The Darkness Within Ronald DeFeo Jr. and the Amityville Murders

Before the Lutz family made the house famous in The Amityville Horror, Ronald DeFeo Jr. shot and killed his entire family while they slept ... Find out all there is to know about the DeFeo family murders, which inspired the scary movie "The Amityville Horror." The real-life killer, Ronald DeFeo Jr., whose murders were the basis for the book and two films, has died at age 69. The man whose murder spree inspired the Amityville Horror movies has died in prison. Ronald Joseph DeFeo, Jr. was an American mass murderer and family annihilator who, in the early morning hours of November 14, 1974, systematically shot each ... Ronald DeFeo Jr., the Long Island man serving a life sentence for slaughtering his parents and four siblings in a 1974 crime that would inspire The Amityville ... Ronald "Butch" DeFeo, Jr (renamed Sonny Montelli in the second film) is a character based on the real mass murderer of the same name who was convicted of ... On November 13, 1974, the estate was the scene of mass murder. Using a .35 Marlin rifle, 23-year-old Ronald J. DeFeo Jr. murdered his parents ... Ronnie DeFeo shot and killed the six family members at 3:15 am on the morning of November 13, 1974 with a .35 caliber rifle. In 1974, Ronald DeFeo killed his entire family, including his parents, brothers and sisters, while they were sleeping in their beds.