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Welfare Check Turns Into Grisly Discovery
- Police serving an arrest warrant at the Totes' Celebration, Florida home discovered a decomposed family and smelled death upon entry.
- Agents found Tony disoriented, four bodies in a bedroom, a dead dog, and no immediate sign of 4-year-old Zoe until later.
Suicide Note Raises More Questions Than Answers
- Investigators found a typed family 'salvation' note claiming an apocalyptic vision and that dying together was chosen to avoid torture.
- The note's shifting voice and references (Algula, Robert) raised questions about authorship and motive.
Tony's Initial Detailed Confession To Police
- Tony told hospital investigators that he and Megan planned a joint death after researching the afterlife and that he stabbed and suffocated the children then suffocated Megan.
- He also said he spent weeks trying to kill himself afterward before being found.