The trial of accused killer Luis Toledo, 35, resumed in St. Augustine Monday.
Toledo is accused of killing his wife and her two children in 2013 in a Deltona home. Their bodies have never been found.
The jury watched a taped police interview where Toledo admitted to killing his wife Yessenia Suarez, 28. Toledo claims the killing was an accident.
He denied killing her children, Thalia Otto, 9, and Michael Otto, 8.
During the interview, investigators asked Toledo to take them through the events of that day again.
Toledo talked about how he and his neighbor, Tyshawn Jackson, walked in the house and planned to play video games.
He told investigators that's when Suarez became angry and then attacked him. Investigators said she was hitting him in the face and his glasses.
"I always told her that if a man does that to you, put your fingers in his eyes. I just hit her and she went back," Toledo told investigators.
Toledo claimed that he reacted and struck her with a karate chop in the throat, and then saw the color leaving her body and her eyes getting wide before she died.
Toledo told investigators he heard a noise in the bathroom, and as he walked that way, he saw Jackson kill the children.
Toledo told investigators that Jackson killed the children with an ax.
He told investigators Jackson was on probation and was afraid of going back to jail.
Jackson has never been charged with any crimes connected to Suarez or her children.
Jackson testified that he helped Toledo move Suarez's vehicle to a parking lot in Seminole County.
Toledo said he kissed his wife goodbye several times, and that Jackson disposed of the bodies.
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Also during the interview, Toledo yelled out to Jackson, as if he was listening.
“You son of a (expletive)! Give me my family!” Toledo said. “He's the only one who could tell you where they are at man."
Investigators testified that there were a lot of inconsistencies in Toledo's story. For example, one minute Toledo blames Jackson, the next, he told investigators he'll never tell them where the bodies are located.
Jurors also heard interrogation video where Toledo told police to take him back to his Deltona home where his family died and just kill him there. In another video, Toledo asked to use the restroom. Moments later, he broke a mirror in the bathroom and tried to kill himself with the shards of glass.
If convicted of the children's deaths, Toledo could face the death penalty.
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