Join us for episode 31 where we head back to the 1970s to the Defoe family murders that happened in Amityville Long Island in New York. These murders are what sparked the famous Amityville horror hauntings. We go through the events that happened on November 13th 1974 where Ronald Defeo jr would go on to murder his parents and 4 siblings.
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History.com Editors, “The Amityville murders”, A&E Television Networks, Published February 19th 2024, https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/amityville-horror-true-story-defeo-family-murders, Accessed 10-11-2024
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