The Troubled Past of Ronald DeFeo Sr. A Path to Darkness

was born to Louise Marie and Ronald DeFeo, Sr. As the DeFeos' first child, son, and namesake of Big Ronnie, Butch had more expected of him than ... 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 ... One neighbor classified the DeFeos as “a nice, normal family.” But there was less of a positive feeling all day today as investigation continued about the ... According to The New York Times report from November 1974, DeFeo was a 23-year-old auto mechanic. He told police that he gave his family heavy ... The victims were Ronald Jr.'s parents: Ronald DeFeo Sr. (43) and ... Ronald DeFeo Jr., also known as "Butch", was the eldest child of ... What happened to Ronald DeFeo Jr.? ... As the years went by, Ronald told competing stories about what happened the night his family was killed. Murder Victim. Father of the De Feo Family and husband of Louise De Feo. He was murdered, along with the rest of his family, by oldest child Ronald Jr. on ... DeFeo tried to unsuccessfully get a retrial in the case in 1992 after claiming that his 18-year-old sister Dawn had killed most of the family ... ... as blood-stained clothes and the Marlin rifle and cartridges ... Six members of the DeFeo family were dead -- Ronald DeFeo, Sr. (43) ... DeFeo had paid several older boys to “take care of him” in junior high school. Mr. Hoffman also said that Ronald Jr. had sometimes suggested ...