In November 1974, a 23-year-old New York man methodically shot his parents and four younger siblings dead with a rifle in their Amityville home — a property which the tenants who occupied it next fled in terror after living there for less than one month.
In the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his father, Ronald DeFeo Sr., 43, mother, Louise DeFeo, also 43, sisters Dawn, 18, and Allison, 13, and brothers Marc, 12, and John Matthew, 9.“Once I started, I just couldn’t stop,” Ronald DeFeo said of killing his parents and four younger siblings in 1974.
