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
peace in this house. get out! oh, man, remember that. the amityville horror? very creepy. but perhaps even more disturbing tonight. a report on the factor, wait until you hear this story. the report suggests that demons took over a family and their home. and trace gallagher has the details. trace? and megyn, the comparisons to amityville are notable, because just days after the family moved into the house the horrors began, black flies, children being levitated, here is the mother, listen. and i saw one like coming into a full image. it was coming out i never seen it like that before.
peace in this house. get out! oh, man, remember that. the amityville horror? very creepy. but perhaps even more disturbing tonight. a report on the factor, wait until you hear this story. the report suggests that demons took over a family and their home. and trace gallagher has the details. trace? and megyn, the comparisons to amityville are notable, because just days after the family moved into the house the horrors began, black flies, children being levitated, here is the mother, listen. and i saw one like coming into a full image. it was coming out i never seen it like that before.
there was a crime. a murder. in the house? several people, a family that 2005 amityville horror remake was inspired by claims of paranormal activity in a long island home after a 1974 family massacre. so now police in sao paulo brazil say a 13-year-old obsessed with the amityville horror murdered his family this week. police say the teen grabbed a gun, killed his father, mother, grandmother and great aunt. after the rampage, he went to school. acted calm. typically day, seemed like. after classes ended, he returned home and killed himself. senior latin american affairs editor. where did that come from for him? that s exactly right. it seems like the teenager was obsessed not so municipch with movie, but with the real life
gentlemen, thank you both so much. thank you, megyn. megyn: a newspaper columnist sparks controversy when he calls for an end of military funeral. a decorated message has a very clear message for this columnist. and a new column suggesting that life is harder for young folks than before. things were much easier in the 1970 s and young people were a lot happier. dr. keith ablow is next on why that might be. plus, the amityville horror was one of the scareiest movies from the 1970 s, now, the boy who lived in this true life haunted house, they say, is breaking his silence 40 years later. when i went in there, there was probably 4 or 500 flies and we re talking this is mid december in long island. the entire family staying