The Troubled Patriarch Ronald DeFeo Sr. and the Amityville Murders

Peter DeFeo (March 4, 1902 – April 6, 1993), also known as "Philie Aquilino", was a New York mobster who became a caporegime with the Genovese crime family. Given six concurrent life terms for the slaying of his parents Ronald DeFeo Sr. ... as a part of an insanity defense plea led by his defense attorney ... Ronald DeFeo Jr was convicted of murdering his parents Louise and Ronald DeFeo Sr, as well as his four siblings Dawn, Allison, Marc and John. By 1986, Ronald jr. changed his story about what happened the night his family was murdered. In an interview with Newsday, he claimed his sister ... Butch's ongoing conflict with his father came to a violent head when he fatally shot Ronald DeFeo Sr. with a .35-caliber Marlin rifle as he ... 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 ... Former FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong examines the murders by Ron DeFeo, and the legend of the Amityville horrors. DeFeo now claims that his sister, Dawn, 18, shot his father, Ronald Sr. Then, he says, his distraught mother shot Dawn and her three youngest children, Allison, ... The public's perception of Ronald DeFeo Jr. as a convicted murderer significantly influenced the value of his assets. His notoriety tainted his ... Defeo was 23 when he shot and killed his father Ronald Defeo Sr., his mother Louise, and younger siblings Dawn, Allison, Mark and John ...