Mr. DeFeo confessed to killing his parents and four siblings in 1974 at their home in Amityville, N.Y. The house became the subject of books and movies.
Source: New York Times
Ronald DeFeo, Whose Murder Spree Inspired ‘The Amityville Horror,’ Dies at 69
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