Amityville horror house
DeFeo family
On November 13, 1974, 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr entered Henry’s Bar in Amityville, Long Island, New York and declared: "You got to help me! I think my mother and father are shot!" DeFeo and a small group of people went to 112 Ocean Avenue and found that DeFeovs parents were indeed dead. Police, who searched the house found that six members of the same family were dead in their beds.
The victims were Ronald DeFeo Sr. (43), Louise DeFeo (42), and four of their children: Dawn (18), Allison (13), Marc (12) and John Matthew (9). All of the victims had been shot with a .35 calibre lever action Marlin 336C rifle at around three o’clock in the morning of that day. DeFeo’s parents had both been shot twice, while the children had all been killed with single shots.
Louise DeFeo and her daughter Allison were reportedly the only victims who were awakened by the gunfire at the time of their deaths, and according to Suffolk County Police the victims were all found lying on their stomachs in bed. The DeFeo family had occupied 112 Ocean Avenue since purchasing it in 1965.
Ronald DeFeo Jr. was the eldest son of the family, and was also known as "Butch". He was taken to the local police station for his own protection after suggesting to police officers at the scene of the crime that the killings had been carried out by a mob hit man named Tony Mazzeo. However, an interview with DeFeo at the station soon exposed serious inconsistencies in his version of events.
The following day he confessed to carrying out the killings himself and Mazzeo had an airtight alibi proving he was out of state at the time of the killings. DeFeo told detectives: "Once I started, I just couldn’t stop. It went so fast." He admitted that he had taken a bath, redressed, and discarded crucial evidence like blood-stained clothes, the Marlin rifle and cartridges, and then he went to work as usual. He was tried to 6 concurrent 25 years to life sentences.
There are strange details in the case - all of the victims were lying face down, it seems that they were asleep, there are no signs of struggle even though they were not drugged. None of the shots woke them up, neighbours didn’t hear them either even though it was the middle of the night and the rifle wasn’t applied with silencer. Later the investigator drew the different theory that more than one person was responsible for the killings, Ronald DeFeo Jr also provided several versions.
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I believe The The Lutz’s story what happened to them in the Amityville House in Long Island NY. I have experienced the same stuff they did.
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Also, Ronald DeFeo had a really bad relationship with his father, so thats why he wanted to kill him, but no one knows his motive for killing the rest of his family.
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