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Ronald DeFeo Jr., the killer who inspired films like ‘The Amityville Horror’ and The Amityville Possession ‘died aged 69 in Sullivan’s prison in Fallsburg, New York. He was serving life sentences to which he had been sentenced for exterminating his family in 1974, when he was 23 years old. At 6.30am on November 13 of that year, DeFeo shot dead his father, mother, two brothers and two sisters in their Dutch colonial-style mansion on the Amityville waterfront on Long Island.

The house became famous after the family who bought it after the murders abandoned it less than a month after they set foot in it because, it was said, it was haunted. The story of the massacre inspired the 1977 horror novel ‘The Amityville Horror, A True Story’, by Jay Anson knows which was made two years after the cult film ‘The Amityville Horror’, followed by seven episodes and remakes.

DeFeo tried in vain to convince the jury that he was insane, saying that drug abuse had led him to believe his family was plotting against him. In a 2006 documentary, she claimed that both drug use and the killing had been triggered by her father’s abuse and that one of her sisters, Dawn, had been complicit in the murders and killed three of their younger brothers before dying in a fight with Ronald.

At the time of the massacre, DeFeo’s father, Ronald Sr., a wealthy Italian-American from Brooklyn and owner of car dealerships, was 43, like his mother Louise. Dawn was 18, Allison 13, Marc 12 and John Matthew 9.

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