The man convicted of slaughtering his parents and four siblings in a home that later inspired the “The Amityville Horror” book and movies has died, prison officials said Monday.
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ALBANY, N.Y. The man convicted of slaughtering his parents and four siblings in a home that later inspired the “The Amityville Horror” book and movies has died, prison officials said Monday.
Ronald DeFeo, 69, died Friday at Albany Medical Center, where he was taken Feb. 2 from a prison in New York’s Catskill Mountains, the state Department of Corrections and Community Services said. The cause of his death wasn’t immediately known.
DeFeo was serving a sentence of 25 years to life in the 1974 killings in Amityville, on suburban Long Island.
The home became the basis of a horror-movie classic after another family briefly lived there about a year after the killings and claimed the house was haunted. A book and two movies the 1979 original, starring James Brolin, Margot Kidder and Rod Steiger, and a 2005 remake portrayed a home with strange voices, walls that oozed slime, furniture that moved on its own, and other supernatural features.
DeFeo, convicted killer in Amityville Horror case, dies
March 15, 2021
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1of3FILE - In this Nov. 15, 1974 file photo, Ronald DeFeo Jr., center, leaves Suffolk County district court after a hearing, on New York s Long Island. DeFeo, the man convicted of slaughtering his parents and four siblings in a home that later inspired the book and movie The Amityville Horror died Friday, March 12, 2021, at Albany Medical Center, where he was taken Feb. 2 from a prison in New York’s Catskill Mountains, prison officials said Monday, March 15. He was 69.Richard Drew/APShow MoreShow Less
2of3FILE - In this Nov. 14, 1974 file photo, police and members of the Suffolk County Coroner s Office investigate the murder of six people found shot in Amityville, N.Y. Ronald DeFeo, Jr., the man convicted of slaughtering his parents and four siblings in a home that later inspired the book and movie The Amityville Horror died Friday, March 12, 2021 at Albany Medica
FALLSBURG, N.Y. Ronald DeFeo Jr., who was convicted of slaughtering his parents and four siblings in a home that later inspired the The Amityville Horror book and movies, has died, prison officials said Monday.
DeFeo, 69, died Friday at Albany Medical Center, where he was taken Feb. 2 from a prison in New York s Catskill Mountains, the state Department of Corrections and Community Services said. The cause of his death wasn t immediately known.
DeFeo was serving a sentence of 25 years to life in the 1974 killings of his father, mother, two brothers, and two sisters in their Suffolk County home.
The home became the basis of a horror-movie classic after another family briefly lived there about a year after the killings and claimed the house was haunted. A book and two movies - the 1979 original, starring James Brolin, Margot Kidder and Rod Steiger, and a 2005 remake - portrayed a home with strange voices, walls that oozed slime, furniture that moved on its own, and other supernat