The Real Story Behind Amityville Horror House   Ronald DeFeo Jr Biography
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Date: 10/01/2020

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Ronald Defeo JR (Amityville Horror Murderer) 

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Ronald DeFeo Jr.

Ronald Joseph DeFeo Jr aka “BUTCH” is an American mass murderer.

Ronald was born on September 26, 1951, in Brooklyn, New York City.

He was tried and convicted for the killings of his father, mother, two brothers, and two sisters on November 14, 1974.

He is currently 65 years old and is held at the Sullivan Correctional Facility
in the town of Fallsburg, New York.

On Wednesday, November 13, 1974, around 6:30 PM, then 23-year-old Ronald Jr. went to Henry’s Bar in Amityville, Long Island, New York. And declared “You got to help me! I think my mother and father are shot”.

A small group of people went to 112 Ocean Avenue, which was located near the bar, and found that Ronald Jr’s. parents were indeed dead.

One of the people in the group was Ronald Jr’s friend Joe Yeswit, who made an emergency call to the Suffolks County police, who searched the home and found that six members of the same family were dead in their beds.

All of the victims had been shot around three o'clock in the morning of that day with a .35 calibre lever action Marlin 336C rifle.

According to Suffolk County Police, the victims were all found lying on their stomachs in bed.

Both of the parents had been shot twice, while all the children had been killed with single shots.

Physical evidence suggests that Louise DeFeo and her daughter Allison were both awake at the time of their deaths.

The family had occupied 112 Ocean Avenue since purchasing it in 1965.

The deceased were later buried in nearby Saint Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale.

Ronald Jr. 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 hitman, Louis Falini.

The alleged hitman had an alibi proving Falini was out of the state at the time of the killings. 

However, an interview at the station later exposed serious conflicts in his version of events. 

On the next day, he confessed to carrying out the killings himself.

He had taken a bath and redressed, telling details where he had discarded crucial evidence like blood-stained clothes and the Marlin rifle and cartridges before arriving to work as usual.

Ronald Jr’s. trial began on October 14, of 1975. He and his lawyer William Weber mounted an affirmative defence of insanity. 

Claiming that he killed his family in self-defence because he heard their voices plotting against him.

DeFeo’s psychiatrist Dr Daniel Schwartz, supported the insanity plea for defence.

And the psychiatrist for the prosecution Dr Harold Zolan preserved that although Ronald Jr. 
was an abuser of heroin and LSD he had an antisocial personality disorder and was aware of his actions at the time of the crime.

DeFeo was found guilty on November 21, 1975, on six counts of second-degree murder. 

Later on December 4, 1975, he was sentenced to six concurrent sentences of 25 years to life. 

All of his appeals and requests to the parole board to date have been denied.

DeFeo had an unstable relationship with his father, but the motive for the killings remains unclear.