There to kill me. A teenager shows up at a door and shoots her in the face . What . Shes accused of an affair with a married man more than twice his age. Who is amy fisher . Amy fisher, the villain. Dun dun dun well, i guess theres a few villains in this story. Joey buttafuoco. Joey knew of my intentions towards his wife. This phenomenon starts to happy. Happen. Its not about me anymore. Its not about the person who got shot and assassinated in front of her own home. It becomes about joey and amy. Lights, camera, action. Joey loves that. Tell us your side, joey. Right . This story has never gone away. Its been told a million times. I got shot in the head, she did it, and he had something to do with it, too. Now is the time to talk about it and not drown myself in booze and drugs. I kind of made it my mission im going to make this name something again. Because it turned to [ bleep ] if one man can change the meaning of a name, one woman can change it back. And im that woman. Why did love put a gun in my hand lets start at the very beginning. This is buttafuoco 101. Here are the players. We have my dad, Joey Buttafuoco. Hes the largerthanlife, you know, baggy pant wearing, mulletrocking dude. And we have my mom, mary jo, whos an absolute angel and the best mother anyone could ask for. The other player in this story is amy fisher, the teenager obsessed with my father, whos the one who shot my mother in the face. Hold on, lets take it back. We gettin ahead of ourselves here. Lets go back to happier times. I was in living in massapequa, new york, a beautiful, little suburb on long island, new york. Growing up, my family life was ideal. I met joey in Summer School of ninth grade. We had both failed social studies. And we were in Summer School. And he was just the funniest guy in the room. He was a class clown. I was a ruffian, i was a hooligan, you know, with my little crew of hooligans, you know. My affection for mary jo was she was very she was, back then, a gentle woman, a gentle girl. She was gentle, and she came from a great family. They had great values. You know, i clearly did not. My mom and dad knew him. And he was part of the family. Always there, very generous. Generous to us, loving. I know that i busted his rear end to marry me because i was getting flack from my mother and father because you cant have sex before you get married. Im telling you way too much. Were out of school. Were working. We got engaged, and within a year we we got married. We were doing very well. He was working at his fathers auto body shop, which was the familyowned business. In the early days, id work at the shop with my dad. We had a pretty goodsized crew, and i was enjoying it. I was loving that. I was working in a bank. We bought a house. We saved money. We did really, really well. I always worked very, very hard my entire life. Yeah, i got sidetracked with drugs and all that. You know, even in the earlier days, if mary jo was one of those people that could do a line im done, im good. Smoke a little weed and have a little drink of whatever, and id be like, done . Youre done . I had a little boy and i had a little girl and the white picket fence. It was all there. And my son is sweet and sensitive, and my daughter is rambunctious and gets up in the morning singing and dancing. And theyre as opposite as can be, but they got along very, very well with each other. When the time came that its either the drugs or the family, the drugs had to go as far as i was concerned, but with him, he didnt or couldnt stop. My son was born at that point, and a lot of pressure and stress, and i was still doing cocaine with my friends, you know, living that life, you know . Joe was acting kind of erratic. Thats when things got rolling and he went into rehab and things got better. I was born in 1983, moved to massapequa in 86. Nassau county was the original suburb, really. Five years ago, this was a vast checkerboard of potato farms on new yorks long island. It was an outgrowth of 1950s development. You had families that were moving out of brooklyn and queens and settling into Nassau County. The south shore of long island, at the time, was just the quintessential suburban bedroom community, and they relished that. It was so quintessential, so much out of central casting, so to speak, that friends even referred to massapequa in reference to just a quiet, suburban community. So, wheres the party . Its out on the island. Its in massapequa. Massapequa, it sounds like a magical place. Tell me about massapequa. Is it steeped in native American History . Well, there is an arbys in the shape of a teepee. It was a cool time to grow up. The 90s were really happening. On the charts whitney houston, m. C. Hammer, Michael Jackson were cranking out the hits. On television, cheers, full house, home improvement, all of them ratings powerhouses. And then there was tabloid tv nearing the peak of its popularity. Shows like a current affair and hard copy. And lets not forget the daytime talk shows hosted by the likes of Oprah Winfrey, phil donahue, maury povich, and geraldo. But in suburban massapequa, new york, life in the buttafuoco household was comfortable and quiet. That neighborhood was the best. I found my nirvana. I was exactly where i wanted to be. Massapequa was an awesome neighborhood. Now looking back, it was such an ideal way to grow up. Our parents were close by. Our sisters and brothers were close by. The beach club was right next door. It was a great, great life. I loved it there. To grow up running around all summer with no shoes on and being able to ride your bike throughout the neighborhood and know all your neighbors and give a wave. You know . And no ones door was locked. I think its fair to say that my dreams were fulfilled at that time. What a beautiful family. Growing up, my father was always the king. You know . I had him on the highest pedestal because he was one of us. He was always getting the neighborhood kids to get into some mischief. He was always the fun dad. Joey was definitely my number one child. For sure. There is a very famous story, because half of the beach is involved in it. And joe was out in the boat, and we could see him coming back from, you know, the canal, coming down the canal. And there was a patrol boat with the light on behind him, and were like, oh what now . What the heck did he do . And the police boat is coming alongside. Everybodys, like, looking. And this chant came up from the beach club, everybody on the beach let go go. Let joe go let joe go well, needless to say, the guy let joe go. He didnt give him a ticket or anything. [ cheers and applause ] i had no clue about anything going on. Nothing when i look back at the timeline. I look at my life and i think, everything was fine, everything was good. 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But another life ago. Yeah. That was a long, long, long time ago, and thank god im still here to talk about it. Amen. Right . It was the first day id let both the children ride their bicycles to school. It was a big day in my 9yearold life. Riding your bike to school was like you made it. And this was i was in third grade, so i was, like, boom, were set. And i remember looking outside, waiting for them all to go, to say, have a good day at school and enjoy yourselves and be careful. And i was so excited. Im like, lets go, lets go. And then my brother was like, wait, i want to go back. And i turned around, and my son came back in the house. And i turn around and say, whats the matter, paul . And he looked at me and goes, i dont know. I dont know. I have a hard time telling this story. And i said, what . Like, i was just, like, impatient with him. Well what do you mean, you dont know . You have your school bag . Yes. You have your lunch. Yes. Okay, well, go, go, go theyre all waiting for you. And he came back again. And he said, i dont know. Somethings not right. I think he could sense something was wrong with that day. And i said, well, whatever it is you can tell me about it later. And off he went. He knew something was gonna happen to me. So, i get my painting clothes on, and i went into the backyard to paint this bench. Im doing my thing. Thats when the doorbell rings. And i kind of could look over and see through the house and see this teenager outside in the front. And i started to walk through the house. And i go to the door and i said, whats up . And as i say, whats up, i see directly behind her is a car, a guy in a car. She says, are you mrs. Buttafuoco . Im here too tell you that your husband is having an affair with my little sister. I said, your little sister . How old are you . She said, im 19. Youre 19 . How olds your little sister . Shes 16. Somewhere a complete auto body tshirt came out of her hand. She said, i have proof. I found this in my sisters bed when i was making it. So im kind of a smart ass. So i said, you make your Little Sisters bed . And she didnt like that at all. And in my head, im like, and in my head, im like, what the hell did he do now . I asked her her name. She said her name was anne marie. I asked her where she lived. She pointed in a direction and said a street and i said, that street is in the other direction. Now im knowing shes lying. Shes starting to get nervous. I kind of said, look, anne marie. I dont know what you want me to do about this. And i believe i said because i was raised to be a good catholic girl thanks for coming by. And with that, i turned my head, went for the door, and that was the end of my life as i knew it. Why did love put a gun in my hand why did love put a gun in my hand . Why did love put a gun in my hand . Why did love why did love put a gun in my hand . Hmm when the gun went off, the nextdoor neighbors heard the shot and came running, immediately called for help. I get a phone call from a neighbor to come home, theres an emergency. I was like, oh, what happened now . I dont know what time, around noon, i was on my way to going to p. E. Class. And somebody had to take me out of line, and said, you have to get your stuff. You have to go. And i just remember looking to my brother, and kind of looking at my aunt, and just getting a sense of, like, somethings up. Im only eight miles. It only took 15 minutes to get there, and ill never forget that. That was quite a scene. They had everything roped off. Police and people and its like stuff you see on tv, you know. But this is real. And they had a helicopter that came and landed on the beach right by their house. I remember looking at that helicopter on the beach. There was a gurney on the side of it, and i saw mary jos feet. I beelined for that helicopter. So the police came after me, and one guy tried to tackle me. Wasnt having him. And then the second and the third guy, wasnt having them. Finally, they took me down and the helicopter took off. Back in 1992, i was finishing up a year and a half internship at newsday. The day of the shooting of Mary Jo Buttafuoco, i was sent out to this location in massapequa on the south shore to get the scene stuff, do the doorknocking, see whats going on. It could have been just any other crime story. I didnt find out till i went to work, because i worked for a doctor from, like, 2 00 to 7 00. And the ladies were like the secretarys like, the doctor wants to see you. And im like, oh, brother. So, i go in his office, and he grabbed my hand. And he said, something happened to your sister. She was shot. And they took me to the hospital. One of the surgeons took myself, my mom and dad and joe into a room and explained that she was shot. That bullet had gone in, broke the jaw, severed the carotid artery. For whatever reason, that bullet wound up at the base of her brain above her spinal column. They told us shes going to die. Shell be blind, paralyzed, deaf. They didnt he didnt know. She just knew she could die. And the surgeon said to my mother, what do you want to do . And joe goes to my mother, what do we do, mom . And she said, lets go for it, meaning, lets have her have surgery. Mary jo was in surgery for seven hours. They were never able to remove the bullet. It was just too precarious. I dont know how long it was. Next day . Day after that . That i woke up you know, i opened my eyes, and there was bright lights. Mary jo woke up, and my mother hit the floor, went down on her knees, and said, thank you, jesus. I looked at this nurse and she was yelling at me. Mary jo mary jo youve been shot. Youre in the hospital. Youre gonna be okay. And i looked at her. And it was all fuzzy. Like i said, just like in the movies. I asked her, who did this to you . And she started to she couldnt speak because she had all the hoses and the tubes and everything, but she was trying to write. And i just wrote down what i remembered. I wrote, 19yearold girl. Anne marie. And the biggest clue of all was i wrote down the complete auto body tshirt. And the beautiful thing about that tshirt was that was the very, very first tshirt of a new run with a new design on it. I said, i only gave one tshirt to elliot fisher. Thats how that tshirt came to be such an important piece of evidence. Joey buttafuoco talks to the cops. The cops learn that Elliott Fisher has a daughter named amy and quickly this puzzle comes together. And that was the beginning of the insanity. Did you do it . Then there was the perp walk, and this little kid is walked in handcuffs to a police car. People were astounded. Who is this kid . 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It happened yesterday in broad daylight. There were no screams, no evidence of a struggle. The next day, in the paper, newsday, the post, you know, woman gets shot in massapequa. It was all over the place on the news. Tonight, the wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, is in Critical Condition at Nassau County medical center. This kind of thing doesnt happen to people like her. She shes the shes the allamerican woman and mother and wife. The detectives didnt know what it was. The neighbor