The DeFeo Murders and the Amityville Horror - DeFeo Said This on the Witness Stand

Ronald "Butch" DeFeo Jr. shot his parents and four siblings in their beds at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, on November 13, 1974. His mother had warned the cleaning woman that something tragic was coming. His father had ignored a loaded shotgun misfire years earlier. At trial, DeFeo told the jury he killed them all in self-defense and that he was God with a gun in his hand. He spent forty-five years in prison changing the story — blaming his dead sister, inventing a wife, telling a new version with every visitor.

Thirteen months after the murders, George and Kathy Lutz moved three children into the house and left after twenty-eight days. The book said A True Story on the cover and sold millions. The movie earned eighty million dollars. Their own lawyer said they had created the story over wine. George trademarked the name and sued one of the children he had moved in. Two of them spoke. Missy, who was five, never has.

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