Suspect Gets Naked On Police Video Shown To Jurors
Posted: 4:39 pm EDT May 27, 2008Updated: 7:59 am EDT May 28, 2008
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- A police interrogation took a bizarre turn in Brevard County when a murder suspect stripped off his clothes in front of deputies. The naked suspect is accused of killing his girlfriend because she wanted to be a stripper.
SLIDESHOW: Images From Police Video Show Strange Behavior
VIDEO REPORT: Jurors View Suspect Get Naked During Interrogation
Prosecutors warned the tape was not going to be pretty to watch and the jurors Tuesday got to see a side of R.C. Toth that they haven't seen in court.Detectives didn't know what to expect when they brought Toth in for questioning. Inside the interrogation room, the murder suspect stripped down, making grunting noises and claiming he was crawling with bugs.The tape was played for juror as prosecutors wrapped up their case against Toth. The Rockledge man is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Mary Ayres, in August 2004. Sitting in a towel, he originally told detectives he thought he saw a yard man from the neighborhood leaving the house."The only reason I think the guy I was out chasing in the woods was him was because for a split second I seen him going out the door to the left out of the back door," Toth said on the video.
He claimed he chased the man through the woods and wetlands nearby and didn't call 911."911 is not going to do anything when you see the mother of your baby with a plastic bag. I'm sorry," Toth told detectives who questioned why he didn't call.The tape shows Toth going through bouts of rage and tears. Prosecutors believe he killed Ayres because she was going back to work at a Cocoa Beach strip club, but Toth said that wasn't the case."I mean, it didn't bother me because we used to go. We used to go there and have drinks and watch everyone drool over my girlfriend," he said.Toth looks completely different now than he does on the tape. It's been four years since the murder and detectives said they even had to take a second look to be sure they were pointing out the right man in court.
SLIDESHOW: Images From Police Video Show Strange BehaviorVIDEO REPORT: Jurors View Suspect Get Naked During InterrogationProsecutors warned the tape was not going to be pretty to watch and the jurors Tuesday got to see a side of R.C. Toth that they haven't seen in court.Detectives didn't know what to expect when they brought Toth in for questioning. Inside the interrogation room, the murder suspect stripped down, making grunting noises and claiming he was crawling with bugs.The tape was played for juror as prosecutors wrapped up their case against Toth. The Rockledge man is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Mary Ayres, in August 2004. Sitting in a towel, he originally told detectives he thought he saw a yard man from the neighborhood leaving the house."The only reason I think the guy I was out chasing in the woods was him was because for a split second I seen him going out the door to the left out of the back door," Toth said on the video.
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