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His family. Killed. 6. Weapons. .35 Marlin rifle. Ronald Joseph DeFeo Jr. (September 26, 1951 – March 12, 2021) was an American mass murderer who was tried and convicted for the 1974 killings of his father, mother, two brothers, and two sisters in Amityville, New York. Sentenced to six counts of 25 years to life, DeFeo died in prison on March ...
Bell. Publication date. July 1, 1981. Publication place. United States. Media type. Print ( Hardback & Paperback) High Hopes: The Amityville Murders is a book written by Gerard Sullivan and Harvey Aronson and tells the story of Ronald DeFeo, Jr. and how he murdered his family. A 2018 film was based on the book.
He was born to Giovanni "John" DeFeo and Maria Giovanna "Jennie" Coluzzi, one of 10 children. Growing up in New York's Little Italy neighborhood, DeFeo joined the Luciano crime family under boss Frank Costello. When DeFeo became a made man, he entered a crew belonging to mobster Mike Miranda that operated in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.
DeFeo became the inspiration for the film “The Amityville Horror” after he gunned down his father Ronald DeFeo Sr and his mom Louise DeFeo, along with his siblings Dawn, 18, Allison, 13, Marc ...
Ronald DeFeo Jr., the Long Island man serving a life sentence for slaughtering his parents and four siblings in a 1974 crime that would inspire The Amityville Horror book and movie franchise, died ...
The home was the site of a 1974 mass murder, when Ronald DeFeo Jr. shot his parents and siblings to death in their beds, claiming the house made him do it. The "Amityville Horror" house has ...
On November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. shot and killed six members of his family at 112 Ocean Avenue, a large Dutch Colonial house situated in a suburban neighborhood in Amityville, on the south shore of Long Island, New York. He was convicted of second-degree murder in November 1975 and sentenced to six terms of 25 years to life in prison ...
Plot summary. The plot tries to explain why Ronald Defeo Jr. killed his family at 112 Ocean Ave. It revolves around Ronald Jr. as he experiences strange events in the house up until he kills his entire family on November 13, 1974. It goes on to explain that he was possessed and that he did not want to kill his family.