Posted on 03/15/2021 1:05:37 PM PDT by lowbridge
Ronald DeFeo Jr., who shot and killed his mother, father, two sisters and two brothers inside their Amityville home in 1974, a case that inspired the book and movie versions of "The Amityville Horror," has died while serving a 25 years-to-life sentence for the murders, New York State officials said.
DeFeo, who was serving his sentence at Sullivan Correctional Facility in upstate Fallsburg, died Friday at age 69, officials confirmed.
Officials said DeFeo was transferred to Albany Medical Center and was pronounced dead on March 12 at 6:35 p.m. An official cause of death will be determined by the Albany County Medical Examiner's Office, state officials said.
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Evil...............................
Wow, he’s four years older than me. When he murdered his family, he was 24.
Assault weapons ban would have not work back then too, he used a lever-action rifle.
Those are next.
No evidence of a regenerated life. Busted the doors of hell wide open.
The NY death certificate will cite “COVID-19” as the cause.
When I was working as an officer at Auburn prison from September 1980 until I transferred to another facility in December 1983, DeFeo was an inmate there, working on the facility’s garbage crew. My impression after seeing him for the first time was how short he was.
John List, who killed his family in the 70s, used a 9 millimeter and a .22.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Wow, just another little long-haired hippie looking nobody.
Manson was short too. Wimpy little murderer.
Love those big cars with chrome bumpers in the days before eco nazis ruled.
“Wow, he’s four years older than me.”
I remember 1974 very well beause we moved that year. Can’t imagin being in prison all those years. What a waste.
One of my renters worked in the prison system and was writing a book about how young men sentanced to life in prison felt after 10 years
He said at first they said it felt like a joke that they would be out in a few years..then it really hit them and many had serious regret later on but too late
Wow bizarre, I was reading about that guy yesterday out of curiosity because I live near Amityville. Freakin lunatic kills his family and he goes to a bar down the block and tells everyone “I killed my family” and everyone in the bar walks back to his house and they see the bodies inside “Yep, he killed his family” and they call the cops. They should call that movie “The Amityville rednecks”
What the hell is the point of keeping these mass murdering demons alive for decades in a prison cell?
Cause they get to spend decades thinking about what will happen when they croak.
Around 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 13, 1974, 23-year-old DeFeo entered Henry's Bar in Amityville, Long Island, New York, and declared: "You got to help me! I think my mother and father are shot!"
For tonight, let’s see.... murder my whole family, or go to the neighborhood bar? Hmmm. Can’t make up my mind. Oh, wait.
I am surprised he wasn’t out already. Anymore 25-to-life means 12-15 and probation.
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