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My father was my best friend.

He was the best friend I ever had.

My mother and me, we were very, very
close.

Me and my two sisters, we got along
excellent.

My two younger brothers, Mark and John,
we were really a close family, you know.

It was a tragedy. I lost every one of my
old family.

Welcome to Very Scary People.

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

In November of 1974, the quiet seaside
town of Amityville, New York, became

known the world over for a crime so
horrific it inspired a Hollywood horror

franchise.

Six members of one family were murdered,
shot to death in their own home, lying

in their own beds.

Only one family member lived to tell the
story of what happened that night at

112 Ocean Avenue.

This is part one of the Amityville
Horror.

Amityville is an old town, and it has
tradition.

There was this very congenial feeling.

It sounds so cliche, but it is like the
quintessential small town.

The center of the town has the gazebo
where they have Fourth of July,

and Christmas celebrations with carols.

Then you're by the water, the Great
South Bay.

When I was young, I used to spend my
summers in Amityville. It was named

in Latin means happy. It's a happy
place.

Amityville was just another town until
the murders happened.

Inspired. one of the greatest horror
stories of all time.

It was in the middle of the night, pitch
black, at the DeFeo household, 112

Ocean Avenue.

The family's old English sheepdog,
Shaggy.

with howling.

It's very odd and quite chilling.

And that's the way the story began.

Ronald DeFeo Jr., his nickname was
Butch. Butch DeFeo said that he had been

trying to get in touch with his family
throughout the day, and he went home.

had to break a window to get in because
he had forgotten his house key.

I couldn't get in the house, so I went
through the back window and went through

the house.

And I said, what's going on here?

It was dark in the house, and he went
right to his parents' room.

When Ronnie entered his parents' room,
he made a horrific discovery.

It was like a nightmare.

He found them lying in bed.

Shot execution style.

This is my car. I got scared. I ran out
of the house.

And he drove very fast down the street
to Henry's bar.

He opened the door and he was screaming,
come on, help me. Somebody shot my

mother and father.

Everyone ran out of the bar.

It definitely broke the sleepiness of
Amityville. Something you just would

imagine in that quaint town.

A friend called 911.

The local Amityville police were the
first on the scene.

There, they found something even more
unthinkable.

And the tragedy that unfolded that night
is absolutely shocking. We heard it was

maybe a double homicide, but there was
one or two local cops from Amityville

that tipped me that this thing is a lot
worse than you guys think it is.

I proceeded to check out the house.

and I found Mr. DeFeo Sr.

and Mrs. DeFeo laying in bed with
gunshot wounds to the back.

I then checked the northeast bedroom,
and I found two young boys lying in

separate beds with gunshot wounds to the
back.

Then I checked the southeast bedroom,
and I found a young girl with a gunshot

wound to the rear of her neck and head
area.

I proceeded to the third floor of the
house.

And on the east side bedroom, found
another young lady with a gunshot wound

the head.

This was a multiple murder.

Six bodies, six victims.

And then we found out it was the DeFeo
family.

The father, the mother.

Dawn was 18.

Allison was 13.

Mark was 11.

And John, the youngest one, was nine his
whole life.

The DeFeo family had moved from Brooklyn
to their stately Amityville home in

1965, and many wondered, was it a
burglary or maybe a home invasion that

been the motive for the murders?

You could tell they had money.

The house was... A very, very nice house
in a good neighborhood on the water

with a pool and a boat dock.

And there was a sign out front that said
High Hope.

I remember saying to myself, well, I
guess their high hopes are gone.

This is Bulletin from the WOR Newsroom.
Six members of one family have been

found shot to death in their
nightclothes in their expensive home in

Long Island.

Six people in one family.

had been murdered. That was quite
astounding. Not only were there six

they were all killed in their beds.

And there's no evidence of a struggle,
and everyone was sleeping peacefully.

All found in the same position, face
down.

And that was very unusual.

They were found by a 23 -year -old son,
Ronald DeFeo, who is believed to be the

only surviving member of the family.

Police investigating the case say they
have no suspect, no weapon, and no

There were just a few of us that were
gathered there in Suffolk County. They

the homicide unit, and they had the
police tape up. Because the police were

there, some of the neighbors started
showing up, and the neighbors said,

going on? What do you know?

There we were on Ocean Avenue, and
there's a crowd on the other side of the

street. The scene was, it was surreal.

And then the body bags started coming
out.

There were two large body bags at first,
and then there was another one, and

another one, and another one, and then
the final one.

And the one at the end, they were the
smaller body bags.

And then we looked at each other, and we
said, oh, my God.

We're just watching bodies come out and
cameras going off and police and

officials in the crowd. It's very quiet.
I've never seen a crowd that quiet.

Something big had gone down. That was
what was in the air.

Little did we know what was going to
happen.

The DePayos had a reputation.

You have a family with secrets, criminal
secrets, and they're also violent

secrets.

The story broke of a family of six
slaughtered in Amityville, Long Island.

members of a suburban New York family
have been found shot to death in their

beds.

It was all over the news because
Amityville, they had had maybe one

hundred years.

I remember the phone rang and they said,
the DeFeos are all dead. They

were all murdered.

Killed were auto dealer Ronald DeFeo,
his wife, and four other children.

They were all gone.

They were all gone.

And there's only one surviving member of
the family,

Ron Jr.

Ron Jr. said he came home to find his
family dead.

It was a tragedy. I lost my whole
family.

Ronald DeFeo Sr., also known as Big
Ronnie, had grown up in Brooklyn, New

He had been a high school athlete back
in the day when he caught the eye of the

beautiful Louise Briganti. When Big
Ronnie, Ronald DeFeo Sr., met Louise, it

seemed like they had fallen in love
pretty quick.

And Louise's parents, the Brigantis,
were not a fan of Big Ronnie.

He was crude, obnoxious, a bragger. They
didn't really see Louise with him.

Despite her parents' objections, Louise
married Big Ronnie.

and the two settled into a life in a
Brooklyn apartment.

Soon after, the couple welcomed a son,
Ronald Jr., and two daughters, Dawn and

Allison, and another son named Mark.

Before the birth of their last child,
John Matthew, the family moved out to

Island and their waterfront home in
Amityville.

They had been living in Brooklyn, and
Louise Briganti DeFeo was the apple of

father's eye. He would do anything for
his daughter. The Brigantis...

Loved Louise very, very much, and they
wanted to make sure she was provided

So they actually bought the house in
Amityville for the DeFeos.

For me, the house was like something out
of a movie.

They lived on the canal, and they had a
boathouse.

When you went in, they had these big
rooms with high ceilings. I felt like I

going back in time.

They were having these portraits painted
of themselves.

That were going to be hung on the
staircase.

Like this is some sort of 19th century
Gilded Age family.

Not knowing at all what the future was
going to be. The move to Amityville was

like a new start.

That's why they named the place High
Hope.

This was going to be the beginning.

But who would kill this family, all of
them, in cold blood?

We have no suspect at this time.

We have no indication of the motive for
this time.

It was like unreal.

It can't be true. It can't be possible
that this could happen.

They were just very sweet, very
religious people, very family -minded

Louise was a very sweet girl, and all
our children were similar ages.

We would take the bus and go to museums
in New York and just...

hang out with the kids and the husband.

Louise was a typical Italian mother. She
cooked. She did what she had to do to

take care of the house.

Ronnie was Big Ronnie. He was the man of
the house.

Little John Matt was nine when he died,
and he was just your typical nine -year

-old boy. Just a sweet kid.

Mark DeFeo, he was into sports.

Mark and I were in the same football
league.

Our parents got close together watching
the games.

Mark and I used to play in the driveway
on the bicycles and drive around and

just have fun and spend the night there.
There was nothing odd.

It was just a typical family.

I remember that the little girl,
Allison, loved to do puzzles.

And in her room, there was a puzzle that
she had been working on.

Alison was a sweet girl. People I met
that knew her said she was a little

It was not a bad word, came out of her
mouth.

But Dawn Tafio, she was more rebellious.

Dawn, she was a year older than I was.
We first connected on CYO softball. We

were in the softball league together.

She always had this nice smile. She was
always friendly.

There were other girls, too, because
they were older than you by a year. They

didn't really want to associate with
you, but she was never like that. We

just 13-, 14 -year -olds having slumber
parties and pool parties. There was

nothing out of the norm.

Against this wonderful setting, you've
got six bodies in body bags. It was

unthinkable. And we said, well...

There must be a gunman or gunmen, women,
men, young, old, who knows? We had no

clue. Authorities were baffled at who
would want this picture -perfect family

killed, but they were learning that
appearances can be very deceiving.

On the face of it, this is a family that
is very good at keeping up appearances,

and they're living in bucolic
Amityville, but this is a family with

People we talked to seemed to feel that
whatever was the motive for this crime,

it had something to do with the family.

The one surviving member of the family,
Ronnie DeFeo Jr., says that his father

had enemies.

I mean, so many people wanted to kill
him.

I remember the neighbors telling me that
Big Ronnie would boast how he had a

gun, how he had connections.

And there was rumors that he was in the
mafia, like that was the thing. And

because he had a lot of money and he
had...

Big cars and things.

Big Ronnie DeFeo.

He was a strange guy.

At one point, he thought he had ESP. He
would wake family up in the middle of

the night, family who lived by the
water, saying, you have to evacuate,

a tsunami coming.

I feel it.

He really had delusions.

And all of a sudden, religion came into
his life.

He got this revelation.

He was one with St.

Joseph, and he was a changed man.

In front of the house, there are a lot
of Catholic statues.

There is a St. Joseph holding a baby
Jesus, and Big Ronnie would come out,

he would pray in front of that statue in
his underwear.

He was strange. He told us one time that
he was at the crucifixion, and what

could we say?

If you were there, you were there.

He was a big presence. He had a big
personality, and you were a little

him. He was a little scary because his
voice was a little loud.

And Big Ronnie's behavior was more than
just odd and off -putting. It was

reported that he was abusive to his wife
and children.

The DeFeos had a reputation.

The problem is that they don't get along
sometimes.

There's dissension and there's conflict
within the DeFeo family.

It was a very chaotic, tumultuous
household.

Mr. DeFeo Sr. was jealous about his
wife. He thought she was having an

with her.

the man who painted the family portrait.

He kind of wanted to be in control of
Louise.

He wanted everyone just listen to him
and do what he says.

There was a history of violence there.
Big Ronnie had a horrible sickness, and

it got worse and worse.

The old man used to beat her.

She's wearing sunglasses this big, and
you could see, you know, bruises, her

arms, her legs.

Big Ronnie Sr., he was chauvinistic.

He had a temper.

And there are stories about how Louise
was coming up from the basement and she

was carrying a washbasket full of
clothes.

And he punched her right in the mouth.

And she tumbled down the stairs.

And he closed the door and said, well,
she's not going to bother us and we're

not going to have any more noise now.

And they sat down and finished dinner.

Dawn DeFeo had a problem, specifically
with her father.

Her relationship with her parents
towards the end of her life was very

tumultuous. She wanted to elope with
some guy, and this caused friction

parents didn't want her to leave.

My sister wanted to be free, and...

You couldn't be free and be a DeFeo.
None of us. We were all like a dog on a

leash, everybody in that house. Nobody
could be free.

The place was a powder keg waiting to
explode.

Something was bound to happen in that
house. If it wasn't for his anger, hate,

and violence, the DeFeos would still be
alive.

Authorities swarmed the quiet community
of Amityville, New York, after the

bodies of six members of the DeFeo
family were found by the sole survivor,

eldest son, Ronnie DeFeo Jr.

It was 1974, and Amityville was a nice,
quaint little village.

And it was all over the news that these
six people had been murdered.

Ronnie DeFeo Jr.

Two brothers, two sisters of his.

Mother and father all gone.

I knew something bad was going to happen
to my mother and father.

I didn't know when it was going to
happen. I didn't know who was going to

but I could say that I knew something
was coming.

When the murders were uncovered, Ron was
pulled in and questioned, and he said

that this was a mob hit.

At first, Ronnie blamed the mafia.

He said, yeah, you know, my dad was in
the mob, and they rubbed out the whole

family. Folks in Amityville knew Ronald
DeFeo Sr.'s family.

They were connected to the mob.

My father was involved with big, big
people.

An organized crime.

One of the people was Peter DeFeo, my
uncle.

One of Ronnie's uncles.

Keith DeFeo was reputed to be a member
of the Genovese crime family. And again,

putting this in the context of the time,
back in the mid -70s, early

80s in New York, you had a lot of mob
hits going on.

And there was speculation that Louise's
family, the Brigantes, also had ties to

the mafia.

This is the rumor, and these rumors keep
swirling around, that Juan is

grandfather. Mr. Burganti was somehow
tied to the mob.

Michael Burganti Sr.

was connected to organized crime.

He owned a Buick car dealership. They
did dirty work for the mob.

Burganti Sr.

employed his son -in -law, Ronald Sr.

My father worked for Mike Burganti Sr.,
who was my grandfather, my mother's

father. He owned a Buick agency, a Buick
dealership.

My father was the boss of the service
end of the dealership.

It was a legitimate business.

They didn't do anything wrong in the
Buick dealership. They took it outside.

Ronald Sr.

was in charge of the ledgers for the
dealership. And we're talking the

unofficial accounts where it showed all
the monies, all the transactions, all

the dirty hands, and so forth.

He would often take those books home.

and cook them up for the dealership.

Butch worked there as well.

And DeFeo would do work for the mob,
delivering money and delivering packages

and things like that.

I did whatever I had to do.

Whatever they told me to do, I did.

And I was paid money for doing it.

There had been some secret tape
recordings, you know, authorized

the RICO squad.

the racket boys, if you will, that
involved the Briganti Buick dealership.

Ronnie Jr.

was the subject of many of those
conversations between Michael Briganti

grandfather, and his friends,
associates, etc., who talked about very

oh my God, that kid, meaning Ronnie, he
could hang us all with what he knows.

There was also talk at the time that
Ronald DeFeo Sr.

had also been skimming some money off
the side from the Buick dealership.

Ronald Sr.

embezzled money from the mob.

At the time of the murders in November
of 74, things were really going bad for

Big Ronnie.

Briganti was thinking very heavily of
closing the dealership. So that meant

Ronnie had to do one big score.

He was...

trying to work with Butch on embezzling
as much money as possible.

Several weeks before the murder, $20
,000 bank deposit that Ronnie Jr.

and one of the other employees was
supposed to be making had suddenly

disappeared.

That would be a death sentence.

Police immediately put Ron DeFeo in
protective custody. Therefore, if they

the whole family, they would get him as
well.

They didn't really know if this was a
mob hit or not, and they weren't taking

chance.

Today, police combed the DeFeo's
handsome three -story house for clues.

The rifle used in the murders, it is so
definite.

Why didn't somebody wake up?

Which is another big mystery here.

Welcome back to Very Scary People.

The mystery about who committed the
execution -style murders of the DeFeo

family, mother, father, and four of
their children, consumed the town of

Amityville. Was it a robbery gone wrong?

Could it have been a mob hit?

Or a family vendetta?

They were shots that left six members of
one family dead in this charming Dutch

colonial home. And there's only one
surviving member of the family.

Ronald DeFeo Jr., his nickname was
Butch, and he was the oldest.

He was the firstborn.

He loved his mother very much.

And Louise, from everything I've
learned, Butch was her pride and joy.

Ronnie was quiet.

Never said a whole lot. He gave you the
sense that he was a tough guy, but

never threatening, never violent.

The police took Ronnie Jr.

into protective custody and took him to
the police headquarters to provide his

statement.

Police have been questioning the son,
Ronald, and now say he is being, quote,

safeguarded. I was scared.

My whole family is dead.

I remember talking to a cop, and he told
me that there was some speculation that

it was a mob hit.

Ronald DeFeo Jr.

was claiming that somebody was out to
get the family. There was talk of these

killers coming from Brooklyn.

But I immediately thought, no, they
wouldn't kill the kids.

Organized crime did not condone the
execution of small children.

So that would have been a cardinal sin
for them.

And there would be plenty of ways if
they wanted to send a message to do that

without killing those kids.

No, it doesn't stack up.

Police had continued on their
investigation.

Today, police combed the DeFeo's
handsome three -story house for clues

divers explored the backyard swimming
pool for the still -unfound murder

The day after the bodies were
discovered, the police were looking for

and everything that could point them in
the right direction for the suspect and

the motive.

The first thing you're going to do is
look at the crime scene and try to

understand what occurred in the house.

And what may have been the psychology of
the perpetrator.

You have an entire family that was
killed.

All the victims were found in bed.

And there's no evidence of a struggle.

The nature of the shootings was shooting
in the back in bed.

It had to be somebody who knew the house
really well.

They were on different floors, in
different rooms.

Typically, if there's a home invasion,
there is some alarm raised in the house.

I think that the fact that they were all
in their beds does raise the question

of whether it really was somebody who
was known to them.

The medical examiner determined that all
six victims had been killed in the

early morning hours of November 13th.

The time of death, 16 to 18 hours before
they were discovered.

At the time of the murder, somewhere
between 3 a .m., 3

.15, 3 .30, the family's sheepdog was
howling.

The teenage boy, two doors away, told
investigators he heard the dog howling,

which he thought was a little odd.

And the cause of death was gunshot
wounds from a rifle. According to the

coroner, it was the very high -powered
.35 caliber Marlin rifle.

It was a cowboy gun.

It is so deafening.

I remember thinking, geez, somebody had
to walk around the house shooting

people. Why didn't somebody wake up?

There were questions about whether the
victims had been drugged before they

to sleep.

But according to the coroner and the
autopsy reports, they were not drugged,

which is another big mystery here.

Why didn't anybody hear anything?

More intense questioning of Rhonda
Thayer.

Somebody else was in the house, ran out
of the house.

It turns out that one person did hear
the gunshot.

It was terrible.

Six people were shot dead in their bed.

On the night of November 13, 1974, all
the bodies were found shot from all the

point -blank range.

None of the family members was awakened
by the explosive burst of gunfire

throughout the house.

Autopsies showed that they had not been
drugged. Why didn't anyone hear a

gunshot?

But it turns out that one person did
hear the gunshot.

Ronnie DeFeo Jr.

now tells the police that he was there,
at the house, when his family was

killed.

So Ronnie had been drinking that night.

He was watching TV down in the basement.
He had been taking drugs.

He told the police that people broke
into the house. He was in the basement,

he heard muffled sounds.

It didn't sound like a gunshot. It
sounded like a backfire on a car, but

Somebody else was in the house, ran out
of the house, but I couldn't catch him

when he ran out the front door.

When you're talking to someone who has a
very unstable account of what happened,

you want to go back again and again to
try and see how he's going to respond,

what his explanations are going to be.

and to also focus in on the
discrepancies.

More intense questioning of Ron DeFeo.

And then another story that someone came
into the house, they pulled him

along with them, and they shot everyone
while he was present.

I knew then I was set up.

I was going to be the scapegoat for
everybody.

Ronnie DeFeo Jr.

was not the most stable.

of individuals.

There was something odd about him. He
wasn't the warm, friendly older brother

who comes over and asks if you need help
or anything. He just was this loner and

not in a healthy way.

He quit school and didn't really work.

He drank a lot, hung out in a
neighborhood bar.

He was known as sort of a troublemaker
around the town.

He borrowed money from people and didn't
pay it back and bullied people.

He was a heavy substance abuser starting
from the age of 15 or 16.

Every day I got high, I used heroin. I
was using a lot of heroin back then. I

was drinking too excessively. Scots are
on the rocks.

His parents, they took him to a
psychiatrist in hopes of calming him

didn't work.

So his parents lavished him with gifts.

They did not spare the rod, but they
continued to spoil the child.

He had access to an allowance of several
hundred dollars a week.

Ronnie would walk around with a couple
thousand dollars in his pocket.

They bought him a $14 ,000 speedboat,
but that didn't settle Ron.

He was an angry young man.

He also had a stockpile of several
weapons in the house.

They have Ronnie in custody.

just to talk about the murder. And very
soon they begin to wonder.

He threw out a lot of wild theories.

He makes some unconvincing excuses, but
what is very significant is

he seems to be justifying the death of
his family. That does raise a lot of red

flags.

He said that he discovered his mother
had had an affair and that he despised

for that.

He also told the police that his father
was making him work too hard.

He complained that his brothers were
little pigs in the bathroom.

They said, what do you think about your
sister Dawn?

Dawn, that effing bitch.

That's how he described her.

That's very striking for somebody to say
that when their family has just been

murdered.

Louise used to tell me that Butchie was
bad.

I didn't know what she meant, but she
said, no, Butchie is bad.

I think he had more troubles than we
thought, than they thought.

I first heard about this case, about
Ronnie DeFeo, on the 11 o

'clock news that his family had been
murdered and that Ronnie was

being held in protective custody.

What about Ronald DeFeo, the son, the
surviving son? Ronald is being

by the Suffolk County Police at this
time.

Investigators say without explanation
that they now feel Young DeFeo was in

house at the time of the murders, but
they're not yet considering him a

It came to my mind that he has to be a
person of interest.

Talking about the death of his family,
there is such a lack of emotion, and he

also is so preoccupied with the
justification for the killing.

He describes the father as abusive. He
describes the mother as checked out.

Dawn, he talks about her with clear
hostility.

Dallas and Mark and John, when he talks
about them, it's very superficial.

There's very little sadness about their
death, which is what you usually hear

when someone talks about someone that
they have real love for and that they're

grieving for, which to me makes it
certainly within the realm of

that he killed them.

While searching the DeFeo home, Police
find a box for a Marlin .35 caliber

rifle, along with boxes of Remington
shells, all of which belong to Ronnie

Jr. And within the first 48 hours, the
focus had quickly shifted to

him as the chief suspect.

They read in his Miranda rights, and
they officially told him that he was the

suspect of his family's murder.

Now a suspect, police switch from
interviewing Ronnie Jr. to interrogating

And different police talk to him, and
the head of homicide, Robert Dunn, is

first one, and then Dennis Rafferty.

He was the detective who was an expert
at extracting confessions from people.

I just tried to warm up to him, really.

to talk to him, try to make him
comfortable, and proceeded to

Several detectives took a turn on Butch,
and finally the key detectives were

able to get Butch to cooperate.

Ronnie Jr.

was vacillating between telling the
police that he had no idea what happened

his family and then switching his story
to he was there and the killers forced

him to watch his family being killed.

Here's Ronnie saying other people did
it, taking him through his house room by

room, telling him other people did the
shooting.

But the details he had were so precise.

And finally, Rafferty says to him, you
did it. Ronnie didn't do it.

And Ronnie said, yes, I did it.

As far as I was concerned,

I got to them before they got to me.

Louise used to tell me that Butchie was
bad.

I didn't know what she meant, but she
said, no, Butchie is bad.

I was always in trouble. I don't know
what I did.

I was out of trouble.

I think he had more troubles than we
thought, than they thought.

At 17, he was into drugs, LSD, heroin, a
fifth of scotch every day.

He was always at odds with his father,
Ronald Sr.

His father was a violent person, and
Ronald DeFeo was subject to a lot of

starting at a very young age.

There's evidence that even as an infant,
as an 18 -month -old, his father would

whack him on the head to stop him from
crying.

He was a violent man.

You've got a very domineering father and
a mother that's caught in the middle of

this mess.

Butch started blaming his mother for
allowing his father to get out of

with the abuse.

He blamed her more than the sickness
that his father had because she allowed

to continue.

Children of an abusive father will often
blame the mother for not having

protected them or view her as an
accomplice just by virtue of her

her denial of what's going on.

After Ronnie Jr.

became older, his resentment against his
mother grew, and he began to fight back

against his father.

There's fighting.

Ronnie and his father fight, and he gets
crazy, and he's got a horrible temper.

Ronnie... Senior and Ronnie Jr.

had a very contentious, bellicose
relationship.

They were always at war.

They had fistfights that spilled out
onto the front lawn.

And then Ronnie would take off in his
car, and his father would get in his car

and speed down the block following him.

At one point during a fight, he pulled a
12 -gauge shotgun out and pointed it at

his father's face and pulled the
trigger.

The rifle malfunctioned. The last time I
saw Butch and Big Ronnie, they were

fighting in the driveway, yelling at
each other.

Big Ronnie was saying, get out of here.

The relationship between Butch DeFeo and
his father was coming to a head.

He felt controlled by his father and
terrorized by his father.

I didn't want their love. I didn't want
anything to do with them.

How much abuse did you think I was going
to take?

He was a ticking time bomb.

I had it with him, and it was fun. This
has got to stop.

Anger and abuse and violence and drug
addiction and alcoholism,

it became a perfect storm that fed into
the murders.

He said, yes, I did it. I killed them
all. You couldn't believe how it

There were very strange things
associated with the DeFeo murders that

coroner, the forensic people could not
understand.

Ron DeFeo said that he heard voices
telling him to kill, compelling him to

one member of the family after another.

Before you know it.

People are talking about this house
allegedly being haunted.

The story got bigger and more
embellished and more fantastical.

Ghosts flying to levitating, to doors
flying off hinges, to demons, to satanic

horses. I was there at midnight.

They started the seance.

It's like a black shadow that forms a
hood.

And it moves.

This is the closest to hell I ever want
to get.

I'm the devil. I'm possessed.

I'm supposed to be vicious.

A madman.

Insane. Hear voices.

That just makes your blood run cold.

The evil in the house was him.

After Ron DeFeo Jr.'s shocking
confession that he was the murderer, the

deepened. Why would he kill his entire
family?

There was no sign of a struggle. Why
didn't any of them fight back?

Why didn't anyone try to run away?

What was his motive?

Greed, anger, or insanity?

What really happened that night? In part
two of The Amityville Horror.

I'm Donnie Wahlberg.

Thanks for watching. Good night.

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