We are Gen X-ers and when I grew up horror movies were all the rage (maybe not for Charles). But I always wondered if any of them were based on a real story. This case we are about to dig into became the inspiration for a film horror classic, “The Amityville Horror” and the book by the same name that was published two years prior to the film appearance in 1977. Join us as we try to take you through the real Amityville Horror.
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Sources:
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2022-01-10/it-wasnt-ghosts-but-something-worse-the-brutal-truth-about-amityville.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/15/nyregion/ronald-defeo-amityville-dead.html
https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/amityville-horror-house-murders-gallery-1.2666264
https://horrorobsessive.com/2021/04/02/the-defeo-murders-the-story-behind-the-amityville-horror/
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/trial-begins-in-amityville-murders
https://www.biography.com/crime/ronald-defeo
https://allthatsinteresting.com/amityville-murders
https://murderpedia.org/male.D/d/defeo-ronald.htm
Book: High Hopes: The Amityville Murders by Gerald Sullivan, Harvey Aronson
https://amityvillemurders.com/the-defeos/the-defoe-family.html (mostly because this actually exists)
Book: “The Day the DeFeo’s Died” Ric Osuna
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