Deconstructing the Patriarch Ronald DeFeo Sr.'s Role in the Amityville Horror

13, 1974, 23-year-old Ronald Joseph DeFeo Jr. committed the grisly act of murdering his entire family as they slept in their home in Amityville, ... The house belonged to forty-three-year-old Ronald DeFeo, Sr. and his forty ... The Amityville Massacre is being passed off as a book about the Defeo ... Allegedly Ronald claimed that after a furious row with his father, he and his sister planned to kill their parents, and that Dawn murdered the ... Former FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong examines the murders by Ron DeFeo, and the legend of the Amityville horrors. The family has been described as loud and quarrelsome — and that Ronald, Sr., was abusive to his wife and kids. Unsurprisingly, in such an ... As a child, he was overweight and shy — and other kids frequently tormented him. By his teen years, Butch started lashing out, both against his ... What happened to Ronald DeFeo Jr.? ... As the years went by, Ronald told competing stories about what happened the night his family was killed. Before the night of the massacre, the DeFeo household was not particularly happy. Their father, Ronald DeFeo, Sr., was noted to have been a hostile, overbearing ... Ronald DeFeo Jr. was convicted of killing his entire family inside their Amityville home in 1974. FALLSBURG, New York ... In 1974, I was not only the wife of Ronald Joseph “Butch” DeFeo Jr., but also the mother of his child. I knew his family and loved them as my own. Part of my ...