Exploring the Depths of Ronald DeFeo Sr.'s Twisted Mind

13, 1974, when 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr. used a high-powered ... Evidence like a photograph of a pillow case found in a trash can ... 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, Sr., had no tolerance for backtalk and disobedience, keeping his eldest son on a short leash, and refusing to let him stand up for himself the way he ... The family has been described as loud and quarrelsome — and that Ronald, Sr., was abusive to his wife and kids. Unsurprisingly, in such an ... Ronald Joseph DeFEO, Jr., Petitioner, v. Christopher ARTUZ, et al ... Linnea Nonnewitz was employed as a cleaning woman for the DeFeo family for five ... ... Ronald DeFeo Sr. and Louise DeFeo, and his four siblings, Dawn, Allison, Marc, and John Matthew, as they slept in their home. The victims ... There was nothing on the rifle to suppress the sound as DeFeo put slug after slug into his sleeping family. DeFeo claimed to have drugged them, ... murdered his entire immediate family, including his father Ronald Sr, mother Louise, brother John, brother Mark, sister Allison, and sister Dawn. This ... Father Ronald DeFeo Sr, 43, and mother Louise DeFeo, 43, were both shot twice. Siblings Dawn, 18, Allison, 13, Marc, 12, and John, 9, were each ... He was convicted in 1975 on six counts of second-degree murder after he confessed to using a rifle to shoot and kill his father, Ronald DeFeo Sr ...