids. You could tell he was holding back tears! That just broke my heart! 😢
Yeah, and I lost it when his voice broke and he had to stop momentarily when talking about the 4-year old little girl. I can't imagine what they see in the line of duty...
17:57 "What about the dog? What about Breezy?" That tore my heart, but that reporter is asking the right questions. What did that dog do to deserve that T^T
3 innocent children lost their lives but of course some Damn dog worshiping creep cares more about the dog's life.
Stephanie Harlowe is doing the looong version of this if anyone is interested. I'm so intrigued, I can't wait for her part 2.
Thank you, *That Chaper* for sharing the shorthand version of this tragedy. RIP to the Todt family & Breez (fyi- Breezy was 5 yrs old).
Lol just got done watching her on this. I did a search and saw Mike did a video as well.
@@janedoe7229 I feel like I cheated on her
I can’t believe how chirpy he sounded when he said ‘hi cheesepuff’ on his prison call?? What the heck, he doesn’t care one bit
Right?! Plus, brother or not, I would disown my brother if he murdered my sis in law and my nephews and niece!
Chris Watts is "chipper" in his prison coversations/letters also. I guess it is a "never let 'em see you sweat" act.
I think it’s code for something else. He was lactose intolerant
That call was so inappropriate on his part. What was he thinking
Then he thinks he’s getting out when writing his dad whom tried killing his mother.. Lol uhhh ok lol
This is why Mike is head and shoulders above most UA-camrs: instead of asking us to like and subscribe he asks us to take care of ourselves. Warms my heart every time ❤
Sooo true. Love him!!
So much ❤️
Jim Can't Swim is great too
@@robjj5373 yes! Mike and Jim are my go-tos
Tony is kept in isolation for his own safety. Two things felons hate:
1. Family Annihilators
2. Dog abusers
They would have given him a death sentence no doubt. Thanks Mike! 😊♥️
You watch way too much t.v.
David no I’ve been to a level 3 in CA he would have had his paperwork checked and his charges are bad. They would have forced a crash dummy to crash out and stab him or at the very least roll him off the yard. Stop talking unless you been to a level 3 or 4. One and twos are daycares
@@mylesepps4950 If you don't mind me asking, is the paperwork something that inmates can see, if they work in the office/admin bit, or is that something that the guards pass along?
@@mylesepps4950 East and West coasts are different.
Thepanpiper You can just call somebody to look it up or when your going through classification for placement you have your paperwork and stuff with you in your belongings.
I just finished watching his trial. Guilty on all counts!!!!! Thanks for all this info and backstory, mike!
This man tried to act like his wife was insane, when homie LIVED IN THE HOUSE WITH ROTTING BODIES! And if he was trying to like "spare the shame" for his family. Why did he go after the dog? That dog doesn't know anything about what happened.
Maybe the dog tried to protect the rest of the family
The dog was probably barking like crazy so he probably killed it before neighbors heard
Who cares about the dog? Spare me
@@TheJthom9 sometimes it’s not about how the dog is more important, it’s about what this action showed if that makes sense. Like you already done the killing you need, killing the dog is just so unnecessarily cruel and really shows that there’s nothing left in the murder that make them human
That murder in his white jumpsuit is giving me 'penguin from Batman Returns' vibe
Funny, I thought the exact same thing when watching
That's exactly what I was thinking! He almost looks fake
I was too stoned for a min with the music I thought he was getting married 😂
Haha nice, just dropped a similar comment... scrolled down and saw yours. 💯
😂😂😂
Not just over the past year, he’s one of the best of all of them. His storytelling abilities, dark humor and killer editing skills make him off the chain in my book. Keep it up Mikey we’re loving it!
Agreed 100%!! Mikes the best!!!
The bit he wrote about her meditating and thinking the world was going to end due to a virus...was written by him to his father DURING the covid outbreak. And HE told his sister about the world ending (when the virus was already going around too). He was setting his wife up for murder after she'd been dead more than a month.
which doesn't account for the dog - the whole benedryl dessert.
That recorded phone call around the 20 minute mark is rough. That person he's talking to doesn't believe a word about him not remembering anything. Her sigh says it all.
As soon as I saw the picture of the family in front of the Christmas tree in matching pajama sets, I knew what happened. Every family annihilator has that same picture, so creepy! Anyone else notice that 🤔 weird huh...
There's a reason I dont do family photos. Not just cause I'm cheap ass.
Well..... I’m screwed
Yeah, lots of people have that picture. But maybe it IS related. Like people who are very image obsessed are more likely to have that picture pose, and people who are image obsessed are more likely to murder their entire family rather murder than have their image sullied in the eyes of their family? I don’t know. I gave it a goo.
@@amaristhecrow7084 I’m not sure if you realise, ‘give it a goo’ is slang for ‘have a look’. ‘Goo’ is not Mike’s pronunciation of the word ‘go’.
Now that you point it out, I see it
RIP Megan Todt, and her beautiful babies...Alec Todt, Tyler Todt, and the adorable Zoe Todt.🌻. Also their beloved family dog.
RIP . Extremely sad that their lives were taken away .
ThatChapter/Mike you have production, editing, and storytelling that every channel needs. We’re glad you brought this to true crime, it needed it, and we’re all hours in to the binge.
Keep up the work
How can there be so many thumbs down. What's wrong with people Mike rocks this joint. He really should have his own show thumbs up for Mike having a tv show.
Jealousy can be part of it. Mike does a great job and they want to take that credit away. I just go on all the devices I can and click LIKE
eh, dislikes help with the algorithm as much as likes. So, let ppl have a goo.
Out of over 30k, 300 thumbs down isnt too bad. I agree Mike is brilliant, I find that infuriating "smash the like and subscribe" I appreciate that Mike doesnt say that. I love how Mike tells the facts without sensationalising it with the right balance of humour and respect
He’s pulling a Chris watts. Blaming his wife for the deaths . You are one of my favorites mike!!
The mind of Tony
Tony: "Your honor I don't remember anything but I do remember my wife did it"
Judge: "I believe you your free to go"
Tony mind: "Yeah that will show em"
You would have to be making an income of a million to support a family of 5, the rent bill (which seems crazy high) considering the area, the flying back and forth ….not once but all the time and the running of a huge business. It looked like they had about ten or more employees. This family was living well beyond their means. I feel sick for the extended family members who had not seen their loved ones and then had to find out what really happened!
I'm from this town ..thats normal ...if they wanted cheaper they could of gone literally 5 miles away to Kissimmee . He was just not fiscally responsible
Watching that policeman choking up as he said the little girl’s name and date of birth was heartbreaking.
I’m really glad they also added on the animal cruelty charge.. what a monster :(
Right even Hitler was against animal cruelty and he was a genocidal maniac.
That poor dog. Breezy’s energy is now with the children. I think about had this poor dog had lived, Breezy would have stayed with those bodies, though, even with the decomposition . 😢
Exactly, there was no need at all..
"and then she died, telling him how great he was" And everyone clapped. Because that dog grew up to be Zero in Nightmare Before Christmas
What a beautiful story 👏🏼
...and Shannan Watts was "praying" while her husband was murdering her. Yeah right.
Right!!! Plus:
-He had to do EVERYTHING
-she woke up pain-free for the 1st time in year's...... (So he plunged a knife in her gut 2x’s so she could die slow & painful)
-But its gonna be the hardest thing he’s ever done, when he has to sit there & tell them “she” did this!!! (I actually believe this)
-But he still loves her “deeply” (Freudian slip??)
- He has forgiven her!!
I mean, he is a real piece of work, this one!!! My God.
My favorite thing about narcissistic sociopaths is that they always go to trial, and they always take the stand! And it sinks them every time. It's a beautiful thing to witness. 😆❤ Tony's testimony was everything I hoped it would be.
It's pretty sad that Mike will never run out of new content.
sad..... ? it's sad that crimes like these will inevitably continue to happen, but mike never running out of content is the one silver lining i can think of
He did awhile ago
@@fluff975 ummm... that's my point
It’s disturbing that his sister talked to him like he didn’t murder his family...
I would imagine that's so difficult to comprehend
@A. E. Harrison huh...
@A. E. Harrison Yeah, no. She's asking for a welfare check because something is clearly wrong. Thinking your sibling has wiped out their family is not going to be the first conclusion jumped to!
@A. E. Harrison Yea id like to hear the full transcript of that call.Pretty weird thing to bring up on a wellness check and why didnt she mention that on the first call.?
You should listen to the FBI interview with Chris Watts. It sounds like old friends catching up.
"The cops kicked me down the stairs!"
Honestly- I would've too 🤷♀️
Of course, they didn't but, oh, how I wish they had!
He deserved to get butt kicked down the stairs. But his idiocy is his undoing. I fell down about 10 stairs and I had so many more bruises than a poor little hand that was supposedly handcuffed behind him. If you stab 4 people usually you lose some of your blood because the hand slips when blood gets on the knife (learned that from unsolved mysteries :) ) I am sure the police would have like to but knew he was the cause as well as the only monster.
Yeah, he forgot the part where they'd just seen his handiwork, slaughtering his entire family, including their dog but poor him, the pathetic slob!
Lol I know right? “Woops!”
obviously their weren't enough stairs
Thanks Mike for brilliant coverage as always
A very sad case RIP Megan Alek Tyler Zoe and Breezy 🌹
Love the way these murderers always want to blame somebody else who’s not in a position to be able to defend themselves
There are three things certain in life. Death. Taxes. That Chapter dropping consistently quality videos, typically twice a week.
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The only way his story could be less believable is if he said the dog masterminded it all!
But he did, right??? 😋
Lmao
Wasn’t that Son of Sam? I think he claimed a neighbor’s dog was possessed by a demon and gave him orders to kill
@@jackstrawful yup! Blamed it on the neighbor’s dog.
"Look judge I played Silent Hill I know the dog did it!"
Listening to this charming narrator makes me want to move to Ireland. I could listen to him for hours!