The Amityville Horror is a fatal 1924 Amityville mansion located in southern New York at 112 Ocean Avenue. For 50 years of its existence, this building has not stood out among many others. The house gained its sinister fame thanks to the egregious and cruel events that formed the basis of many famous fiction and documentary works.
On the morning of November 13, 1974, the Defeo family was exterminated in this house. Parents and their children were shot in their own beds. Ronald DeFeo Sr. was killed by two shots. Louise DeFeo survived her husband by only a few seconds - she was shot next. After that, the killer left the parent's bedroom on the second floor of the house and went to the children's room. The boys Mark and John were shot at point blank range. 12-year-old Mark died instantly, and 9-year-old John was less fortunate - his spinal cord was severed. Two girls - 13-year-old Alison and 18-year-old Don - were shot in the head. Ronald DeFeo Jr., the only survivor of the massacre, was arrested on suspicion of murder.
On November 19, 1975, Ronald DeFeo Jr.was found guilty of killing 6 people and sentenced to 150 years in prison. Despite the fact that the killer is forever hidden behind bars, in this case, a lot remains unclear, including the motive for the crime.
Why did Ronald kill his mother, whom he had defended so many times before from his father's beatings? Why did he kill his brothers and sisters? Neighbors and family acquaintances claimed that Ronald was very attached to little Alison and his younger brother John.
Another strange fact was that none of the family members tried to defend themselves or flee, although loud shots from the hard drive, with some frequency, rang out in the house for about 5 minutes. All the killed were lying face down, as if chained to the floor by some unknown force. The investigation concluded that the bodies did not roll over, and blood tests of the victims did not reveal traces of sleeping pills.
To understand what is happening, let's go back to 1644. In what is now called Long Island, there was a very difficult relationship between the Dutch settlers and the Indian tribes. The conflict was caused by the territory in which the Dutch colony was located. Takapausha, the leader of the Massapequa Indians, argued that these lands were leased to the colonies for use, and not given away irrevocably. Opponents were of the opposite opinion.
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Every day the situation only worsened and the Dutch decided to put an end to this dispute. For a good reward, this problem was entrusted to Captain John Underhill, who was on the heels of the bloody glory of a cruel and fearless thug. Since he did not consider the Redskins as people at all, the Indians were afraid of him like fire.
First, John and his squad captured seven Indians, whom he subjected to sophisticated torture and public execution, accusing the unfortunate of stealing pigs. Then he lured into a trap and killed about twenty more Indians. Their bodies were interred in a mass grave at Fort Nack.
When a year later, a road was laid at the Fort Knack site, which passed next to the mass grave, it was decided to move the buried to another place. The remains of 24 people were removed from the ground. Considering that the Indians were not the first to be buried here, the bones were noticeably lacking, but they were never found.
How does this relate to the events unfolding in the Amityville house? The old Indian burial was located a mile from the mansion, and according to Ronald's testimony, the Indian spirit ordered him to kill all his relatives. After all that happened, the damned mansion was put up for sale, but the story did not end there either …
A little later, George Lutz and his wife Katie purchased this house at a very low price. Unlike other buyers, the history of this place did not scare them in the least.
On December 18, 1975, they moved into a new home with their two sons, a little daughter and a dog. But inexplicable sounds at night, the constant smell of rotting meat and other mystical phenomena forced the Lutz family to flee the mansion exactly 4 weeks later, leaving all their belongings in it. Who is the owner of the Amityville horror now is unknown.